Rookie Grow #4: Northern Lights LED DWC

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Hi Everybody,



Strain: 00 Seeds Northern Lights feminized

Method: DWC (top drip fed until roots are in water), tetra 100 air pump, 2 round 4" air stones

Nutes/Supplements: Lucas formula - Maxibloom, Liquid Koolbloom, Dry Koolbloom, Silica Blast, Hydroguard

Light: 132w Mars 300 for veg, TimberGrowLights 400w Vero 29 framework

Environment: Hot (75f-88f) and Humid (50-80%) from seed to harvest. It's just the way it is.

Planted her in a rapid rooter in 6" netpot lid full of hydroton on 12/3 feeding plain tap water pHed to 6.

She got off to a pretty terrible start, my fault due to neglect. Ignored her res for a week and next thing you know the pH is off the charts at 7.7. She was tall, skinny and weak looking with deformed leaves. I did some adjustment by removing the rapid rooter (had nice roots from all directions), then i took another rapid rooter and cut it in half to make a collar for her tall skinny trunk. Then I wrapped the collar around her, dug out a bunch of pebbles, gently placed her back in there and back filled with pebbles.

Here she is 10 days from seed, post op:
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4 days later, she recovering, I have her on 1/2 strength nutes.

Day 14V

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Here she is today, her roots are in the water, so I removed the water pump and drip feeder. Full strength nutes tomorrow

Day 19V

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I am going to mainline this plant to 8 colas, she is getting close to ready for 1st topping.

Well that's it for now, I'll update every few days to a week. Comments welcome.

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Day 25V

My first 3 girls were mainlined using nebula's method, this time i want to follow nugbucket original method

nebula calls for 2nd topping to 3rd after 4th node on each side.

Nugbuckets calls for 2nd topping to the 1st node after the 2nd, I think? Top at the red X?

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