Hey guys, has been a while since my last journal and have been spending my time wisely dialing in my setup a bit better. I have moved away from LED's, now running a 400w HPS setup. Here is a lot of information about my grow so far, i hope you all enjoy 
What strain is it?
1. Bomb Seeds - Atomic Bomb - Feminised
Bought this because i have had nothing but great success with Bomb Seeds, This is their most potent strain.
Type: Indica/Sativa Mix
Plant Height: Medium (80-150cm)
THC: Very High (22-26%)
Yield: High (450-550g/m²)
Indoor/Outdoor: Indoor/Outdoor
Indoor Flowering: 8-9 Weeks
Stoned/High: Powerful & euphoric
2. Strain Hunters - Money Maker - Feminised
This one i have read nothing but bad things about which i didnt really read too much up on before purchase, it was a cheap seed and sounded pretty decent from the way they marketed it (also just needed a couple of dollars more to reach the next tier of free seeds lol). However, for me she is powering on big time, no issues and showing signs of female traits already, keeping up with the atomic bomb nicely.
Genetics: Original Master Kush, Hindu Kush and Skunk
Type: indica: 70% - sativa: 30%
Height: short plant (average internodal distance 5-7 cm).
Flowering Indoor: 8 weeks flowering time.
Taste: nutty, vegetal, spicy, fruity.
Scent: berries, spices, kushy, roasted.
Notes: Production up to 1Kg per plant depending on the final size. Support for the branches is recommended.
3. Greenhouse Seeds - Great White Shark - Feminised
This one was a last minute seed i threw in because i was worried about how the other 2 were growing to begin with in the soil, was planning on moving it outdoors but its in the DWC now so thats where she stays, quite a bit smaller than the other 2 but im sure she will produce some decent meds.
Genetics: Super Skunk x Brazilian x South Indian.
THC: 14.97% CBD: 0.18% CBN: 0.25%
Height: Short, branchy, bushy plant.
Flowering Indoor: 9 weeks, with a yield up to 800 gr/m2.
Effects: Very strong body effect, stoned and long-lasting.
Medicinally effective in pain therapy.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? If in Flower stage... For how long? Hydro or soil?
Has just been changed from Veg to flower 3 days ago, not by choice but the 400w MH retro bulb blew and i had no way to get to the hydro store to get a replacement. They had a 30 hour dark period before switching directly to 12/12 under the 400w HPS globe.
Currently growing both indoors and outdoors but this journal is focused only on the girls inside. Running Hydro in 25l(5gal) black plastic buckets, could not get black lids and net pot lids are not available to me here
i ended up with white bucket lids spray painted black to stop unwanted light getting to the root system, i then used a holesaw to cut a 6" hole in the top of each lid to fit a standard 6" net pot and also a small hole big enough to run my air stone tubing through. In my netpots i am running canna aqua clay pebbles and the seeds were germinated in rockwool. After multiple tests of airstones, air walls etc, i found in my setup the 4" Aqua One long rectangular blocks output the most amount of air and aerate the solution perfectly with no signs of algae forming. Do not bother with the air curtains unless you are willing to pull it out and clean it every day because it will block up very quickly. Now onto the air pump i am using, tried multiple fish pumps and came to the conclusion for the best and most even results i would have to run a separate pump for each bucket, this was not an option as the noise would drive me insane, I ended up purchasing a Hailea ACO-208 Compressor, this little baby puts out 35L of air per minute and has a connection for up to 6 outputs being plenty to run up to 6 buckets comfortably off the one pump. Another good thing about this pump is being Magnetic it is a lot quieter to run than fish pumps as long as there are no air leaks.
Size of light? Is it aircooled?
As stated earlier i am running a 400w HPS system, have just purchased a 5" air cooled hood as its coming into summer here and have already had +40c days, currently running a 6" axial fan with ducting to cool the hood, draws air from outside the tent then pushes it through the light and directly out the window.
Temp of Room/cab? RH of Room/cab?
Temps in my tent fluctuate between around 21c - 31c(i know this is a bit warm but considering when it reached this temp it was 38c in the rest of the house), I try to keep the humidity up over 50% but will drop it off later in flower.
PH of media or res?
I set the PH around 5.6-5.8 and let it drift to a max of 6.5 before resetting (currently PH is stable and does not drift much at all so no adjustments, taking a week to drift to around 6.3)
Any Pests ?
Few fungus gnats here and there but have not seen any in a few weeks since moving my soil girls outdoors (They have been treated since).
How often are you watering? Type and strength of ferts used?
Being a DWC i am currently changing nutes once per week and topping up with PH'd water every few days. Each of my girls reservoirs are filled with 14L and kept around that level, i found at this height the bottom of the net pot sits just over an inch away from the nutes.
