[FrozenFire]

Beginning of week 3!
Things are finally turned around in dwc. Plants are happy, and they are growing vigorously at this point. That half of the tent will be packed. Very tight internodes on all plants and more branches than you can shake a stick at. The two up front in the picture are c99 #3. Left #3 was deleafed, and the right one needs to be. I will be lolly popping all of them and deleafing the rest soon.

Aeroponics side is doing good, but I'm still not happy with it. All the males have been pulled. I am refraining from topping them if possible so I can see normal plant structure. Roots have slowed down on growth at this point. I've been running dutch master zone at recommended stregnth and I'm getting brown roots. Plants look very healthy, and growth rates are average. I'll be switching to using orca for bennies instead of sterile res this week. I'm positive that I'm not getting optimal performance from the aero setup yet. Root zone temps are around 68°F, and rez temp is 64°F. I'm getting way better root mass and healthy appearance with dwc. I'm not sure if it's due to sterile rez setup not right, temps seem good, or if I don't need the larger root mass I get with dwc. Common belief is larger root mass equals bigger yeild with dwc and dirt... time will tell if it is the case with aero. Cycle time for sprayers is 20 seconds on and 5 minutes off at the moment. This drains table and keeps roots damp. All plants look nice and health top side, so it's a head scratcher. Next run with aero I will run a c99 #3 for a control plant to see how it does vs dwc.

So aero side is all seed plants. So left 2 rows are hulk smash, middle row is lemon diesel and blue dream #3, right of that is 2 blue dreams up front and back is orange glue, last row in right is orange glues.






For size comparison that's a 4" net pot and a 18g tote. This was after it had all roots cut back to the net pot after dealing with root rot in veg. Took about 5 weeks to get to this much root mass after getting rez temps dialed back in. It will continue to throw roots like this till the end of bloom.

[FrozenFire]

All of the girls are busy building baby buds. My orca showed up and it has been added to the aero res. So far the orange glue is leading the charge in the resin development which is promising. The tent is starting to smell better too. No serious stinkers so far, but my fingers are crossed.

Does anyone know where to get seeds for some old school road kill skunk? I'm talking 3 day old bloated skunk.

[Goats]

nice root ball on the dwc plant homie!

[starke]

Sweet looking roots, especially after fighting off rot. Really like your setup. Hope you rock the aero.

[FrozenFire]

Thanks y'all! I'm just happy they recovered from rot quickly and without any serious issues besides slowing down. The 2 c99 #4 Are recovering the slowest, but are finally past the worst of it. They will not get near as big as #3's. The upside since they are stunted and didn't stretch, they should be solid colas!

Aeroponics is a curiosity for me. I will continue to mess with it till I get it dialed in. I like the idea of being able to use less nutes and a smaller resivoir. I'm enjoying the challenge of learning a new process more than anything else.

[FrozenFire]

Mandatory leaf removal and lolly popping for the ladies.

[Tazzie2heads]

Looking good how is the Hulk smash smelling at this moment

[FrozenFire]

Well the hulk smash ranges from sweet fruit to a light diesel fuel. Hulk smash #6 is my current favorite due to structure and smell. Two of the hulk smash got pissy and hermied a little. One plant grew 5 pollen sack clusters and the other only grew two. So I'm figuring it was environmental stress and I took steps to fix it. The Orange glues are doing really well. They are in the lead with resin production, and I've got a feeling they will finish strong. Orange glue smells go from Orange cleaner to straight chemical stink.

[FrozenFire]

Finally! Aeroponics is growing consistent healthy roots. It was worth trying to run a sterile rez with Dutch master zone, but it didn't work to my liking. I still wound up with slow root growth and brown roots. It's been over a week with orca now and my aero plants are growing beautiful white roots with tons of lateral root growth ie "fish bones."


The dwc side of the tent is going nuts. Poor c99 #4's stayed stunted, but are rooted nice now and should yield ok. C99 #5 and #3's are monsters and will probably make a bunch of wonderful nuggets coated in resin.


Things worth noting. Aero vs dwc nute levels: aero seems to require 200 to 300 ppm less total nutes. Root growth wise dwc is smoking aero, but this can be attributed to first grow with aero and shop floor temp issues early on with dwc. So that observation is suspect until next grow. From prior grows I have observed heavier yields and healthier plants go hand in hand with bigger root mass. Next run I will do much better with aero...

[BigLittlejohn]

I've found that unless you can control your water temps and keep them below 70 f, that running a sterile res doesn't work for me.