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It's because of all the TDS in the well water. The higher that is, the less time the membrane will last. Typical city water is around 300 ppm. Our well water is 8-900 ppm and un-usable in hydro. I think @smoke has well water over 2000
Thanks, that’s nuts. Never thought about it.It's because of all the TDS in the well water. The higher that is, the less time the membrane will last. Typical city water is around 300 ppm. Our well water is 8-900 ppm and un-usable in hydro. I think @smoke has well water over 2000
It's because of all the TDS in the well water. The higher that is, the less time the membrane will last. Typical city water is around 300 ppm. Our well water is 8-900 ppm and un-usable in hydro. I think @smoke has well water over 2000
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Beautiful!
Interesting mutation
Agreed. If you look close in one of those photos, you can see the plant that's doing it and there are quite a few that you can see that I left on the stems. None of the other 3 plants are doing this and I've never seen anything quite like that.
I have actually seen this before, but ya best keep a keen eye on it!
Yes Ma'am
Very interesting and I do understand what these are after reading a bit. This is an interesting article I read that is pretty informative on the subject imo.
I've seen it before, I thought it was from pushing the light limits. really not sure though.
Yeah, no way that works with hydro. You might be able to get away with it on a soil grow, but even then I think I would still use an RO.
They lookin THICK lol. She is so happy she is growing leaves on her leaves
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Thanks man, yea, coming along nicely. It's a trip because I recently picked up more hours at work so I am away from home 4 days a week now and @MrsSweetLeaf has been doing a marvelous job taking care of the plants when I am gone. I've taught her how to read the water and add or subtract from the nutrient levels as needed. I still need to teach her how to do a res change but by the time we do that, she will already have the basics down and it will mainly be the mechanics of getting all the water in and out of the system that she needs to learn, piece of cake there.They lookin THICK lol. She is so happy she is growing leaves on her leaves
A couple of weeks into flower and things are looking ok, the scrog did its job but 3 different phenotypes isn’t helping anything. Right two are really stretching, left, not so much. It’ll be interesting to see the different flowers, gonna keep these separate as if different strains for my meds.
Ya, unfortunately this round is going to have some seeds, already found a few, mainly on those low flowers, which I preemptively removed a bunch of, them little bastards are hard to see, and they just pop out from those lower nodes and I’ve even found a couple that were on a female flower hiding on the underside. I did notice a few pistils that turned way too early, pretty sure these were seeded. If I don’t get too many more I might be good with only a few seeds to deal with.
I tend to think genetics although they could have been stressed since my wife has been helping me and is not attentive to the environment as I am when I am here. I think there were a couple of days she let temps get upwards of 90+F so that may have been what happened. Even still, you'd think if the genetics were solid this would not have happened. Not too happy that's fosure.
it’s not too bad SLG
hopefully in 2-3 weeks.
Indeed. @MrsSweetLeaf is doing a fantastic job taking care of business while I am away too, very proud of my bride
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for sure.
You may be right about that PC, I did get a bit of leaf tip burn somewhere along the way, not exactly sure how it happened but I miss a lot when I’m gone and may not be getting all the events of the week if you know what I mean lol.
seedless but I don’t think they’ll be packed either. I got a good pic of one I found last week, little bastards are hard to spot, a small number of them did open in the beginning but I do think I caught most of them thereafter.
I get that from Granny, she's the one that said she hates giving too much nitrogen in flower because the buds get too many small leaves in them. Or something along those lines. ...At 1 week in flower I'm giving them 6ml /gal of my Grow and Micro and 3 ml... 3rd week in flower to cut back.You may be right about that PC, I did get a bit of leaf tip burn somewhere along the way, not exactly sure how it happened but I miss a lot when I’m gone and may not be getting all the events of the week if you know what I mean lol.
8 weeks in the books since flipping, I guess flowering for a bit over 6, still not sure when to start counting days, these plants don’t look 2 weeks from finishing but it could be that I’m not used to seeing them under HPS lighting. I’d say they still have a good amount of time left to fatten up and get ripe for the picking.
Did not get the res changed last week so gonna do that sometime today or tomorrow for late bloom ratios. Res has been stable but asking for less nutrients every day, down to 365 ppm and drinking 6-8 gallons of water a day. I think I might be done chasing balls, definitely gonna have some seeds on the lower buds but the uppers are looking pretty good, may not be
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they are setting themselves up nicely SLG 
