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

looks good i like the stickers

Her cotyledon appeared yesterday.
Her first true leaves appeared today.
i can tell by looking at her she is definetly a girl, i guess its womens instinct.lol
I have named herl

Amber, perhaps when the plant has internodal spacing and is at sexual maturity, and you deicde to top it or whatever you plan on starting to do to it. You can take a snip and get that into 12/12, it wouldn't take too long to root, and after a few days pistils will start showing if it's a girl. I hope your intuition is is on the mark! Peace, D

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Her cotyledon appeared yesterday.
Her first true leaves appeared today.
i can tell by looking at her she is definetly a girl, i guess its womens instinct.lol
I have named herl

"The Bride of Frankenstien"​

I took of the dome in fear of damping the bride. Shes loving the MH 360 watts at about 18 inches... the super thrive really worked wonders to save her life. Im misting her with that right now but i will add some nutes to the rez tonite...
have a kick ass day
ive made mine a lemony one already.​

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Nice, I'll catch up later.

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Her cotyledon appeared yesterday.
Her first true leaves appeared today.
i can tell by looking at her she is definetly a girl, i guess its womens instinct.lol
I have named herl

"The Bride of Frankenstien"​

I took of the dome in fear of damping the bride. Shes loving the MH 360 watts at about 18 inches... the super thrive really worked wonders to save her life. Im misting her with that right now but i will add some nutes to the rez tonite...
have a kick ass day
ive made mine a lemony one already.​

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Careful there Dr.A - you probably want to give her a few weeks before starting any nutes... give her a chance to settle in a bit more first.

Dayzt said:

Careful there Dr.A - you probably want to give her a few weeks before starting any nutes... give her a chance to settle in a bit more first.

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I agree with Day. Give her a couple weeks to adjust to her new home Amb. The cotyledons will provide her all she needs until then. Congrats on nursing her through.

Keep On Rocking Dr.A I'm About A Week Behind You.So I Will Be Learning As You Go.Peace Out Have A Beauitful Day

Hey amber, just wanted to show you what i did with my waterfarm. femd jack herrer, Toped her at the 5th set of leaves, 4th set of true leaves, and she creates four heads. She is only day 16 or 18 or so from seed, so Im right there next to you the whole ride to compare! I built a built-in scrog for the waterfarm, its a colessium setup.

The last 3 pictures are four-five days ago, I removed the scrog to get it more light for another week or so, then putting the screen back in. Sadly, I had a tiny bit of nute burn, but recovered very quickly since then.

one of my links will take u to the grow hun new update justbeen put on..

you guys are so amazing. thanks for all the great advice and input .
.Hi fishy..so very nice to have you here with us...
best of luck Dawgy.im really stoked you are right behind me with your waterfarm. It will be fun doing this together.
Kevin i hope your daughter is better and your new set up is working out nicely.
Awesome job on the waterfarm BrokenTurtle..thanks for sharing.
DST, that sounds like a terrific idea. It will also give me a push to do my first cloning.. Thanks for the visionary perspective you have to share.
Dayzt and Fuzznuts..whaat would i do without you 2. I fucked up and added nutes but checked my journal with your advice and emptied the res of the 50 ppm FNB nutes that i had just fed.(the nutes were only in for an hour before i removed them)

I have some pictures to post of the baby bride up next. have a really nice day!
I had NO idea i was to wait WEEKS for the first feed. Scottyballs manual says day 7 he was at 35 ppms???

she doin better hun thanks for askin....

ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Huston we have lift off. Get ready it's going to grow super quick.

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Heya Amber - no worries with the nutes at THAT low a level (> 50 ppms) - your roots are still not developed enough to be effected by that amount, so no need to worry! =) The pics look great - she's obviously getting LOTS of love! Once you start hitting 100 ppms and above, you want to make sure that tender seedling is ready to eat! I think Scotty had a more developed seedling at 7 days (his PE had an early growth spurt), which was why he started in on the nutes there. It takes practice, but you'll get to know when to start heavier nutes just by how big it's become and/or how fast it's grown in a 3-4 day span. Watch for toasty leaf tips - that can be an over-nute issue, or even a hydroton issue (i know you rinsed it VERY thoroughly, but I've still seen a few people have issues in the first few weeks with a new waterfarm and new hydroton...including my AoS). Remember how I was close to abandoning my AoS plant for this very reason..lol..boy am I glad I didn't!

