MMJ,DWC, Scrog, ph perfect trial

Penny wise · Oct 20, 2014

Strain= 9 pound hammer Plant has been on ph perfect sensi grow full strengh,

The plan is to test the advanced nutes full ph line, no ph pen no ppm meter, full strength like the bottle says,

Before this I was testing out the bagged super soil, in the future I plan to make my own, I also have full lines of aqua flakes and HG's coco line up so may do those next,

Pics are a progress to today (day 1 of flower) the pics of the bucket workings are of the just upgraded bucket, previously it was just 1 bucket but airlines and stones were ripping roots during change, this is what $$ allows preferably it would be a RDWC, with control bucket

Penny wise · Oct 20, 2014

Found a pic of the 9lb in bagged supersoil

Penny wise · Oct 21, 2014

DAY 2 FLOWER:
Full strength connoisseur a/b (4 ml per liter )
few additives at 2 ml
And blood bud at 2 tsp for 7 gal (I start with 4 gal so used 1 and half tsp)

Have the lights backed off 3 feet or so since going from t5 to hps will Lower tonight

She's looking happy

Penny wise · Oct 21, 2014

Oh yea I hit her good with a neem oil bath on way into flower, I have never had mites but I never will either,, I spray need around the room and doors as well, also its well vented but I feel this will help keep and mold/mildew from between the screens,

Penny wise · Oct 21, 2014

Bottom is her on the way to flower room.

Top pic is older
If you look close you may notice I super cropped (pinched hard until it crushed then bent over) about 50 of the tops a week before that pic,after 3 days all stood back up, you can see the knuckles forming, I'm pleased with the structure, need strong stems to hold good bud,

vitamin_green_inc · Oct 21, 2014

What size bucket/res? How long was the veg for? Did you out the screen on before or after?

Penny wise · Oct 21, 2014

vitamin_green_inc said:
What size bucket/res? How long was the veg for? Did you out the screen on before or after?

2 5 gal buckets 1 inside the other,this allows for 4 gallons to be used,air stones in bottom bucket, holes in the top bucket,plan on upgrading it further with a second bucket so I don't have to lift plant but it works as is,the screen is attached to the lid/netpot

40 days veg, attached screen on about week 2, filled it out for a bit then added on a second layer of screen, screen is about 2 feet wide 3 feet long, from what I've read that's about the concentrated zone from my cooled 600 watt
(Pic of day after screen applied, before that Did LST to create multi tops, and this was before upgrade to double bucket)

Penny wise · Oct 22, 2014

Decided I might have to use a ppm meter, was going to top off with plain water but decided I will add base nutes at top off to maintain ppm as they claim full strength is needed to keep ph perfect part stable, I know plants drink more water than notes most days so will need the ppm to adjust top offs right

patrickkawi37 · Oct 22, 2014

4ml with conni is WAY too high in my opinion . I understand they say to use there ratio to get ph perfect technology ... But they want you to use the bottle quicker to buy more. I never go over half strength I've been using advanced for 3 years . My ph sits around 6.1- 6.4... Run off is usually 6.0 . Good luck

Penny wise · Oct 22, 2014

patrickkawi37 said:
4ml with conni is WAY too high in my opinion . I understand they say to use there ratio to get ph perfect technology ... But they want you to use the bottle quicker to buy more. I never go over half strength I've been using advanced for 3 years . My ph sits around 6.1- 6.4... Run off is usually 6.0 . Good luck

Ty for info, always good to hear advice from someone running the same stuff

,

definitely Ganna ride it out at full strength to set the standard for myself, next bucket I'll cut back to half and compare end weight then adjust from there.
Unless,
I'm getting a separate bucket going with house and gardens aqua flakes,(have the full lineup as well) so whatever does better I'll stick with and mess with amounts after as far as my DWCs go

Penny wise · Oct 23, 2014

Boom! Just finished upgrading her house, now she has a control bucket, and 8 gallon res,one gallon being a frozen gallon(see pic) so 7 liquid atm,
chiller in the future, also she is all alone in her 5 gallon pot(root space) no airlines/stones

I have the pump but have to run a cord tomorrow so will put it in the control bucket and make it RDWC

Penny wise · Oct 23, 2014

She's sagging a bit from the wait but will be fine, also tomorrow I'll start cleaning out below screen and removing leafs up top

Penny wise · Oct 23, 2014

BTW, I feel DWC will allow use of the full strength nutes, I personally wouldn't use it so strong with any other type of grow, this is just a test

Penny wise · Oct 24, 2014

Lil strain info:
I've never let her go past 40 days from 12/12
At this time it's always been 10-20% amber heads with 10% being my fave

I have a similar plant I did in soil to test the stretch on a screen so I could apply that here,
Here's a pic of day 39 (today) for her might be a bit blurry but all heads are cloudy white and there was 3 ambers,(could only get 1 to focus with cheap cam)

Will be chopping her tomorrow

Penny wise · Oct 27, 2014

patrickkawi37 said:
4ml with conni is WAY too high in my opinion . I understand they say to use there ratio to get ph perfect technology ... But they want you to use the bottle quicker to buy more. I never go over half strength I've been using advanced for 3 years . My ph sits around 6.1- 6.4... Run off is usually 6.0 . Good luck

Wondering if you have to use Calmag when only going half strength

Penny wise · Oct 27, 2014

Day 1 week 2, she's looking good no burns, finished the system few days ago, now it's RDWC,
(I used a little L-bow to keep the water spraying down, from my research this alone would create enough oxygen in the water to keep her alive, stones are off in the pic but I still have them

Penny wise · Oct 27, 2014

Also using frozen 1 gallon jugs I've been able to keep her around 19.5 Celsius

patrickkawi37 · Oct 29, 2014

Penny wise said:
Wondering if you have to use Calmag when only going half strength

I find the opposite .. My friends that yield high numbers with dWc are using very very light ppms..no I don't use cal mag unless I see deficiencies.

Penny wise · Oct 29, 2014

patrickkawi37 said:
I find the opposite .. My friends that yield high numbers with dWc are using very very light ppms..no I don't use cal mag unless I see deficiencies.

Sweet, thank you for the reply and info, I did a few test runs with AN half strength in soil but my strain demanded calmag

Lol, coming from super soil that was a trip!

Penny wise · Oct 29, 2014

To this day, supersoil watering with h2o and EWC only has produced my finest crops, too bad can't dump that in my bucket

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