Greetings, friends! This year I have successfully (up to this point) conducted my first indoor Hydroponics grow with California's lovely medicinal legality... the best thing since masturbation.
I went into this operation with little money for creating a growing chamber with highly skilled carpentry, however I made due with the budget I had. I invested in a 6-planter 6-gallon Bubbleponics system, picked out some primo genetics from my friends at Attitude seed bank, got a 600w MH/HPS Dual Lumatek Ballast, Purchased the Flora Nova Grow and Flowering nutes (both have Micro incorporated into them already), and even the amazingly expensive Bud Blood additive ($160+).
Needless to say, I decided that with such a small space, I would rather just have one plant in the six plant reservoir, giving it six gallons of nutrient and oxygen rich distilled water to perform its magic in. The net pots, of course, limit the width of the main roots going into the reservoir; however the turnout has been amazing.
Now, that today is the 30th day into flowering, my question is how much bigger should I expect these nugs to bulge? They look descent so far, but not as fat, hard, and dense as I expected from such a high-lumen, perfect PPM/PH system. I am assuming that this is simply because it is just a little early into the flowering stage.
My nutes went from the Bubbleponics veg nutes of Grow and Micro for a few applications, and then I upgraded to the Flora Nova Grow solution. I kept the PPM around 400-800 during veg. Once I rolled over into flowering, I used the Bubbleponics Bloom and Micro powdered nutes for one or two applications before investing in the Flora Nova Blooming nutrients. With this, I brought the PPM up, at highest, to the 1500 range. During this stage, I have applied the Bud Blood additive for three applications from the beginning of flowering, and now I have sort of tapered off of using it.
My current PPM is at 900 now, with the Flora Nova Bloom nutrients turned down a little bit. I was planning on keeping it at around this level of PPM, with the pH at 5.8-6.8 throughout the whole process. I did add a tsp of Hydrogen Peroxide early on to try and eliminate any bacteria and keep the roots nice and white, however I have quit that as well.
From these pictures, will these plants fill out much more? It confuses me because the tips of the branches have quite a bit of orange/red hairs, however when you study the branch going down, more and more white hairs are apparent and there are some buds at the bottom that are almost completely white hairs due to the inadequate light penetration underneath all of the branches. I have pruned back some vital coverage leaves that were obstruction the lighting of some of the branches in hopes to fill out more.
How much longer until this strain looks like it should take before it is done? Can I expect to see massive bud growth in these last 15-20 days of flowering? Also, what is the best PPM level and when should I flush with nothing but water? I heard adding sugar to the flush helps, any input would be greatly appreciated. I really wanted to land upwards to a pound off of this beast if at all possible!!!
Keep up the good grows, and let me know how to keep the hydro flow!
I went into this operation with little money for creating a growing chamber with highly skilled carpentry, however I made due with the budget I had. I invested in a 6-planter 6-gallon Bubbleponics system, picked out some primo genetics from my friends at Attitude seed bank, got a 600w MH/HPS Dual Lumatek Ballast, Purchased the Flora Nova Grow and Flowering nutes (both have Micro incorporated into them already), and even the amazingly expensive Bud Blood additive ($160+).
Needless to say, I decided that with such a small space, I would rather just have one plant in the six plant reservoir, giving it six gallons of nutrient and oxygen rich distilled water to perform its magic in. The net pots, of course, limit the width of the main roots going into the reservoir; however the turnout has been amazing.
Now, that today is the 30th day into flowering, my question is how much bigger should I expect these nugs to bulge? They look descent so far, but not as fat, hard, and dense as I expected from such a high-lumen, perfect PPM/PH system. I am assuming that this is simply because it is just a little early into the flowering stage.
My nutes went from the Bubbleponics veg nutes of Grow and Micro for a few applications, and then I upgraded to the Flora Nova Grow solution. I kept the PPM around 400-800 during veg. Once I rolled over into flowering, I used the Bubbleponics Bloom and Micro powdered nutes for one or two applications before investing in the Flora Nova Blooming nutrients. With this, I brought the PPM up, at highest, to the 1500 range. During this stage, I have applied the Bud Blood additive for three applications from the beginning of flowering, and now I have sort of tapered off of using it.
My current PPM is at 900 now, with the Flora Nova Bloom nutrients turned down a little bit. I was planning on keeping it at around this level of PPM, with the pH at 5.8-6.8 throughout the whole process. I did add a tsp of Hydrogen Peroxide early on to try and eliminate any bacteria and keep the roots nice and white, however I have quit that as well.
From these pictures, will these plants fill out much more? It confuses me because the tips of the branches have quite a bit of orange/red hairs, however when you study the branch going down, more and more white hairs are apparent and there are some buds at the bottom that are almost completely white hairs due to the inadequate light penetration underneath all of the branches. I have pruned back some vital coverage leaves that were obstruction the lighting of some of the branches in hopes to fill out more.
How much longer until this strain looks like it should take before it is done? Can I expect to see massive bud growth in these last 15-20 days of flowering? Also, what is the best PPM level and when should I flush with nothing but water? I heard adding sugar to the flush helps, any input would be greatly appreciated. I really wanted to land upwards to a pound off of this beast if at all possible!!!
Keep up the good grows, and let me know how to keep the hydro flow!
