Holy Smoke: Strawberry Diesel - 400w Waterfarm

If you want to fill the screen bro and it is your main priority i say give her the time she needs unless you cant do so right now for some reason let her fill out more and give her the chance to produce for you ive seen scotyballs and his was growing at a faster rate then your are so you may need to give yours a lil more time..I would love to see you knock this grow out of the park man thats why im here, im using you as my motivation to come out my shell and go wtaer farm myself..So stick with it man i'm here with you...Peace

stinkbudd1 said:

If you want to fill the screen bro and it is your main priority i say give her the time she needs unless you cant do so right now for some reason let her fill out more and give her the chance to produce for you ive seen scotyballs and his was growing at a faster rate then your are so you may need to give yours a lil more time..I would love to see you knock this grow out of the park man thats why im here, im using you as my motivation to come out my shell and go wtaer farm myself..So stick with it man i'm here with you...Peace

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Thanks man! I'm going to give it more time. I wanted to finish by Halloween, and this strain is said to finish flower in 8 weeks. So that gives me a window of vegging until the 5th if I need to which is good.

I'll be right here to see it through!!!

i think that's the main thing the more time you give it to fill the screen the best result you get good luck mate i'll be watching

mears220 said:

i think that's the main thing the more time you give it to fill the screen the best result you get good luck mate i'll be watching

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Yep, and judging by how it's looking this morning I'm gonna be going to at least Monday. It looks great, better than it has all week but it's nowhere near the height I'd like it to be. It's JUST 6" and I wanted to start flower with it closer to 12"

I tilted the cool tube a bit to allow more light to hit the secondary growth and moved the big fan leaves out of the way to help as well. I had the drip ring running for about an hour or so but it's now off. checked the roots and honestly, with it off for a day I noticed probably twice as much root growth as when it was on. So I'm probably going to run it for an couple hours here and there but leave it off most of the time.

whats the burn onthe older leaf there
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convict156326 said:

whats the burn onthe older leaf there
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Happened like 2 hours after I sprayed it with Reverse so I'd assume it was that. I didn't use the penetrator which leaves it sitting on the leaves longer than with so it is probably burn from the Reverse.

Just topped off the res with some nute filled distilled water. ppm of water added was 450 and pH was 5.5 so it should bring the pH in the res down a bit. I, again will be using distilled water throughout the grow because the water around here has some insane buffers in it. I added a tablespoon of Nova Bloom to 1 gallon of tap water and it took the pH from 7.0 to 6.8. The pH of the distilled is 7.0 and 1 tsp of Nova takes it to 5.5..

Judging by how it looks now, what do you guys think? Another week of 12/12? Or think it will be good to go by Monday.

Really want to start flower tomorrow night. A lot of growth has happened today. Again, I have a total of 26" of vertical grow and 36" of horizontal. I'll probably veg it until it's 10-12" then hopefully during flower it'll fill the entire screen. We will find out for sure starting tomorrow afternoon. If I think it's big enough by then I'll go ahead and throw it into 24 hours of dark and start up flowering the following day, otherwise I'll keep on vegging until it makes it to my goal.. Really excited to kick this Strawberry Diesel into flower. I think I'm already seeing the beginning of the pre flowers. No pistils yet though.

Just thought I'd pass on this awesome post on PH...Good reading..
Everything you should know about PH

you get more lumens from the sides of a cfl rather than the top.. just an FYI... I hang mine vertically, some use reflectors


just a tip to squeeze a little more outta your light

Sr. Verde said:

you get more lumens from the sides of a cfl rather than the top.. just an FYI... I hang mine vertically, some use reflectors


just a tip to squeeze a little more outta your light

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Yea I've read that before. I'm gonna take it out here soon, it's not really helping from what I can tell. Today it's about 7" tall and it has a total of 7 nodes 8th is beginning to come out.

Trying to put the screen in by myself, fell broke the stem at the 7th and node. Not sure if it broke the center or not. Feels like it did. Will keep you guys updated.

I'm sure it will be just fine. If you snapped the stem completely you can just tape it back together....I used duct tape and it worked. Lol weed is awesome.

aww bro bad news i hope it comes ok for you

So it's been 2 hours and it still looks like it's alive so I will take that as a good thing. I assumed it would die off rather quickly had it broken and it couldn't mend itself. So, with that said. The screen is in place and I'm going to start weaving it. It's only 7" from the top of the bucket because I'm going to make a line for a jug of water to be able to fill it from a distance so I don't have to deal with maneuvering a jug of water between the screen and the plant.

How about a funnel and a short piece of tubing for top offs? That might allow you to get a little closer.

I got what I need to make it, I'll post a picture once it's done. The plant looks to be still living despite what happened this morning which is great. Not going to be flowering tomorrow, will decide on that day most likely.

Use masking tape... it's safe on your plants and wont leave behind any adhesive... will also keep it supported & together so it can heal