Second grow ever RDWC system

[Moe.Red]

As for the chiller you can hold off until the summer. Just keep vigilant and post pics if anything goes wrong.

Remind me where you got the genetics

 

[Buzzking]

Ok sounds good will get to treating a bucket and doing the dunk tomorrow.

Got the clones from my buddy here locally. He did say he treats all of his clones with stuff shown below. Not great white or orca but figured better than nothing

 

[ninjadip]

Did the feel and smell test, no sliminess smells organic or plant like nothing fowl. Pics below

Changed water Tuesday left about 4-5 gallons of old water in system. Was at 0.8 EC tried bumping up a little ended up at 1.0 EC or 500ppm on the 500tds scale. PH of course kept dropping thanks to buffers in tap water but pretty good at monitoring and adjusting keeping it under 6 around 5.7-5.8 when leveled out.

Aeration looks good in my opinion. Tried dropping water to get 1” below pots but as Sweetleaf mentioned with these big pots PA supplies hard to run it that low and keep recirculation going. Afraid if I go lower a little water consumption will cause level to go below return.

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i'm seeing more and more of these fallponic setups.
I'm really digging it.

nice setup! and your roots look awesome

 

[Moe.Red]

Ok sounds good will get to treating a bucket and doing the dunk tomorrow.

Got the clones from my buddy here locally. He did say he treats all of his clones with stuff shown below. Not great white or orca but figured better than nothing View attachment 1323910

Perfect. Then that colony is the good stuff most likely.

We got a little warm spike coming next 2 days.

 

[Buzzking]

Perfect. Then that colony is the good stuff most likely.

We got a little warm spike coming next 2 days.

Gotta love this Midwest weather

 

[Buzzking]

Time for an update. Took @Moe.Red advice and made a batch of dechlorinated ph’d water and dosed it with Orca. Dunked all 4 plants and tried to swish the gunk out. Looks like it had a positive effect as the root balls are looking much more healthy this week.

Clones are on week 4 so decided to switch to flower. Gave all a good haircut and put fresh GH nutes in along with some Cool Bloom.

Also made a couple slight improvements to the system again following Moe’s suggested and added a top off reservoir. This should make life a little easier especially when I’m out of town for work and the wife is left in charge. Also put an old air pump to work and added air stones to reservoir and top off tank figuring you can never have too much oxygen and stirring of the water.

That’s all for now, let the stretch begin!

Before trim…

After..,

 

[Cool_Beans]

Lookin lush in there, keep it up!

 

[ninjadip]

Time for an update. Took @Moe.Red advice and made a batch of dechlorinated ph’d water and dosed it with Orca. Dunked all 4 plants and tried to swish the gunk out. Looks like it had a positive effect as the root balls are looking much more healthy this week.

Clones are on week 4 so decided to switch to flower. Gave all a good haircut and put fresh GH nutes in along with some Cool Bloom.

Also made a couple slight improvements to the system again following Moe’s suggested and added a top off reservoir. This should make life a little easier especially when I’m out of town for work and the wife is left in charge. Also put an old air pump to work and added air stones to reservoir and top off tank figuring you can never have too much oxygen and stirring of the water.

That’s all for now, let the stretch begin!

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really good lookin roots

 

[Buzzking]

So poked my head in the tent after work and was a bit surprised to see the browning on the leaves edges. Quite the change in just around 24 hours if you go back and look at pics from yesterday. I bumped the three part GH nutes up a little based on their recommended schedule and added GH Liquid Kool Bloom for the first time since I switched to bloom with a 12hr on light cycle. EC was 1.2 when I did the water change yesterday. I can send exact amounts of all nutes if needed.

The only other change was I kicked the humidity up a bit in the lung room but only to keep things where they were prior as it dropped a bit after I trimmed the plants back. So not a big change but wondering if too much humidity could cause it? Running at around 55% right now with temp tent at 78F

Thinking it’s nute burn but want to confirm as I didn’t experience this on my previous grow. Any thoughts @Moe.Red or @Aqua Man or farm?

 

[Moe.Red]

Liquid koolbloom plus florabloom is too much flower power for these girls.

Got your labels handy? Let’s go thru what you have in there.

 

[Moe.Red]

Btw great job catching it quick.

 

[Buzzking]

Liquid koolbloom plus florabloom is too much flower power for these girls.

Got your labels handy? Let’s go thru what you have in there.

Here’s a pic of what I had in there last time and what I went with this time. I use the GH nute guide and cut everything in half.

So per pic below for last batch 32 gals water then added 84.8ml of Flora Micro, 73.6ml Flora Grow, and 96ml Flora Bloom. I went on the low end of the recommended LKB and used 80ml.

 

[Moe.Red]

Lqb is too much for the plants. Can you dilute with water?

 

[Buzzking]

Lqb is too much for the plants. Can you dilute with water?

Can do anything needed to reverse the trend, was going great a day ago lol.

Are you saying add X amount of dechlorinated and ph adjusted water? Bring EC down to 0.9-1.0 again?

 

[Moe.Red]

Can do anything needed to reverse the trend, was going great a day ago lol.

Are you saying add X amount of dechlorinated and ph adjusted water? Bring EC down to 0.9-1.0 again?

Really the ratio needs to be adjusted. P and k are thru the roof right now.

In a perfect world you would want to drain 10 or 15 gals refill and check EC. Then adjust back up with grow and micro so n goes up while pk go down.

It would be easier to just drain the whole res but that wastes a lot of nutes. So your call.

Koolbloom is just high dose p and k and too much for this plant to handle.

 

[Buzzking]

Really the ratio needs to be adjusted. P and k are thru the roof right now.

In a perfect world you would want to drain 10 or 15 gals refill and check EC. Then adjust back up with grow and micro so n goes up while pk go down.

It would be easier to just drain the whole res but that wastes a lot of nutes. So your call.

Koolbloom is just high dose p and k and too much for this plant to handle.

Ok I’m going to go the easy route and change it out completely. Any adjustments needed to what a I provided, will be making 32 gals again? Can LKB be used at all or is it just a waste of money and stick with the 3 basics?

 

[SweetLeafGrow]

Ok I’m going to go the easy route and change it out completely. Any adjustments needed to what a I provided, will be making 32 gals again? Can LKB be used at all or is it just a waste of money and stick with the 3 basics?

I would use the trio while you are learning your craft. This is exactly what I am doing atm. You will learn a lot about the plants along the way and just how to grow in water. I would call it "paying your dues" so to speak.

When you get solid with that, venture out and try the various additives.

I am currently on my 2nd and 3rd RDWC grows and the first grows using only the GH trio, I'm growing fantastic flowers. Keep it simple and learn to walk that way, then pick up the pace and try running if that is what you want to do. By then you will have the knowledge to bail yourself out if something goes wrong when you try something new.

 

[Moe.Red]

Yeah what he said.

I tend to not use koolbloom because it is just very high dose pk. If I need that much pk in heavy flower I would just increase the florabloom to get the extra sulfur for better terpenes.

It really is just a way to sell you another bottle.

 

[Buzzking]

Plants responded well to the water change and nute adjustments. Came back strong especially after the defoliation I gave them last week. Going to do some heavy defoliating again tomorrow if I can find the time along with another water change. Will boost flea bloom a bit as I do want to max terp flavors if I can.

Oh yeah and its deer sausage season! Can’t wait for these old fashioned cold smoked smokies to cure out in 10-14 days!

 

[Moe.Red]

Man I miss deer sausage and jerky.

You got some giant atypicals over there in IL. I've hunted a few of the Mississippi islands, great genetics in that whole valley.