CrippleCreek x Sputnik Hydro DWC/Drip

[Endo]

I heard that you guys appreciat good bud around here so i thought i would show off what i have going on right now... 3 cripple creekx sputnik clones from a foaf. the one on the right is much bigger than she appears, ive been lst ing them so that they grow very low and to promote a bushier plant. the one on the right is about 12 in tall right now.. maybe more, the other 2 about six inches but catching up fast.

the system is a combo dwc/drip setup this is my first run at hydro so wish me luck. the big one is going to get about 1 more week of vegg then im gonna throw her into flower. the other 2 i will wait till they get a little bigger and take some more clones. lemmy know what you think!!

Endo

[Hippie3]

long way to go.
what is that brownish discoloration on fan leaf on
right foreground of plant ?

[Endo]

Originally Posted by Hippie3

long way to go.
what is that brownish discoloration on fan leaf on
right foreground of plant ?

could be a number of things, its possible i let the ph of the water change either 2 high or 2 low when i changed the res water and added nutes, or it could be just a slight touch of nute burn or deficency, it could just be cause those bottom leaves are starting to be over shadowed by the higher ones, and not getting enough light, either way its an older fan leaves and they will come off from time to time.. all the new growth is very very healthy and green so im not really worried about it at this point, its not spreading and its just that one leaf and a smaller one on the middle plant... other than that everything is hunky dori. ill take some better pics tonight or tomarrow so you can see how big they actually are.

i think ill vegg the big one till next sunday, or whenever i get around to doing a res change, sometime around then, gotta get off my ass and put together the flower system, which is just going to be DWC. i dont think i need the drip cause the roots will be more than long enough to support the plants, gotta find some net pots somewhere or make them. anyone use anything else for pots that i can maybe mc guyver?

so much to do so little time. gotta start some new clones too, hopefully getting a small perpetual hydro harvest, for my personal use.

comments welcome!!!


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[bb4]

i just wanted to shout out to your signature!

WEEN!!!!!

[Endo]

Thanks, i knew someone would pick it up eventually!
Cheers

Endo

[Endo]

just a little update everyone is doing well.. i dont know if you can tell by the 2nd pic but they are getting huge. going to put the big one into flower starting this week as soon as i get my butt in gear.

the 3rd pic is 1 trainwreck clone, damaged on arrival,taped her stem together (hoping she will survive and give me some clones, and 3 armed widow clones (ak47xc99)x white widow. killer smoke.

[Endo]

finally got some time for some updates.

first pic is the vegg area.. 2 armed widow clones 1 armedwidow in soil
the 1 of 3 of the ccxsputniks i kept in vegg incase something went wrong with the other 2 flowering. the 3rd pic is the 2 in flower that got some kind of algea in the res and killed the plants in like 3 days. gotta take some cuts and start over. fourth pic is 3 armed widow in soil that are about 40 days into flower.. the one in the back got a little close to the light, i think. other than that they are doing very well. 3 more weeks or so. the last pic is one huge fuckin spider that made like a 3 foot web outside my door to the right of our security light, havent seen a bug fly into the house since... im gonna keep em. normaly i hate spiders and he would have been long dead. shes a big mofo to.. and getting bigger by the day it seems.. i could swear she was smiling while i caught her chompin on a beetle last night.

the clones in the second pic did not survive... i think im going to try some other methode of cloning nothing seems to be working for me.. not bubble not soil and not rockwool. any suggestions?

[Ras Asad]

nice man, sweet pic.....specially the front over to the right... thas gon be a sweet strain for ya. maybe that girl in the back needs a bit of nitrogen mate, its easy to deprive em of it in flower, but they still need it. lookin sweet tho bro. cant wait to see some finished pics Thnx for sharing, Bless

[Endo]

yeah the one to the right is fucking killer good looking.. i dont think that is the one i got a clone off of b4 i put them in flower.. i think its a little late now but i may try and take one.. the one in the back is not nitrogen deprived im pretty sure.. its more crispy leafed than anything... unless they get burnt crispy when they run out of nitrogen. ill dose them with some fish ferts tonight.

should i remove the dead stuff?

[Endo]

little update.. this is the revegg project. by act of god of 6 clones and 2 mothers she is the only one left, and to save the strain we had to pull her inside and put her back into vegg. hopefully she pulls through and we can get some nice new growth out of her. KCx brazil.

armed widow clone, doing well in soil.

family vegg pic the big one is the ccxsputnik ive been trying to take clones off of but it never seems to root, im gonna try some more tonight, ive tried roockwood rapid rooters soil and bubble cloning.. they have to work out some how. the 2 in the back are the armed widow cuts i got from a friend, doing much better now that they have more light. and the little one is another pheno of the armed widow i took from one of the flowering ones from the pics above.. looks and smells wonderful so i figured i woudl save that pheno as well.

over the weekend i built a new light setup ill get you guys pics of... it consists of 3 flourex flood lights set up in light bar fashion, 2 85w 1 65 watt bulbs, the 65 is supposed to be eq to a 500w light and the 85s i would suspect a little more than that.. i have been using these type of lights for vegg for like a year now and plants seem to really like them. after i put the new set up in i saw a big change in 24 hours over using the 2 tube flouros and only one of the floods. more light better light = more happy!!!
i also added one more 10in airstone to the res so i think the little added oxygen is helping them as well.
Endo

[SharkieJones]

Nice looking grow and spider. Congrats!

