Dakine Real Maui Wowie In The Midwest

[TurboBucket]

It's not a visible mess I'm worried about it. really wasn't too bad of a deal I'm more worried about anything lingering on the floor but should be fine.

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• TurboBucket
• Nov 20, 2018

Not much too look at it

 

[TurboBucket]

I had not realized how long it has been since I put any pictures of these up sorry folks.
Here they are in all their seedy glory.

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• TurboBucket
• Nov 29, 2018

 

[SamSmith]

I was wondering how things were going with your grow. Looking great in there.

 

[LadiesMan217]

Just curious why you got rid of the trellis? I just got one for mine, haven’t installed it yet but wondering if it helped or made things hard to manage?

 

[TurboBucket]

It was mainly to restrict the stretch on the main colas and let a few tops catch up so it wasn't doing much anymore. I had to take the plants out the other day to pull the filter down so I just didn't bother to put the trellis back in.

 

[LadiesMan217]

It was mainly to restrict the stretch on the main colas and let a few tops catch up so it wasn't doing much anymore. I had to take the plants out the other day to pull the filter down so I just didn't bother to put the trellis back in.

Gotchya, well hopefully I can get some stretch with mine using it. Thanks for explaining.

 

[TurboBucket]

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

We're at like 6 weeks or so since flip. I have some systemic issues going on. I can't keep the girls hydrated without drowning them. It's only 76-78°F with the lights on and they seem to show signs of heat stress again which makes me think they just can't take in enough water. They act rootbound but they are in fabric pots which I thought was impossible. So maybe it's not enough root Mass to feed the plants? My soil temp is upper 60's is it possible thats too cold? It seems like it would be good.

 

[Amy Gardner]

Hi Turbo. I know DocBud cites 20degC as ideal soil temp. So that’s the high end of the 60s in F. And 76-78 should be totally perfect temp wise I’d have thought. Dunno what to suggest - I assume the RH is ok also. Hope you get them happy through the finish! How’re the seeded buds coming along?

 

[TurboBucket]

Yea the Rh is a little low but acceptable at 45% lights on 55% lights off I thought the environment specs should be pretty darn good.
So it leads me back to water quality. The plants do great until their in a container for over a month. Then bam, they act like they can't take in enough food and water, weird deficiency/lockout stuff, poor or no new growth. My first grow I bought lots of RO water and mixed it with well water to start under 100ppm and had good results. Second run new nutes and only well water bad results, 3rd run same water n nutes same bad results. This time same water and first nutes getting similar bad results already. My water is very hard 220ppm but clean, not prone to algae or slime or rust just full of scale I'm thinking this is my problem.

 

[Amy Gardner]

That RH is perfect for flower

 

[Pennywise]

Sounds like an issue with a mineral in the water building up and locking out other nutrients.

 

[SamSmith]

Sounds like an issue with a mineral in the water building up and locking out other nutrients.

That would be my guess with hard water.

 

[Pennywise]

Maybe have it tested

 

[Amy Gardner]

 

[TurboBucket]

That's what I was afraid of. I don't want to run an ro system, the hard water will destroy membranes in a hurry which will just make the grow more expensive. I know Canna makes a line specifically for hard water but it's more expensive than what I use now.

I'm not sure if my micro herd isn't big/strong enough to deal with the extra junk or if that's outside of it's work scope haha.

Maybe just a flush with a clearex or sledgehammer product every 30 days or so would be enough?

What are the chances a true living soil or hi-brix grow would be strong enough to deal with the crappy water? Or would I still end up in a mess with too much junk in the soil and no good way to flush it out?

 

[TurboBucket]

I had a free analysis done before the first grow. It was negative for harmful contaminates, low iron and 7grains hardness which is a little over 100ppm hardness.

Maybe @bobrown14 has some thoughts

 

[Pennywise]

Yes maybe Bobrown will have an answer.

 

[TurboBucket]

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

Here's some of the baby seeds

These pics are from the other tent. The plants in the middle are recently transplanted Bagseed Barbies. The left is purple Trainwreck, the right is raspberry diesel.

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

Nasty Pwreck

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

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• TurboBucket
• Dec 3, 2018

They looked a lot better two weeks ago

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• TurboBucket
• Nov 20, 2018

 

[Pennywise]

Maybe switch up their water.

 

[SamSmith]

I would at least run the RO until you isolated the problem. My system isn't that bad to rebuild. The local Aquarium store builds them and sells all the stuff.