Perpetual Grow - DWC/Waterfarm 432wT5 Veg, 600w HPS Flower

Yodaweed said:

Yo are you using volcanic stone instead of hydroton? I always wanted to try that I use the volcanic stone at the bottom of my coco-coir pots.

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Those are actually Growstones. It is made out of 100% recycled glass. Zero ph impact, doesn't hold bad bacteria but holds tons of oxygen. I have had great experience with it. I mix it about 50/50 with my coco in the hempy buckets. I fill the entire bottom with the growstones and then do a mix of coco/growstones for the rest. Have had fantastic results with that. They actually pre-package a coco mix with their stones mixed in, but I use a particular brand of coco that has a lot of biologicals and I like to have more control of things because I have issues like that

totally recommend these...but they do cost more than say perlite, which is an equally amazing option and very, very affordable. Same properties and great performance.

Humboldt Green Crack @ Day 41. Looking good. Smells kind of fruity I would say. Definitely sweeter than spicy or earthy. Not as distinct as the Bubba Kush is for sure, but different.

Humboldt Amherst Sour Diesel @ Day 6, ha ha, holy crap she is setting up nicely. Nice, thick, green shoots getting ready for some honkin' blossoms (fingers-crossed)

Damn that green crack looks great too mate. Im really digging what you are getting out of these humboldt beans, so much so that i just bought a 5 pack of beans so i could get the freebies from the tude lol. Pretty sure i'll have 9 humboldt strains to grow out after my bodhi run
Even the armhurst is going to be tops as well by the looks of it!!

eastcoastmo said:

Damn that green crack looks great too mate. Im really digging what you are getting out of these humboldt beans, so much so that i just bought a 5 pack of beans so i could get the freebies from the tude lol. Pretty sure i'll have 9 humboldt strains to grow out after my bodhi run
Even the armhurst is going to be tops as well by the looks of it!!

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Yeah, for real. They were some of the very first seeds I grew. I think I bought Blue Dream (not knowing anything about anything) and they gave me a couple freebies, and then the attitude had the big humboldt promo so they've been the vast majority of plants I've grown. I really haven't had a dud or one that (under the right care and circumstances) hasn't really impressed me. That original Blue Dream is still the fave of a lot of my friends and family. I have an insanely nice looking plant that I grew from a seed from one of the clones of one of the clones of that original BD that hermied. So like the extremely weird half-cousin/sister/wife of the original or something like that

I have some great clones of the Desert Diesel...though the one I am flowering is definitely going down. I am find out that using just growstones with no coco works fine until you get to summer. Just too much heat around the roots, and since the growstones don't really wick that well they dry out pretty quick, even with nutes in the bottom where the root ends can drink. The plants that have about 50/50ish mix are doing great. No biggie. Going to freeze the buds and use it next time I make hash. It's sticky and is 6 weeks in so it will be okay. Just adding it to my trim stash. But it allows me to get my Emdog plant into flower. She is big and gnarly and has a great root system in her water-farm - another Humboldt strain, but sourced from B-Real/Kief Sweat. I have two more seeds of her, so hoping to see some variety as well. I don't think it is very old as far as generations go so might be some diff phonos. Who knows.

That's great news mate, I must say Ive been pretty impreseed with your grows and im stoked i have a lot of the strains you have too makes me excited to try out the new strains too.
Its damn hard to keep your grow environment perfect when its hot hey, I have the same problem in summer time. Im sure you'll make some good hash out of the diesel
That emdog sounds pretty rad too, cant wait to see her in flower

eastcoastmo said:

That's great news mate, I must say Ive been pretty impreseed with your grows and im stoked i have a lot of the strains you have too makes me excited to try out the new strains too.
Its damn hard to keep your grow environment perfect when its hot hey, I have the same problem in summer time. Im sure you'll make some good hash out of the diesel
That emdog sounds pretty rad too, cant wait to see her in flower

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Oh, I have seen your grows Easty....I can only imagine what you will get out of them.

That Amherst SD is really looking like she is going to be one of the best so far. She was 31" when I put her into flower a week ago, she is 41" now. Supposedly from a reversed clone of the original Amherst cut of SD. I don't know if that is totally true (or care really) but if it is anything like that RP Sour Diesel I will be happy. She was definitely vigorous in veg and so far has been a performer in flower.

I am so glad we only have a couple more weeks of high temps before they start sliding down into more comfortable shit.

Ha ha cheers dude, I hope so! Its taking a while to work out the right height for these LEDs hey, ive had them at pretty much every height andy seedlings still wont grow. Going to chuck in some cfls as well i think, that may be the issue, not enough veg lighting.

Mate thats awesome about the Sour D, its one ive been holding onto for some time, if only i had more space lol.

Hope the heat dies off for you soon dude

duudical said:

Humboldt Green Crack @ Day 41. Looking good. Smells kind of fruity I would say. Definitely sweeter than spicy or earthy. Not as distinct as the Bubba Kush is for sure, but different.

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Props good Sir, that is beautiful.

-spek

Man Duu everything you run you turn into gold. Loving the Green Crack and the Amherst Diesel looks very good too. This man right here is prove that Humboldt Seed Organization puts out some fire in their beans. I know people are prolly skeptical about them cus they produce a lot of fems but Duu's grows are living proof. You should try contacting them show some of your work maybe you could become a tester. They have a few new beans I wanna try

spek9 said:

Props good Sir, that is beautiful.

