First hydro grow. Dwc. Yippee.

I have a few projects going at once. They are already about a month or so into veg. I have 11 in veg. Right now due to the fact that idk how many will be female. I'm hoping to get 6 females. But it's all experimental right now. Lol. 5 topped plants in a 5 plant 15 gallon DWC res. I have 4 in dirt in veg. Another in a 3.5 gal dwc with the water pump making a current instead of airstones. And one more in a 2 gal dwc bucket. Running 1 200w CFL and 6 23w CFLs around it. As for nutes I'm using AN sensi grow A&B, liquid karma, and some great white. In my dwc I'm keeping the ph around 5.6-6.0 and ppm varies in each dwc since I'm just toying with different ppms to see whats doing the best. Feel free to give me any input good or bad. All criticism is welcomed.

Well I don't think I can post pics from an IPad so I guess whenever I can get to a safe computer I'll post the pics.

Uh oh. I think I've run into some N deficiency. I upped the N in my res let's see if that helps. Still no computer to post pics

A water pump pushing water around is no substitute for an airstone.

Illegal Smile said:

A water pump pushing water around is no substitute for an airstone.

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It does, however, make a nice addition for top feeding/nutrient recirculation.

VoidObject said:

It does, however, make a nice addition for top feeding/nutrient recirculation.

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With sufficient bubble action, you don't need either of those.

Well at the moment it's making a rippling effect and making plenty of bubbles and the plant seems to like it.

Illegal Smile said:

With sufficient bubble action, you don't need either of those.

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I didn't say need.. but it's still nice.

There's no accounting for taste.

Illegal Smile said:

There's no accounting for taste.

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Taste?......

Ok i figured out by reading a good bit that it's a calcium deficiency. Any tips on getting this fixed? I think it was from the soil because the ones I have still in soil are the worst. The ones in the dwc have little to no signs of this. I'm gonna post pics in an hour or two.

pictures!!!

Could be calcium, looks like boron to me, best absorbed in the 5.0 to 6.0 ph range.

Boron? I don't let the ph get above 6.2. It only gets that high because i check once a day. I guess I should start checking twice a day.

Week 4 of Bloom! I think i managed to get the hang of this DWC a little bit.

more pics of the blooms and also one of my soon to be mothers in veg who will start producing nice little clones to go into bloom as soon as they are rooted

hmmm seems ive run into a small problem with one of my ladies. heres some pics.

Update on the nute soup again?

I'm running Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom, Liquid Karma, Sweet, CalMag, and Great White.

2nd set of pics look like a few things... pH imblance because the leaves are curved downard, Ca/Mg def because the small yellow/brown/orangish spots around outside of leaves. Where is the area effected most on the plant. In my experience it's easy to determine if you are over feeding or under feeding. Over feeding will give you burnt tips/edges of leaves in the middle but mostly bottom leaves on the plant while under feeding with show slightly similar signs on the top or the new growth. Hope this helps you