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

I had to post this little Desert Diesel clone. I call her Mary Jane Who because she looks like a tree right out of Dr. Seuss, which is freaking awesome.

Nice work Duu, all looking great! I'm becoming quite a fan of humboldt, my green crack girl is looking phenomenal

That clone is badass too ha ha. Will be interesting to see how it buds

Sugar Black Rose (Delicious Seeds) looking fantastic:



Humboldt Trainwreck getting into a nice shape:



I had a Humboldt Blue Dream that reversed on me a while back and I was able to get quite a load of really great looking seeds. These are some seedlings from that hermy'd mom. Really strong and looking good so far:



Desert Diesel clone is in soil and starting to take to it really well:



A Sugar Black Rose clone (from the one in bloom above):

Nice work bro, you're going to have more goodness than you can poke a stick at soon enough ha ha.

Ok. So totally had to reset and simplify. I had a bought of nutrient issues, then spider mites. Fuck. Which I successfully treated with a single application of Floramite. At least so far, fingers crossed. I also switched to soil and Nectar for the Gods nutrients. It has taken me a lot of time and work, but shit is back to where I want it. Plus, the soil and nutrients are growing these effortlessly awesome plants. I also ditched my HPS and am flowering under 900w and 300w LEDs. Plants dig them. I am vegging under a 432w T5.


Here is what I have going in veg. All from seed, all from a single Blue Dream that reversed on me. Really looking good.

And here is the flower room. Both in veg and bloom I am feeding Nectar for the Gods: Gaia Mania, Medusa's Magic, Zeus Juice, Herculean Harvest. I supplement with CaliMagic, H16/H&G Foliar (in veg), Humboldt Verde (in Veg). I am thinking about adding the NFTG Bloom Khaos as well. I am also planning on doing compost tea a couple times a month. I have done that in the past. Not too bad on the effort side of things and my plants really sang with that stuff. Seemed to be bulletproof with such great microbial activity going on in the root zone.

I completely dug doing the hydro and experimenting. But I like the insane results I am seeing with very little effort. No pH'ing has changed my life, lol

Sugar Black Rose looks so nice



This is a Humboldt Desert Diesel. Lots of tops and I have about 6 really great looking clones of her.


Blue Dream stretching up nicely



L to R: Desert Diesel, Blue Dream, Sugar Black Rose



Desert Diesel



MarsII 900w (5w) + Reflector-Style 300w (3w). Lots of light. Keep the tent at 81 with my exhaust fan running about half speed. If heat is an issue and you are a hobby grower, this is definitely a nice amount of light and low power consumption.

Anyone ever get frustrated and just want to say "fuck it"? So happy with the turnaround that I've been able to coax out of my garden. The spider mites sucked but are definitely eliminated as far as I can see. I am checking constantly and the Floramite seems to have terminated those mofos.

Adding the CaliMagic to my regimen has been huge as well. I was going on the assumption that my city water had some high calcium based on the buildup on sinks and whatnot. Turns out, not really that high so my plants were starving for Cal/Mag and I was too busy to really spend time analyzing and fixing it.

I would say the soil/organic stuff is fitting my lifestyle better now. I love my little peace garden where I can see results from the work and care I put into these lovely ladies.

One thing that is cool as well is that the seeds I got out of that reversed Blue Dream mom have been super fun. So interesting to see the very distinct phenos. I have lots of seeds left so that is awesome. I plan on getting some regular seeds in the hopes of finding a nice male to maybe do some hobby breeding with as well. Something I have always wanted to do but didn't have the time or energy to do because of the high maintenance of the systems I was running. Looking at Bodhi Dream Beaver or maybe the Solo's Stash because since watching the premiere of Episode IV when I was 7 I have always been a Han guy

Duud, so good to have you back my man, sorry to hear of the troubles you've had but FUCK....look at those babies now! They look bloody fantastic mate, so happy to see hey onwards and upwards from here mate.
Ive had issues in the past but (touch wood) they seem to be in the past now. I'm using hempy for now but would love to go full organic and not have to water, I've got the compost heap going so with any luck it cooks up nicely and I get some nice soil to use!
Great to have you back mate

eastcoastmo said:

Duud, so good to have you back my man, sorry to hear of the troubles you've had but FUCK....look at those babies now! They look bloody fantastic mate, so happy to see hey onwards and upwards from here mate.
Ive had issues in the past but (touch wood) they seem to be in the past now. I'm using hempy for now but would love to go full organic and not have to water, I've got the compost heap going so with any luck it cooks up nicely and I get some nice soil to use!
Great to have you back mate

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Nice!

Yeah, I might do another hydro plant or two this summer if I feel like it, but I needed to find a way to keep a good garden while not having to devote some much time to it. The soil/organic stuff definitely accomplished that

Sweet man, yeah hydro is good for bigger plants but I really want to go organic and not worry about nutes! Sounds like its worked real well for you, which is awesome

Man, I meant to show you the Humboldt green crack i grew outside, damn she turned out dank..and heavy too

Whoa. What a beauty! Growing outdoors would be awesome, but not possible in my particular 'hood

Thanks bro, yeah she ended up like old school skunk! Big fan of the humboldt gear

Blue Dream @ Day 19. This pheno is very sativa-dominant with long, stretchy, thick stalks and long, thin-leafed leaves. I am expecting her to take a little longer to flower as well. She looks fantastic so far!

This is Delicious Seeds Sugar Black Rose at Day 25-ish. Very Indica-dominant plant. This is a clone that I had grabbed before my last one died. She battled back like a champ and is looking amazing with very sticky buds that are bulking up nice. Has a ways to go so I am expecting her to get nice and thick were it counts

Humboldt Desert Diesel at about 10 days. She definitely leans toward the Afghani over the SourD, but her legs are stretching up nicely so we will see how her buds turn out. She loves to be fed heavy.

The little ones. All the seedlings are Blue Dreams. The clones are all Desert Diesels that are rooting nicely. I am finding they are thriving under a combo of 150w LED + 6500K CFL. A couple moved from the machine into soil cups because the roots were almost a foot long in there. Didn't have great results with the LED-only in the past. The CFL seems to add white (or something) that has made a big difference.

These two I call the twins. They are pretty much identical in structure and growth rate. They were seedlings that cracked at the same time and grew alongside each other. The one on the left seems to need more N, but I would bet that has more to do with soil deltas than the plants themselves. They look insane and love the Nectar for the Gods stuff so far.

This one is definitely a funky pheno. I put her in a 4 Gal pot to see if that will make a difference. She is totally healthy and very hungry, but she is super squat and kind of weird looking, ha ha. All that light green is new growth since the transplant so I'm going to let her get used to her new home and see if she changes her growth rate. Might put her into flower just for the hell of it, I think I could fit this little lady in there no problem. I'll give her a couple of weeks first though.