-spek

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Thanks Spek! Appreciate the props my friend

akhiymjames said:

Man Duu everything you run you turn into gold. Loving the Green Crack and the Amherst Diesel looks very good too. This man right here is prove that Humboldt Seed Organization puts out some fire in their beans. I know people are prolly skeptical about them cus they produce a lot of fems but Duu's grows are living proof. You should try contacting them show some of your work maybe you could become a tester. They have a few new beans I wanna try

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You are too kind James. Thanks my friend.

I really have had great results with them so far. I have some fantastic looking Desert Diesel clones that I am pretty excited to run through. My original DD didn't make it (my fault, not seed quality or anything) but I was able to root two great looking cuttings so I am going to get them really bushed out and see what she can do. The Green Crack is just impressive. I have another one grown from seed and a couple clones of the one in flower as well so going to see if I can improve over the first one here.

And yea I feel you Duu I need this heat to go away. Luckily this week is gonna be reasonable so I'm glad cus this is crazy. It's only certain part of the day but I still want my temps to stay reasonable

eastcoastmo said:

Ha ha cheers dude, I hope so! Its taking a while to work out the right height for these LEDs hey, ive had them at pretty much every height andy seedlings still wont grow. Going to chuck in some cfls as well i think, that may be the issue, not enough veg lighting.

Mate thats awesome about the Sour D, its one ive been holding onto for some time, if only i had more space lol.

Hope the heat dies off for you soon dude

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I have to say....I am seeing the same with my latest seedlings. CFL or a small T5 bulb would probably be better. I just wonder if what we have on them is too much for them. Not sure, but my clones just boom under the 150w LED. The seedlings are definitely not growing at the rate I saw under the T5 I had going before.

akhiymjames said:

And yea I feel you Duu I need this heat to go away. Luckily this week is gonna be reasonable so I'm glad cus this is crazy. It's only certain part of the day but I still want my temps to stay reasonable

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Hey James, have you got a journal going? Would love to check it out if you do....

eastcoastmo said:

Hey James, have you got a journal going? Would love to check it out if you do....

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Eastcoast wassup man. Yea I do have one it's in my signature check it out. You know I gotta have you on board bro. Last grown didn't do what I expected but I figure out all the problems and this one is going great. Peace man

Sweet as bro, found it good to see you getting it dialed in man, I'm there to watch her turn into a beast

Some shots of the changes I had to make. So in all I lost a Cheese plant and my Purple Haze. But I have great looking clones of each so it's all good. I also pulled a couple of Bubba Kush's that were done. So now I have the following in flower:

Sage n' Sour (Day 6, Bubba Kush (Day 6, Green Crack (Day 47), Amherst Sour Diesel (Day 12), Critical Hog (Day 5), Emdog (I am counting this Tuesday as Day 1, though se went in about 3 days ago), Trainwreck (same, Day 1 on Tuesday), Blue Dream (same).

BL - BK; BR - ASD; FL - Emdog; FR - Green Crack:



Tall one in back - Sage n Sour; Front - Blue Dream; Left - Trainwreck; Right - Critical Hog:

HSO Blue Dream. This one was grown from a seed that was the result of a hermie sitch that I got myself into with a clone of a clone of a clone of the mom (or something like that). This one grew so much different than the original seed. Very large, thin, sativa leaves. My other BD phono was not like this at all in that area. She has been topped fairly significantly and grows like crazy so I am really excited to see what she does in flower. Her mom (and mom-clones) was very impressive when it came to bud structure so I hope to see that trait come through. We shall see. I have a bag of like 50 seeds from that plant so I can keep experimenting for a long time



HSO Trainwreck. Very good in veg. Kind of mainlined shape. Nice thick branches. I am looking forward to seeing her in full bloom.



TH Seeds Sage N Sour is just beautiful everyone. If you are looking for a great sativa to grow, check her out. Man is she a beauty. Tons and tons of thick, dense, golf ball nugs all over her. Everyone who sees her in person says "Wow". She is stunning. Literally can't wait to flower her clones that are turning into great plants. I want to get them a little larger since they are in coco and those plants tend not to get to the same level as the water farm plants.










I'm telling you, she is a fucking star. Can't wait to try her on for size...apparently this is fire if you get a good phono. And so far she is magical. Lots and lots of resin on her. Can't really ID the smell very well yet. But I am not very good at that anyway.

Next time I change her bucket I will get some better pics. The lighting is not that great for iPhone pics

I don't know what to expect from the Emdog as I have seen little around about it and what I have seen is tough to decipher through all the hater BS and arguments over strain names. So far, this plant has been a champ. Really strong in veg once roots were established. And after only a few days into 12/12 she is sending up these thick, green shoots which I hope are preparing for ginormous flowers.



The Amherst Sour Diesel (front) is a tower. She just keeps stretching and stretching while she breaks out in little puffball buds.



Closer shot of the ASD shoots with the Green Crack haystacks keeping watch behind it. Those fuckers are sticky. But you can see the ASD just flowering perfectly so far. Hope she grows some big spears. We shall see.