First Hydro, DWC, platinum bubba kush, 1000w

First time going all hydro, did two soil grows before. Bought the clones yesterday, 10/15 from a dispensary. Four platinum bubba kush's. Using the lecca clay rocks or whatever they're called. Made the dwc myself, used a home depot mixing bucket it's 3X2, put about 12 gallons inside. Using fox farms hydro solutions. PH of the first night was 6.35, with a ppm at 655. ph raised up to about 7.12 this morning, put about 3 ml of ph down, back to about 6.8

Wondering if anyone knows if the clay rocks have a high ph? Guessing that's what raised my ph, I washed them out and soaked them for a while, but not in a ph'd solution.

Added some cal mag when the lights turned on this evening. I run on time 6 pm to 2 pm so peak hours are off. Makes a big difference especially when I switch to that 1000 watter. Ph keeps rising slowly. Up to 7.45 this morning and again when I was adding the cal mag. I put in 5.5 ml of ph down to get it to 6.4 I think.

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I got mites!!! I don't know how. 1st week growing again. Luckily they were just on one of the four clones. I have pictures on my camera I need to get off later. I sponged all the leaves down. Just water on two sponges wipeing the plants of the little black and white dots. Tomorrow I will go to a hydro store and get some organic mite stuff. I want to be able to spray it up to flowering just in case it's my apartments problem. Right now I'm hoping it came from the dispensary. I'll be on the look out for more.

These are photos taken tonight. I never got to adding the up close of mite leaves, but theres a couple that I took tonight that should suffice. I added B-52 today, it's day 9 today. Things are going pretty well, the ph stopped bouncing around so much, there's some definite growth going. First hydro dwc experience going pretty well. I will add new trays as I see necessary. I need to see about increasing my plant limit so I can have a 2 trays of 4 inside my tent flowering, month staggered, and then 2 trays vegging a month apart as well, for 2 months each. This will give me a steady 2 month vegged tray flowered out under 1000 watts every month. Should be enough for my smoking habit. I will probably switch strains in every tray until I find one I would like to mother from all my batches, and have 4 mothers growing elsewhere for cloning. This is all some time down the road. I am going to have to be away from my grow for a while so I want to just do this as a test run to see if when I go away for almost a month if it will be able to mostly survive without me. I was thinking about having it be a 3 week flush so I don't have to worry as much, and then maybe have another tray just Vegging for 3 weeks because it's not that bad on a non flowering plant hopefully. Any thoughts please say.

Saw some good root growth today as well, forgot to take pics. Was wondering if anyone knew how high the water should be in a dwc. All the way up to the top of the pot. Because the link posted on this page said just under the net pot. Can't tell what it means, not to clear.

Added in the fox farm bloom nutrient, not the tiger whatever, but the regular flowering one. According to the fox farm nutrient chart it goes along during veg also with the fox farm grow. They are doing great, I sprayed the mite spray a couple days ago, and might give it another go today when the lights turn back on. In a couple of days I will foliar feed for the first time. Not too great with foliar feeding, other than reading the directions for diluting it properly, not too sure how often to do it. I know i'm supposed to stop it at some time around flowering once mold is likely to be the product of adding moisture into the environment. Anyways, here's the pics, maybe at day 13, cuz i took them last night... oh well though, they are always making progress, I am liking this hydro.




I have figured out how I am going to start up my eventual perpetual grow. I do not want to extend the plant limit, 6 mature and 12 immature. What I will do is have two sets of six, maybe 3 per tray like I have now with a bit more room since I am currently doing four. Once these guys are ready to flower I will snag one out to keep as a mother and make a couple more clones. I will have the 6 in veg go for 2 months, while the flowering do the same, so every 2 months I switch my veg into the flowering room, and harvest the flowering ones. I will probably end up doing 2 strains, one per tray, and have two good mothers supporting the trays. I think that harvesting six plants that verged for 2 months, and then flowered under a 1000w light for how ever long they take (probably 2 months as well...) will yield a pretty good amount for my personal stash.

The current grow though will veg for about a month and a half, since I will be gone 2 weeks after that, and I want the stretch weeks of flowering to be when I am here, since I will not know where to place the light. When I leave I will change the res, throw in any week 3 or 4 flowering nutrients, and then put the light up a foot or two, hopefully there won't be too much bud stretching.