For my nutes i am using the Dutch Master Gold Range with a few additions:
For veg I used DM Silica, DM Zone, DM Gold Grow A+B, DM Add.27 Grow throughout, after 2 weeks into veg the girls got some ROCK Super Growth.
For Flower i am using DM Silica, DM Zone, DM Gold A+B Flower, DM Add.2.7 flower and also a half strength mix of Monsta Bud.
For foliar treatments every second day DM Saturator and DM Liquid Light, every other day was either straight water or water and canna rhizotonic mix depending on the root system growth.
Other information about the grow:
This was not a straight up plan to grow in DWC, Im not sure about the veg life of these girls as i spent a lot of time if not weeks working out my issues with them at a young age and they were stunted for a long time. Yes thats right, they were started in rockwool but then planted into soil and thats where the issues began, I ran out of canna terra pro and went with a pre-fertalised soil from the hardware, bad move, no way to track what nutrients were already in the mix and what to add to it, even from straight water feeds i had nute problems in seedlings, by the time i made the DWC buckets and washed the soil from the roots i could see just how unhealthy they actually were, At this point they were topped once and were a total of about 4" high without being tied down. For 3 weeks straight i dealt with sludge and major PH fluctuations while they started to show signs of new life and get their roots growing. Its at this time i changed the lights from LED to MH as the old style MarsHydro panels just dont seem to work good enough by themselves, maybe perfect as a space filler or for frosting up a little at the end, IMO if you are looking at the Mars range of lights and will be using this as your only light source i would go for a minimum of the MarsII or reflector panels as they seem to give off a better spectrum of light for growing, Im sure there are better or worse panels from different manufacturers but im just throwing my 2 cents in from my experiences and the units i have tried. The guys that get great results with them dont stop what you are doing, you do an amazing job
So after 3 weeks in the DWC i was happy the girls were showing nice pearlescent white healthy roots and new growth at the top, i then called this week 3 of veg and added my ROCK Super Growth, then 2 weeks later brings us to the switch, in the last 2 weeks i have seen more growth than i did in my whole last grow, these girls have quadrupled in size.
Here we have a pic of the girls on the 8th of November, this was just around the time of all the new growth starting and root system becoming healthy
About a week after this i started stretching Atomic and MM out like this, GWShark im not going to do any training so it can catch up a bit to the others.
This is the girls 6 days ago, the day of my MH globe blowing lol
My Light schedule does not allow me to enter the tent during the day so i will grab a couple of pics later tonight when i go to check on them
As always if you have any questions feel free to ask, i am in no way a professional but i will answer to the best of my ability haha
What strain is it?
1. Bomb Seeds - Atomic Bomb - Feminised
Bought this because i have had nothing but great success with Bomb Seeds, This is their most potent strain.
Type: Indica/Sativa Mix
Plant Height: Medium (80-150cm)
THC: Very High (22-26%)
Yield: High (450-550g/m²)
Indoor/Outdoor: Indoor/Outdoor
Indoor Flowering: 8-9 Weeks
Stoned/High: Powerful & euphoric
2. Strain Hunters - Money Maker - Feminised
This one i have read nothing but bad things about which i didnt really read too much up on before purchase, it was a cheap seed and sounded pretty decent from the way they marketed it (also just needed a couple of dollars more to reach the next tier of free seeds lol). However, for me she is powering on big time, no issues and showing signs of female traits already, keeping up with the atomic bomb nicely.
Genetics: Original Master Kush, Hindu Kush and Skunk
Type: indica: 70% - sativa: 30%
Height: short plant (average internodal distance 5-7 cm).
Flowering Indoor: 8 weeks flowering time.
Taste: nutty, vegetal, spicy, fruity.
Scent: berries, spices, kushy, roasted.
Notes: Production up to 1Kg per plant depending on the final size. Support for the branches is recommended.
3. Greenhouse Seeds - Great White Shark - Feminised
This one was a last minute seed i threw in because i was worried about how the other 2 were growing to begin with in the soil, was planning on moving it outdoors but its in the DWC now so thats where she stays, quite a bit smaller than the other 2 but im sure she will produce some decent meds.
Genetics: Super Skunk x Brazilian x South Indian.
THC: 14.97% CBD: 0.18% CBN: 0.25%
Height: Short, branchy, bushy plant.
Flowering Indoor: 9 weeks, with a yield up to 800 gr/m2.
Effects: Very strong body effect, stoned and long-lasting.
Medicinally effective in pain therapy.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? If in Flower stage... For how long? Hydro or soil?
Has just been changed from Veg to flower 3 days ago, not by choice but the 400w MH retro bulb blew and i had no way to get to the hydro store to get a replacement. They had a 30 hour dark period before switching directly to 12/12 under the 400w HPS globe.
