First grow in RDWC. Wish me luck.

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #1

Haven't grown or been able to consume since the early 80s. Getting ready to retire soon so I figured it was a great time to start up a grow. I knew I wanted to do a Hydro grow so I started researching and found one I liked. It's a recirculating deep water culture set up. I have 4-13 gallon bucket for growing & 1-13 gallon reservoir. Water is pumped from the reservoir to the buckets and then it falls (fallponic) into each bucket. All buckets and reservoir are interconnected with 3 inch pvc piping that returns to the reservoir. I have also installed a 27 gallon tote above the res. and piped into it in case i need to go out of town and might run out of water, but so far i have not put any water in it.
So, I will be using the grow journal as my grow diary mainly.
Using a 600 watt HLG light.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

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Little boring start. Those first pics were from June 29th. 1st day in the tent and under lights. They started growing fast. Soon as they grew past the 4th node I topped each of them.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

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About this time I had to get a little creative because I wanted to supercrop all of the branches out 90* from the main stem and did not have the ability to poke rods into the soil or drill holes in my bucket lids to pull the branches down so I ordered some 1/8" aluminum rods and some velcro straps to attach them kinda like braces to put the branches where I wanted them to be. Work well

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

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They looked tore up for a minute, but then started sending every bit of new growth up, instead of sideways. I'm hooked on supercropping.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

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Then the race was on. started topping all the branches once they grew past the 4th nodes. They liked it.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

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started growing a little taller and bushier

 

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SouthFloridaGenetics

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #7

Looking real nice! Good job, I know that's a lot of work. It's a pretty grow already!

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #8

Time to remove the bottom 1/3rd of the growth for better air flow. They looked a little beat up for sure for a day or two.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #9

SouthFloridaGenetics said:

Looking real nice! Good job, I know that's a lot of work. It's a pretty grow already!

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Thank you. So far, so good.

 

MeOhMyOhio

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #10

Nice grow! Great looking plants. You did your research!
I like the super cropping/training.
Nice looking grow. Am following!

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #11

Put in the trellis bars and also installed the trellis netting (no pics of trellis netting yet) and also flipped the light schedule to 12/12 one week ago today.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #12

MeOhMyOhio said:

Nice grow! Great looking plants. You did your research!
I like the super cropping/training.
Nice looking grow. Am following!

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Right on @MeOhMyOhio yeah, probably watched about a hundred hours of videos before i would make up my mind on a subject.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #13

Last pics I took right before I flipped the lights. Gotta get some more soon. No buds showing yet, but hopefully soon.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #14

First grow in RDWC. Wish me luck.

Haven't grown or been able to consume since the early 80s. Getting ready to retire soon so I figured it was a great time to start up a grow. I knew I wanted to do a Hydro grow so I started researching and found one I liked. It's a recirculating deep water culture set up. I have 4-13 gallon...

www.rollitup.org

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #15

Guess i should have stated at the beginning of the grow journal that I am growing 4 plants total. 2 are Mango-Kush Indica Dominant, 1 is Jamaican Lion-Maui Wowie Sativa Dominant, and 1 is Acai-Berry- Gelato Sativa Dominant.
I am learning as I go, so forgive me if I'm not 100% up to speed or make a mistake.
All I know is "I'M GROWING AGAIN BITCHES".

 

SouthFloridaGenetics

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #16

OldDude420 said:

Guess i should have stated at the beginning of the grow journal that I am growing 4 plants total. 2 are Mango-Kush Indica Dominant, 1 is Jamaican Lion-Maui Wowie Sativa Dominant, and 1 is Acai-Berry- Gelato Sativa Dominant.
I am learning as I go, so forgive me if I'm not 100% up to speed or make a mistake.
All I know is "I'M GROWING AGAIN BITCHES".

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You got me so excited with the whole "I'M GROWING AGAIN BITCHES" I went and did a celebratory monster dab on my dab rig!

Fun Dip Strain (90-120u) Cold Cure Badder Bitchachos!

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 15, 2024

• #17

SouthFloridaGenetics said:

You got me so excited with the whole "I'M GROWING AGAIN BITCHES" I went and did a celebratory monster dab on my dab rig!

Fun Dip Strain (90-120u) Cold Cure Badder Bitchachos!

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You rock. I'm gonna follow you if that's ok.

Grow well

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 20, 2024

• #18

Got back in town after the weekend away and the plants were so bushy and stretching out. Needing a major defoliation.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 20, 2024

• #19

My son-in-law and i went to work on the girls and hit em hard removing what we thought was needed to allow better air flow. They looked so beat up afterwards I didn't take any pics. So this morning before work I popped my head and camera in the tent and got a few. I have hairs popping up at a lot of bud sites, but don't have any real buds yet on this 13th day after flipping the lights to 12/12. Hoping within the next week or so we will have some legit buds to look at. As you can tell with all my topping i did I am hoping for smaller diameter buds and lots of them with no bud rot or mildew.

 

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OldDude420

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• Aug 21, 2024

• #20

Took a peek at the girls this morning before I went to work and it appears that some blossoms are cranking up finally. Shouldn't be long before they are all covered. Here's a few pics.

 

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