Grow #2 - Indoor hydro tent

[Nate_in_AK]

I added 2ml/ea of nutrients to each res. PPMs are 220/300 (Blue/White) You can see from this shot, Blueberry is sitting in a shallow fill of pebbles. I keep a paper bowl in the hollow to help block the light. I just pull it out for the pictures. I'll back-fill with pebbles as she grows.

I think she'll be ready for me to cut her head off tomorrow or Monday.

I'm sure White Widow would be happy with more light about now, but I'm feeling over-protective of Blueberry, so I'm going to wait to drop the light. Light meter reads around 5500 right now.

 

[Aqua Man]

I added 2ml/ea of nutrients to each res. PPMs are 220/300 (Blue/White) You can see from this shot, Blueberry is sitting in a shallow fill of pebbles. I keep a paper bowl in the hollow to help block the light. I just pull it out for the pictures. I'll back-fill with pebbles as she grows.
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I think she'll be ready for me to cut her head off tomorrow or Monday.
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I'm sure White Widow would be happy with more light about now, but I'm feeling over-protective of Blueberry, so I'm going to wait to drop the light. Light meter reads around 5500 right now.

Should easily handle 10k and likely 15k now that they are healthy

 

[Frankster]

In the center is my little purple haze that I haven't given up on, it was "popped" on the same days as both plants on each side.

I don't know what good she'll be, because she's an auto, and she's way, way behind, but who knows. I'll keep her around for now.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blue

White

I should have put my glasses on before I cut her head off, I may have FIM'd instead of topped:

 

[Nate_in_AK]

In the center is my little purple haze that I haven't given up on, it was "popped" on the same days as both plants on each side.

I don't know what good she'll be, because she's an auto, and she's way, way behind, but who knows. I'll keep her around for now.

Maybe you found a new strain of mini-weed that produces only a single 1 gram cola at harvest. HAHA!!

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blueberry... goofy looking little runt still.

Looks like I did OK with topping White, no FIM after all:

EC/pH doing well. White at 300 today, going to add more nutes and get her up around 500.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Trimmed some lower branches, and moved the light down. Measuring 10-12k now.

Blue: 6.0pH/225EC
Drank maybe 0.2cm water past 24 hours

White --- I'm not so sure, perhaps I did FIM....
6.2pH/414EC - drank 1cm of water level in 5 gal bucket in 24 hours.

I'll boost both EC levels tomorrow, and add some water to White's res.
Tent running at 75F/70Hum fairly consistently.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blue working her way out up out of the well:
5.98pH / bumped PPM to 325

A little root-shot for documentation purposes:

White.... I'm still not sure if topped or FIM'd...
6.15ph / bumped to 430 PPM

Anyone want to make a prediction/eval on this?

Widow roots:

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blue:

White:

pH on both res dropped a little last night, they might be at a comfortable nutrient level for the time being. No changes today.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

pH dropped a bit again. Topped off res with water only. pH 5.9/6.0 PPM 375/500

Blue... weird looking little runt that she is, finally seeing some new growth. I think I'll know by the end of next week if she is going to recover into a viable weed.

White:

 

[Greenjourneyman]

Keep the faith on the Blue man. It will come around just going to take a bit longer.
Nice roots on the other. Hooray hydro experiment

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blue:

White did something strange last night... she sort of fell over. I can see from past days that she was leaning a bit.
NOTE: She is leaning AWAY from the light. The light is on the left-center above the humidifier.

"Trunk" shot:

As far as I can tell, she is healthy, so I'm going to hit "pause" on the panic button over this weirdness, but would love to hear of any similar experiences?

pH, ppm, and water level all dropped a bit over the past 24 hours, so I did a full res. change. Targeting 500-600ppm on refill.

Why all my plants gotta be so weird.

 

[jamk911]

I had this happen to a greenbean plant curious as to why it happened though.. it was in a pot of soil dead center and up and down lol.. confused me

 

[Frankster]

pH dropped a bit again. Topped off res with water only. pH 5.9/6.0 PPM 375/500

Blue... weird looking little runt that she is, finally seeing some new growth. I think I'll know by the end of next week if she is going to recover into a viable weed.
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White:
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Yea, maybe find a failsafe way to secure that lid, because it's only going to get heavier in time.

Keep it up, I bet she'll make it. if you can, keep her along the edges till she recovers, then give her all the rays she can handle. Good temps (below 75) and sufficient air circulation she should be fine. How hot is it getting in there?

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Temps never above 75F.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

They both seem to be responding well to the res change.

 

[Frankster]

that's a good sign then. on the small one, has her roots got down into the bottom so she can drink without any problems? Usually that's the big part to getting them started, is proper root development IMO, once it's doing fine below, it generally is going to catch up on top.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Blue:

White:

White is looking like she was in a hurricane or something, but seems healthy. I assume this is just chaos from the weird trunk growth.

Slight rise in pH and PPM over the night. Will be watching closely, some fluctuation seems normal after a res change.

 

[Frankster]

Blue:
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White:
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White is looking like she was in a hurricane or something, but seems healthy. I assume this is just chaos from the weird trunk growth.

Slight rise in pH and PPM over the night. Will be watching closely, some fluctuation seems normal after a res change.

Yea, looks fine to me, nothing that stands out, it's kinda weird, I could be wrong, but I think think your right. I think it's just situational. Sometimes plant morphology looks strange early on, whats the strain? I bet that might have something to do with it also.

 

[Nate_in_AK]

Yea, looks fine to me, nothing that stands out, it's kinda weird, I could be wrong, but I think think your right. I think it's just situational. Sometimes plant morphology looks strange early on, whats the strain? I bet that might have something to do with it also.

White Widow (fem, photo) from Seedsman.