My First Grow! DIY DWC & Grow Area, SNOW WHITE FEM FROM SEED!

yea man you can keep track of how much they eatin with the ec/ppm meter...But i dont worry about that until flower..That is a good way though..

I just want to make sure that I am still on the right path. I guess on sunday I will do a swap of water and new nutes and run the weeky deal like you said.

Once I get my meter I am going to be following what you said craig, that explained it pretty well. Thanks again guys.

Day 16

Just checked on her and everything looks good. My ph, temps, humidity, air flow, and water level look great. No additional browning or yellowing of the leaves, and there is some decent growth showing. Roots look good as well.

The little seeds that I started on two different days are starting to sprout! It is Day 3 for the two that have sprouted and I am really looking forward to having some fun with them because I didn't pay so much money for them.

Pictures!

The New Guys





Snow White










Root Porn






So, I think that everything is looking good. Anyone have any other thoughts on this? Questions, comments and concerns are all welcome!!

looking well buddy, once the roots reach the water why dont you turn off the feeder pipes as they no use anymore.

bloatedcraig said:

looking well buddy, once the roots reach the water why dont you turn off the feeder pipes as they no use anymore.

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Not just that but the feedertubes keeps the RW too wet and can cause stem rot.RW holds alotta water and oxygen.

Oh, the roots are definitely already in the water. I didn't know that you stopped using it after a while. I thought that you just kept it on all the time? Damnit, that makes me upset that I bought another pump and hub then.


So I should take out my pump and move it over to my sprouts then eh?

tmsculli said:

Oh, the roots are definitely already in the water. I didn't know that you stopped using it after a while. I thought that you just kept it on all the time? Damnit, that makes me upset that I bought another pump and hub then.


So I should take out my pump and move it over to my sprouts then eh?

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Someone else would probably tell you other wise, but the hub isn't really needed anymore is it.

It was only used to deliver water to the roots when they couldn't reach.

So in my search for 6500k online I have found a shit load of difference in wattage and pricing. Do I really need to get multiple 105W bulbs that are almost 40$ a piece? I am thinking about the 30-65w guys taht are cheaper, It would be cheaper for me to just have multiple of them I think.

Well after that little shopping stint, I now have 6 of THESE GUYS headed my way.


I think this was a good buy, could turn up productivity and yield a lot. 65W real and 300Equivalent. I am taking out all the other ones that are useless spectrums. I will be running 3 6500k and 1 2700k for my Snow White and then the other 3 6500k and some other hodge podge of lights for the little guys.

Day 18

Last night I had a little bit of a scare. I saw an ant in my grow area, so i quickly looked up what to do. I found that Chili Powder is evidently a great deterring factor for ants. I sprinkled that all around my plant and I havent seen him since.

Also, I think that my chain of deficiencies is still continuing. I did a full dump and refill with new 1/4 strength nutes yesterday, but then found that I was doing something wrong. UPon waking up this morning I found that my plant still had slight yellowing and some other marks. These are just various deficiencies, so I needed more nutes. I checked the bottle again and changed from the clones/seedlings dosage to the vegetative stage dosage. I am still running 1/4 strength though. Also, I no have the Grow and Micro Nutrients in my reservoir. I am getting pretty far into this grow and I thought that it was about time to keep moving that forward.

3 of those seeds I was messing with became seedlings and survived, so that is cool. I need to get another 5 gallon bucket so they can grow up in that instead of the big ass 18 gallon tote that is in there now.

Pictures well be up shortly.

Here she is

Am I behind the 8-ball guys? I keep looking at other journals, and their 2 week girls are 3 times the size of my 18 day old lady =/

Dont ask me buddy, i thought i was behind the 8 ball, finger on the button, bang on the money. I have a big plant and it has 6 colas and today i checked and everyone of the colas has bud rot to a extreme, lost some right money.

I will check in on you later, it is a dark dark day.

Dont worry man you are looking good. Think about getting some SUPERTHRIVE

Craig, I am really sorry to hear that brother. Don't get down on yourself. It's a learning process brother. You have taught me plenty, so use your own advice and a little bit of some others on where you messed up and start p another round. Sunk Costs don't matter my man, you didn't lose anything, you just gained experience.


Now, I just got home to find that my extra net pots (yipeee, sigh.) and my TDS meter have arrived. I read up on the meter and took a few readings hoping you guys could help me analyzing them a bit.


I try to keep my systems with a ph of ~6. I am waiting on my ph gauge to come, but as of now, I am using the colored bars and it has stopped me from shooting for perfect numbers and riding the "rollercoaster" as Roseman would say.

I took the ppm of my 6ph res for my little ladies that has no nutes in it and I got a reading of 199ppm.
I then took the ph of my Snow White's rez, and found that her ph was shattered. So, I fixed it and brought it back to 6, and let it sit for a while. Then I went back and got a reading frm the meter and it said that my ppm was 249.

Now, I am just going to be doing some simple rounding to make this a little easier:

Nute-less grow tank - 200ppm
Nute-ful grow tank - 250ppm

This means that I have 50ppm of nutrients in my solution, right? If the water and the ph adjusting solutions together accounted for 200, then the other 50 must be the nutes, right?


This being said, are these numbers okay? I am running 1/4 strength grow and micro nutes at the moment. I had some deficiencies showing up and the ph fuck up, so hopefully this will settle everythign back out solid so I can take control of it again.

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, feel free to let me know.


Oh, and the middie-girls are doing well. 3 of the seeds survived and have made some pretty good looking seedlings. I have them under some little humidity domes and they are basically just to save me some money during the learning experience.


What do you guys think?

dont forgoet in normal water it has already got a ppm because of the stuff the water companies put in the water (clorine, calcium and other shite) so unless you have a water purifier you will always have a starting number. that is why people get osmosis pumps to clean the water so you can put more nutes in.

Oh yea I know this craig. That is why I said that my tap water + my ph solution = 199ppm. my water + ph solution + nutes = 249ppm.

Right?

bang on, will get you some more info from another thread i am following.

Check this guy's shit out, halfway down there is the values of ppm he is using.

Read the whole thing though interesting stuff.

https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/116859-harvest-pound-every-three-weeks.html

I would be atleast at 400-500 ppm by now.
Man please tell me those arent incandecsents you using for lighting.
Whats the red stuff you sprinkled on em?
See how the veins are RAISED,that means it is trying to release moisture and cant,Too much moisture ar too much heat or a combo!.Whats the temps runnin?

You need to push that RW down a lil more in the cups too.