-I love a the smoking.

the best ph i found to work in dwc is 5.9 - 6.1 your plants will like this range best . when your ph swings up its normal that means they are eating nutrients so add some fresh water and add alittle more nutes i usually go up 100 ppm at a time till it levels out then i do a res change

thanks ios. I'll change that today after I get back. I dunno how much nutrients to add, so I guess I'll put in one teaspoon per gallon of the hydro grow from fox farms, since it's about time it switches from 2-3 anyways on the fox farm sheet. Anything left to get the ph down to 6.1 I'll just ph down.

so I've been spraying with the mighty wash mite spray, two times now already, and it seems that the mights always seem to leave one or two survivors. I will spray again tomorrow, but I don't know why this isn't working, the hydro guy said spray every four weeks... it doesn't seem to be that legit... Maybe the mites live around my house or something? I just moved here and right when I started growing again the mites popped up... here's some pics of the plants, they are doing great, except for a leaf here and there with some damage, and a black dot under a leaf every now and then...



by the way, I also foliar fed for the first time to these girls today, put in a real small amount of the grow big, since I only had 500 ml spray bottle, at half a teaspoon per gallon I put in about 3/4 a ml into the spray bottle. Also that leaf at the end looks pretty peculiar. Any thoughts?

oh yah, btw I found a bunch of sediment on the bottom of the tub, I guess from the flowering nute I added. I'll just mix it around for now I guess

put in the hps light today, went pretty easy. Got a 6 inch duct that was insulated to hopefully help keep heat from escaping through the tube. Seems like a good temperature in the room. Weird thing after I took the pictures I noticed about 4 dead bees on the other side of the tent from the fan that pumps air from the outside in. Maybe they got too close to the duct? Dunno why bees would be in there... here's the pics anyways.

still haven't taken out the bees, oh well, their fine on their side of the room, not stinging anybody, yet... Still have yet to change the res or even add water. The water level started at around half way up the net pots, and now is at the "perfect level" as people say, just touching the bottom of the pots... It's been 3 weeks, just wanna see if it will make it a little longer, since I will have to leave it for around that time mid grow. The plants looked a little droopy yesterday so my gf told me to lift the new light, and they look great today, thanks babe... she points out oftenly...



I will get more individual pictures of the plants when I choose a mother. Can't tell which one I want to be the mother. I got about 3 weeks left of veg planned for these girls. Under the 1000w light now to should be doing good when I switch to flowering.

in about 5 days they will be a month old. Doing pretty well so far, here's some pics from last night, 6 days till a month old, just over 3 weeks I guess. They are doing well, turns out though in the morning it get's a little to hot inside the room. The plants run from about 7 till 1 the next after noon. That lets me not be inside of the peak hours, 2-6 which greatly effect energy cost... The plants look weak in the morning when it's a bit over 80 degrees in the tent. But by the time the lights turn back on they're doing great. I guess this is because it's pretty hot here and I got a lot of air coming in from the outside.

Changed the water today. Just under a month since I originally filled it. Took only 5 gallons to fill up just a bit over the bottom of the net pot. Gotta keep on watching how much water it soaks up every day so I know how much extra to put in when I go. Everythings looking good, they aren't growing quite as fast as I'd like, so i put in two more air stones. I bought one of those 4 outlet air pumps for like 22 bucks at pet co. Pretty good deal I think. Only put 2 airstones on it though since they were kinda expensive actually there.

i have had some plat OG and omg was that killer! Im starting my first grow in FF ocean forest soil under a 1000w HPS within the week just waiting for my beans to arrive once again good luck

@person above, are you starting them off in a 1000w? I did that my first grow and ended up paying too much out the ass for electricity when it really didn't effect the growth compared to what florecents can give, in the first little bit that is at least. I ran my 1000w mh 24/7 and ended up with about 200 dollars extra on the electricity bill, that's around the time I learned about peak hours. Good luck thought.

anyways, here's some new pictures from just now. I love the iCloud for posting grows since I can literally take pictures from my phone, walk out of my grow room and onto my computer open up photos and they are there waiting for me. Pretty nice for some of us more lazy mothers...



mmmm making a cheesecake, oo time to take it out yummy

Well they're one month old, doing pretty well so far. Taking up about two gallons every two or three days. I don't get this adding 100ppm stuff though.. I just add whatever two gallons would need in nutrients, but today I just added water in fear of a possible nutrient lockout. I will check the ppm but it shouldn't be to high since it hasn't been. I will be flowering in two and a half weeks or so. Dec 3 I think.

I'm thinking about an extra rez tank. Maybe a big bucket thing with a lit, put a pump at the bottom with some low gph, hook it up to a timer to turn on for like a minute every day. But that takes a pretty accurate timer, right now I think mine might be in 10 min intervals, and plus I'll need it for flowering anyways. Maybe a liter of water every day just to be safe. Is there any less taking of water in the later stages of flowering that would cause my rez to over flow some how? They are taking about 3.something liters every day right now. That would be safe hopefully.

Oh well, here's the pictures.

took some pics... need to take out the mother soon to start flowering the three. Also gotta take clones off of the mother and start them in their own dwc soon.

Everythings doing great, about a week older than a month, so somewhere over five weeks i guess, still putting in a lot of water for these girls. Gonna get a pump in the next couple of days to test it out, see how it auto fills while I'm here at least.