DWC troubles, advice needed

Hi all,

maybe I just suck but I'm really trying. Here's what I do, please pick apart what I do and tell me if Im doing something wrong.

setup: (2) 315w CMH, DWC bubbletotes

I will make my res following the General Hydro feeding chart for recirculating, maybe each week I should drain to waste, but I felt I was wasting money down the drain, anyways lets forget I said that... So I use the recirc chart. below



Lets say for example we are on Week 7 and adding all those ingredients into my water res makes it 800 ppm.

I notice my PH will drop or raise and I will adjust it every 3-4 days back to 5.7/5.8. SOMETIMES the ph will drop way down to 4.X and I have no idea why.
Had a good harvest but it didnt do much for me even though I waited and waited for trichs to change, some never went amber (yes I realize its strain depedent at times) but I feel for all this work I should be getting better results.

I also had some really good genetics herm out on me for no reason. I made sure no light leaks, I made sure everything was good I could only think its from the rapid PH changes.


HOW CAN I FIX THIS?

I was thinking at beginning of week, make my res with the suggested nutrients in the chart, then when the water level drops throughout the week just add back some RO water with only CALMAG in it, and make sure the RO water I add back is PH'd to 5.8? I heard some people will do what I just explained but let their plants drink from the same res for 2 weeks, then dump res and make new one every 2 weeks. Please help. I feel im just wasting money on beans and not really getting anything great for me to cheif on.

Got some pics? Are your plants having issues?

Probably need to back off from what the feed chart says. Start low and work your way up slowly.

Ph dropping like that is usually not a good sign. Something is not liking something.

I've had a lot of issues in the past but most of them turned out to be from to much light.
To much light will herm a plant. It will also torch the trichs and you want get good smoke.

If a plant is stressed it will take for fucking ever to finish. When I made mistakes and stressed my plants they didn't finish. Could have let then go 16 weeks.

In order to get the good weed. Gotta go start to finish without any major issues during flower. A photo in veg...you can make some mistakes.

Don't go by that chart.. Pics?

Unfortunately I don't have any pics. Only issue I ever had was some had blotchy patches on fan leaves. Other than that not too bad. I might've let them veg too long before the flip. I just wanted to make em big and top them to do like 4 donkey di** colas. Figured easy to trim. Oh well.

It's been a couple years since and I nearly gave up. Figured it was easier to go to the dispensary but I dunno the farmer in me wants some home grown. I have a huge vegetable garden and they taste better than store bought stuff so I figure same for my anxiety meds. I don't want to go back on anxiety medication because it makes me a zombie and pot doesn't. I even had the idea to put them into pill form to micro dose to kill anxiety.

My biggest sadness was I love purple Haze. I had a white label purple Haze and filled the whole 4x4. She was massive. It Hermed under (2) 315w cmh and I was so sad. I printed and topped and had to harvest at like 30% cloudy 70% clear. It got me high but it wasn't very good. Could it be too much or too little air blowing on the plant? What's weird is it Hermed in a few spots on the plants but not every cola. I'm sure if I let it keep going all would herm out.

Aviatorshades said:

Unfortunately I don't have any pics. Only issue I ever had was some had blotchy patches on fan leaves. Other than that not too bad. I might've let them veg too long before the flip. I just wanted to make em big and top them to do like 4 donkey di** colas. Figured easy to trim. Oh well.

It's been a couple years since and I nearly gave up. Figured it was easier to go to the dispensary but I dunno the farmer in me wants some home grown. I have a huge vegetable garden and they taste better than store bought stuff so I figure same for my anxiety meds. I don't want to go back on anxiety medication because it makes me a zombie and pot doesn't. I even had the idea to put them into pill form to micro dose to kill anxiety.

My biggest sadness was I love purple Haze. I had a white label purple Haze and filled the whole 4x4. She was massive. It Hermed under (2) 315w cmh and I was so sad. I printed and topped and had to harvest at like 30% cloudy 70% clear. It got me high but it wasn't very good. Could it be too much or too little air blowing on the plant? What's weird is it Hermed in a few spots on the plants but not every cola. I'm sure if I let it keep going all would herm out.

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That is how stressed induce hermi works. Only some spots do it.

2x315 cmh in a 4x4 seems like a lot.

Also when you grow from beans the offspring will never be identical to the parents. It is all about how genetics works. Sometimes you just get a dud. Looks great but all cbd.

Last grow was 2 plants. Same genetics. 1 gets me hi. 1 does not. Both plants grew fine but very very different.

I guess I was hoping a brand like white label/sensi seeds would have stabilized it to be pretty close. Bit hey. You win some you lose a lot hahaha.

I was trying for yield because I don't have many beans so that's why I had a total of 630w of cmh... You really think that's too much? Friend of mine on here had 5 in a 4x8 and his looked stellar but I am noobish so maybe I just suck

Your lights are fine at 40 watts per sqft. Yes you can add just water to even out your solution..
I never go above 900 ppm

Aviatorshades said:

I guess I was hoping a brand like white label/sensi seeds would have stabilized it to be pretty close. Bit hey. You win some you lose a lot hahaha.

I was trying for yield because I don't have many beans so that's why I had a total of 630w of cmh... You really think that's too much? Friend of mine on here had 5 in a 4x8 and his looked stellar but I am noobish so maybe I just suck

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I've grow some shitty plants and they still got me hi. First plant I grew was killed by my roommate while I was away for a week. Still got me hi.

Only plants I personally grew that did nothing for me were ones I grew for my fiancee that are cbd.

Does CBD do well for anxiety? I have a CBD Shark shock strain beans

Aviatorshades said:

Does CBD do well for anxiety? I have a CBD Shark shock strain beans

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For me personally cbd does nothing. But I have been smoking 15 years now so my tolerance is hi. I prefer sativas.

Sativa is what you want for anxiety. Gives you that pep you need to break your anxiety.

Indica for me is bad, makes you sleepy and is def not good for anxiety and day smoking.

For my fiance cbd works good but she has issues sleeping and not an anxiety problem.