WATERFARM SCROG!!!! ..first frightening waterfarm grow....Dr.Amber Frankenstien

DrFever said:

yes keep that tape around it it makes it like a funnel for instance you water one without and it stays very wet you leave it on and its like a suction cup if you catch my drift

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Its polythene though it locks moisture in. I've always removed it forall the roots to grow freely into the hydrocoton. Thats jst me though not saying thats the law lol

I took the plastic off my 1.5"x1.5" RW cube prior to planting and I shook out not squeezed the excess water ran it 24/7 and the tap root was in the bottom ressy in 7 days. Now I'm dealing with a beast that sucks up 1.2 gallons a day. Just added a couple picks in my journal check em out.
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DST said:

CEEJR wherever in your mind it came from, happy days. DST

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scotia1982 said:

Its polythene though it locks moisture in. I've always removed it forall the roots to grow freely into the hydrocoton. Thats jst me though not saying thats the law lol

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Me too. I've had roots coming out the sides of the rw and I wouldn't want to hamper those if that's where they wanna grow.

My first roots are showing under the growing chamber!!! I have been patiently waiting for them to emerge. Now I know that they are growing and happy so far. She has been in the WF 14 days. Now to see what she does as the roots reach the nutes!

Amber, I thanks for the avatar change!

It doesn't look that bad amber. Yea it's kinda small for what day you said it's at but I wouldn't fret too much. Give it about a week or so, I bet it'll be a lot bigger by then. Some strains take a bit longer to get going than others. Who knows, once it gets going that thing could grow faster than any plant we've ever seen in waterfarm.

@GreenGiant, if that's the same plant from post #209, then that is AMAZING. I'd have thought it would take a lot more time to recover from looking that poorly. She's doing great!

Amber, my Kaya Gold has been in her DWC chamber since seed and she only now has her second set of leaves on day 10. Don't fret. She'll grow. When her roots hit the water, she'll take off like a rocket, I bet. My KG's root just poked out the tiniest bit this morning so I'm expecting great things over the next few days.

scotia1982 said:

Its polythene though it locks moisture in. I've always removed it forall the roots to grow freely into the hydrocoton. Thats jst me though not saying thats the law lol

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Thanks for the input on the rockwool cube everyone. Im too nervous to take the plastic off the cube. I also have a fear that the rockwool will desinegrate and clog up my tubing. is that a far fetched idea..??? This plastic around the cube is probebly a reason my girl is growing soooo slowly. Im going to add nutes to the rez tonite.
I had some yellow tips appear on one of my Purple Wreck babies so I gave them all of the rockwool cube babys nutes.
Last night I ph'd to 5.8 or so and gave one or two drops of Super Thrive and 150 ppm of Flora Nova Bloom..
this morning they looked real good and the yellow tips i noticed looked to have dissappeard.

GreenGiant49 said:

View attachment 1890455My first roots are showing under the growing chamber!!! I have been patiently waiting for them to emerge. Now I know that they are growing and happy so far. She has been in the WF 14 days. Now to see what she does as the roots reach the nutes!

Amber, I thanks for the avatar change!

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Really nice gardening GG.. your a natural dude. 14 days.. wow.. thats impressive ..mine is at 10 days and doesnt even have her second set of true leaves yet...
take it easy

Oh, and I'll probably get blasted for saying this out loud, but I use 1/4 nutes on my plants from the starting gate. I start my seeds and clones with water that is pH 6.0 and 1/4 strength nutes. I soak my rw in that, I water my infants with it, and I have that churning in my Aerogarden for clones.

I have only a little bit of experience, but this seems to work well for me. I have successfully germinated 3 out of 3 seeds, and rooted 13 out of 14 clones so I'd say it's at least working for me. If your baby is too slow, maybe she needs a little "boost".

Amber, one thing that I am doing differently than you is the timing of the water ring. At first, for only 2 days I ran it 24/7. Then I did a bunch more reading and found that most (or alot) do not run it all the time. I first started only running it during the day and now I still have it off at night but only run it 1/2 hour on then one hour off during light. My plant seems to be liking this just fine.

GreenGiant49 said:

Amber, one thing that I am doing differently than you is the timing of the water ring. At first, for only 2 days I ran it 24/7. Then I did a bunch more reading and found that most (or alot) do not run it all the time. I first started only running it during the day and now I still have it off at night but only run it 1/2 hour on then one hour off during light. My plant seems to be liking this just fine.

