This is my first hydro grow and first time with clones. I have a few semi successful outdoor grows under my belt but the weather (hot AF) and caterpillar apocalypse (lost a beast of a plant and the tops of most others) last year are forcing me inside. Reservoir is an hdx 27 gallon tote with 15 gallons of actual water capacity about 1/4” under net pots. Attached to 1/4 hp active aqua chiller (overkill but got a deal and am in so cal; last years consistent 100+ temps ravaged my outdoor grow and can even make indoor temp regulation difficult) with two 5” and one 4” air stones in main res and one 4” in a 5 gallon top off res (not part of the system until/if I need it) attached to two 15L/minute active aqua air pumps. I wanted to have a bit of a barrier between the ambient temps inside the tent (rest of the room is a/c controlled) and the actual reservoir so I built a base to set the tent sans bottom putting the top of the res at the floor of the tent. This also raises the reservoir off the ground and hoping it will save some back aches once scrog comes into play. This also frees up 16” of vertical space inside tent and although I intend to scrog it should help as a buffer with temps and I won’t have to worry about light distance since plants are at floor level. To keep as much unnecessary heat out of the 4x2 tent the spider farmer light ballast was removed and relocated to outside the tent which I’m glad because during testing the ballast and light are each producing 120 degrees. Half of that is outside the tent allowing the temps inside the tent to stay about around when room temp is about 78 (a/c off but weather is fluctuating) with a small fan at base level and a 6” clip on fan for higher up. Reservoir will be 66-68 at all times thanks to the chiller. For ph management I am going to be using a torus hydro perfect ph (35 gallon). I’m hoping their claims aren’t just hype because they say it removes H+ and OH- ions to allow the ph to maintain 5.8 - 6.2 ph (without any additional buffers). This small fluctuation allows all nutrients to be taken in while a stagnant ph will prevent certain nutrient uptake hence a more complete usage. These are claims among others they made, let’s see if the science is legit. Unfortunately this being my first hydro grow I have no standard to base this off, but if I don’t have to worry about my ph that’s one less worry. Nutrients will be GH flora trio and cal-mag plus hydroguard. Not sure about additional additives, want to keep it pretty basic but suggestions for this nute/strain combo would be appreciated. I was intending on growing wedding cake or venom og but cake was sold out and venom didn’t look great so I ended up coming home with two gelato clones from universal nurseries. I’ve always liked this strain but wanted the cake because I’ve read it’s highly resilient. What I was not expecting was that these would be rooted in neoprene. I’m new to hydro and aside from the research and reading throughout my grows I usually overlooked neoprene. I guess it could be better than the rock wool as it shouldn’t leach and mess with ph? They are surrounded by hydroton and will be hand watered until roots make it to water. Update day 6: I went against my better judgment and initially painted my lid for light leakage. Ended up dumping my entire reservoir two days in because it was full of paint chips (even though it was formulated for plastic it still chipped off in high volume). Used a drill pump from HD, worked well as the intake is a 1/4” pvc tube I could suck up the paint chips and the water, but DO NOT USE to transfer anything but waste water as the output contained grease from the pump! Got a new lid and will just be using panda film for light blockage. Added a small humidifier because rh was in the 30-40 range, now temps and rh are consistently 70 degrees and about 65%. Nutes are 1/4 strength except calimag due likely to stoned math... Plants don’t seem to be minding so I’m not trying to sweat it much. Slight upward drift in ppm and ec as water is taken in or evaporates and ph is slowly swinging in the range torus hydro said it would so that is a success as I have not used any buffers. They claim it is more effective when it can directly interact with a root mass so it seems promising. New growth sprouting all over but no roots have made it out of the net pots. I went with 6” hoping roots will branch laterally exposing move root mass to the air gap once developed. Started noticing slight yellowing of leaves day 4 and some drooping (due to low rh as they perked up after adding humidifier) so I went from 50ml top feed daily to 100ml, also turned light down to 15% and everyone is happy.

Woche 5 In dieser Woche wurden die Ladys ein bisschen gelollipopt und entlaubt, mehr dazu in dem Foto Update am Mittwoch.

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04/11/2021 Got outside to soak up some natural sunshine, morning sun light afternoon shad until she is accustomed to outdoor life. She should finish nicely in spring-summer sunlight.

🔘Week 4 Over for Lady North 🔘 Her growth was steady and constant so I went in for a full defoliation LST 🔘The goal is to level up the canopy to the same level so the tops all get the same light priority 🔘 I introduced nutes to the feed schedule around week 3’s end going into week 4 🔘Let’s see how she handle this

Empezamos las dos semanas de preflora. 12/12 de foco.

