This is the Big Bud monster in DWC. My first hydro grow ever! Though I went into expecting difficulties, it was fairly simple and quite appealing. I'm almost positive that the yield would be much larger if it was not for the mishaps that occurred around week five of flower. And more recently due to personal injury.
When I was out of town in early November, the pH took a serious nosedive and was corrected when I returned. But the damage was done. As well as running out of headspace, supercropping, and underestimating my lights. Which resulted in the foxtailing, and later an attempt at self pollination. Many nanners went unnoticed due to the sheer size of this bush, lol. Though she did not have enough lifetime left to produce viable seeds, lots of flower is not smokable.
Most recently the problems were personal injury that prevented me from harvesting and trimming in a timely manner. A lot of the flower got over-dried because I could not get downstairs and not manage to sit an trim for many hours on end. I really needed to outsource this shit, hehe. No biggie. It can all be made into extracts for all I care. I do not consume. And whichever friend or family it's gifted to has no right to complain, lol.
Overall, this grow was a great success. Being my first attempt at DWC I expected many problems. But aside from the self-inflicted, it was actually a breeze. Quite enjoyable actually! Though there is definitely room for improvement.
For now I'm going to jump back to organic soil to do a large autoflower run to finish out the winter months. I will also be designing much more user-friendly DWC system to be used in the future. I look forward to it!
Thanks for reading!
