Happy Hazing Of Atomic Variety With Bubbles *Now in COCO*

[HappyHemper]

We got roots!
5 days from cubes with tiny roots placed in 6" pots. Feeling more and more optimistic about my DWC venture

EDIT: Also, the magnesium deficiency that the mom had is now fixed. No more purple stems and the leaves are nice and green and flat.

Maybe the longer rooting time was partially due to this deficiency. Although science says it shouldn’t matter, the first clones took 13 days to show roots, and some are still not showing. Normally I would see some in around 10, sometimes even 7.

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Roots growing quick on this one. Others are a little behind, but not by much. This is one day from previous pic. Me likey.

Topped them today too. Getting on beating the haze genetics into submission early…

pH still 5.8. PPMs around 460, probably due to evaporation, added a couple litres of water.
Temps at 68.

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Wow, do they ever grow up quick in DWC… 21 days (3 weeks) from cut.

The two clones pictured rooted at the same time. One transplanted to bucket, the other one into a solo cup with coco.

And the roots are getting pretty awesome

This is 8 days from transplant into hydroton with no top watering after the first day

Adjusted pH yesterday back down to 5.8 (got as high as 6.3, forgot to check for a day, but the plants didn’t seem to mind), rez temps steady at 68. EC at 0.9 (450ppm), and air temps at 23-24C. Dumped a bit of h2o2 in there too – I think i’ll run the same nutes for a while longer. Plants are too small to make a dent in EC, and it is cold enough and clean enough. I see no sediment either.

pH probe now lives in the rez permanently.

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These are gonna be some stretchy bitches. Topped, under solid 600W MH, temps in check, and reaching up and up and up. I swear this one stretched 3/4 of an inch overnight…

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Res change + Megacrop time
13 days is about enough; i have noticed pH drifting faster and faster, so probably time to refresh.Let her go to 6.2 for a day just in case some micros are better absorbed in that range.

Drained, did not flush, added the standard 60L water straight from the tap (6.8, 20ppm)
Switching to megacrop. Did 1g/L or about 4g/gal. 60g in my case. Smells lovely – like taking a walk on a beach at low tide in the sun. I don’t know why people complain

Interesting thing was, it mixed to pH 6.3, which would take me about 1mL of pH down to compensate. I thought i’d start with 0.5 ml and totally overshot to 5.4. Brought her into spec @5.8 with KOH. took a while. Next time, lighter on phosphoric.

I could not stay away from 1/2 dose of calmag. Megacrop is supposed to have plenty, but i’m so allergic to magnesium deficiencies that, considering my water is barely registering, could not help myself.

So the total is 670ppm (EC 1.34), 150 or so of which is calmag. 520 of MC.

They are definitely growing fast. Here’s a comparison shot - same size clones. One in coco, well cared of, the other in DWC. Both topped and trimmed.

Here’s the gang:

Here are the roots:

And these orphans need a home… I already killed a half-dozen clones, and when the Northern Lights pop, these are gonna have to go too…

So if you are in the 'hood, pick up some beautiful Atomic Haze plants in coco for your garden, and keep me legal

[HappyHemper]

Lots happened in this grow the last few days…

Dealt with some issues, solved – algae. Now running 3.7-ish ppm of calcium hypochlorite pool shock. Thanks @anon32470837 for calculating that for me

I have also light-proofed the white PVC bulkhead fittings that were, seemingly, the epicentre of algae growth.

Need some advice - DWC root issues?

Hello folks, In my first attempt at DWC I have discovered what looks like root slime last night. I need some help to identify the potential cause and treatment plan. Pictures below. Conditions before slime: pH 5.8 Green Planet nutrients 68-70F temperature EC around 0.9 Conditions when noticed slime: pH 6.2 (drifted UP, not down as indicative of bacterial growth) Megacrop 68-70F temp EC around 1.3-1.4 Roots are brown-ish but I read that MC will do that. Last night i got home late from a b…

Reached in with my hand to feel for slime on all the usual spots – nothing, so that makes me pretty happy.
However, root development has slowed a bit. And they are still brown and limpy-looking. Plants above ground seem to be doing OK, growing, branching, etc.

