First DWC go, HELP!

TXskunkKush

TXskunkKush

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OldMedUser said:
If you are using the 2-part Sensi or Connie nutes then you do need to use both parts to get everything your plants need to thrive. I used the Connie years ago but went back to the 3-part AN nutes as I like to experiment with different mixing ratios for the various stages of growth and the 2-part is not very flexible.

Your ppm seems really low. Aim for 350 of actual nute ppm. Subtract whatever your water ppm is from the total so if your water is 100ppm then your total after adding nutes should be 450 or so. Those should be pH Perfect nutes so DO NOT try adjusting the pH or you'll screw up the technology. I gradually started doing DWC from clone to crop without ever changing nutes in tubs and that worked fine but that was after many grows and hundreds of plants. You do not have to change nutes in veg and doing weekly changes is a waste of good nutes. Just up the ppm as the plants get bigger and demand more. If using hard tap water then change nutes after adding back as much water as your tank holds to prevent minerals building up and throwing everything off. With RO or distilled water then don't worry about extra minerals.

I just root my clones or start seeds in screened ProMix HP. Soilless mix only as soil bacteria leads to root rot in DWC.

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Then end up with something like this.

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When first starting I would suck up some nutes with a syringe or turkey baster and soak down the net pots until roots emerge from the pots. Water level 1" from the bottom of the net pots.

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Yup literally emptied the buckets, sterilized them and re-mixed the solution, started blowing one of my ac infinity fans across my pump to keep it cool, lowered res temps significantly.
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Lenin1917 said:
I only did 4 before saying fuck it and switched to soil, I used bleach for sterile at .25ml/gal they grew good weed sure but it’s a headache man and that small with only a couple days invested better off repurposing those buckets into sips/hempys op will have a much easier time of thing’s especially trying to manage temps in Texas in the summer with hid lighting. My guess is op is on a tight budget(not making fun I was and kinda still am) otherwise they’d be using led and running a recirculating system. Between running the ac at cooler than optimal tents to make up for the radiant heat from the hid lights gonna hit their electric bill hard.
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Heat is a problem for most growers and even LED lights aren't a lot of help when temps in the house are too high to count on just an exhaust fan to move air thru the tent or grow room. Running A/C is expensive even to just cool a room for the plants much less a whole house so we suffer thru the occasional heat wave tho the wife got a window A/C unit from a friend that she wants to try in the living room. I don't know how people live down south with the heat and tho I'm tired of living way up in northern Alberta we rarely have much heat to deal with tho those heat domes last year at this time were a bitch and the worst we've ever had. From -38C to +45 is quite a range. No floods, wildfires, tornados, door-to-door salespeople or JWs is a bonus as well. :)

A lot of my first DWC grows were in a garage when we lived in town and it got pretty warm in there. My basement here stays cool all year round so my main grow room is down there and have never needed A/C even with 1200W of HID going at once. Still only 61F down there and with just 600W going it barely gets warm enough to turn on my exhaust fan more than once or twice an hour. My little 2x4x5'h tent in the spare bedroom in the house is already hitting 90F with just a 200W COB light and another 99W of DIY LED. I do have another window A/C unit but our damn windows swing out sideways so can't really use it in there.

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Power here has gone up over 30¢/kwh so I'm trying to cut down on indoor grows and doing autos outside to stock up then I can just do breeding and making fem seeds during the winter.

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TXskunkKush

TXskunkKush

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Bucsfan80 said:
It is but you got it up from the original temp. I didn't want you to think I was shitting on your progress
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Ahhh nah I respect and appreciate all advice, I got the temps running 77° Lights on, I’ll slowly warm the room if I can keep my res temp below 75°
 
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GreezzyGuy

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to me its to early to tell.
But the second set of new leaves are not fully developed .and the older leaves tips are yellow and puckered. more then likely the medium under you grow rocks is to wet. not allowing calcium to move to the terminal ends
adjust the water level like suggested .once corrected should grow out of it.
 
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