[Endo]

just a few of the reasons im revegging this kc plant.. i love her.. my favorite strain next to bubblegum. thanks for the kind words.

[Endo]

well one of the armed widows on the left is on his last leg.. i trimmed off the dead stuff in favor of one limb that was still healthy. i hope shit makes it.. the armed widow in the middle is doing much better as is the cripple creek mother, i got some shultz plant food over the weekend as a suppliment until my nutes arrive this week. it seems to have helped them alot. that and a generous dose of h2o2, i think cuase its been so warm the res temps were high and it started to get fungus. it seems to be clearing up now and going back to normal.. i also raised the lights up a few inches in hopes of getting them to stretch a little more so i can get some decent clones in the next week or 2. i have really fallen behind and am down to almost nothing plant wise.. its starting to worry me. i like hydro but it can be finiky sometimes and ive been having major probs with dirt plants too.. i will never make my own soil ever again. hopefully everything will work out in the next 2 weeks or so and i can get some clones going for give aways and for myself to keep going.. ideally i would like to have 3 armed widow and 3 cripple creek in vegg and 3 of each in flower. time will tell i guess.

[Endo]

i know its only been 2 days but i spent a little while cleaning and changing the res and containers and all that good stuff, and spraying for thrips, little tiny insects that live under the leaves. the guy that sent me the cuts informed me that he had them and may have sent them to me unintentionally, so i should spray everything down. i took each plant out and sprayed them really good till they were soaked under and over, and no signs of thrips now so i will have to keep an eye on things. i still have to finish cleaning out the drip system and put that back in so for a while they will be DWC only. they all have a good root system so this shouldnt be a problem anyways. finally got my pure blend nutes in the mail too. with this res change im going to use only the pure blend pro grow, and thats it. i was using a bunch of other products together b4 like the cal-mag and the liquid karma, and it seemed to not really do much. simple is better.

pics of how the lights are set up. 3x 500w (65w flourex)

just 2 more close ups

[Ras Asad]

Niice bro, lookin good. Id be PISSED tho if someone sent me clones with pests on em!!! Jus not a cool thing to do. But your doing a fine job mate. Liquid karma is GREAT tho!!! lol Thanks for the update bro, cant wait to see the fruits of yah labor Bless, Ras

[Ras Asad]

ohh shiiiii...I didnt even see the KC plant , looks great bro!!!! Really nicce

[Endo]

thanks for the kind words Ras, but the dude didnt intentionally give me bugs. he warned me about them, he got them on a chronic cut from a dispensery in cali that someone sent him. hes still dealing the pests himself. i think mine are gone i still have to spray the clones b4 i put them into the vegg room. as soon as they show roots the big mum is going info flower. the thing with liquid karma is that it dyes the roots a funny brown color.. making it hard to tell if its algea or unhealthy roots.

[Endo]

so horrible news.. this grow is trashed. got algea in the water and it killed everything.. nothing is coming back.. everyday they get worse. no clones left no seeds. i guess its time to take a break even though i really dont want to.. thanks to everyone for looking. if i come across anything i can restart with, ill do another journal. till then stay green, stay safe.

[Hippie3]

another reason to prefer soil over hydro
bummer about your loss.

[golly]

Cripes..! that's awfull...What were the early symptoms of this Algae invasion...?

[Hippie3]

green slime
gotta block water reservoir from any light

[Endo]

Originally Posted by Hippie3

another reason to prefer soil over hydro
bummer about your loss.

thanks hip
its funny cause i switched from soil to hydro cuase i was having issues with my homemade soil. might go back to good ole store bought soil. instead of fucking around with everything.


it wasnt so much green slime as brown slime, the water got all murky and frothy, i dont think it was a light leak so much as the fact i was using organic nutes and its been rather warm here lately and i dont have a res chiller.

oh well. .time to start a new.

[Hippie3]

algae ALWAYS grows if there's water + light.
your description sounds like maybe some fermentation going on too...

[Endo]

great news... the cripple creek mother survived, i did numerous res changes and pulled off all the old dead roots, trimmed off all the dead and dying growth and shes putting out new growth and white pretty roots, ill get some pics tonight, the armed widow is coming back as well shes really really small, i cut off the main stalk in favor of a strong looking side shoot and took out almost all the rootmass, and shes starting to come back as well, hopefully in a few weeks ill be able to take some clones and be able to start again. also i switched to a smaller res for vegg, instead of the huge 15 gal that was a pain in the ass, drain and move and barely fit in the closet door, it is now a smaller 8 gallon tub, much easier to work with and i think the smaller size has really helped with the oxygen levels in the water.
also saves me on nutes too. im using less than half of what i was b4.
might start a new, thread as someone has gifted me a couple of very special cuts, sour diesel ibl and a cut of kush dubbed the "bastard cut" came from a bag of kush with one single solitary seed in it that turned out to be a very very nice pheno. ill post a link to the new one when i get it started if you guys are interested.

awesome!!!!

[twoguysupnorth]

i think the brown is a mag. defficiency caused by lockout from a low ph. i havnt done hydro but it can happen with soil too. the crispy leaves i think were from over fertilization. ive had both problems before. i cant seem to link this here, but search for the "revised guide to sick plants.."the PG one. they were looking good before the algae troubles.

[Endo]

happy family now.

[eastwood]

that was a great read..Im glad u got family again..Good luck