Dontcough's First Hydro Grow (2 Plant Closet DWC) White Widow & Critical + Automatic

Got some new goodies for the plants.

Upped the nutrients in preparation for transition. Topped with water, rotated plants.

Critical + Auto ~ Little bit of yellowing leaves, directly where the light was really close to the plant before I bumped it up a notch.
600 ppm
5.5 pH
75 F






White Widow
459 ppm
5.5 pH
75 F

girls are looking good.

First day of flowering, going to start the dark cycle at 9 pm tonight, light on starts 9 am. Adjusted pH and refilled water accordingly. Blocked off the any light that may be getting inside the closet with a blanket

Was reviewing the progress of the plant

It's neat how my closet has transformed in a months time.

Your plants are looking great, I can't say the same for mine while I was on this long vacation my friend turned my green babies into yellow teenagers! I don't go back till Monday. I will post all my updated pictures the 10th. I can definitely see yours are much bigger.

Medicinalhealing said:

Your plants are looking great, I can't say the same for mine while I was on this long vacation my friend turned my green babies into yellow teenagers! I don't go back till Monday. I will post all my updated pictures the 10th. I can definitely see yours are much bigger.

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Damn, I'm sorry to hear that, at least he didn't kill them though right? I'll definitely check out the pics.

First light cycle change was last night. Starting off week 5, I am changing out the reservoirs a couple days earlier to incorporate the Flora Nectar, Floralicious +, and Liquid Koolbloom. Cleaned rez with a little bit of hot water and hydrogen peroxide scrubbed it. I am now using full strength nutrients since there is a developed root system and no signs of distress. So that means in each bucket where the fill line is at 2.5 gallons I have 3 tsp of Floramicro, 1 tsp Floragrow, 4 tsp of Florabloom, 1/2 tsp of root enhancer, 1 tsp of Liquid Koolbloom, 1/2 tsp of Floralicious +, 2 tsp Flora Nectar bringing the ppm of both buckets at 515-520 ppm. Checked pH in both; they are both at 5.5.



Critical + Automatic
510 ppm
5.5 pH
79 F




White Widow
520 ppm
5.5 pH
79 F

They look great Dontcough.

DUDE- I'm jealous-your whole set-up looks nice an clean. GOOD for you 'cause I've been at this for awhile and my set-up has gone through some real changes thru the yrs. an I need to break down everything and start up again. I'm just sayin' your set-up real nice an clean lkin'. Go GROOOOOOOOOOO-----

fasteddysan714 said:

DUDE- I'm jealous-your whole set-up looks nice an clean. GOOD for you 'cause I've been at this for awhile and my set-up has gone through some real changes thru the yrs. an I need to break down everything and start up again. I'm just sayin' your set-up real nice an clean lkin'. Go GROOOOOOOOOOO-----

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Thanks man! Hopefully I'll be able to build upon it to make it even better, I'm always looking to improve. =) If my bud looks anything like that OG Kush in your journal I'll be elated.

They are really going to start stretching toward that light now that you've flipped to 12/12. I can't wait to see more pics in a few days.

Trimmed some of the lower branches on the Critical + Automatic due to them not getting a lot of light, it doesn't look quite as bushy anymore but I'm hoping the focal point will be bud production. Growth is strong, their drinking nutrients every day. The Critical + Auto is drinking a little bit more than the White Widow, their both about a 1/4-1/2 gallon a day. After they drink a gallon which usually every 2 days I add some nutrients, every day I have been filling with distilled ozarka to their fill line.

Critical + Automatic
540 ppm
5.8 pH
75 F



White Widow~ No buds quite yet but I can already see where they're pushing up
460 ppm
5.8 pH
75 F




Added some goodies today, bought an 80 gallon aquarium air pump dual channel, and a couple large circular air stones.



I taped off where I cut the lower branches off with some scotch tape temporarily to maintain Turgor pressure. Will get some nice duct tape shortly. Hopefully didn't stress it out too much, but I think all will be fine. Other than that they seem healthy and are growing pretty vigorously towards the lights. As soon as I turned on the second pump the plants perked up within 5 minutes, so that's good news, I'm hoping that the added O2 will give them a nice little push in the right direction.

Critical + Automatic

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White Widow

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Changed the water in the reservoirs, cleaned, rinsed hydroton, added nutes, raised the light a bit, as well as put an additional couple books under the White Widow. Everything is looking great.

Critical + Automatic
565 ppm
5.5 pH
79 F


White Widow
565 ppm
5.5 pH
79 F

Changed out reservoirs this week, slight increase in nutes as required by feeding schedule. pH and water levels have been maintained with nutrient assisted water added every two days to compensate for the drinking. They both drink about a gallon of water every 2 days.

Only took pictures of the Critical + Auto today until the White Widow finally starts blooming.

600 ppm for WW and 590 ppm for Crit +

Everything is looking good

wow great work man very jealous i did not do so hot my first two grows.. thank god i have soil plants too lol. i made some changes and juss started a sour diesel seed wish me luck third time a charm

Looking great, Dont. Keep up the green thumb!

Plants looking good bro,Your ppm meters is on what scale .5 or .7 ??

Your Critical is looking fantastic. The leaves are starting to get nice a frosty. Great work man! We can that plant is getting a lot of love.