Dwc trying to figgur out my problem

[Graff420]

Alright so iv had my plant about a month now acutally she will be 1 month tommorrow and shes stiying small i had root problems about 2 weeks ago but i found out that was due to water temps riseing above 80+ on a few days iv teken car of that problem rangeing from 67° to 75° at its hottest she seemed to rebound great but now im noticeing root problems again no light gets in iv made sure the temps never top out over 75 in the res water and iv got 2 large airstones so im not 100% sure whats going on its a top fed dwc system with a 250w dimmable MH light running a 18/16 light schedule but shes remaining small and i cant figgur out why iv included one pic let me know if you need more to help but i cant get a clear pic of the roots maybe they will be longer tommorrow so for now ill just show you what the plant looks like for now http://imgur.com/a/POxO9

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hello G420. I don't grow DWC, so I'm not much help., but that's a beautiful plant ,I can't see anything wrong. I'm sure someone will be on here in a minute to try to help though. Good Luck. Need root pics.

 

[Graff420]

Ill post some in the morning her roots are barly visible throught the bottom of the net pot she had one great root but when the temps rose she lost accesssabilty to oxygen and started witing and that main root shoot died and turned brown sence then shes been working on many and i mean many shoots on roots some turn brown and some dont but i cant grab them through the pot so i look at them when i inspect her roots once every 2 days but from what iv read shes soposed to be able to grow 5 to 6 nodes in 2 weeks with dwc but my girl is about double that finally makeing it to 6 and just trying to keep her roots good as it seems she is loveing everything else only took her 12 hours from seed to pop out and open her first 2 leaves seemed to take off but then slowed way down but im high and just typeing up a storm lmao ill post some root pics in a few hours or at least the best i can do for root pics

 

[Graff420]

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Here are some root pics i just took figgured itd be better to go in without lights on

 

[alltatup]

Hey Graff, welcome to the forum. I grow DWC as well. She sounds like a really hardy girl, so at this point, you just want to give those roots every advantage that you can. One suggestion that Nebula made to me a while back was to raise the water level in the reservoir so that the bubbles are close enough to "tease" the roots down into the water.

So you want the water level just right, where it doesn't hit the bottom of the net pot, but gets those roots to come down to meet it.

Also, are you using something like Hydroguard or Great White in the res. to strengthen the roots' resistance to rot and bad bacteria?

 

[Graff420]

As you can tell in these the last photo shows the best of what im speaking of that root out the left side grew so far then just gave up i cant understand why she is doing this stuff anyone with any advice it would be greatly appreciated

 

[Graff420]

Hey i just put up some root pics thanks for the feedback just learned this comment thing tho sorry it took me solong to reply

 

[alltatup]

You didn't answer my question; and what's the water level.

 

[Graff420]

Yea im useing hydrogaurd to try to help her from getting anything to bad shes growing at a nice pace just from what iv read shes soposed to be going faster so i wanted to know if something is wrong or if its normal first dwc grow mostly just ever used 5 gallon buckets soil and put it out side for a year lmao but root pics are below let me know what you think

 

[Graff420]

My bad i posted in with your last comment i posted these pics befor i relized you commented

 

[Graff420]

Id say the water is a inch and a half at most 2 off the netpots bottom

 

[alltatup]

Graff, she's been through a little trauma and that will slow the growth for while. Don't over-nute her, just give her time to send roots down. Once the roots really take off, you'll see growth increase. She's got to get more roots out and down into reservoir: patience!!!!!

 

[Graff420]

Im running about 1.2 to 1.7 ML or floramicro &floragro the flora bloom i put in about .8 ML per gallon that whhat i figgured shed need but shes still kicking for me

 

[alltatup]

Yeah, she's a strong girl and she will bounce back!!! Just let those roots get bushy. One thing I have learned in the last year of growing: when there's a problem, they need time to make a comeback before you add any other kind of stress.

 

[Graff420]

Thanks im hopeing she will make it to harvest so i can pop in them royal gorilla seeds lmao

 

[Graff420]

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Just a couple more pics of her if anyone else can spot anything else im doing wrong

 

[alltatup]

I got some auto gorilla glue seeds for my next grow, along with auto euforia.

And your girl will make it to harvest, it's just one phase at a time. Like I said, she looks like a strong one (not a runt), so I have hopes for her. First phase is germination; now you want to get the roots growin real strong. Then she will veg very strong, which makes for a strong flower phase.

 

[alltatup]

She's a little stretched, too; you may need to move your lights closer...???

 

[Graff420]

Yea no i did that in the begining i got a 1 year old babygirl on july 19th shes been keeping me up lately so i went like 2 days without checcing her after she sprouted and she streched all the way up there i brought light down and she started going to town till res temps were riseing

 

[Graff420]

Her single finger leaves is were pretty much the hight was at in 2 days but them single finger leaves and the next set up are died they got roasted out with the riseing res temps but after that shes provided me with all the growth after that i was pretty much just trying to make sure i didnt hurt her to much to be recovered