Jelly Donutz, Raspberry Parfait, Do-Si-Dos: Hydro Grow

Lullrich Growing equipment as described above. I lower the tent temperature by sucking in outdoor air into the left bottom corner of the tent. After a bad start caused by a poorly regulated pH, the plants are now in healthy growing conditions and should shoot up from now on. While i figure out how to control the humidity, the plants are under humidity domes.

Lullrich The pH, EC and temperature are in check, the low humidity from outside is very hard to increase because of the high volume of air i need to cool the tent. Plants are looking healthy though, the raspberry parfait (right) is slowly catching up to the other two (dosidos left, jelly donutz middle).

Lullrich topped the big jelly donutz to let the other two plants catch up

Lullrich lots of growing, defoliating and training

Lullrich Since the jelly donutz exploded over the last weeks, it is now time to start the flowering cycle. I fear the jelly will get much taller than the other "dwarfs" seeing how she streched in the veg phase. I already put cardboard boxes under both plants to level the canopy, but i'm sceptical that this will be enough in the coming two stretch weeks. I guess we will see how it turns out.

Lullrich the ladies stretched as expected, filling out almost the whole tent.

Lullrich The plants are still stretching. I installed a trellis net for the jelly donutz to train her down a bit. Currently running around 1100 ppfd.

Lullrich The left light is now at the highest possible position, the jelly donutz stretched like hell. I defoliated all plants heavily, so i removed nearly all of the big fan leafs and only left the flower leafs. The EC is now at about 1.8.

Lullrich Sadly, I missed a refill of the do-si-dos and the plant stood dry for about one day. When i came back i immediately refilled the bucket and hoped for the best. But even after six days, she still hadn't recovered and then started producing bananas, so she had to go.

Lullrich Both plants from humboldt seed company are still standing and taking over the open space from the do-si-dos. The raspberry parfait smells very much like her name, also very sour. The Jelly Donutz smells very similar to one of her mothers Hella Jelly. She has finally stopped stretching and my light couldn't be hanging any higher than now. I'm excited for the coming last weeks of flower.

Lullrich This week I really managed to dial every parameter in. EC at 2.0, light intensity on the tops at 1000 to 1100 ppfd, ph at 5.9 to 6.0, temperature at around 21°C. I had a little problem with salt enrichments which led to ECs above 3.5. This means that the recommended EC of around 2.2 for week 6 of flowering by Xpert Nutrients was too high. Nevertheless i figured it out and the plants are doing just great now.