Scoooter's Green Crack DWC LED First Grow - 2017

[GrowBird]

Thats dope what kind of pump is inside your res forcing water up against gravity

Umm not sure. I have 3 or 4 that is the bigger one. I can feed all 6 girls in 5 min.

See those hoses to the left and right?
I just connect one at a time. And hit the rocker switch.

The pink nutes in the one gal are just a 6/9 h3ads formula GH nute experiment im running. Main feed bucket is aluminum.

 

[Scoooter]

Fun setup GrowBird! Lots of ingenuity there! That's part of the fun to me as well. Your plants look great. If you have the height then I think the GC in bush form will grow nearly as well as a scrog with a little LST.

 

[Scoooter]

Day 40

So... Pull some water from a bucket and it PH's at 4.8?! Wtf? Add some PH up and top off a 1/2 gallon and she is back at 5.8. Ok that was strange. Next bucket.. PH 5.9. Next 4.8 then 5.9. All I can figure is I messed up mixing for two of them. Luckily I check daily but was surprised none the less!.

They are still growing slowly but surely and will be good for the Sunday flip I think.

 

[Scoooter]

Auto's Day 41

Cruising along. Added a second light, Viparspectra 600, for the left side of room and to up the light some on the right side for flowering. I don't have a par meter but should be sitting around 800 Par over the flowering ones. That's in a 3.5' x 4' area.

This one is a little over a week behind the scrogged ones. I have been beating it up training it in a circle and am 80% there. Just fun to try and see what happens. It's the bottom left one in the first pic.

 

[GrowBird]

Funny/scary yesterday a friend of mind walking in the middle of me making some soup/mix for my girls and I stopped or paused for 10 minutes in between my mixing couldn't remember exactly where I was even though there's only a few nutrients. Did i mix B or is that a low amount of A because at the time I was mixing unusual batch and adding two and existing 3 gallon so I was only mixing for 2 gallons to add in. so I'm using I wasn't sure I have a pH in TDS pen but still doesn't guarantee exactly what's in it just guarantees that I didn't go over on the PPM.

Right now they are asleep. I will take a good look at them when they start day one of flower in a hour.

 

[Scoooter]

Lol. That's why I normally make a list in my notebook and check off as I go. Luckily it's all easy to fix.

 

[Scoooter]

Day 41

Well I've decided to flip right at the 6 week mark. Tent is currently in darkness until 7:30pm tomorrow. One of the plants is way behind the other three but hope I can scrog it out in stretch. The others are filling up way to fast. Changes all the water in the buckets to their transition nutes. It's really just a little more Bloom.

My PPM are at 775 and I've read to go to around 1000 for early flower and 1200 for mid-late flowering. Not sure how I feel about this lol. I don't want to short them on nutrients though.

 

[tryan2grow1]

Those plants look short on nothing my friend. They'd let you know if they want something. All are looking great, even the runt. Grow on for eternal happiness.

 

[Scoooter]

Thanks brother! My chart has is increasing over the next few weeks anyhow so I will stick to that.

 

[SwAggNiFiCeNt]

Those plants look short on nothing my friend. They'd let you know if they want something. All are looking great, even the runt. Grow on for eternal happiness.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[SwAggNiFiCeNt]

Thanks brother! My chart has is increasing over the next few weeks anyhow so I will stick to that.

That's how my chart is but I've stopped at 6ml/gal for now. It's calling for 8ml/gal. But they're doing fine so I thought it should be okay to stay at 6 for now.

 

[Scoooter]

Oh hey I forgot to mention that the stems are so thick and strong that I am able to grab the lid and pick up the net to remove right from the bucket. I won't do very often but nice to have the option. .

 

[GrowBird]

Day 41

Well I've decided to flip right at the 6 week mark. Tent is currently in darkness until 7:30pm tomorrow. One of the plants is way behind the other three but hope I can scrog it out in stretch. The others are filling up way to fast. Changes all the water in the buckets to their transition nutes. It's really just a little more Bloom.

My PPM are at 775 and I've read to go to around 1000 for early flower and 1200 for mid-late flowering. Not sure how I feel about this lol. I don't want to short them on nutrients though.

Ya or they start looking like this

What nutrients are you running? I'm running canna Coco A&B.

I have had my eye on a nutrient line I keep hearing more about and I see on Amazon for really cheap blue planet nutrients. They look like the real deal to me.

 

[GrowBird]

Hey Scooter I see from your first post again you're running General hydroponics nutrient line flora series 3 part or two part?

I have some GH Flora that I use on my first grow. I still have some of it in fact I have some micro coming but I pretty much ran a two part system Lucas or h3ads.

I keep hearing really good stuff about these guys

 

[Scoooter]

Yeah I'm running GH 3 part following a proven schedule I found online. Plus hydroguard, Z7 and ArmorSi. At its strongest it's around 900 PPM. They are working well on my autos too in coco. Add calmag also there.

 

[Scoooter]

Ya or they start looking like this

I have had my eye on a nutrient line I keep hearing more about and I see on Amazon for really cheap blue planet nutrients. They look like the real deal to me.

Yeah these things are certainly bushy. They don't stretch enough to scrog properly. At least at this point. My goal is still to have a relatively even canopy though.

 

[SwAggNiFiCeNt]

Yeah these things are certainly bushy. They don't stretch enough to scrog properly. At least at this point. My goal is still to have a relatively even canopy though.

Tuck n weave. Man they look so lush.

 

[GrowBird]

managed and Checked 2 bucket ph and was about 6.0. The rest I just filled the new mix in because it's not like if the pH is off anything is going to be done different anyway so just filled and replaced all six bucket mixes. The ppm was same.

 

[Scoooter]

Green CRack Flower Day 1! (Day 42)

Ok I flipped them! Humidity shot up to 80% within 4 hours of dark. I put big dehumidifier in main room and threw a booster fan on the intake. It lowered to 70%. I am only running 4" exhaust fan so ordered 6". Be here early next week.

However I DID install 6" ducting tonight with 4" reducers for current fan and guess what? Humidity at 58% with lights on. So for those of you with 6" fans and humidity issues I might recommend going to 8" ducts with your 6" fans. Use a reducer 8" to 6". Open that flow up. Oh I also moved the filter outside the tent with the fan on top so it is pulling from tent and pushing through filter.

Water PH was great. Both PPM and water levels fell.

Nice!

 

[Scoooter]

Auto's Day 43

The stretch is on! Lol.
I'm only watering once a day and the 4 with screens drank almost a gallon before I got runoff. Crazy! The # 5&6 are doing well although I think I stunted #6 with a misplaced Fim. Oh well. We will see how it does.

# 5 and 6

Cloned tops from my Green Crack. Just repotted. Topped once already. Going to top again in a week or so. The nodes are not staggered which is awesome.