First Ever Grow: DWC With Remo Nutes & Ethos Seeds

[Steve Jobs]

I would say neither. I believe the round dots in the macro shots are a play of light but they are not in focus. What is the zoom factor

I think that little microscope starts at 60x.
Focus is tough to achieve taking pictures thru that microscope lense.

Also would you recommend me buying a humidifier if I’m sitting around 25~30%rh? Is it a worthy investment.

 

[Alienpus]

Also would you recommend me buying a humidifier if I’m sitting around 25~30%rh? Is it a worthy investment.

I don't know if it worth the investment, I don't use one even at 20-30% and I get by just fine, others swear by them

 

[Steve Jobs]

I don't know if it worth the investment, I don't use one even at 20-30% and I get by just fine, others swear by them

I went to the store and found one half price 80 to 40 and it has very good ratings on the internet reviews. Turned it on minimum and closed the tent with exhaust fan running so we will see where she’s at in an hour or so. I know it’s possible to grow with the 30%. It won’t go any lower as it’s winter now. Summer my hygrometer read around 50% so I won’t need it year round which is nice. I’ll keep posted on where the thing gets me.

It’s the aircare Aurora. Says it’s only good for low hours so I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Maybe run it on a timer to keep it steady and not running low on water.

I’d just prefer it being around 50% to know that’s not causing any problems.

I can always take it out and put it in my bedroom. 40$ for a quality one isn’t bad for a price.

 

[Steve Jobs]

Ok so, added the humidifier turned up half way it gets me into the 40s. I also decided that I was going to run my cobs today. I’ve got the middle 3 running at full 50w per. About 18-20” above the plant tops.

Citral flo r1 that broke ground on the 19

Zsweet Inzanity that broke ground on the 24th

Citral flo R1 roots as of 10 minutes ago

Zsweet inzanity roots as of 10 mins ago

Humidifier in action

Full pic of light frame and tote under

All pics taken with the cobs running as the light source.

 

[Steve Jobs]

I know they like the higher spectrum for more blues but I just wanted to get these cobs going so I can run my timer and have some lights out time. I hear roots like to develop during lights out. I’ll keep an eye out for stretch either from lights too high or from the dark period.

Thoughts?

 

[blueneon007]

Looks like you have things under control at this stage. Keep it up. And always remember with DWC, Less is More!

First two weeks after the cotys are out you need no nutes. Third week about 100ppm (above water ppm), gradually increase from there till you're eventually at 450ppm or so, and you can pretty much stay there throughout veg. In flower around 650ppm (max 800ppm).... Don't fall pray to all the hype about 1200ppm etc... A plant can only take up so much nutes, and the golden rule is...

A nutrient burned plant is a crap load harder to fix than a hungry one.

Keep it up and good luck!

 

[Steve Jobs]

Looks like you have things under control at this stage. Keep it up. And always remember with DWC, Less is More!

First two weeks after the cotys are out you need no nutes. Third week about 100ppm (above water ppm), gradually increase from there till you're eventually at 450ppm or so, and you can pretty much stay there throughout veg. In flower around 650ppm (max 800ppm).... Don't fall pray to all the hype about 1200ppm etc... A plant can only take up so much nutes, and the golden rule is...

A nutrient burned plant is a crap load harder to fix than a hungry one.

Keep it up and good luck!

Thanks for the reply. Plants are showing no I’ll effects of having nutes in the water yet. I know it may have been a tad early but I’m eager lol I know nute burn is the enemy I’ll be sure to keep an eye on that moving forward. For some reason I feel like these Remo nutes are soft on plants. No factual knowledge just a feeling I’m having. My biggest worry from the start was root rot. When I ph test my water the small sample comes in at 19-20C which I believe is around 68f.

 

[Steve Jobs]

I pulled the top feed out cause it was too wet and the lines had gunk which didn’t look good so bye bye top feed. My roots still look great. I think the wetness of the top feed slowed down root growth of my second seedling so hoping she starts taking off now

 

[Steve Jobs]

Other seedling is stunted cause of the wetness. I lowered the water cause I clearly had it too high and I redid the hydroton level under it so I’m really hoping she recovers. I kept my third seedling in the tray just in case and it’s almost at the same level of growth so I’m going to keep an eye on it to see if I should change it out. I’m going to give it a day or two to recover and see what happens.

It’s all a part of the learning process for me. I’ve gained a lot of what not to do’s so far. Mostly the overwatering and water level issues. The first one is looking good. 3rd set is starting now. No stretch. The stunted one is stretching a bit more than I’d like but it’s having a rough start to its life so only time will tell. It had a bunch of root poking out the bottom of the rooter but with being over watered the roots didn’t try searching for more water.