Currently growing both indoors and outdoors but this journal is focused only on the girls inside. Running Hydro in 25l(5gal) black plastic buckets, could not get black lids and net pot lids are not available to me here
i ended up with white bucket lids spray painted black to stop unwanted light getting to the root system, i then used a holesaw to cut a 6" hole in the top of each lid to fit a standard 6" net pot and also a small hole big enough to run my air stone tubing through. In my netpots i am running canna aqua clay pebbles and the seeds were germinated in rockwool. After multiple tests of airstones, air walls etc, i found in my setup the 4" Aqua One long rectangular blocks output the most amount of air and aerate the solution perfectly with no signs of algae forming. Do not bother with the air curtains unless you are willing to pull it out and clean it every day because it will block up very quickly. Now onto the air pump i am using, tried multiple fish pumps and came to the conclusion for the best and most even results i would have to run a separate pump for each bucket, this was not an option as the noise would drive me insane, I ended up purchasing a Hailea ACO-208 Compressor, this little baby puts out 35L of air per minute and has a connection for up to 6 outputs being plenty to run up to 6 buckets comfortably off the one pump. Another good thing about this pump is being Magnetic it is a lot quieter to run than fish pumps as long as there are no air leaks.
Size of light? Is it aircooled?
As stated earlier i am running a 400w HPS system, have just purchased a 5" air cooled hood as its coming into summer here and have already had +40c days, currently running a 6" axial fan with ducting to cool the hood, draws air from outside the tent then pushes it through the light and directly out the window.
Temp of Room/cab? RH of Room/cab?
Temps in my tent fluctuate between around 21c - 31c(i know this is a bit warm but considering when it reached this temp it was 38c in the rest of the house), I try to keep the humidity up over 50% but will drop it off later in flower.
PH of media or res?
I set the PH around 5.6-5.8 and let it drift to a max of 6.5 before resetting (currently PH is stable and does not drift much at all so no adjustments, taking a week to drift to around 6.3)
Any Pests ?
Few fungus gnats here and there but have not seen any in a few weeks since moving my soil girls outdoors (They have been treated since).
How often are you watering? Type and strength of ferts used?
Being a DWC i am currently changing nutes once per week and topping up with PH'd water every few days. Each of my girls reservoirs are filled with 14L and kept around that level, i found at this height the bottom of the net pot sits just over an inch away from the nutes.
For my nutes i am using the Dutch Master Gold Range with a few additions:
For veg I used DM Silica, DM Zone, DM Gold Grow A+B, DM Add.27 Grow throughout, after 2 weeks into veg the girls got some ROCK Super Growth.
For Flower i am using DM Silica, DM Zone, DM Gold A+B Flower, DM Add.2.7 flower and also a half strength mix of Monsta Bud.
For foliar treatments every second day DM Saturator and DM Liquid Light, every other day was either straight water or water and canna rhizotonic mix depending on the root system growth.
Other information about the grow:
This was not a straight up plan to grow in DWC, Im not sure about the veg life of these girls as i spent a lot of time if not weeks working out my issues with them at a young age and they were stunted for a long time. Yes thats right, they were started in rockwool but then planted into soil and thats where the issues began, I ran out of canna terra pro and went with a pre-fertalised soil from the hardware, bad move, no way to track what nutrients were already in the mix and what to add to it, even from straight water feeds i had nute problems in seedlings, by the time i made the DWC buckets and washed the soil from the roots i could see just how unhealthy they actually were, At this point they were topped once and were a total of about 4" high without being tied down. For 3 weeks straight i dealt with sludge and major PH fluctuations while they started to show signs of new life and get their roots growing. Its at this time i changed the lights from LED to MH as the old style MarsHydro panels just dont seem to work good enough by themselves, maybe perfect as a space filler or for frosting up a little at the end, IMO if you are looking at the Mars range of lights and will be using this as your only light source i would go for a minimum of the MarsII or reflector panels as they seem to give off a better spectrum of light for growing, Im sure there are better or worse panels from different manufacturers but im just throwing my 2 cents in from my experiences and the units i have tried. The guys that get great results with them dont stop what you are doing, you do an amazing job
So after 3 weeks in the DWC i was happy the girls were showing nice pearlescent white healthy roots and new growth at the top, i then called this week 3 of veg and added my ROCK Super Growth, then 2 weeks later brings us to the switch, in the last 2 weeks i have seen more growth than i did in my whole last grow, these girls have quadrupled in size.
Here we have a pic of the girls on the 8th of November, this was just around the time of all the new growth starting and root system becoming healthy
About a week after this i started stretching Atomic and MM out like this, GWShark im not going to do any training so it can catch up a bit to the others.
This is the girls 6 days ago, the day of my MH globe blowing lol
My Light schedule does not allow me to enter the tent during the day so i will grab a couple of pics later tonight when i go to check on them
As always if you have any questions feel free to ask, i am in no way a professional but i will answer to the best of my ability haha
