Lighting SG growing A BIG-ASS rdwc plan under GN leds !!

[Soylent Green]

It been a while since I made a serious post, today I decided to do so and tell you boys and girls something, about whats going on in my magical kingdom aka growtent!

I found out that growing in hydro is more my cup of tea, I,m not fond of mud and dirty run-off water.

The reason why I like hydro and especially rdwc its easy to grow a big-ass plant white-out to much trouble.

Keeping the variables right in liquid is much easier than doing in a solid medium.
And in the end its all about numbers,right amount of light, temperature, hymidity, ph and ec.

Almost 70 days ago I planted a little princes in my rdwc container@that time I wasn't giving my little girls the quality time they deserved. So I don't have the numbers and pictures to show you.
But she was standing on the side and didn't get to much light, just had one ms 006 hanging in the middle.

But the time went by en the AK passion from zambeza turned into something special. She showed a strange growth, it was almost like she got topped or scrogged but I didn't do nothing tho here so I found It strange that she grew in such a strange way.
But she got my interest.

So I decided to get myself a second msoo6 because things got bushy in my tent and @ that time I was growing also some plants in soil! So I wanted to give all the plants enough light!
After that I cutted down my TD from DP I placed miss ak-passion in the middle and Northern force to the right and Auto-hobbit to the right!

Today I cutted down both the NF and AH to give the Queen all the space and light she needs!

First I thought the AK-Passion was a AK47 X ruderalis hybrid but some weeks ago I found out Its actually a AK47X amnesia haze X ruderalis hybrid. That exited me because I like them both alot, and it made me curious how it would turnout flavor wise.

So from now on I will update how she is doing!

Feel free to ask away!

SG

 

[Pal23]

Looking good SG, she's a beast for sure! The only thing I can recommend at this stage is to move your GN's away from each other slightly, they can get rather warm if left touching like that for a while, give them some space to breathe. Also I reckon you could get better light coverage if you angled them both inwards but that's just a flying thought.

 

[TaNg]

Great looking plant SG,it looks like a mini oak tree.

 

[Soylent Green]

Thanks for the kind words!@ Tang and Pal.
Just went to see how she is doing.

She drinks about 4 liters a day 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening, I keep the PH @ 5.8.
The humidity I try to keep between 35-55 % the temperature 21-26�C @daytime and nighttime 17-19�C.

I placed 3 air-curtains from 120CM in the bottom of the container and pump 17-18 L/min air inside!
I love the curtains because you can spread them like you want and the sound is very low.
The pump MKC-510V Secoh Pump ,Open Flow - 20 l/min, Sound Level - 30 db(A), Max Power - 9w @ 100mbar.

Just use plain water from the tap, EC 0.8 now she getting EC 2.8-3.0.
She gets canna enzymes once a week, canna bloom hydro a+b,canna pk 13_14, aqualogic booster and rootstimulator and also Once a week foliage feeding from aqualogic (but going to stop this one).
Gave her last week a bit of black-strap molasses and use phosporic acid to lower the ph, once a week I use citric acid.
Once every 3 weeks I give here a bit of silica, from Potsil.(maybe I should do this more often)

I,m curious About the weight from the yield, but Im sure this is going to be my winner.

I forgot to mention that I yesterday used some elastic rope and hooks to open the plant a bit up because she was really one tight bush( to give the light some deeper penetration and for moving more air between the buds against mold)

 

[UpInSmoke]

That's a beast of a plant i'm not surprised it drinks 4 litres a day looks like, that is going to be some killer smoke props to you man :thumbs:

 

[Pal23]

Nice adjustments :thumbs: They do love to drink a LOT in DWC

 

[Soylent Green]

That's a beast of a plant i'm not surprised it drinks 4 litres a day looks like, that is going to be some killer smoke props to you man :thumbs:

Yes hope its going to be a killer smoke, but most important a nice tasting some skunk-haze mix yummie!

Happy I got my bluelab ph meter back because had one that wouldn't calibrate no more!
Got a new one from blue-lab!

Now I just got to wait

 

[UpInSmoke]

Looking good can't wait to see more from you, everything I'm seeing here is connoisseur quality man

 

[Soylent Green]

Hi brothers and sisters !:Ohmmm.......:

I have a JBL waterpump 500l/h in the container I also use this pump to get water out of the container!
I never completely empty the reservoir but do partial water exchanges to keep the bacterial life alright!
You should never just add water to your system over and over again because you will get salt build-up!
Uped the ec with 0.2 today, background 0.8-0.9 to 3.2 so ec 2.3!
This time I didnt use RO water, for the flush I will do this!
What is the experience with stuff like final fase etc?

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[pop22]

How are you doing your RDWC? Single res reciculated or dual res? I'm planning to convert my 2 DWC res into RDWC, by adding a third res and tying all three together. Its really fairly simple to do. I agree with your assessment of DWC. The more I read the journals detailing the woes of dirt, the happier I am with my DWC lol. Yes, it can have its problems too, but fewer really and generally easier to fix. Start up costs are higher but your payed back in results! I haven't changed my res in 10 days, because I broke a stem and don't want to disturb her until healed. Checked my ppms and ph today, and both are still good. Can't do that with soil.

And man, what a beast that plant is!

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