2RedEyes
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Well some things are going well and some things are not. I decided to give hydro a little try and thought DWC seems pretty simple so why not. I was expecting to have fairly vigorous growth as compared to soil as this was what I had read from others. So I went to my local grow shop and was recommended a very simple one part recipe. Just add GH 7 grams per gallon of maxibloom to your tap water and ph to a range 5.5 - 6.5. Change the water every week or two. Seems simple enough. Well first thing I converted incorrectly grams to teaspoons and added 5 times too much nutes. The plants let me know real quick that I had made a mistake. You’ll see this in the pictures. One plant nearly died or maybe is dead and just doesn’t know it yet. The other lost a lot of lower leaves and the rest have just stopped doing anything at all. So I dumped that first batch of nutes, cleaned everything out and mixed a new batch with my scale to 7g/Gal. Ph’d it and put the plants back in. The smaller of the two continued to shrink while the other just sat there sulking. So a couple days ago I decided to swap the smallest little guy back to soil and put a fresh plant into the DWC. I carefully washed the soil from the roots and put it into a netpot with clay pellets and installed it into the DWC. It perked right up and was looking good. However today it is kinda droopy and sad looking. It has been a little hard to keep the ph in that range as it always seemed to be climbing above the 6.5 mark. Yesterday I added a little ph down and got it to just above 5. This morning I checked and it was 4.6. Im gonna leave it alone and see if it comes back up.
I’m really surprised by the no growth of the healthy plant though. In the dwc box, the small plant in front is growing roots though nothing is happening up top. The larger and new plant in the back of the dwc is not sending roots and is kinda sad looking. Over in the other grow area the two soil plants are thriving. They are receiving earth juice nutes and even the small stunted plant that I moved from the dwc is stating to green up a bit.
Do you think I was sold on a bad idea, using this maxibloom... I will probably try something different soon but what I’m not sure. It seems if you ask a dozen people what is best you’ll get a dozen answers...
Well here are some pics.
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I’m really surprised by the no growth of the healthy plant though. In the dwc box, the small plant in front is growing roots though nothing is happening up top. The larger and new plant in the back of the dwc is not sending roots and is kinda sad looking. Over in the other grow area the two soil plants are thriving. They are receiving earth juice nutes and even the small stunted plant that I moved from the dwc is stating to green up a bit.
Do you think I was sold on a bad idea, using this maxibloom... I will probably try something different soon but what I’m not sure. It seems if you ask a dozen people what is best you’ll get a dozen answers...
Well here are some pics.
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