Holy Smoke: Strawberry Diesel - 400w Waterfarm

steeZz said:

Lookin good, I can tell you're about a day ahead of me.

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Yea, you have a ton of plants. Gonna have to follow your grow as well. SCROG screen is built. Wasn't too bad. I don't have many tools here so I had the wood cut at the hardware store and used zip ties to tie down the wire screen. Looks pretty nice.

This is a dream grow for me, I've always wanted to grow straberry diesel and always wanted to use a 400w in a tent so everything has been going right so far, and I plan on keeping up the trend. Even have some backups in case it tries to hermie. My last grow, the bubblelicious tried to hermie but I used "Dutch Masters: Reverse" and it killed every ball sack on the entire plant and it turned out just fine and 100% female.

You guys think I have enough vertical for the entire grow? It measures 26" from top of waterfarm to light and here is day 5 from seed sprouting.

It might be close but I think you should be fine, gonna have some work in store though.

steeZz said:

It might be close but I think you should be fine, gonna have some work in store though.

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Yea, I can get a few more inches though..

Subbed.. I think this was mentioned, but you cant cool a hot hid with hot air.. i tried for too long, now i cut a hole in the floor to suck air from the crawl space. That and put a window ac in there, lol. Good luck, ill be watching ;]

CatfishBilly said:

Subbed.. I think this was mentioned, but you cant cool a hot hid with hot air.. i tried for too long, now i cut a hole in the floor to suck air from the crawl space. That and put a window ac in there, lol. Good luck, ill be watching ;]

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Oh yea I know. It's hard cooling cfl bulbs with hot air. Hot air doesn't usually = cooler temps. Thanks for the sub!

Changed the res this morning, ppms were up to 450, not sure why, so I emptied and added 0 ppm water through the hydroton which took the ppms up to 38 and added 1 tsp of nova bloom. So ppm is at 210 after subtracting 38. ph is 5.5 and temps are still kind of high at 84ish

Lookin good mr2 - no worries about those ppms being a bit high - it's still from the hydroton at this point, but it's not effecting your plants yet. Be sure to keep pouring cups of water through from the drain tube to keep the new roots moist. The hydroton does that naturally, but I found that at the start it doesn't transfer the water as well as it does later on, so I like to pour some straight over the stem in the middle to ensure it stays wet in the center. (okay, i'm kinda baked...sorry for the babbling..lol)

Dayzt said:

Lookin good mr2 - no worries about those ppms being a bit high - it's still from the hydroton at this point, but it's not effecting your plants yet. Be sure to keep pouring cups of water through from the drain tube to keep the new roots moist. The hydroton does that naturally, but I found that at the start it doesn't transfer the water as well as it does later on, so I like to pour some straight over the stem in the middle to ensure it stays wet in the center. (okay, i'm kinda baked...sorry for the babbling..lol)

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Yea, I've been doing that a lot more now. I noticed the rockwool does get a bit dry if I don't. Plants first 2 leaves are about twice the size they were yesterday so it's making good progress. Today is the 7th day since I put it in the coffee filter, 6th since it cracked.

I may end up buying a portable ac for the room the tent is in or a window ac. Temps are anywhere from 84 to 87 in the tent. It should be cooling off here soon outside so that will help. Temps don't seem to be affecting the plant at all so I may be worrying too much.

Guess I'll start tagging these day by day for anyone who is curious about daily growth or whatever.

Day 6
Temp: 84
PPM: 210
pH: 5.5

Day 7
Temp: 84
PPM: 230
pH: 5.8





Prolly will wait a few days before I post a new picture. That is my screen Only cost like 4 dollars to build. and took 15-20 minutes? Mostly because it's a bitch to unwrap chicken wire.

I don't have any power tools so I went to lowes and had the wood cut for .25 cents a cut, two pieces of 1x2x8' and 4 cuts so all in all the wood was a buck a piece and a buck for the cuts, so that's 3 bucks total. A crap ton cheaper than going out and buying a saw

I was thinking about vegging for 25 days because of my 26" of space to the light, which in reality I only have about 18-20" because I don't want them touching the light. Think I should veg for less?

Sub'd been waiting for someone to do a Strawberry Diesel grow once again it is absolutely one of my alltime favorites the bag appeal the taste the stench oh the sweet sweaty fruity stench i love this strain and i have not seen many if any good grows on it my experience comes from buying it and i dont buy much of any bud these days but if it came arong again id do it again...Good luck on it cant wait to see how it works out for you..great choice!

stinkbudd1 said:

Sub'd been waiting for someone to do a Strawberry Diesel grow once again it is absolutely one of my alltime favorites the bag appeal the taste the stench oh the sweet sweaty fruity stench i love this strain and i have not seen many if any good grows on it my experience comes from buying it and i dont buy much of any bud these days but if it came arong again id do it again...Good luck on it cant wait to see how it works out for you..great choice!

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Yea, I haven't seen a good Strawberry Diesel grow either. I plan on doing exactly what I did last grow and update regularly. Still doing a lot of reading, I don't know a crap ton about hydro so it's a learning process for me too. I love straw diesel, probably the best smoke I've had.

I must aggree with you on that...For me its BLZ and SD

A little yellowing is going on at the tips of the first sets of leaves. It happened with the sour cream on my last grow so I'm not too worried about it. Other than that, she's growing very fast, no roots coming out of the bottom yet but it's only been 9 days since sprout so I think it will be a couple more weeks. I plan on switching the light out on the 18th of this month so that will be a 25 day veg to keep the plant from getting too tall during flower.

I may end up lowering the scrog screen to about 6" above waterfarm and fit a fill hose on a gallon jug. it so I can add water through the screen. Not too sure on that yet, just a brainstorm I had.

From what I've read it's a N def. I have the same problem, but its only effecting two plants. Maybe its a negative phenom. Despite the yellowing on the first leaves, mine are growing fairly decent. I am like you, not going to worry about it. ;]

Finally got a cable for my camera. I hate that you can't find one for like 3 dollars so I had to buy those stupid universal usb cables for 15. Oh well.. My DSLR makes the plant's leaves look lighter than what they really are. Still fiddling around with aperture and exposure to see what's best for the 400w MH. and I was test fitting the scrog screen. Fits in there well and comes out easy using removable zip ties.






Day 9 from sprout.

looking good in there!!

im subbed.....


interested to see what the temps do when the canopy causes you to raise the light higer