Bigger net pots would probably have helped. These ones are pretty small. That will be a next grow upgrade

 

[Steve Jobs]

Any thoughts on why she looks sad? Ph was around 6.2 the entire time roots aren’t slimy or anything. Could it be under watered even tho there’s roots in the water? Could it be over watered (starving for oxygen if my rapid rooter is soaked? Maybe they can’t uptake enough water for the plant yet? Maybe they aren’t grabbin enough oxygen? There’s a bunch of short root ends sticking out of the net pot. Maybe they were starving the plant of water? Maybe the rooter is too wet starving them of air? I’ve got tons of air in my res water.

The other seedling was surely underwatered as it’s droopy also and I lowered the water level cause it was getting too much water I figure. It didn’t have roots in the water and the rooter wasn’t wet.

But this lady had roots in the water taking a bath and they look ok to me. Just clawing downwards, I figure she should be perky pointing straight out. Is too much light possible? I ran 24 hrs aside from a couple days. Could that have stressed them? Couple days of 20 hours back to 24 for a couple?

I should add I just did a res change after this picture as a way to be sure

 

[Steve Jobs]

She’s still looking the same today. I’m really not sure why.

 

[Alienpus]

FWIW Not quite sure it is considered normal but every time mine have done it they turned out quite OK.

 

[Steve Jobs]

FWIW Not quite sure it is considered normal but every time mine have done it they turned out quite OK.

Yeah it was still growing and not showing any deficiencies or anything I just know it should be perkier. I switch my air pump to a smaller one cause it was running hot and probably pumping warm air into the res, which I’ve read warm air doesn’t carry as much oxygen and I hooked my cfls back up last night a few hours before lights out and this morning I went and checked and it looked better actually.

But now that I changed both I’m not entirely sure which one was the culprit. So I disconnected my cfls and am running the cobs, but higher up than before. Possible light stress? And the air pump is staying cause it’s running cooler and substantially quieter. If it was just the air pump issue then it will still look good under the cobs. I also lowered my water levels yesterday I believe so maybe that helped as well.

My ph is not that stable and I believe it’s from the hygrozyme. It keeps rising. Not a fan of the stuff.
I’m going to place an order for flying skull Z9 probably (Canadian version of z7).

My second plant is still being a stubborn sob. I had 2 seedlings and one spot for them so I swapped cause the one that was in my net pot was having root issues, they looked very sad and not white and growing so I moved it back to my seedling tray and swapped for the second seedling. It had a better root system so fingers crossed. The one I pulled from the res is popping a few new roots out of the rooter so I’ll keep an eye on it. It looks pretty sad up too too lol.

At least I have the one plant that took off fine. I wouldn’t blame it on the seeds or genetics it’s most certainly human error dialing in the dwc workings.

 

[Steve Jobs]

Is this a deficiency of some sort starting? Few dark spots starting to form on the first set. See the right hand edge. Both sides have spotting starting

 

[Steve Jobs]

Update: plants look healthier. Changed hygrozyme res out and won’t use again. Made my water brown and had sediment and stuff floating around in the water. Also stained my roots. Had crazy ph jumps over night. Jumped an entire point in 24 hours I’d guess. I believe the hygrozyme was conflicting with one of my nutes.

Ph to 5.89 with ppm of 229 when I just checked. See where it’s at tomorrow. Was stable before hygrozyme so I’d imagine stability after it just the same.

Second plant is rooting in finally and won’t catch up obviously but it will be close enough to run the same nute schedule I’m thinking.

 

[Pennywise]

They look nice and healthy really.

 

[KingJoe83]

Found ya subbed in buddy

Not a pro but if I can help I’ll try and take some notes myself maybe ?

 

[Steve Jobs]

Found ya subbed in buddy

Not a pro but if I can help I’ll try and take some notes myself maybe ?

Sounds good glad to have you subbed

 

[Steve Jobs]

Just a visual update from Since Wednesday.

Plants are looking pretty healthy to me. The roots got stained from the hygrozyme which I discontinued in my res. Second plant is starting to grow above and below which is nice.

The ph is stablized thank god. I believe the hygrozyme was the issue. It made my res water brown and murky I was not a fan whatsoever.

I have flying skull z9 on the way. Unsure if I’ll use it this grow or just wait until next grow.

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.... lol.

 

[Pennywise]

Z9 is very good product