8. Woche So langsam wird es was mit Titan F1 von RQS. Denke 2-3 Wochen noch, dann sind sie rdy to Harvest 😍

Week 1 has started off well. The seedlings got planted with only one having a long tap. The all day 1 cloudy, drizzly, wet weather allowed for the taps to run without the top of the soil drying out. The outdoors game is real. Grasshoppers are already trying to take these out. Several were killed hanging on the outside of the pot this morning(day 3). I suspected the grasshoppers were nibbling on these but it turned out to be pharaoh ants. I found some slowly dying beside the plants. The Dr. Earth Bug Stop worked. They got sprayed at sundown and apparently the ants attack at night or early morning. They were barely moving and dying at 7.45 am. Pharoah ants are plant terrorists. They can nest up to 100ft away from where they feed and once they find a food source they are determined to eat it. I'm staying organic and trying to stop these guys but here on day 5 they've eaten some more including the seed leaves off of some Peach Crescendo seedlings. It's day 6 and I think I've beat the pharaoh ants. I had to spray liquid seven on the ground in a circle around the plants. Day 6 and no more of the plants were eaten. Overall it was a good week. Everyone survived the rigors of the great outdoors and are digging deep for next week.

5/12/2024 these plants just keep on getting fluffier and fluffier. Did a slight defoliation. The plant I did training on, seems to have better stackage than her sister. If lst doesn’t increase yield, then it at the very least will increase bud size/stacking. 5/19 end of the week, they're starting to pack on weight now. Pistils are turning a super bright orange color that has a pink tint to it that is super beautiful. The camera does not do it justice at all. I would definitely recommend this strain to anyone. It's stupid easy to grow and the buds are just getting ridiculous. You could probably drop like 9 of these in 3 gal pots in 3x3 tent and just water and basic notes and do a sea of green style. Watch the humidity though.

👉Day49- fixed some LST so plants had the max light possible and did defoliation,i noticated 2/5plants have toooons of tricones but rest 3 olmost nothing 😣....some new yelow leafs start to show on 1plant. Wil make video later today. 👉Day51 Got seeds today from 42fastbuds skittlers and blackbarry for next grow :D and got 4x gratis lemon skunk seedss(some new local breeder)😘😘💚❤️I think i will grow them same as this time same pots with 3xblackberry and 1xskittler 1xlemon skunk 🤝 👉Day53 plants looks good... on some still little calsium deficiency on 2 plants mostly,they are now cca.70cm main one 85cm. +Did the last defoliation and reorganizate them,noticated alot stigmas on buds turning orangeish..🧡 Changed the light from 21h>20h ligh ,owerall flowers flowring rly good all flowers got alot of tricones now,👍cant wait till harvest!!💚✂️💚🔬🧡🛏️🧡😂 👉👉Til next weeek mates!!!stay safe and have fun last days of booring 2020 :D

The ph in the soil is very low, causing the plant not to grow at all, very sad.<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">😅</font></font>

Overall pretty happy with the grow, had a little mold issues but humidity was way to high for a while.

Due to last week BCN leaf change to lighter color, brown and some leaf tip got the burn. So i decision to feed organic Bat guano juice instead of Flower Fuel and Myco+ For Pineapple still small and slow growing rate, And look like just only Bud is growing only. This plant i change to feed Bat guano only same as BCN also. Due to yellow leaf issue, I check soil PH by cheap soil PH meter and found soil PH around 5.5 Looking seem to be problem of ph locked. Before end of this week i decision to fill dolomite around 3 tbs per pot. Hope it will help my plant from nutrient lock and help my plant better on the late of flowering stage. Need see result in near future.

Trouble with the temperature. Softbox at full power

Mar 31st Week 16 Mar 30th changed nutrients First 2 days will be straight Dense Bud Compactor @ 900-1000 ppm I use 1 gram / litre On April 1st I will add all other nutrients to the existing solution and check ppm level is not to strong April 1st Changed nutrients from straight Dense Bud Compactor to a full nutrient mix I used 8 litres of fresh water + 6 litres of the Dense Bud solution to make a mixer that is @ 1100 ppm

Let’s go Day 85 from seed !! This has been another great week ,ladies are coming close to the finish line an looking so beautiful!! This week we will continue flushing on these 3 ladies an jump em into there 48 hrs of darkness on Friday or Saturday will see ! Let’s have another great week ,, peace love an positive vibes to all y’all Keep them eyes peeled for next weeks update !! Cheers 😶‍🌫️💨💨💨💨💨🤙🏻

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Buds are starting to fatten up! Can’t wait for the outcome, the smell is so strong and fruity! I love it, i think i will be using these nutrients more in the future!

Added light starting grow well now