24 Bucket RDWC 4000 watt by PK

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Thanks poopy, its a rough first round honestly, I cannot wait to clear them out and start vegging the next round I have purchased a dehumidifier from ebay and home depot, usually around $175-225 for a decent one. I have never had a spec of mold indoors (knocks on wood), my humidity stays in check all on its own, I haven't used a dehumidifier this whole round. If mold ever showed itself I would bust out the sulfur burner and kick its ass.

The poor serious seeds plants, they look very good for the treatment and footprint placement they have recieved, I am suprised and can tell there are great things to come next round when I flower them all out in the system.

 

[mr cheese]

well its going to be a very happy christmas for someone! haha running ak myself mate, what phenos did you get? was you lucky enuf to find the cherry pheno? thats one im running, lucky a friend did the secletion process, save me the headach,lol all seeds were from serious aswell.... dank as hell mate, not quite as strong as my cheese but youv gota have the selection aint ya, i get bored if im stuck smoking one bud for to long.

what ec did you peak out at in ur bubblers? iv got some cheese in same system as yours and for life of my i cnt get em past .8ec without tip burn, im not all that used to bubblers tho so weas just wondering what you got ur up to without burning em? all best and happy and safe harvest!....mrc

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

mr cheese-I am not sure what phenos I got from ak quite yet, I have 2 maybe 3 phenos. One is the faster finisher, very glazed with resin and yummy looking. Another is much fatter, a llittle behind but should yield way higher. I sniff them every chance I get looking for cherry.

Well one time it floated to 2.2EC ouch! But only for a day thankfully. I normally peak most my runs at 1.8-2.0 EC, 1.8 is pretty good and is my target. 900ppms at .5 conversion Thanks for stopping in

 

[mr cheese]

hi mate, 1.8, so same as any other system realy, wonder why i cnt get em to go past .8ec, ran same strain last 8 years now and never known her to feed so low but first time in dwc, oh well all looking fine so im not woried,lol just fort id see what urs run at, i shall keep pushing em till i peak at 1.6, ill just have to have a strong word with my bitches "now ladies you will take what i give!" hahaha

hope you find the cheery pheno, some reason she seems to be prity elusive tho, mate ran 40 beans and only 2 of the beans produced that pheno, bit strange but hey thats cannabis for ya.

if not just pm me, sure we can sort something out! postage is a wonderfull thing ay! lol

you tried the ukcheese yet bro?

 

[newhiddengrower]

ok so i just started flowering, they are all around 3 feet tall, can i still install nets?

Also, where do you keep your ballast?

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

newhidden, if you just started flowering, hell yea! I don't train past 10-12 days in flower though. Unfortunatly my ballast are in my room, but heat has not been an issue what so ever thus far. Eventually they will end up outside the room.

Mr.Cheese-where are you at as far as the grow goes running .8EC? That is strange if your past the first few weeks in the bucket. I have not tryed the UK cheese yet, someday hopefully I will For now I have a good amount of genetics to pick through and find some keepers.

 

[mr cheese]

just going into 2nd week of 12/12 mate, they seem to be taking it now im in flower but in veg they were burning at .6 ec, its only last couple of days iv managed to get it up to .8 and even then they showed their disgust by curling their leaves, happy after few days at .8 but first day you could clearly tell it as bit strng for em.... think t may be down to im just usig gh 3 part atminute with no additives as my cars been off road so aint been able to go shop and get em, as normaly the base nutes only amount to say half the feed when using addivtives, but even so im shocked how little they feeding.

must add tho they dont seem to mind, no yellowing, plenty of growth ect ect so im putting it down to just using the 3 part on its own??

as im new to dwc i did start off a bit high for them at .6ec hich stunted them,, again only using 3 part, backed off to .4 and all were hapy again, vegd for 2 weeks upping it to .6 using 1.1.1 mix (n.p.k)untill 2nd wek in flower now on 1.1.2 .

so what would ur e.c be around the 2week in flower? 1.2 ish? lights off at minute but will up it to 1.ec as see how they take that, i did think it strange myself but again must be due to just using the 3 part on its own... what are your thoughtson that mate? make sense? cheers for your advice mate, always bitof trial and error when using a ne system so realy appreciate ur advice... all best ...mrc

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Sounds like a nutrient sensitive strain, weird that you had different results with it in a different medium. Just keep watching them like your doing and you will eventually get the feel for her and your new system. Hydro reacts fast to changes so stay on top of it

Fresh Clones .6 EC
Day 14 Veg .9 EC
Day 21 Veg - 2nd week Flower 1.2 EC
Week 3 Flower 1.5 EC
Week 4 Flower 1.8 Ec
Week 5 Flower 1.8 EC
Week 6 Flower 1.5 EC
Week 7 Flower 1.2 EC
Flush

Something like that is what I shoot for.

