All these plants should be finished by mid October.
Plants are doing good. Here is an update. First about the outdoors DWC. Remember, the inside dwc used to be outside until it started flowering, and I noticed outdoor needs way more money to work.
Anyway, I managed to fix both plants. The dwc that is now flowering under a 600w Apollo new bulb is healthy again. No more yellowing. Leaves nice and green.
How I fixed it.
Lowered water levels to just below the root mass inside the 8 inch net pot, which was originally in a plastic Dixie cup, with coco and perlite. If the water levels go high enough to submerge part of the net pot the coco part of the root mass is in, then it drowns it, which can look very much like nutrient issues. It causes them.
the other thing that fixed it was the consistent water temps the res has indoors in a controlled environment. I have AC running all the time. Room stays 75 pretty consistently. Water stays around 72 degrees F.
I also ran her in just ph water for 2 days to correct any build up of salts. Now I just put a little drip clean in the res once in a while to help with salt build up on roots. Her roots have grown back. They are healthy.
Here is a picture of her, upskirt and from above.
Now here she is from above.
Here is a bud.
Next up is the outdoor dwc. She is drinking water again, but is still yellowing some. I gave her the same treatment, however, her temps go up and down because she is outside. I think that is the main issue. So if I do a dwc outside next year, I will do it in a large ice cooler, white. I will put foam material over the hydroton and around the stock, so bugs cannot get in the res. I will use a chiller.
But, I am going to eventually do dwc that way period, even indoor. Ice coolers will keep the water cool enough in a 75-80 degree room.
Another thing I did to fix them was to make the res pure ph water, 5.5 -6.2 and 1ml of bleach per gallon of water. I let her bubble in that for 2 days. Then I changed back to nutes at 600ppm. I now have them at 700.
I just emptied the outdoor dwc and put miracle grow tomato food, two scoops, and one scoop of miracle grow flowering. I added some cal mag, about 80ppm. I added drip clean and bleach. I will see how she reponds to the miracle grow. I only plant to run it for a few days to a week, to green her up. Besides, she is just an experiment.
BTW, I feed my coco-perlite plants miracle grow tomato food plus cal-mag when ever they start looking lighter green. I suppose I could just try to feed them at that point with like 800-900 flora nova instead of 500-600. I feed with ph water 6.0 in perlite coco. I see no significant difference with the ones I added like 20 percent bark mulch to the coco -perlite.
Here is one of her buds. Nice and frosty.
And now for the coco-perlite plants
They are putting on girth. They are only in direct light before they house shades them from morning to about 3:30pm
I am hoping to get a half pound per plant. One thing I did learn is the longer to veg them in a big pot, the bigger the plants will be. Period. More light, more roots, bigger plants. You must let the roots fill a big pot in veg, though, before you flower. My friend growing in a green house, vegged his plants in 100 gallon cloth pots. They got huge because they filled up those pots while vegging. Some are over 8 feet tall. Huge football nugs already.
My pots are only 18 gallons. I did make sure they filled those pots with roots while in veg. However, they are not filled to the top, so they don't have 18 gallons of coco-perlite in them. Oh, my friend grows with Canadian peat moss and the white pumus, which looks like perlite. He does all organic additives to that. bone meals and such.
I have one plant is only a 10 gallon pot, and she is much smaller than the ones in 18 gallons. The ones in 18 gallon totes that are filled more toward the top, are also bigger. I am confident if I grow in 30-50 gallon pots, my plants will get much huger, so long as I make sure they fill those pots with roots while in veg.
BIG NUGS big plants = get big root system in a big pot while in veg, then flip to flower. Nutes you use don't matter that much. coco or peat moss doesn't make much difference. Big root system in veg. Period. Get as much light to the buds with training.
That is the top of one of the outdoor perlite coco buds.
Can't wait to see the new 'house ya gave the gals. I had problems with pests late in my grow, but I found early pics that showed the white spots. Hit em with neem, and it worked, but someone told me that neem oil doesn't kill eggs, so a second, or even third treatment, a few days later, is necessary. Hope it works for you. For me, my sprayer broke, and I haven't replaced it, lol. Little devils came back with a vengeance. Kinda glad me grow's over, lol.
