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Sorted the humidity, without having to buy a humidifier. Lifted the light about half a ruler length and replaced the one large bowl of water in the corner of the tent to two smaller containers at the same level as the plants. Also keeping one vent open for now. Humidity is stable at 35%. Humidity is showing more in the pics because I just used foliar spray Cripple plant is doing well. Daily foliar spray with very light nutes and Kelpak. New leaf growth continues and roots are now much more visible at the bottom of the net pot. Hoping to have the roots hit the water by the end of this week Healthy plant doing the most. Fast leaf growth and roots continue developing at a fast pace since hitting the water

@PsyCLown @CreX check this out

Never been too worried myself with purple stems. In fact, I've always kind of seen them as a good sign of a maturing plant

Damn, these seed packs look pretty kewl I've got another two grows before needing to buy any seeds, if at all, but I'm glad to see supply is good

Looking forward to the grow diary

Well done to the winners, awesome pics all round

Thinking of just getting another Humidifier if I can't find my old one.. might've gotten lost in the move I was using the standard wong kong humidifier you get from Clicks. Rate I just get another or go for something a bit better? Or maybe a DIY solution? Apart from the aquarium heater of course I think I'd go for that idea if it were still Winter

Negative on the fishtank heater @CreX but that and having seedlings in the same tent as bigger plants is a good idea @PsyCLown , although I wonder how to do seedlings in say, a tent that's going through flowering with 12/12

Progress with the cripple seedling. Getting back good colour and new leaf growth is forming. A closer look at the bottom side of the net pot shows there is new root growth at the stem and surprisingly no new growth on what was left of the initial root growth. Started a schedule of foliar spray with very light nute 6.0 PH water with a little bit of Kelpak to help with the root growth. The healthy lady is ramping up on root production and leaf growth is sparking up. Been having some humidity issues. Tried to make a homemade humidifier by wrapping the intake ducting with an old lappie and running it down into a bowl of water. The idea was that the passive air would pull moisture off the towel as it came into the tent but I ended up just blocking the intake and caused an even bigger drop in humidity, as low as 13%. Current solution is to revert back to no towel and just keep a large bowl of water within the tent. I've also opened up one of the tent vents on the right side of the tent. Humidity averaging 25%, not bad not terrible. Should slowly rise as the plants get bigger. Lastly, replaced the clear tubing for the airstones with thicker, black tubing as there were signs of slime forming on the clear tubing. Hoping to see the cripple's roots hit the water this time next week

Where you at, @Pat999?

@CreX pushing teas like a Jehovah's Witness

Read through the whole thread, many good lessons to be learnt here That Cape Town wind..maximum nope Wishing you further luck on your grow journey @Nikkel

Very clear, only enough to make the tubing feel slippery to the touch but no handle-able amount. I usually experience this only right at the end of my grows after they have sat in the reservoir for several months. The tubing I used in my initial grow was more opaque than clear. Most recently it was very thin clear plastic tubing that I got from a aquatics store. Now currently using a more rigid, thicker and black coated plastic tubing from Builders Warehouse. Makes the setup look a little better in a weird way. Not expecting any issues to unfold. Reservoirs are bubbling like Hugh Hefner's Jacuzzi and there are no fowl odors. Res temp stable at 21C even with 34C weather outside with no active cooling for the water (the cooler box design is an absolute win in this regard).

Very nice! I am also currently using feminised seeds in my current harvest, also planning on popping some regular seeds on the next one. Hopefully luck is with us and we get females all round

Welcome! Please do not hesitate to show off your stuff

Thanks @Bospatrollie2 and @CreX Going to check out heisenberg tea for sure! Agreed on the daunting nature of throwing anything biological directly into the res. I was already super wary of using the Firejuice directly in the res but in doing that I am more confident in testing out teas in the res. In fact, I've even replaced the clear tubing for my airstones to a thicker garden tubing used for outdoor sprinkler systems because just after 4 days the clear tubing was getting already a little manky and a little slimy. I'll mention it again in the bigger update I will make later in the week when I also take some pics again.

