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GoogleGenie
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Re: First Time Grow - Hydro - LED - Day 0-5 - Research & Germination
Evening people!
Here is an update on what's been going on lately. The plants have been on an increased nutrient solution for the past week, PH stable between 5.8-6.0. PPM is stable, floating between 450-550ppm for each. It raised from 450 to 550 at one point so i added plant ph'd water to the res.
I decided to go ahead and prune the leaves. I have done some extensive research and I've come to the conclusion that I'm only going to find out if I try it out, so screw it, I did! I've been gradually removing a few every day for the last few days. I also decided to screw some hooks into the top of my DWC buckets so I could tie the plants down to it. Here are some pics of the pruned, LST'd plants:
Note : Please excuse that annoying purple butterfly looking mark on all the photo's, the lens on my iPhone is damaged
Here are some pics of the plants last night after I pinned the leaves down and pruned, looking a bit naked but very bushy:
And this is before I started messing with them today:
With the screen hooked up:
Nice fat stems:
All in all, they are looking pretty good and have responded well to both pruning and LST. The LST is doing a good job of gradually shaping the growth of the plant. And the pruning of the following has done a good job to focus the energy of the plant into the best areas:
- Large fan leaves blocking bug sites
- Wilted or dying fan leaves near the bottom of the plant
- 2 Shoots from the bottom of the plant that were probably exerting loads of energy from the plant, only to produce tiny buds at best (or so i read). They were really long but were still a long way from the light and had some sorry ass leaves hanging on to them.
I haven't done any more pruning today, I have however, pulled the branches a bit closer to the bucket to let the bush continue to thrive!
Here are some pics of after I messed with it today. We'll start with the roots that are still stained from the Hygrozyme incident (Do not use Hygrozyme, ever):
I had a little incident with the centre of the FCJ plant (Right) so I used some string to hold it together to allow me to continue my LST adventure!
Crisis averted
So far so good I reckon, please feel free to tell me how you feel I could improve and get the best out of what I have
The clones are looking good too. So far they are all alive but no roots visible through the rockwool yet. I did have a sneaky look inside the oldest one this morning though and she has rooted, WooHoo!
I haven't got a picture of them or you though unfortunately as they are chilling(or not) in their Dome!
I ordered some Rapid Rooters and they arrived today too so I'll be having a play with them too. I might move one of the clones to a RR and race it against the Rockwool....Watch this space
Evening people!
Here is an update on what's been going on lately. The plants have been on an increased nutrient solution for the past week, PH stable between 5.8-6.0. PPM is stable, floating between 450-550ppm for each. It raised from 450 to 550 at one point so i added plant ph'd water to the res.
I decided to go ahead and prune the leaves. I have done some extensive research and I've come to the conclusion that I'm only going to find out if I try it out, so screw it, I did! I've been gradually removing a few every day for the last few days. I also decided to screw some hooks into the top of my DWC buckets so I could tie the plants down to it. Here are some pics of the pruned, LST'd plants:
Note : Please excuse that annoying purple butterfly looking mark on all the photo's, the lens on my iPhone is damaged
Here are some pics of the plants last night after I pinned the leaves down and pruned, looking a bit naked but very bushy:
And this is before I started messing with them today:
With the screen hooked up:
Nice fat stems:
All in all, they are looking pretty good and have responded well to both pruning and LST. The LST is doing a good job of gradually shaping the growth of the plant. And the pruning of the following has done a good job to focus the energy of the plant into the best areas:
- Large fan leaves blocking bug sites
- Wilted or dying fan leaves near the bottom of the plant
- 2 Shoots from the bottom of the plant that were probably exerting loads of energy from the plant, only to produce tiny buds at best (or so i read). They were really long but were still a long way from the light and had some sorry ass leaves hanging on to them.
I haven't done any more pruning today, I have however, pulled the branches a bit closer to the bucket to let the bush continue to thrive!
Here are some pics of after I messed with it today. We'll start with the roots that are still stained from the Hygrozyme incident (Do not use Hygrozyme, ever):
I had a little incident with the centre of the FCJ plant (Right) so I used some string to hold it together to allow me to continue my LST adventure!
Crisis averted
So far so good I reckon, please feel free to tell me how you feel I could improve and get the best out of what I have
The clones are looking good too. So far they are all alive but no roots visible through the rockwool yet. I did have a sneaky look inside the oldest one this morning though and she has rooted, WooHoo!
I haven't got a picture of them or you though unfortunately as they are chilling(or not) in their Dome!I ordered some Rapid Rooters and they arrived today too so I'll be having a play with them too. I might move one of the clones to a RR and race it against the Rockwool....Watch this space