More important for your baby at this point, is keeping the 'root-zone' moist. Depending on your temps, the hydroton will tend to dry up fairly quickly at the top, around the developing stem and tap root - you'll want to be pouring water through the top there, right at the base of the stem - as often as you can this early on.

Let the there be LIFE!!!! It's ALIVE I tell you... ALIVE!!!! Muaaaahhhaahha....lol.

Thanks DayzT!
all of the information you just gave me was awesome. I understand how to keep her ALIVE!!!! lol
I have another question for you.
I checked the ppm of my water prior to adding to my rez.. it came in at zero ppms
I checked the ppm of my water after it went throught the hydroton for a couple days and the ppms were 150 with NO nutes added.
Is it because the hydroton pebbles boost your ppm. This raises a question when it comes to keeping track of my ppms..
how do i really know what they are if the ppm of the hydroton pebbles is changing the water once it goes into the res...
Should i assume i need to subtract out 150 ppms each time ?
EDIT EDIT!!!!!!!!!
i think i found the answer here DayZt... should a checked your journal ... thanks
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/464169-barneys-f-vanilla-kush-tga-6.html#post6598085

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Thanks DayzT!
all of the information you just gave me was awesome. I understand how to keep her ALIVE!!!! lol
I have another question for you.
I checked the ppm of my water prior to adding to my rez.. it came in at zero ppms
I checked the ppm of my water after it went throught the hydroton for a couple days and the ppms were 150 with NO nutes added.
Is it because the hydroton pebbles boost your ppm. This raises a question when it comes to keeping track of my ppms..
how do i really know what they are if the ppm of the hydroton pebbles is changing the water once it goes into the res...
Should i assume i need to subtract out 150 ppms each time ?
EDIT EDIT!!!!!!!!!
i think i found the answer here DayZt... should a checked your journal ... thanks
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/464169-barneys-f-vanilla-kush-tga-6.html#post6598085

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I don't understand this part aswell.
I'm just about to start/germ my seeds and i've had the waterfarm running, rinsing the hydroton.

Done a check on it and i'm getting:
PPM: 575
PH: 5.1
Water temp: 13.5c

nattybongo said:

I don't understand this part aswell.
I'm just about to start/germ my seeds and i've had the waterfarm running, rinsing the hydroton.

Done a check on it and i'm getting:
PPM: 575
PH: 5.1
Water temp: 13.5c

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Hi Natty, I think you should prob keep rinsing the pebbels as much as you can. I rinsed my pebbles out everyother day for 2 bloody weeks !!! i would hose them down really well over and over....
i wish i took a ppm of the first water in the res to see how high it was at that inital point. My suggestion to you would be to spray them down and let them soak for a few hours and then fill your rez , and check your ppm again.. 575 is mighty high! your not running nutes throught it yet are you ? another thought. your water is prob really hard and you should think about getting an RO water filtration system. My water comes in fro the tap a zero.. what does yours come in at? Scottyballs suggests anything over 150 and you should use RO water.hope that helps good luck

Dr.Amber Trichome said:

Hi Natty, I think you should prob keep rinsing the pebbels as much as you can. I rinsed my pebbles out everyother day for 2 bloody weeks !!! i would hose them down really well over and over....
i wish i took a ppm of the first water in the res to see how high it was at that inital point. My suggestion to you would be to spray them down and let them soak for a few hours and then fill your rez , and check your ppm again.. 575 is mighty high! your not running nutes throught it yet are you ? another thought. your water is prob really hard and you should think about getting an RO water filtration system. My water comes in fro the tap a zero.. what does yours come in at? Scottyballs suggests anything over 150 and you should use RO water.hope that helps good luck

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Hey, thanks for the reply.
Water from the tap comes to a PPM of 200. RO water would be great but i'm just going to have to make do with 200 PPM.

I'm still getting alot of crap from my hydroton but so 575 - 200 = 375 PPM crap from the hydroton. And no I havn't put any neuts in yet. Won't be touching them untill the plant is 2weeks old.

Just started to germ my seeds so keep an eye out for my journal. Will be starting that very soon.

Peace!