nMEEKS
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Hey there Farmers! I know some of you may have already been able to see the beginning of this grow on The Farm before it went down and lost data, but for some of you I am sure this will be new, so I will do my best to avoid leaving anything out!
This is going to be a thread logging the progress of my first run with Da WiFi as a full tray, and my second run with OGR's strain, White Fire. I found this phenotype out of my own pack of seeds purchased from The Farm (thanks logic!) over the past summer, and I am really excited to see what it can do this run!
The clones were started in rockwool cubes with nothing but a 5.5 pH soak, and then RO water, and when rooted were transplanted into 2 gallon RootPots filled with pure Canna Coco. I am using House & Garden's full line of Coco Base and additives for this run again, although for anyone following me, you should know that I will be moving away from H&G as soon as I go through enough of my stock to feel like I am not taking too big of a loss. I am not running at the rates they recommend anymore, although I am roughly following their ratios at a much more diluted rate on most feedings, I would not recommend them as a company to someone looking.
I started the clones under a T5 fluorescent, and then rooted and transplanted, they were moved under a 400w MH bulb in an air-cooled reflector. The clones were vegged until proper size for flip, at which point they were transplanted into 7 gallon RootPots filled again with pure Canna Coco, and moved under my 1000w Ushio Dual-Arc bulb in a Raptor air-cooled reflector.
The plants were hand watered during veg, but are now hooked up to a drip system during flowering, which I manually plug in for waterings either daily or every other day depending on conditions and the stage of flowering. And again, I am still using H&G's nutrient line at different than recommended rates. I am also foliar feeding with varying rates of Magic Green, Hvy16 Foliar, and another companies Fe/Zn foliar (can't remember the name right now).
The 7 gal pots were inoculated with Great White, although again for anyone following me, I would recommend spending your money more wisely on Cap's packs rather than GW, I will be doing the same once I have gone through enough of the GW to feel as though I am not taking too big a loss.
I use Drip Clean on every feeding, but still find myself having to flush every 3-4 weeks to really prevent salt build up. The Drip Clean works well, but after 4 weeks or so, I start finding large salt crystals on the top of my media that I assume are also scattered throughout my root zone. . .
Anyways, the current state of my plants is an extremely minor onset of Mg, Fe, or K deficiency, so minor that I really cannot diagnose between those three yet, and so I have done a very light foliar treatment for all three nutrients last night and this morning. I will bump up the rate I am feeding a little on the next reservoir and hope that the deficiencies do not return. Besides this, I have experienced a couple minor symptoms of calcium deficiency in veg and early flower, but both times was treated within the day of symptoms showing and the plants are now very happy with their calcium levels in the nutrient solution.
Now that I have given away all the problems that are not even severe enough to be visible in the pictures, here are the pictures taken through this whole clones/veg/early flowering process, and you can see for yourself that I make it sound a lot worse than it is, and my plants have actually been in really great health their whole lives!
(New server only allows 10 pics per page, I will break it up semi-based on that restriction, and semi-based on the timeline of events)
Part 1: Clone - Early Veg
This is going to be a thread logging the progress of my first run with Da WiFi as a full tray, and my second run with OGR's strain, White Fire. I found this phenotype out of my own pack of seeds purchased from The Farm (thanks logic!) over the past summer, and I am really excited to see what it can do this run!
The clones were started in rockwool cubes with nothing but a 5.5 pH soak, and then RO water, and when rooted were transplanted into 2 gallon RootPots filled with pure Canna Coco. I am using House & Garden's full line of Coco Base and additives for this run again, although for anyone following me, you should know that I will be moving away from H&G as soon as I go through enough of my stock to feel like I am not taking too big of a loss. I am not running at the rates they recommend anymore, although I am roughly following their ratios at a much more diluted rate on most feedings, I would not recommend them as a company to someone looking.
I started the clones under a T5 fluorescent, and then rooted and transplanted, they were moved under a 400w MH bulb in an air-cooled reflector. The clones were vegged until proper size for flip, at which point they were transplanted into 7 gallon RootPots filled again with pure Canna Coco, and moved under my 1000w Ushio Dual-Arc bulb in a Raptor air-cooled reflector.
The plants were hand watered during veg, but are now hooked up to a drip system during flowering, which I manually plug in for waterings either daily or every other day depending on conditions and the stage of flowering. And again, I am still using H&G's nutrient line at different than recommended rates. I am also foliar feeding with varying rates of Magic Green, Hvy16 Foliar, and another companies Fe/Zn foliar (can't remember the name right now).
The 7 gal pots were inoculated with Great White, although again for anyone following me, I would recommend spending your money more wisely on Cap's packs rather than GW, I will be doing the same once I have gone through enough of the GW to feel as though I am not taking too big a loss.
I use Drip Clean on every feeding, but still find myself having to flush every 3-4 weeks to really prevent salt build up. The Drip Clean works well, but after 4 weeks or so, I start finding large salt crystals on the top of my media that I assume are also scattered throughout my root zone. . .
Anyways, the current state of my plants is an extremely minor onset of Mg, Fe, or K deficiency, so minor that I really cannot diagnose between those three yet, and so I have done a very light foliar treatment for all three nutrients last night and this morning. I will bump up the rate I am feeding a little on the next reservoir and hope that the deficiencies do not return. Besides this, I have experienced a couple minor symptoms of calcium deficiency in veg and early flower, but both times was treated within the day of symptoms showing and the plants are now very happy with their calcium levels in the nutrient solution.
Now that I have given away all the problems that are not even severe enough to be visible in the pictures, here are the pictures taken through this whole clones/veg/early flowering process, and you can see for yourself that I make it sound a lot worse than it is, and my plants have actually been in really great health their whole lives!
(New server only allows 10 pics per page, I will break it up semi-based on that restriction, and semi-based on the timeline of events)
Part 1: Clone - Early Veg
