My First Journal: GG#4 In DWC & Soil

Depends on the Temp of the Ice too if its like -5C vs -1C thats a fairly large difference.
 
Ohhh and for 4 buckets I would go 5x5 , If you are still shopping
But it depends on your space . I let my girls go crazy and find 3 in a 4x4 tight for the leaves to stretch , pruning , etc. Perfect for a scrog, but then you might consider a flood and drain system because 4 individual , bucket changes in A 4x4 with a tight 4 plant scrog is a superpower . Namaste !

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Northern Hydro said:
You aren’t seeing probs, yet , I wouldn’t use ice bottles , but yes, get it under 75 to be sure :)
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I just moved the pump outside my tent. I control that room with an A.C as it's my iron lung for my other grow rooms. I vent and pull from the same room. Anyways, I will check in a good couple hours, maybe even tomorrow morning to see how much this helps. I figure it should drop the temp at least 2-3 degrees easily.
 
I decided to top all my plants again once more. They are doing great so I believe they will recover in no time. Here are some pictures. Top picture is before and bottom is after. Each side was done once so this will produce 8 colas. Once the middle 2 branches are long enough from the original top, I am going to top each one as well as I did here. 12 colas with 2 per stem. Once they grow in a little more I will start pulling the branches that were topped today outwards. By the time I finish her training, I'll give her a good week maybe more depending on her size before I remove anything not making it to the canopy. Hopefully by then she will be ready to go under the TS-3000.
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Soil GG#4 after topping like the above plant.
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When I first started DWC I was concerned about temps so I kept 2 20oz bottles of water in the basement freezer and put 2 in the bucket in the am and then exchanged them for 2 frozen ones in the freezer in the PM. It helped but now that it's cooler out I just place the bucket on the concrete floor and it stays 68-70. I would reccomend flying skulls Z7 and or hydroguard. It helps prevent anything from growing in the res.
 
SamSmith said:
When I first started DWC I was concerned about temps so I kept 2 20oz bottles of water in the basement freezer and put 2 in the bucket in the am and then exchanged them for 2 frozen ones in the freezer in the PM. It helped but now that it's cooler out I just place the bucket on the concrete floor and it stays 68-70. I would reccomend flying skulls Z7 and or hydroguard. It helps prevent anything from growing in the res.
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I actually was supposed to have them delivered today from Fedex but they moved the date to Monday. I also have GH nutes coming as well. Since I moved the pump outside my tent, and it's about 10 ft from my AC it might be good enough to pull the temp down enough for me. I did have it hanging right above my LED light prior.
 
Give it a shot and see how the temps are. You can put reflective material on the black bucket to help.

I like the GH line for DWC. Roots stay clean and the mix only has a slight tint to it. The results I got from it last time were very good. I use AN for coco and the GH line seems more refined and pure.
 
This is the brown tint I get from the Fox Farm nutrients. I'll show you again in a day or two.

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Pennywise said:
That’s pretty common actually.
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The first time I seen it I didnt even worry. I knew rot would come with slim and smell. Neither of them I have. I assumed the ferts in the Big Bloom was the culprit.
 
Something else that I noticed with the DWC plant is that it's cotyledons are still nice and green. I'll remove them before I put her into flower and anything else not making it to the top but very cool to see on the plant still and healthy too.
 
I was checking my levels and my water temp this morning. I discovered a couple things doing so. First off, moving my pump outside the tent has dropped my water temp about 4 degrees. This is with lights on. I am now hovering around 71F. I don't plan doing anything else to this unless I start running into problems. Second, I noticed a tiny patch of brown spots on one of my lower leaves. I am going to keep a very close eye on this. If anything, I may bump my cal-mag feed up a little more then she is getting now. At the moment, she is getting about 50%. The spots are very tiny right now so I will monitor to see if they spread or get any larger then they are. I'll grab a picture and upload it shortly.
 
Chris Scorpio said:
U get yer new nutes yet, z7 was coming right
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Fedex was supposed to deliver it yesterday but something happened and it got moved to Monday. I got Z7, GH and clay pebbles coming.
 
Here is the leaf I was talking about. You can clearly see those couple tiny brown patches. I will be watching this very closely. I haven't done anything yet but if I see it spreading, I am going to just change my res out and bump the cal-mag up an additional 25% to it's current dose. I have not fed it a full 100% dose yet either.
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BubbleBucketz said:
Here is the leaf I was talking about. You can clearly see those couple tiny brown patches. I will be watching this very closely. I haven't done anything yet but if I see it spreading, I am going to just change my res out and bump the cal-mag up an additional 25% to it's current dose. I have not fed it a full 100% dose yet either.
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Looks like it could be the start of Ca deficiency. Like you said just keep your eye on it and see if it gets any worse. If it does just bump your Cal Mag a bit.
 
N420 said:
Looks like it could be the start of Ca deficiency. Like you said just keep your eye on it and see if it gets any worse. If it does just bump your Cal Mag a bit.
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I assumed at some point I would get some deficiency. Always preferred going with less instead of more. Then I know if they are light or heavy feeders. At the moment, she is showing to be a heavy feeder. But a heavy feeder to me is a plant that is eating normally if that makes any sense at all. I grew White Widow a few months back and they were the heaviest calmag feeders that I have ever grown. If I skipped a feed or watering without using cal-mag I would see the results a good 72 hours later. Right now I should be feeding 5ml per gallon. She got 10ml for the entire res. If cal-mag def is the culprit I am bumping it up to 15ml per res change to see if corrects itself.
 
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