Super awesome my dude! Wishing you the best of luck and a good turn out of irie individuals

Just read through it I like the idea of teas, they look like exactly what a cannabis plant would want to drink as a Sunday milkshake Although how would one apply the tea in a DWC setup? I am hesitant to add any kind of bacteria or microbes to the reservoir in fear of introducing the wrong kind of pathogen that could cause root rot. What are your thoughts?

I can say I did not see any negative to throwing it straight into the res I have yet to dable in teas, I haven't intended on using this grow as yet but whenever I am suggested something I'll always look it up You got any past posts on teas I can lookup or would you do me the kindness of a crash course?

These ladies are gonna chow light then will move them closer Schweet, will get myself some epsom salts I tested the fire juice in the hydro during the last few weeks of flowering in the last grow. The dude at the shop said I can use it from when I switch to flowering onwards. Can't tell for sure yet the difference between using it and not using it, will take a few rounds to find out

Definitely been taking the 'less is more' approach since the seedling got crippled. Going to lower it slowly over the next few days to the optimal distance. Will look into the calmag supp, I haven't dabbled much in supps apart from Freedom Farms Fire Juice and Kelpak. Next seeds will be germinated and placed into jiffies. Just wanted to use the last of the rockwool cubes that I had lying around from when I first bought all my stuff

Good day fellow growers! The next grow is underway at long last. After moving places and getting all my necessities setup, I am super stoked to start a grow diary following the progress for you to enjoy. The setup: 80x80x180 Tent 6 inch HIT Fan + 6 inch filter This time around going for two smaller 15 litre DWC cooler boxes instead of one 30 litre cooler box Regent 9500 Duel Air Pump, one airstone in each DWC pumping 120l/h of oxygen to each plant Lumii Cool Tube for HID lighting Starting off with the 250W MH bulb just until I get 3 nodes or so and then will swap out for the 400W MH bulb. My intentions going with two cooler boxes this time around is to experiment with longer flowering time as I do not have to keep one plant in vegetation as long for potentially the same yield and also maybe get some beefier buds in the end. PH sitting at 5.7, PPM is 250, reservoir temp chilling at a cool 20C and humidity currently sitting at an average of 35%. I do occasionally throughout the day give the girls a quick light spray with 6.0 PH water. Seedling strength nutes in the reservoirs, specifically Nutriplex trio. Light is set to 18/6 as I believe in giving the ladies sleep. Now for the fun part! I have already come to a bit of a snag with one of the ladies. Leaves have been slowly turning pale and yellow and her stem has been slowly losing strength. Decided to leave her alone for two days and prop her up with some wire but haven't seen any recovery, so I decided to take the plunge and split open the rockwool to investigate the root development. Now usually I would have just germinated a new seed, the plant that is currently doing fine took only a week to get to this point so I wouldn't lose anytime with the harvest by just popping a new seed, but I decided I want to learn a bit more on the recovery and nature of seedlings and maybe if someone comes to find themselves in a similar situation and they really can't afford to lose the seedling, then this may help. For disclosure, I germinate using the paper towel method until the taproot is about a cm long and then pop them into 5.5 PH rockwool, keep the rockwool on a windowsill until the first razer leaves appear and then into the tent they go. So here is what I found going on inside the rockwool: It appears the root formation got stuck by the seed's shell. What I am going to attempt to do is place what is left of the current stem into the rockwool right up until the plant's cotyledons and hopefully the plant will repurpose it's stem as it's initial roots. The whole seedling is now protruding through the whole rockwool and is touching the bottom of the net pot. I am expecting that the bubbles created in the reservoir will produce an aeroponics affect and feed the roots from below the netpot until the roots have grown sufficiently enough to reach the water of the reservoir. Below to the left is the outcome of the recovery setup for the struggling seedling and to the bottom right is the root forming on the healthy plant below the net pot. Next update I hope to report some recovery of the struggling seedling! Happy growing to the rest of you. Edit: Forgot to mention the strain! Going once again for Sweet Deep Grapefruit from Dinafem and hoping to improve on my last batch.

Can't get over how this bud looks! It's like a bud waterfall

Thanks @Plant Matter, definitely gonna check out your stuff