 

[mr cheese]

cheers mate... yer i normaly peak at 1.6 in hydro, im running cheese which is a bit of a finicy strain, well depends what version of cheese but original ukcheese can be right bitch to dial in, seems each medium she likes diff regime, strange i knw,lol

iv tried all systems now including vertical so fort id give dwc a bash, but thats it now, sticking to 1 system, affecting my yeilds way to much,lol

anyways sorry for hijacking your thread mate, lets get back to your beautiful ladies, cheers for the advice....mrc

 

[smknfire]

just finished reading through - amazing!

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Thanks alot smknfire

 

[newhiddengrower]

Right now i have 2k with 4 plants, and im lazy to add nets. One of the plant is 6 foot tall, what should i do? with the 6 foot tall plant? should i bend her main stalk to make her shorter?

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

ohh 6 foot, ouch! What day flower are you on? You should do somehting because 1000 watters do not penetrate that deep, I wish they did. Also, no offense, but lazy is how it got to be 6 foot in the first place With DWC you need to be on top of them everyday because they grow really fast, once they get so big you are just wasting time vegging any longer. If your in it for the smoke then its ok, but when it comes to dollars and cents there is no room for slacking in my book

You can supercrop them, scrog them, or LST them, either way you will end up with a bush.

 

[newhiddengrower]

Thanks, yea it got big cause i vegged too long, but i because i vegged so long i think i might get a larger yield

i can super crop them now? during flower?

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Depends on what day flower you are on, once I hit about 14 days i try and not stress them at all to allow for bud development.

 

[bron2k]

damn bro nice ass looking plants! have you ever used a sulfer burner before? what do you recommend for timing and when to use it? i got some powdery mildew that i'm trying to get rid of. seems like you know your shit so i figured i ask u first. thanks bro!

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

bron2k- Thanks

I do have a sulfur burner, I have only used it as a preventitve a few times. Honestly it has been a while since I have used it, and I would have to brush up on things like how long to run it and when not to run it. Wish I could be of more help in that department, but luckily I do not have a ton of experience with it I did notice when I ran it in early flower before it browned a few of my tops pistils, so make sure you read IC and find the best method to be safe. Good luck bron2k with the PM, a sulfur burner should knock it right out. Also glad to hear that you have one, I hate seeing a journal here with PM and no sulfur burner, turns my stomach. $150 for a burner, I am glad to pay that to save my crop if needed.

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Also quick update, the flush has started Nothing but RO water circulating in the system, under 100ppm and I will get it lower through out the next few days. Its looking like most of the strains will be coming down right around 9 weeks. I haven't harvested a crop since spring, stretched pretty thin right now but I am trying my best to be patient.

I am getting a good look at the serious seeds ak-47 phenos right now, I will be elminating 3 of the 7 phenos. I have clones of each pheno well rooted and vegging waiting for space in the buckets, next round will be 4 different ak47 phenos, a heads up to see who has what it takes to soak there feet in my buckets. I will be running 21 buckets next round instead of 24, and placing a piece of plywood over the 3 I am not using for my soil plants to sit on. I have 9 schnazzleberry #2 soil plants ready to be transplanted to 3 gallon containers as soon as they show sex, which coule be anytime.

Within 3 weeks I will be building a veg room, 1400 MH and some flouros. Will have a 3x3 flood and drain table housing 24 5.5" netpots with a 1000w mh to get a nice 3 week veg on plants before transplanting to the buckets. Will have mother plants under a 400 mh and a bubble cloner under the flouros. Soon as that room is up i will be popping my sourbubble seeds, wanted to make sure they have a good home.

Will be increasing my air pump totals form 80L/min to 300L/min this next round as well, so a large increase in oxygen = large increase in rate of growth. they are gogin to be faster and meaner grrrrrrr

 

[CovertCrops]

Banging grow PK! Hey, question about your idea with the 3x3 e&f table. Are you planning to set the net pots on the table and run it e&f? or are you going to cover the table and suspend the pots? I think i had heard that by just setting the pots in the table the roots would air prune and make a nice root ball in the net pot. <--- I could also be high as a kite and just be imagining it. I hate rw and am looking at different options for my veg table.

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Thanks covert! I will be getting a lid for the 3x3 table that hold the 24 netpots, it is made for that. I will be using hydroton in the netpots, I am not a fan of rockwool either. Trickiest part for me is going to be the transplant, I am aiming towards just placing the
5.5" netpot inside my bucket netpot.