400w flowerbox (Northern Lights-Jack Frost-Twilight)

c0okiecrisps said:

oh man, I've yet to step into the luxury class of vehicles, but I do love looking at volvos, Always been a favorite manufacturer of mine.

I've heard many great things about coco, in both hydro and organic. What I like about it, is that when you buy the compressed brick form, you can expand it in an actual nutrient solution, leaving the whole nutrient/ph issue is solved!

for organic grows, I've seen people on here have great sucess cutting coco with a little perlite-Egg shells and worm castings. I've also seen some people have great sucess running bottled nutrients through it, So I belive now that basically, coco the most ultimate medium.

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A1 Idea on the coco. 20% perlite was what i was thinking, itll be hard to over water at least. luckily iv never had root probs and managed to refrain from overwatering. ultimate medium? id have to agree on what iv seen on coco grows on here and peoples testimonials. volvos rock

its getting to be about that time to chop down the three Twilight ladies, however I have noticed little to no change in the past few days.

Conditions:

Pistils: 80% oranged out, new ones still forming.* at a very declined rate*

Calyxs: swollen and still developing, little change in the past few days.nice swollen fox tails with a soft and pleasing lavender-purple hue toward the tips.

Trichomes: No change in size, resin maturity seems to have not changed in the last few days, it is about 40%-60% mature.

Fan Leaves: Some nutrient issues are visible, Obvious depletion of Nitrogen, however, Leaves may be "wind burnt". I think the stretch these girls took in the first few weeks may be leading to a lack of moisture up top, some buds somewhat "dry" to the touch. The fan leaves that have not been hit with nitrogen loss are soft to the touch, but not as soft as is can be. They overall canopy color is medium-dark green, with a Dark-mean looking purple starting to develop along the veins. the purple started about a week to ten days ago, and has not completely developed.

Resovoir Conditions: Current PPM is around 520, this is because I expected this week (10) to be harvest week. I have been recirculating my resovoir, topping off nutrients and water as needed, keeping the PH at 6.2-6.4. A few days ago my Digital meter died out, and I've been eyeballing ph test solution with little to no confidence.

Questions for anyone reading this:
1)Should I dump my current resovoir, and place my plants into a fresh resovoir of Clearex @ 6.4? my concern is flushing before the resin and pistil actually being mature??

2)Should I just continue topping of my resovoir with ph'd or un ph'd water?




thank you to all, good luck on your ventures

**edit to "Resovoir Conditions"**

-During weeks 5-9 my ppms went from around 840-1100/1200 at the peak.
-I am using Gen Hydro Flora series Nutes, I stopped using FloraGRO around week6-7, and have been using just a little extra floraMICRO and also adding Gen.Hydro.FloraSweet in a 2/5 gallon strength during weeks 6-8
-I used a few mL of Silica Blast throughout resoivoir fills.


Also, For anyone just reading my posts, I Am growing Dutch Passion's - Twilight. This is supposed to be an outdoor purple strain, I had three sick clones that I nursed to health, and could not take outside for the winter(4.5 Gallon DWC). I'm only growing these as a project, and will have my normal, Beautiful indoor plants back on cycle shortly!! =] =] =] do not take this journal as an indicator of my skills as a grower, I'm predominately an organic gardner, and am learning "true" hydroponics as I go

The first twilight plant just got to the "dry enough to smoke" point, and I am enjoying it so far.

Not the smoothest smoke, and not the tastiest, I can tell it needs more time, this is why I have other clones of this plant to sample at the different windows of maturity. overall, I like it. real cerebral, soothing, and makes everything funny, and gives a nice creative edge.

i'm expecting these next two plants to straight up get a person 'propper fucked'

c0okiecrisps said:

The first twilight plant just got to the "dry enough to smoke" point, and I am enjoying it so far.

Not the smoothest smoke, and not the tastiest, I can tell it needs more time, this is why I have other clones of this plant to sample at the different windows of maturity. overall, I like it. real cerebral, soothing, and makes everything funny, and gives a nice creative edge.

i'm expecting these next two plants to straight up get a person 'propper fucked'

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excelent description, curing will iron out the bugs

Definately!

I swapped my resovoir for a fresh 4 gallons of H2O and 3/4 strength Clearex.

'been a few days, I speed dried a nuggy off another plant, And it had a lot more potency, and was smoother.