Roots:

Plant:

When i did refill, I did not go with megacrop, but instead used my regular Green Planet mix, as per before, but with about 1.6EC including calmag. Next time i’m gonna mix a little lower. Back to square one, I hope. Will see how this goes, maybe next time try beneficials…

[Esrgood4u]

They are looking a lot better. Something as simple as a opaque fitting can cause such a headache for us. If I buy anything for my hydro now I always buy black. 1st ever run in my buckets I used clear airline. It didn’t effect the plants or solution but the tubing ended up a shitty brown colour.

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Quick update - another rez change today due to a discovery of more root slime, and a slight pH creep.

This time, I only put in EC1.0 of nutrients, half of which was calmag

Dosed the water with 3ppm (available) pool shock

Cleaned the roots of all the slimy and decomposing little hairs and such, with a paper towel. Cut off the knots of roots that had all sorts of unpleasant things inside them. Slime prevented the oxygen from getting in, and the root tips started to decompose. No fun.

But, even with trimmed roots, the plants seem OK

Water - 68F

Pics below, will see how she goes. I started fattening up their sisters too, and got some fabric 2gal pots. If this gives me any more trouble, all 9 are going in coco on a flood table and getting flipped as soon as acclimatized. I’ll show’em who’s boss…

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Reporting on the progress/recovery. About a week since last update, 6 weeks from cut.
Rez same as a week ago, will change tomorrow
EC: 1.1
Temp: 68-70
pH:5.8-5.9

These are going pretty slowly. I don’t know if it’s the strain, or my lack of DWC kung-fu, but damn these things look like molasses compared to the autos. The autos are freaking huge and started flowering already. At this rate i’ll need 6 more weeks just to fill the tent enough to scrog & flip. But i’m doing it, as long as they are alive dammit.

Tent with the four plants, and their siblings that were cut into coco in solo cups

Roots are growing, but somehow only laterally. I see very little roots actually digging down - any idea why?

This is the weakest of the 4. Lots of roots inside hydroton, but none making it out.

Still have 5x of these in coco solo cups. I wish someone would take them off my hands… I really only keep them because i’m a sucker. They get fed from the DWC rez, and are looking better than the ones in the actual DWC… LOL what gives?

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Ok, so the bubbles did not work out and the system was reset to coco DTW yesterday. A couple hours worth of work, and all plants are on track. 3 weeks late, but on track finally.

Someone smart once said that “experience is what we get when we dont get what we want”

Also talked to my local hydro store owner and he said that a special, very resilient, brown algae plagues our region which is why almost nobody grows in DWC.

The experience of fighting with this algae is here:

Need some advice - DWC root issues?

Hello folks, In my first attempt at DWC I have discovered what looks like root slime last night. I need some help to identify the potential cause and treatment plan. Pictures below. Conditions before slime: pH 5.8 Green Planet nutrients 68-70F temperature EC around 0.9 Conditions when noticed slime: pH 6.2 (drifted UP, not down as indicative of bacterial growth) Megacrop 68-70F temp EC around 1.3-1.4 Roots are brown-ish but I read that MC will do that. Last night i got home late from a b…

Here are some pictures:out

Plucked them out:

Used disassembled buckets as stands:

Flood tray goes in:

Planted in fabric pots and in their final place. Short on coco so one is still in a solo cup.

This morning:

Clones grown in solo cups:

Clones grown in DWC with algae issues:

Gonna veg them another week or so, get them acclimatized, then flip and scrog I think.

Feed: MC + Calmag to about EC1.1-1.2; pH’d to 6.0

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Defoliated the bottoms a little bit, topped off the pots, planted the last one, got them rearranged so that the strongest plants are in the corners to give the smaller ones a chance to catch up. They are looking way better.

