2000W Monster Size LST Northern Lights DWC, Mix of HPS&LED

Northern Lights Grower

Northern Lights Grower

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They've been flowering for around 3 weeks. Please reply with any tips you have!

I have 4 4x4ft tents. The HPS are 600W, the red LED lamps are 300W and the blue ones a 100W. The buckets are 5 gallons. Medium is perlite, will switch to clay balls next grow.

Yeah I have made a few fuck ups so far, air pump for all the plants failed last week, killed a hundred or so leaves, one plant drank the entire 5 gallon bucket in 2 days and there was only and inch of soup left when I realized what happened! There was a delay in getting the timers, so they're close to growing out of control now lol. I'm still getting used to a grow of this size, this is three times as big as anything I've attempted before. The logistics are crazy. I gave up changing res last week and am just topping up now.

The little plants will probably be mothers some day. The cloner is experimental for me, never cloned directly into DWC before.

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Northern Lights Grower

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I have switched to distilled water for my nutes.. my water is pretty hard so I want to keep the crap building up at the bottom of the buckets to a minimum as I won't be changing from now on the whole grow.
 
joespit

joespit

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Water water temp is your reservoirs running, you might com into root rot if they get too high
 
Northern Lights Grower

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I don't have a waterproof thermometer but outdoor temp is 10-15C, will check temp in the temps tonight. Shouldn't be a problem until summer comes around!
 
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Too warm? Yeah right more like they need heaters! Temps dropped down to 6C last night. When it was 11C yesterday the temps inside the tent were 14C in the LED tent and 17C in the HPS tents, and I'm only using computer fans :)

I nearly nute burnt my plants... forogot to keep checking the EC as I'm not chaging res anymore -_- The EC went as high as 4! I'm now making sure it's under 3. I will try letting it go down a bit so it stops rising.

They are drinking like crazy. Like 3L of water per bucket each day! Ph is rising like a bitch too, I have to adjust every bucket every day now!

All the clones in perlite died, the ones in rockwool mostly survived, I have some new clones in clay balls and they root much faster. So in addition to the 4 flowering ones, I now have 2 mother plants, 4 clones in 5 gallon buckets and 7 more in the cloner. Each will one day get their own tent and a 600W HPS :O

In other news just to access the main air pump I had to snap off a branch, so I thought I may aswell smoke it then throw it away! Got a bit of a body high from it but it was gone in like half an hour, it still needs a few more weeks.

I have another tent and 600W HPS on the way, so those 2 plants won't be crammed into a 4ft tent for much longer and they will each get 600W to themselves!

Will have some pics sometime next week.
 
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reasonevangelist

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Northern Lights Grower said:
Sounds like someones been smoking :P I haven't have a good smoke for weeks. I'm don't think I'll be sober for the rest of my life after this crop LOL!
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Yeah i wish. Haven't smoked in about a month myself. Maybe a little sleep-dep goin' on... and for whatever reason, certain images seem to trigger mild "trippy" visuals (and not just yours). I got a couple decades of stoner experience, so i remember it quite well, and it's part of my personality.

Actually, my BO smells like really good skunk, even after i completely quit for 23 months. It never went away, so i guess i'm like, part weed now, or something. I always considered myself a more conservative/moderate toker (at least, compared to how most of the others i've been around seem to do things). But hey, i can't complain. Skunk smell (the plant) isn't a bad thing, IMO. lol. :)

Your grow is indeed monstrous. I lol'd at the part about "one plant drank the whole bucket."
 
Northern Lights Grower

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reasonevangelist said:
Actually, my BO smells like really good skunk, even after i completely quit for 23 months. It never went away, so i guess i'm like, part weed now, or something. I always considered myself a more conservative/moderate toker (at least, compared to how most of the others i've been around seem to do things). But hey, i can't complain. Skunk smell (the plant) isn't a bad thing, IMO. lol. :)

Your grow is indeed monstrous. I lol'd at the part about "one plant drank the whole bucket."
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LOL I had the weed BO smell too for a few days, but mabye that's because I vape... or left the grow room doors open!

Yeh I used to have friends that wasted SOOO much weed, like 3 grams in one sitting, all in joints/blunts, and just sit there holding it while they tell a story. Luckily it wasn't my weed!

I know the drinking is crazy! I feel like running with huge bottles of nutes and buckets of water will become my full time job soon!
 
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reasonevangelist

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LOL I had the weed BO smell too for a few days, but mabye that's because I vape... or left the grow room doors open!

Yeh I used to have friends that wasted SOOO much weed, like 3 grams in one sitting, all in joints/blunts, and just sit there holding it while they tell a story. Luckily it wasn't my weed!

I know the drinking is crazy! I feel like running with huge bottles of nutes and buckets of water will become my full time job soon!
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lol, yeah... 3g can last me up to 9 days... barely... i'd rather not have to ration it quite so much... but more than a gram a day is just overkill, imo.
 
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