Barney's Purple Punch AUTO DWC

coolnout The plant roots are starting to expose themselves through the clay pellets. The roots are short, and white! I am working this week to slowly increase the nutrient levels to reach 500 PPM and watching the plants reaction. I added a humidifier this week as the outside air is 25F and the house heating season has started. I added an Aquarium heater to bring temps in D.W.C. back to 67F as it was dropping into the low 60's during nighttime setback temp/65F. The complications, never end................😁

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coolnout The plant looks good with a bit of a tip to the leaves (nitrogen). The roots are white and healthy. The aquarium heater addition made a huge difference in root development. This plant seems to like a higher PH than previous grows. 6.0 PH to the plus side seems best. The stem is thickening up like its going to have some weight. I love my girls chubby...........

coolnout This is the end of the 4th week and tomorrow the fifth week begins. The plant is starting pistillate flowers! That was fast. The stem diameter is 1/2". The plant stretched five inches this week, from 7.5 to slightly over 13". The plant is healthy.

coolnout The plant has entered the flowering phase. She jumped up to 19.5" from 13". The stem diameter is .72". She consumes 40 ppm daily.

coolnout This is the end of the 6th week. This gal is eating everything in sight! She grew 10" this week! The PPM drop overnight is a bit over 50.

coolnout The plant shot up to 46" from 29" last week. The stem is woody at a diameter of 1.25" I loaded up the nutrients to 785 PPM. I thought this plant didn't like nutrients, it is not fazed by a substantial increase! She is eating about 2 tsp/120 PPM of nutrients every two days sending the PH up. The plant looks Sativa Phenotype.

coolnout She is consuming two teaspoons of nutrients a day and a gallon of water. The buds are small, but loaded. This is the end of the eighth week.

coolnout It seems this site is loosing data entries. I put 10 weeks in week ago, but it disappeared.

coolnout She is quite the pig. Eating about 2 tsp of nutrients a day. 72" tall. 1.75" diameter stem.

coolnout This week started badly due to the root volume in a 5-gallon DWC. I have grown many normal seeds with plants at 80", but I have never experienced a plant whose roots were so refined that they choked off the airflow through the DWC! I took the plant out of the 5-gallon DWC and added more air stones, 8 in total. I put the plant in a 13-gallon bucket and added about 70 drops of PH Up to correct the overnight PH drop of 4.0 due to a lack of oxygen at the root. Everything went back to normal after this procedure. The PH is now 6.4 and I also reduced the nutrients as the plant is drinking water and not as much food.