slimjimham
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So I'm into it about a year, think I'm doing well, overcame lots of hurdles along the way... Change nutrients a couple times, have things going well but still think they could be better
I grew a single plant in a 5gal bucket dwc style a while ago and crushed it with no knowledge, and bad maintenance practices. Bottom buds were cola sized (was prob around 1000ppm on 500 scale peak flower)
Now I'm growing big plants (4 under each 1k)
Long story short I'm not getting big colas, lots of smaller buds that add up to a better overall yield compared to soil, but buds aren't getting huge like I know they can.
Was having issues with burnt tips on buds that started 6 weeks in and continued till harvest.
I think I have that figured out, now I'm filling the system on a new change with
50ml magical
100ml uc roots
200ml canna subatra a & b (for soft water)
That's it, ph to 5.8
System is uc 4xl, that brings ppms just over 400 on a 500 scale
Systems are typically at 400-300ppm in flower (tried letting them because was having the burnt tops on buds that I mentioned, this seems to have fixed it?)
Veg ppms 80-200 ppm
My buddie just came over who was growing hydro but had to shut it down saying how all his buds were huge... While most of mine aren't.
I'm using chillers at 65*
0 ppm ro water that's UV filtered
I change tanks once a week in flower
What's the reason I'm not getting huge buds?
The pics posted show decent sized ones... But again they're not that big, and these are the only pics I have... You don't take pics of the smaller buds usually ha
And this plants isn't the best example, I was pretty happy with this one and I just took it down yesterday
I grew a single plant in a 5gal bucket dwc style a while ago and crushed it with no knowledge, and bad maintenance practices. Bottom buds were cola sized (was prob around 1000ppm on 500 scale peak flower)
Now I'm growing big plants (4 under each 1k)
Long story short I'm not getting big colas, lots of smaller buds that add up to a better overall yield compared to soil, but buds aren't getting huge like I know they can.
Was having issues with burnt tips on buds that started 6 weeks in and continued till harvest.
I think I have that figured out, now I'm filling the system on a new change with
50ml magical
100ml uc roots
200ml canna subatra a & b (for soft water)
That's it, ph to 5.8
System is uc 4xl, that brings ppms just over 400 on a 500 scale
Systems are typically at 400-300ppm in flower (tried letting them because was having the burnt tops on buds that I mentioned, this seems to have fixed it?)
Veg ppms 80-200 ppm
My buddie just came over who was growing hydro but had to shut it down saying how all his buds were huge... While most of mine aren't.
I'm using chillers at 65*
0 ppm ro water that's UV filtered
I change tanks once a week in flower
What's the reason I'm not getting huge buds?
The pics posted show decent sized ones... But again they're not that big, and these are the only pics I have... You don't take pics of the smaller buds usually ha
And this plants isn't the best example, I was pretty happy with this one and I just took it down yesterday
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