First grow / DWC

Hey guys,
This is my first grow / DWC / Liberty haze, supposedly. Veged them with Sensigrow. I started in 5 gallon bukets, reglular Lowes buckets. I was having a hard time with the water temp. My ventalation sucks, there is none, other than a few fans w/central air. I'm using the old frozen water bottle plan which I had to change about every hour. Then I switched my buckets out with 5 gallon Rubbermaid coolers which actually keeps the temperature under 70 for a few hours. As soon as it hits 70 I toss in a bottle and it gets down to about 65. After they started developing some fairly good roots, about week 3 or 4, I noticed the old root slime problem. It was pretty bad. I believe I was letting the water reach about 73 then. Anyway, I lowered the water temp and started a H202 regiment, pretty much daily, also started using Gold Range Zone weekly as well. Some people say those 2 are compatable some say their not. No matter, it appears to have worked because the roots are very nice and white now and the leaves are all a beautiful dark green. This is now week 17. (Just saying that makes me think they were in veg too long... ) IS there a too long to veg? I just hope they don't get too big that's kinda scary.
Well anyway, I just put them into flower this week. I'm flushing, but from what I'm seeing as the feeding schedule there's no flush in between veg and flower and no gradual feed either like I see alot of people say you need to do. Here it just goes straight from 2oz of grow to 2oz of bloom. I'm only using SensiGrow/Bloom and Big Bud. I also add about 100ppm of CalMag weelkly along with the H202 and zone ofcourse. Oh, and I just started using RO'd water about 2 weeks ago. The ppm of my water went from about 235 to 15!! And PHing the water is so much easier. It was running at about 7.5 befor RO and I always had to use PH down even with PH Perfect Veg and Bloom. After I started using RO'd water, when I added the nutes, the water was a perfect 5.5!! What a world of difference. I just hope the mid flush doesn't hurt. What do you guys think? I'll probably try exactly what that schedule says on my next grow. Unless of course this grow completely rocks!! All though I couldn't imagine that on my first shot. Any comments?? LOL I started this whole post to ask about the flush in between Veg and Nute and ended writing a novel. Sorry about that! Any comments would be awesome!

this is a photo plant correct

there is nothing about how long u can veggie one of those .............18/6 hours all u want just once u change the light to the 12/12 time u are offically entering flowering .....the first part of flowering u go 50/50 with grow and bloom and u feed it your bloom open/enchancer as u see the flowers come out u change over to full bloom .....u notice red stems (or purple ) add in some grow just little .........as u see the flowers get fuller and bud u go to full bloom full enchancer fallow your charts ....u see leaf burn u pull it back to 75% and hold

flushing is done at the end u end the whole thing out for a total of 10 days .............the first 7 u run it like normal just with plain water...after the 7th day u turn the lights off and shut the door for 3 days then u chop the plant and hang in aroom with humity controlled and at 50 to 45% ..............for 2 to 4 days once the stems snap (not bend snap) then u take down prune and lay it out on a tray 3 to 5 days later after the tray......... u move it to a jar every 8 to 12 hours open the jar for 2 to 5 mins then shut for the first 2 weeks and after that u have cured your stuff and ready to be praised for your good hard work


when u go to bloom there is a chance it can strech out add in a little 6500k to help slow that if u are all 2700k/3000k

veggie 5000k/6500k
flower 2700k/3000k

side note here man

order this and tweak like u did ......it is a electric cooler it will cool the inside to 20 dregges lower then the outside temp ...............there are others that will do 45 and even 50 ..............radio shack sell timers 3 prongs with 15 min setting mechinal........u could set it to work for 15 min off on off watch it if does the job right u do not need to keep adding the water bottles

well that one is fans but there others just look up electric cooler ( i was looking at one for chilling water for a stil )

justugh said:

Kampa 25 Litre Thermo Electric Cooler
when u go to bloom there is a chance it can strech out add in a little 6500k to help slow that if u are all 2700k/3000k

veggie 5000k/6500k
flower 2700k/3000k

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yes, it a photo plant, and I'm sorry, I'm a little slow... I don't know what any of that means.... 6500K to stop stretch? 6500K what? 5000k/6500k? 2700k/3000k what? I have no clue

Have you pesonally used that cooler? What I'm wondering about that is.... how on earth did you make a whole in the lid for the plant? The cooling system runs throughout the lid... Things that make you go hmmmm.

Those thermo-electric coolers are a joke for what we do.

superstoner1 said:

Those thermo-electric coolers are a joke for what we do.

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I looked it up on youtube and don't really see how it would work either.

So..... I'm still wondering.... according to the feed chart, no flush in between is necessary correct??

Really depends on the nutes and the amount of them u are using. Salt build up can cause serious problems.

Well I've been using 2oz of SensiGrow A and 2oz of SensiGrow B with 3 tsp of CalMag in a 4gal res of ro'd water, all once a week. I top with plain ro'd water throughout the week. There you have that. I just put all 3 into flower, the first 2 I'm flushing and the 3rd I put straight into nutes, SensiBloom now of course, all the same amounts. We'll see what happens.

thts a big fucker. i wouldve bn started flowering