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Stoner's RDWC & Soil Grow With Mixed Strains
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JimJonesJr
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Man you are rockin that bubbler. The look fantastic. I love bubblers. Gotta sub in on this grow. Thank you for sharing it.So today the ppm has continued going down very slow but I have like 10 gallons of water in rdwc, temp is extremly stable like I got a equation of the slope from the log data and it was like 0.00000013 lol, ph is now on the up it was 5.8 yesterday I am going to bring it back down at 6.2-6.3 I guess?? (input gratefully accepted). That is how I vent exhaust air and to my surprise it went through a Canadian winter without letting in any draft or cold air and was a success in my books. Next, my temp and humidity controllers top number is actual bottom is what I am asking it for; and then the ladies, they generally are looking fine even the blue dream darkened its growth tips with a feed at 1.9 EC (very close to the first run off I recorded from the soil and the plant was loving it) However, the WW or left in rdwc is looking different and I do not know if I was too baked when pouring root inoculating tea over her crown from above (too baked no but maybe a little sloppy?) tea has a ppm of 350 or EC 0.7 and the roots are going nuts for it so it will continue except eventually wont top feed the tea. Finally, dem roots.
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Thank you so much I love the bubblers also just get to watch the roots explode then the growth up top blows up and the plants smell danker in my opinion. I love sharing here when I have the time it is what convinced me to make my own indoor environment to grow in. So glad you joined
Sorry took so long , it just likes rising . Is it still at 5.9 ? Had to be at the hospital they didn’t like what they saw , wanted to keep me but still surgery Monday I said hell no .
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No need to apologize and I feel that like sleepover in a hospital for no reason... hard pass I mean as long as you have someone that can get you there quick if you can't drive suddenly.
The water is at 5.8 now but roots have blown up since yesterday I swear. I will get a photo update in a bit especially roots but the ph buffering in the AN is just so crazy.
While you are around talk to me about your bin you put your seedlings in rockwool in to let the roots grow I am intrigued do you see big benefits to long roots before any hydroton?
That’s what I want to hear !
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which part lol
The ph
You noticed that also , seems like we can put them in the hydro ton when we want . Before I got to 420 you wouldn’t believe how big the roots were I’d get behind and that’s what happened.
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But I notice my problem is always when I have very little roots I get lockouts or rust leaves I did not know if you had maybe done the starter system as a way of dealing with problems similar.
Do you see any differences between long roots before hydroton or roots start coming out in a few places but nubs and then into hydroton
I believe I had faster take off with the larger roots .
My problem in veg was the ph now that you mentioned it . I got lucky on the Dosidos grow and didn’t see a rust spot till the last two weeks. May be a trait with the Dosidos won’t know till I run them again .
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So the ph it doesn't really matter that it did this roller coaster but it sitting close to 5.8 is good? I was confused by the going in a upward trend and then reversing. (Photo editing all my graphs onto the previous ones this goes from wednesday night now lol)
Have you used the 4-0-0 at all ? Try using just 10% of what it calls for might stabilize the reservoir! AN says there sweet spot is 5.6 but I don’t believe it after running mc 5.8 is the perfect to me .So the ph it doesn't really matter that it did this roller coaster but it sitting close to 5.8 is good? I was confused by the going in a upward trend and then reversing. (Photo editing all my graphs onto the previous ones this goes from wednesday night now lol)
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so wednesday night I used a 100% strength of the 4-0-0 cal mag so try giving a 10% booster?
No wait for that , as you see my newer grows I never put 100% of the additives. Sometimes they can lock you out .
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I only put the 100% because the leaves were looking weird I normally do 50% on it. next wednesday will be back to 50% and I think I will add b-52 as you report no horror stories. So if I read your recommendation it is to stay the course for now?
Have you thought about AN Sensizym for your roots I had it in mine maybe why the roots stayed white . I only ran the voodoo first two weeks of flower.
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I read while researching the tea that too many enzymes are bad and that the tea produces just enough for itself but I don't know about that, again I own sensizym lol but I am going to use the tea longer then 2 weeks but it does say to ease off to 1 cup a week per 10 gallon system after you get the roots in good shape.
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More pictures because this can't just be a bunch of numbers all the time
The ppm have dropped to 475 it kinda goes back'n'forth atm but wasn't waiting for it to change its mind again and the water level has gone down
Then the ladies looking all pretty here is the Promix girls they are both showing pistils but they were fem seed so that's lucky
And the hydro girls little slow to the party but good things are coming I feel I mean root porn on the Afghan and my tie downs can actually slide like a inch either way this time as I may want to put them in less static ties
and best for last.. knock on wood but I think I see a root in the clone when I stare down the stem into the rockwool and if it clones well I should consider growing 4-6 and scrogging my tent with all blue dream because Cheese x Blueberry
The ppm have dropped to 475 it kinda goes back'n'forth atm but wasn't waiting for it to change its mind again and the water level has gone down
Then the ladies looking all pretty here is the Promix girls they are both showing pistils but they were fem seed so that's lucky
And the hydro girls little slow to the party but good things are coming I feel I mean root porn on the Afghan and my tie downs can actually slide like a inch either way this time as I may want to put them in less static ties
and best for last.. knock on wood but I think I see a root in the clone when I stare down the stem into the rockwool and if it clones well I should consider growing 4-6 and scrogging my tent with all blue dream because Cheese x Blueberry
JimJonesJr
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Okay, ya got my attention...Imma post a couple pics from the last grow so you have something to get your interest
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I gotta say 2 Mars Tsl-2000 in a 4x4 on my custom even spaced from everything frame... fire things go on in that tent but I was so busy to be journalling it. Those were 2 clones given back to me after I gifted a plant lolOkay, ya got my attention...