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alltatup GROW 4: Blk Dom, WW, C99

That's exactly right! Growing regular seeds is quite educating. I feel lucky that (I believe) 2 out of 3 are female.
 
Aw, my comment was regarding the maleness, not that he got the chop -- you did what had to be done. Also, +1 for the Violent Femmes reference.
 
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Now I'm down to four plants--more breathing space. I tied them down and I defoliated. Now I'm going to watch them grow.
 
I'm not sad Jeg: I assumed there'd be at least 1 male, and I been looking for him all along. That's how it goes with regular seeds. Just glad he's out.
 
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All four plants are now budding. Had some issues with nutrient lockout last week, so I flushed them with AN Flawless Finish and decided to switch them over to AN nutrients for the rest of the grow. I'm becoming convinced, the more I read about nutrient companies and their research or lack thereof, that I will stick with AN from now on.

So the C99 was the only plant to show problems, and at first I thought it was calcium deficiency, which I then determined wasn't possible. Then I read a lot about nutrient lockout, and I've got a lot written up in my notes. An often overlooked but crucial issue to understand. It just reinforces the importance of regular 48-hour flushes every other week or even every week.

Right now they are on 25% strength nutes, until they show me some vigorous growth. But I can see today that C99's color is coming back in and I believe she'll be all right. She has the biggest buds.
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Could you explain how you flushed . I know it sounds silly but I've been a bit afraid cause their doing ok. But noticing nute uptake is down to nothing . Thanks your always so good at advice
 
No problem, Capn! I was just reading some more about this today, and I"m more and more convinced that I need to do it more often, on a regular basis. I've read that it's good once a week: 7 days on nutes, 48-hour flush, back on nutes. What I do is just add Advanced Nutes Flawless Finish and pH the water, and leave it for 2 days. I have seen the plants really perk up after a flush. I need to be NOT lazy about doing this for my girls, cuz it IS more of a pain in the butt with hydroponics than with soil....
 
Not to be a dunce, although I am sometimes, do you do a complete res change and use new water , add the flush or add it to the existing res water and wait 48. Also i use foxfarms nutes and have some sledgehammer flush , it's basically yucca extract. Any ideas on that
 
Beautiful plants Alltatup pretty color to em.That's why I grow in supersoil don't have to do no flushes ,plus I ain't never grown in water probably cause I'm not smart enough to . I've heard growing in water might be a little quicker to the finish but growing in supersoil you don't have to do a week or so flush ,at the end so I bet its probably pretty close either way you grow. I got that app on my phone Alltatup like yours and man is it nice. Thanks
 
Capn, you aren't a dunce!!! These are good questions. I completely drain out the res., and if it's really mucky I wipe it down with H2O2 and water. I'll fill a bucket half up, take out the air stones and stick em in the bucket and scrub them with a brush to get the gunk off. I soak the water pump that connects to the chiller as well and scrub with the brush. If the res isn't too bad, I don't do it every time. Then I put in the new water + Flawless Finish and leave in for 48 hours, checking pH.

I don't know anything about your nutes; look em up on High Times or 420 mag., or see what opinions other growers have. I trust AN because they will talk to you on the phone about cannabis cultivation, they make their nutes specifically for cannabis, and they aren't part of some disgusting corporation like Monsanto (who owns Scotts, who owns General Hydroponics). Plus I am really getting into AN's pH perfect lines of nutrients, which I'm hoping will keep me much less dependent on pH meters and all the friggin expense that goes with them...
 
Thanks so much. That's my weekend plan. It's a little hard to get my res lids up much cause the girls are so big. Defiantly redesign next time. Last time I had droopy leaves it was a bad air stone , so that really makes sense. And I'm with you about the devil Monsanto.
 
I know what you mean about the res lid; I have a stout pole I use to prop it open. I could always go in through an empty net pot hole, and I bought a wet-dry vac that I use often. Do you just have one hole in your lid? If you're not using a box and have unlimited vertical space, get a couple of stout poles to prop it open.
 
I go through a net hole too. I have an electric pump that goes out the window into my night blooming jasmin, which seem happy with the left overs😀. I still have my drip lines going , should I just take out that pump and whole system?
I use voodoo juice and pirhana from AN . Love em. May switch next grow.
I have just the poles for lids! Thanks so much
 
On this newer small grow box I got, I don't even use the pump; I just get the wet dry vac and suck it all out. Sometimes I remove the lid and dangle the plant roots over an empty tub while I clean out the reservoir.

As for nutrients, the big guys like GH are probably shelling out a wad of dough to have their products pused online. If you do the Subscribe and Save thing on Amazon, there are some pretty decent prices on AN nutes...
 
Agree , fox farms are in Mendocino county and organic, get good ratings , and hold ph well. I may change next grow though. What do you think about the drip lines and pump? Should I loose them?
 
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