Holy Smoke: Strawberry Diesel - 400w Waterfarm

You guys work for waste treatment and grow bud. Love it. The water here tastes like it came out of someones asshole, but the ppms are within the legal limit. It's amazing how nasty that shit can taste but it can still be legally good for you.

Yeah, but your plant is slacking alot with that high of a PPM count. How far do you live from the tap water plant? Might be build up in the city's piping, you may have to get a R/O system after all. BTW, I work for the water plant, not waste water, lol, nasty...

Hobgoblit said:

Yeah, but your plant is slacking alot with that high of a PPM count. How far do you live from the tap water plant? Might be build up in the city's piping, you may have to get a R/O system after all. BTW, I work for the water plant, not waste water, lol, nasty...

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like 2 miles.

Wow, that's confusing.

Hobgoblit said:

Wow, that's confusing.

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Yea I know. I'll probably use distilled water until after the first week or so of flower, then see how it does with the good ol' tap water. Still planning on switching the light over on the 18th after lights go off so only 8 days left! Would make for a 25 day veg.

It doesn't seem to grow very much overnight like it does during the day. Day growth is noticeable within a couple hours, whereas the picture I took this morning when lights came on looks almost exactly the same as it did before lights went off. Temps got down to 66 in the tent last night. Right now it's at 79 with the ac off in the room. It's pretty chilly out today so no need for ac in the room.

Itchin I see, good luck, will be following...

Hey mr2 - been catching up on your journal, looking really great!! - it's funny, because I went through almost the EXACT same thing as you with the water ppms... this early on in the game, don't worry about the higher ppms or even the pH in the 6-7 range. Mine did that too - just keep using the store-bought RO water for now. Believe it or not, even though you've already rinsed the hydroton thoroughly, it will still cause abnormally high ppms for the first month or so. Once your nutes are up to around 5-600, the flora nova will take care of the pH, and it won't even by necessary to check it for the rest of the grow! My plant didn't mind the high pH at the start either - no worries. Pretty soon those first few sets of leaves will be irrelevant, and the slight browning tips won't even be viewable!

Another few things you're seeing right now is the slight curling 'up' of the leaf edges - that happened to me as well - for me it turned out to be my light was too close - if it's still doing that, maybe raise it up a bit and see if that helps. My plant also showed a bit of 'lighter green-ness' in the leaves at this point - again, nothing to worry about - it will grow out of it, especially since the growth speed right now is starting to take off - roots in the rez = happy plant!

Remember - with the Nova Bloom nutes you're using, it will always buffer you pH automatically for you. As you've noticed, the only thing you need to watch is your base ppm of the water you're using - I ended up getting an RO system (which was a godsend by the way) so base ppms was no longer a concern after that - then your ppms are almost 100% from your nutes.

Keep it up man - I'm following along closely!

Thanks Dayzt, been following yours closely as well. I boiled some water and holy shit! That stuff is nasty. Talked to a friend and they say they add lime to it. No idea why but the residue that it left in the pan is sickening. Think I'm gonna be sticking to distilled or just might come out of my pockets and get a RO system, however I was looking at a water distiller. However I REALLY don't want to go through the hassle of installing a RO system here. Main reason I haven't bought one.

I just had a look at the 'Holy Smokes Seeds' site (linked below) - some great looking bud-pics of the SD there...if yours turns out like that, I may have to squeeze this one in early next year.. =)

http://www.puresativa.com/product.php?product=strawberry-diesel-female-seeds

Dayzt said:

I just had a look at the 'Holy Smokes Seeds' site (linked below) - some great looking bud-pics of the SD there...if yours turns out like that, I may have to squeeze this one in early next year.. =)

http://www.puresativa.com/product.php?product=strawberry-diesel-female-seeds

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I sure hope it turns out as nice as the pics. I'm already seeing a bit of purple appear on the smaller leaves when they first show up then it goes away once they get bigger. I can't quite get a good enough picture of them to post it though. Very nice looking plant from the pictures on that site.

Some pics from last grow. Should have posted them on first post, BUT I forgot..

Beautiful! That's Sour Cream and Bubblicious, right? Great looking plants - you can already tell good things are to come from your SD...can't wait!!

Dayzt said:

Beautiful! That's Sour Cream and Bubblicious, right? Great looking plants - you can already tell good things are to come from your SD...can't wait!!

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Yep.. Thanks, was a good first grow. Expecting a LOT more this time around though.

nice man..............

Nice going, will be keeping a close eye on this one as I'm thinking of starting a similar setup in a few weeks

Just wondering if you got your seeds from fractal genetics? They seem to always be sold out but I might have to order me this next time it's in stock.

grokillaz said:

Just wondering if you got your seeds from fractal genetics? They seem to always be sold out but I might have to order me this next time it's in stock.

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No, I got mine from herbies head shop. I actually got pick and mix because 6 strawberry diesel was like 100 bucks shipped and I only needed 1.

Not entirly sure on how long I should veg this plant for. If I go for 25 days I'm worried it won't fill up the screen but then at the same token if I go longer I don't want it to be too tall for my tent. SO, I put the screen back in, put it where I think is enough height to be able to add water to res. The plant right now is about 4" away from screen and I'm not entirely sure if it will be touching screen by next Thursday night to change out the bulb to start flower Friday.

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Man, I can't wait for this plant to just start takin' off. How much are you hoping to pull from this plant?

OGPanda said:

Man, I can't wait for this plant to just start takin' off. How much are you hoping to pull from this plant?

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I do not wish to expose my plans until I get the screen filled.

oh and I checked the res for root growth(need to not do this much anymore) I counted 11 coming out of bucket and an uncountable number of secondary growth coming off the first few that poked out. The picture I took of the first root, it's so long now I would have to completely take the top bucket out and stand up to get the entire thing out of the res.(I did not do this) Probably 3-4ft long. Not sure how something can grow that fast! I have a feeling this plant will stretch 2-3x once I switch the bulb. Those roots are surreal.