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I came to about the same conclusion with my bubbleponics setup. That constant running water is just too much for a brand new baby. I ran the pump for maybe 10 minutes the first day, 1/2 and hour the second day and 2 hours the third day. Then I kept it at a couple of hours about mid-day until the plants had their first nodes. Then I turned them on full time (till I ran into trouble with the VK and ditched the whole system...another story).

Bluejeans said:

Oh, and I'll probably get blasted for saying this out loud, but I use 1/4 nutes on my plants from the starting gate. I start my seeds and clones with water that is pH 6.0 and 1/4 strength nutes. I soak my rw in that, I water my infants with it, and I have that churning in my Aerogarden for clones.
I have only a little bit of experience, but this seems to work well for me. I have successfully germinated 3 out of 3 seeds, and rooted 13 out of 14 clones so I'd say it's at least working for me. If your baby is too slow, maybe she needs a little "boost".

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haha, your so funny Bluejeans. I soaked my rw in superthrive and have been misting with a bottle of that.. so i have also been giving a little boost but i do think its time for more.

GreenGiant49 said:

Amber, one thing that I am doing differently than you is the timing of the water ring. At first, for only 2 days I ran it 24/7. Then I did a bunch more reading and found that most (or alot) do not run it all the time. I first started only running it during the day and now I still have it off at night but only run it 1/2 hour on then one hour off during light. My plant seems to be liking this just fine.

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yes, good idea, i need to remember this evening to get the res on a timer. My rockwool will not dry out! i squeezed it last night, didnt really like doing that though.. i lowered the light a bit . Does anyone have any suggestion as to when i should up my wattage from 360 to 400? i could def use more heat in the tent. Thanks

I've always been running mine @ 400w although I don't have a dimmer so I have no choice. I don't think 40w would be that big of a deal regardless of what you do. It's good to not have your rockwool cube soaked like that. I didn't run my drip ring for the first few days to keep that from happening. Instead I would just pour a cup of water over the cube every few hours.

Blue, yes same plant. Its easy for me to know this as I only have one! post 209 was a pic from 5 days ago. So , yes, she has really recovered well!

Hey Amber, looking good!

I will put my seedlings as close as 12" under the 400w MH, depending upon the ambient temps in my grow room (75 F) and the temp at the top of the plants (80F). I aim a box fan directly at the space below the light and the tops of the seedlings to keep the heat down, in addition to in-line cooling. After 3 weeks of this I lower the light to 8" above plant tops throughout veg. Happy growing!

Amber, if you need the heat, just go ahead and turn the lights up from 360 to 400. If you need to raise them you can, right? But I'm thinking after 10 days, she should be okay.

Amber what i LOVE about your grow journal is you have brought together so many people that grow with WaterFarms, its amazing. Hello Amber and the rest of you waterfarmers. Hows your plants doing? amber I am excited to see your seedling turn into a monster. Check out my Jack Herrer, 32 days from popping out of rockwool into waterfarm, just like yours. I am trying a different type of Scrog, so I would love to hear back from the waterfarm scroggers here. Its a Collessium style Scrog. It was topped at around day 16 (2 weeks ago). Each branch will be growing on one wall, and the side branching will continue to the sides. Its going into flowering in 2-3 weeks; havent decided yet.
The last three pictures are from two weeks ago. I will put up the screen once the plant grows a few inches. I already cut a small ledge in each pipe to hang the hemp string incredibly tight, and its as easy as tying a piece of string. I just took the screen out until it grows a bit. Thanks and I hope all remains well. Peace

reps to everyone.. your all very cool people and amazing gardeners , its a real pleasure having you all here in this journal.

Hey doc, my tent just showed up, I have a water farm. trying to get everything set up. tent size is 2x4x5 Going to use it as veg until my flower room is empty, Really like what you have done and going to try to follow what you did.. I do not know if you seen my line up for beens, and after seeing what happened to the one shipment that someone busted up all the beens I am scared to do another order so I need to get a few moms going and save the big yields for the carport for spring. Maybe after awhile i can get crafty and do some wild pictures lol, love what ya do ...as they say you go girl