Flushed them again with same regiment as last time, just to make sure coco is nice and set/saturated. Gonna leave them for a couple days now, 3 gal pots may be a bit too big… oh well, extra 20 bucks in medium…

Northern lights chugging along pretty good too

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4 1/2 days from the last picture:

Grown a bit
Trained branches down
Getting ready for scrog and flip, delayed by my disorganized self…
Diet: Mostly megacrop, with some added calmag and vitamins B, to a total of about EC1.2-1.3

EDIT:
I was asking for advise on when to flip, and how to deal with, a haze here

Specifics of growing a haze - flowering, training

Good day folks, Looking for some advice that is haze-specific (Dr. Atomic's Atomic Haze, but i hear it is a "typical haze"); i have never grown one of these stretchy things before. Also plans changed a bit and I ended up with more plants than I was looking for. I have 9x plants in 3-gal coco fabric pots in a 53"x 53" tent The plants are about 12-14" tall now, topped 2x and exhibiting decent lateral branching I have, from the top of the pot, to the bottom of the air cooled hood, at most 43" o…

The advise was to flip ASAP. I failed at that LOL. Gonna get to it soon though, i swear…

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FLIPPED! a 4.5x4.5 full of freaking haze.

Today marks day 0.

Grew like all hell again.
Fed with MC/calmag/BudFactorX to the tune of EC1.6. I did not mix enough nutes. Barely any runoff; i’ll fix that next time. I think i need to get a bigger barrell… 20L not enough. I have a 40L in storage, will dig that out

I have also been beating them up a bit in preparation for SCROGging, so they are nice and flat-ish…

I think I will run them on the 600W MH for the balance of the week, then apply the net and get the 1K in that hood.

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…and scrogged

Bent most, broke some, got them down low. They grew so much after the first night of 12/12, im getting scared lol.

Y’all were right, i should have flipped sooner.

In progress:

Done, for now, I foresee a lot of tucking:

Cheers,
HH

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Quick scrog pic. Growing in nicely already.
I’ll wait until buds start forming to see about trimming lower growth.

[ReikoX]

Still running them in the 600 MH or are you color correcting those images?

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Both LOL. I do color correct my hps, but these are still on MH. I keep them on MH through the first week or so of flower, keep them on veg nutes too. Until the stretch is almost over. Then I’m gonna hit them with 1K HPS.

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Their rate of growth and size of the tent is telling me I need to up to 1K.

Dusted off the old ballasts. Only one works now, but i only need one, so in she goes.

I wish I had a 1k MH lamp to run for the next week, but I don’t, and too cheap to buy one, so HPS it is. My camera doesn’t like the HPS light from this one though… Color corrected but super underexposed. Might need to use an ND filter.

EDIT:

Yep, that did’er. 3-stop (i think) ND and she metered just fine

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So, the mom I took these cuts off is no longer available. These are less than a week into 12/12, so while defoliating the bottoms for easier access, i took some cuts.

Rockwool soaked in 5.8pH water with EC0.3 of FloraNova bloom, misted with same solution upon placement into the dome. Might take a little longer, but i want to save this pheno in case it is awesome.

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One week since flip. Transition complete. this is Flower Week One!
Scrog filling in nicely. Under 1K HPS, color-corrected

Group shot:

Under the skirts:

Scrog from above:

Still got some tops to train up:

Fed today. Same as last time, but now with Bud Igniter. We’ll see how that goes. EC 1.6-ish, pH 5.8
Dual Fuel
Bud Factor X
CalMag
Bud Igniter

That’s all for now folks!

EDIT:
@cannabissequoia, the Dramm is phenomenal, with its nozzle. Cant get over it. Got a rig set up with a rez, a pump and my curved stick. Makes it much easier to get around the stem to get a good watering all around the pot.