Cannabis – From Seed to Harvest (Indoor DWC Hydroponics Grow)
Cannabis – From Seed to Harvest (Indoor DWC Hydroponics Grow)
Follow along with my indoor closet grow. I am doing deep water culture (DWC) hydroponics with 2 cannabis plants. Stay tuned til the end to see the final yield!
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The plants are females but you gave them male names..
Dude, way to go!
Nice job bro! May I offer friendly advice which I personally find from many many years of first hand experience and knowledge.. I recommend you stir/mix your nutes one at a time methodically rather than measuring & dumping all of your nutes together in your reservoir at the same time, then mixing them all together at the same time. Nutes need to be fully dissolved one at a time, or else they react strangely together in their chemical states- especially the most organic forms & brands of nutes need to be fully dissolved mixing up one at a time rather than measuring and mixing them all at once together in the reservoir as I saw you doing in this video. Hope this helps you as I personally believe that your issue originally with your plant on the left (I forgot her male name), if it’s James or Jim?.. I personally believe you started to have what’s referred to as "nutrient lock out" in the left plant showing the most originally due to not adding your nutes as I recommended. Ph will be known to fluctuate more than normally also from the nutrient lock out you had and what appears to have been mostly corrected if not fully corrected later in the grow. Unfortunately yield+quality always suffers from any issue(s) in any grow, as I’m sure you know. Hopefully info helps you out and I don’t seem like a know it all. You kicked ass in this grow FYI!
Jim probably smoked better.
just an fyi for anybody interested…… DO NOT put your agricultural waste in the drain… you gotta find something else to do with it, like water some plants somewhere
Jim , James , Paul and Tyrone đ
I think James and Jim needed their own reservoirs. Sharing could potentially rest a no hold bar environment for the nutrients added.
Hi,how to resolvé the problem Hot Walter, I uesd one peltier celda,bit isint work fine, muy wåter is 25 celsius and is nota gud,
You take it off the tree AFTER the stalks can snap.
The light isent getting to all the plant
Those genetics sucked man but killer grow other then that
Great video!
You cant use dudes names for Girls! DUH….
Females , they are girls
When your balls drop for the 2nd time mid video
Donât use boveda they take away all the flavour
I knew you were going to keep the second one lol
Great work đ thanks for documenting your process
These have to be auto, correct?
What discord channel do you follow?
If you want big buds and plants get away from dwc it’s to time consuming and Temps make the difference during the grow when it comes to the res which is a fight. I started as a dwc hydro person because some scum bag shop owner sold me a kit that looked just like urs in a rubber made storage thing with some nutes rock woll everything you need to start well it worked for a few weeks then the plants looked bad so after some research I found you really can’t grow dwc in hot places with out a chiller so my buddy opened a grow shop and 1 of the guys he hired was a grow genius and gave me the low down . What I think any hydro grower should do is grow in a tray with a drain use fabric grow bags and drip feed plants with a return from the drain to the res changing water every 1 or 2 weeks
Haha the guy at the hydro shop recommended the most expensive shit
Calling them "guys" and giving them Male names? Nah that’s just ridiculous!! They should only be called girls, terrible luck.
Stressful work bro⊠hope it was worth it!
I get purples with just cold water feedings and I get some really deep purples where when u look at it you think OMG this shit is going to look awesome on the jar . Well……. for so.e reason after drying for 10 days there is no purples left almost like it’s a reaction that as soon as you cut the plant goes away idk
Jim and jones haha, they have pussy
12:03 wow ….what a mutation ….it has skinny buds but packed with resin …..how was the smoke, aroma, work? ….i see it is like 90% sativa so i can guess it’s up clear high fly
Hydroponics is hard to deal with
Niiiice
Im so happy jim made itđ
Thanks bud
Did he name his plants Jim and James? That’s absurd on a couple levels.
Amazing video dude,super simple,easy to follow, and tons of great information. Where did you get your lights though? Iâm having trouble finding good lights that wonât break the bank
What temperature do you keep the water?
That was a real good grow I learned many thing ty
What’s the strains
Poor Jim
Bro. I donât know whatâs going on but you definitely buried them too low into the media. They seem very stressed thatâs for sure. Hence the extreme vigorous growth and as for Jim. This could most likely be a result of poor handling during the seedling stage. This can happen from having non-sterile equipment. This transfer of disease crosses from the seed case to the first set of baby leaves which spreads to the stem and true leaves. You also disturbed the seed after placing it into the jiffy peat pellet.
As for the cup of water method. All I can recommend is leaving a seed or two in water in a light proof container or bottle over night only. Push gently on the seed if it hasnât dropped already. When it drops. Poor it into paper towel and put into ziplock bag. Put that in a dark place and check in 24 hours and every day from there. Once cracked. Gently place seed into peat pellet or rockwool or whatever with sterile (isopropyl alcohol) tweezers with tap root down.
As for your nutrient solution. PH is extremely important. 5.8 is the target. Range is between 5.5 and 6.5.
As for your lighting. Itâs burning the shit out of your plant. Heat stressed fan leaves. Shaping like a canoe is first visual evidence.
As for harvest time. Forget the colour of the pistals.
Youâll want to be inspecting the glandular trichomes for their maturity. With a pocket microscope, jewellers loop x30 – x60 is plenty.
A few stages are clear, milky then amber. Amber being the sign of degradation.
Look for some clear but mostly cloudy because this is when youâll need to consider the flush. (Water feed only) this is done 2 weeks before harvest.
Youâll want mostly cloudy with a very few amber for harvest by then.
As for harvest. Youâll want to flush your reservoir and fill with ONLY WATER so your plants will use up all of their stored nutrients in the fan leaves other leaves etc. also degrading chlorophyll in the leaves and using the rest of the sugars.
This will give a smoother cleaner smoke.
Your roots showed signs of root rot beginning stages also. This is a clear sign of contamination, PH issues. PPM not stable and would pay to look into a course on growing. Suggesting Debacco University on YouTube or weed in a pot on YouTube to get a few pointers on growing and consuming to avoid giving yourself an infection or illness when consuming a contaminated cannabis flower.
Appears as too much nutes originally also as another mentioned-I agree. Primarily, too much nitrogen I believe it appeared in your video. You still did most superb! Congrats! I like the res. chiller you made!
Use soil
On my own first! My girls growing so diffirently to yours! Shes in very indoor pot plant condtions due to werea safe to grow with my family and neighbours so I didnt expect her to grow normally đ though at 1.5 feet tall at my guess her doing as well witn total harvest as Jim, im really happy with that for her size and less than ideal condtions she grew in!
do you grow edible foods too? growing weed would be cool but my dream is to grow my weekly amount of food week after week lol
this is where the misgendering began for the whole world. Obviously female plants named Jim and James. I noticed you didn’t flush. some people do and some dont. I wonder why
Hello do you have any social networks ? I prefer Instagram.
You need a bigger light also
Do you think you couldâve got more bud if you trim less during the flowering process?
Jim would have been better in his own pot. Probably a fight for root space.
Terrible first grow, go organic is much easier , anyway keep going and learn some more about what you are doing
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When drying, You should try trimming the leaves right after cutting down the plant. Much easier than after they hang and dry. IDK, that’s what I’ve always done. For 36 yrs. TEHO. Beautiful Nugs. Do you know the Strain?. Just rooting a few Lake Tahoe OG Kush females. Never made a video. But considering it. I’m trying out a new Airo system I made. So maybe I’ll share. Thanks for your videos. Beautiful stuff brother…