Aqua Man's first grow diary

18 days in the system and 20 days from sprout

Plants were topped on Dec 11. Didn't skip a beat. I'm pushing them even a little bit harder now, just to the point I am seeing a tiny bit of stress the last 2 days but increasing the transpiration is letting me keep the ppm down still at 450ppm (130ppm is tap 320ppm mega crop) I am noticing a tiny cal and mag deficiency so I will likely add some cal and mag. I think this is due to the low ppm that I'm running. Lux is at about 35k now. Anyhow just update with a comparison pic of 3 days ago until today after topping.

Aqua Man said:

18 days in the system and 20 days from sprout

Plants were topped on Dec 11. Did skip a beat. I'm pushing them a even a little bit harder now, just to the point I am seeing a tiny bit of stress the last 2 days but increasing the transpiration is letting me keep the ppm down still at 450ppm (130ppm is tap 320ppm mega crop) I am noticing a tiny cal and mag deficiency so I will likely add some cal and mag. I think this is due to the low ppm that I'm running. Lux is at about 35k now. Any just update with a comparison pic of 3 days ago until today after topping.

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that runt just wont give will it

Aqua Man said:

18 days in the system and 20 days from sprout

Plants were topped on Dec 11. Did skip a beat. I'm pushing them a even a little bit harder now, just to the point I am seeing a tiny bit of stress the last 2 days but increasing the transpiration is letting me keep the ppm down still at 450ppm (130ppm is tap 320ppm mega crop) I am noticing a tiny cal and mag deficiency so I will likely add some cal and mag. I think this is due to the low ppm that I'm running. Lux is at about 35k now. Any just update with a comparison pic of 3 days ago until today after topping.

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gotta luv documentation....nice work bro ~

oldskol4evr said:

that runt just wont give will it

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Yeah makes me really wonder if I didn't drop it. It's starting to haul ass now...just a trooper

oldskol4evr said:

that runt just wont give will it

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nah it will catch up...just gotta veg it 2 weeks more... after others go to bloom, dig?

Srenots said:

nah it will catch up...just gotta veg it 2 weeks more... after others go to bloom, dig?

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Not an option for me . With these being reg seeds I'm gonna hurt my yields but I'm going to take clones of each before flower and have a buddy keep them. If there is something outstanding I can then keep a mother.

Aqua Man said:

Not an option for me . With these being reg seeds I'm gonna hurt my yields but I'm going to take clones of each before flower and have a buddy keep them. If there is something outstanding I can then keep a mother.

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rite on... have had killer runts before....just might surprise u

Srenots said:

rite on... have had killer runts before....just might surprise u

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Well it's not really a runt.... I dropped the poor thing and stunted it before it even had root in the water. It took a while for it to come around. These plants are only 20days since they broke soil so that difference in growth really made a difference

Aqua Man said:

Not an option for me . With these being reg seeds I'm gonna hurt my yields but I'm going to take clones of each before flower and have a buddy keep them. If there is something outstanding I can then keep a mother.

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If you veg long enough they will show sex. Maybe an option, I tend not to trust other people's plants. Even if they were mine at one point.

Right now I'm nursing a plant back to health that my father had. Poor thing had the worst case of thrips I've ever seen in person.

Its quarantined in it's own tent now. I've treated it and it seems to be pest free, but might give it another treatment just to be sure.. it was bad...

BigCube said:

If you veg long enough they will show sex. Maybe an option, I tend not to trust other people's plants. Even if they were mine at one point.

Right now I'm nursing a plant back to health that my father had. Poor thing had the worst case of thrips I've ever seen in person.

Its quarantined in it's own tent now. I've treated it and it seems to be pest free, but might give it another treatment just to be sure.. it was bad...

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I would... After the run at his place is done in about a week we are building a similar setup to mine but it will stay soil. The clones will go in there.

I'm putting the scrog in this weekend. Counting about 10 for seedling stage. I'm probably about 10-14 days from flip which will put me at 3-3.5 week veg and that's about right.

Also probably a 50% res change this weekend

Aqua Man said:

Well it's not really a runt.... I dropped the poor thing and stunted it before it even had root in the water. It took a while for it to come around. These plants are only 20days since they broke soil so that difference in growth really made a difference

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it will go...cool

MIMedGrower said:

We used a pint glass, a paper matchbook and a thumbtack. Slid off the edge of the table to hit the smoke filled glass and slide it around the circle for everyone.

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yes sir...hood of the AMX Javelin .....whew lol

Burned Haze said:

Just use a pollen chuck/press! Get a good one ( cheap ones suck but the ones the do work better aren’t that much more expensive )

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Those threads fall easy (strip out. Use caution. I burned they 4 before I finally gave up on ot. Nothing like finding metal shavings in pressed pucks.

DistyDemon said:

Those threads fall easy (strip out. Use caution. I burned they 4 before I finally gave up on ot. Nothing like finding metal shavings in pressed pucks.

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Chef got a nice one....he said....whew! lmao

Aqua Man said:

Yeah makes me really wonder if I didn't drop it. It's starting to haul ass now...just a trooper

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that the thing,it could just green up in one day and grow 6in over night ,happened before hahahh

Aqua Man said:

Not an option for me . With these being reg seeds I'm gonna hurt my yields but I'm going to take clones of each before flower and have a buddy keep them. If there is something outstanding I can then keep a mother.

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there you go,i thought about it myself,but i think these will do me for a while when done,at least until next october when i can grow,went ahead and topped last time yesterday,under a net and let um bush out ,live with that,hell all might be males hadnt sexed um,really dont care shit is killing me working them.
one thing for sure the other 2 you gave to buddy would fill that spot right now,first chance of a clone get r done

DistyDemon said:

Those threads fall easy (strip out. Use caution. I burned they 4 before I finally gave up on ot. Nothing like finding metal shavings in pressed pucks.

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What price level did you try? They seem to be very variable for quality. As little as $10 and as much as $75 i seen online.

DistyDemon said:

Those threads fall easy (strip out. Use caution. I burned they 4 before I finally gave up on ot. Nothing like finding metal shavings in pressed pucks.

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I had the same thing happen to the one I got years ago, I still use the shaft and rods but now I use a big C-clamp to compress them, works great.

2 day update.

22 days from sprout.

I defoliated quite a bit yesterday. The foliage was just to thick and had plenty of leaves stacking and sweating. They took it well and I have considered topping 1 more time but will decide tomorrow. I removed the fans from the main stalk except on the little one and the top node.

Little one is picking up steam. I really need to get my scrog net in soon.

Pics are Dec 13 and today Dec 15