Gorilla Kush & Organic White Widow Bean Grow!

[Ganja Droid 420]

So I got my suit in gear after each 25gal drank 9 litres each with a trickle of runoff. Made new autofeed rings and setup the 100lt tank, lines and pump. Hydroyen Peroxide to cleanse whilst it circulates. Ready to rock for the next feed at 2 hour intervals throughout the daytime. I'm hoping to get it on more of a drip feed system depending on my timer. Still hand watering the white widows as they need TLC and never take more than 2 litres a day.

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

So a few hiccups and two mini floods later, I succeeded in getting the drip active feed system operational!! A simple 3 valve cutoff system on a 5x1 minute timer during lights on. Had a little too much runoff during testing.

Did a bean count after misplacing my mega stash with all my CBD strains in it. Looking good and plenty to grow until I need to resupply, though it is tempting to get some Space Panda beans from Atlas as it comes in at 28% THC!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Final trim and lollipop on the Critical Kush. Removed every fan leaf and exposed every cola for better light penetration into the canopy. 3 hours of haed yakka amd careful snipping. Looks like we're in for some nice hand grenade fat colas! Doing the other 3 tomorrow... That fucked me up!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

And of course Spiderfarmer released upgraded UV addon LEDs... I purchased 8 in total to fill out the gaps in the 2x780w racks. An extra 180w in total, the new ones combine UV anf IR into the strips adding that needed infrared to the tent...

 

[DonChiefums20]

looking frosty my friend...

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

PK week starts tomorrow and ill finally defoliate the Gorilla as the buds are finally starting to grow on the giant colas from my failed supercrop! DWC bucket system rocked up. I'll be doing 4 autos in coco and 4 in dwc next round. Doing research on appropriate organic hydro nutrient lines to go with. Any suggestions?

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Going with Hygen nutes for the DWC round. Aussie brand and certified med grade. Should be enough for 2-3 rounds!

 

[Wastei]

Going with Hygen nutes for the DWC round. Aussie brand and certified med grade. Should be enough for 2-3 rounds!

Wow that's a lot of bottles! You could save a lot of money and time by going for something complete like Jacks with dry salts. They have a lot of different formulas and you only use 1-3 parts instead of 8 and they contain the same minerals. I would argue Jacks to be superior to "Hy-Gen" just looking at the content and NPK's.

There's nothing wrong with what you've just ordered, it's just marketed towards the new upcoming grower. I would advice you to consider going sterile in hydro, it's way safer to use oxidizers than bacteria cultures in DWC without a chiller. I see you've added a lot of organic additives which is a big risk for pathogens like pythium root rot to flourish.

I've used regular bleach (sodium hypochlorite) for decades in hydro. 3ppm is recommended in DWC, here's the dilution calculator I've always used:
Chlorine dilution calculator

All the best of luck in your growing endeavours! Cheers!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Wow that's a lot of bottles! You could save a lot of money and time by going for something complete like Jacks with dry salts. They have a lot of different formulas and you only use 1-3 parts instead of 8 and they contain the same minerals. I would argue Jacks to be superior to "Hy-Gen" just looking at the content and NPK's.

There's nothing wrong with what you've just ordered, it's just marketed towards the new upcoming grower. I would advice you to consider going sterile in hydro, it's way safer to use oxidizers than bacteria cultures in DWC without a chiller. I see you've added a lot of organic additives which is a big risk for pathogens like pythium root rot to flourish.

I've used regular bleach (sodium hypochlorite) for decades in hydro. 3ppm is recommended in DWC, here's the dilution calculator I've always used:
Chlorine dilution calculator

All the best of luck in your growing endeavours! Cheers!

Well all those bottles run with their coco line aswell so its a 2 for 1 and good nutrients are few and far between downunder!

I just did the final prune on the Gorilla and she's looking naked. 4 weeks togo though the GK may need 6-7. PK week begins tomorrow so hopefully those buds will begin to swell and harden up! The White Widows are smaller due to container size though the CK is insane!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Oh its also my first DWC run so I wanted a line that was ph balanced and medical grade. I've mastered coco though i want max growth on the autoflowers!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

A lil canna porn eye candy from the UV and UV/IR add on LED strips. 8 of each across the 2 main racks! Disco baby! All up the addons use 280w and running the main lights at 80% I guestimate its approx 1200watts max outputting the same heat as 1x1000watt HPS and utilising the full 5x9 tent. I love that you can see the concentrate of infrared light from the 4 strips on wach rack. Amazing!

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Been laying low come end of harvest as I usually do...

Everything's on track. I began the flush a week early. 1 week togo! I've also started the next round, 4 autos and 1 photo. My new adventure and frow diary will be on the Whales Breath, coming in at 28% THC and designed for insomnia!

Harvested the weak White Widow as she was done and did a wet trim to gey some flowers drying and curing. The rest I'll hang for 20 days @ 20°C at an rh of 30-40%.

I also updated the genetics collection amd sorted all the beans after misplacing my main stash.

 

[Ganja Droid 420]

Final post! Harvest has finished and tye crop is manicured and curing rught now. Total tally as approx 550-600 grams of Critical Kush, 160 grams of Gorilla Kush (super dank!) And about 220 grams of White Widow which ive turned into oil already.

The White Widow hermied and crossed pollinated the Gorilla and Critical. Im calling the first 2 strains from Ganja Droid Genetics Silverback Kush and 911. Also sorted all my genetics and organising a legal business plan to start an Aussie seedbank!

Grow complete! Cheers guys!

 

[Mike Wright]

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