Schmoke

Hi all

I'm having a little contest at the moment, I have three Silver Pearl plants in soil, and two in a DWC Bubbler.

Now I'm almost a month in flower, and it seems the DWC girls are still stretching, whereas the soil plants havent grown in height it seems for a week or two - and their buds are far more developed than the hydro plants.

They are both being given the same hydroponic nutrients, but the two plants in bubblers refuse to settle down and fatten out.
I'm not too worried at this stage, because it can take a whole month for the stretch to finish.

But has anyone else found that Hydro plants keep growing for longer before developing buds?

Peace

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GreenDragon2k

Yup. Soil plants have always matured faster than hydro plants in my experience. Also kick into flowering much faster, while their hydro counterparts were always stretching much more.

But the yield from the DWC kicks soil in the arse

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Scroggles

i was just about to start the same thread, my nl#5 x bb is more than 3 weeks into flower and still stretching.. thanks for the info GD

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jamesgang

... Grow monsters, let them stretch like a raped ape. I just turned my lights 12/12 a week ago and my plants have went from 24 to 36 inches. Looks like 4 footers and cages are in order again... You cant do that in soil in such a short time, and yes the harvest will about double in hydro...

JG

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scooterpie

I have never grown in soil but i do know they can stretch like the devil in DWC.... from Here to Here is 31 days of my current grow..
A 5X + for these ladies..

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Schmoke

Thanks for the replies guys - it's made me feel a lot better

If the hydro buds fill out lke the soil ones are, its guna be impressive

Peace!

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Blinebuddy

DWC is very productive. alot of my buddies have DWC going, but they have them under no light ( like less then 50W) so they arent going to produce- but if they had them under some real lights they would kill fools! haha, but yeah, the yield will be more with the DWC.

peace,
bline

AxisBoldasLove

Great thread, i never noticed that plants grow or mature slower in hydro than in soil but i have noticed that they do stretch a lot more during flower, maybe because it has access to a lot more water than it would in soil.

Very interesting.

WhAcKeD

Man, I will be excited to see the end results - make sure and post back with your final yields Schmoke!

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AxisBoldasLove

Ok so i've been and i came up with this theory

High levels of dissolved oxygen in DWC systems could be the cause for slow maturation. May not be the case in other types of hydroponics that do not require air pumps.


From GC.com Grow FAQ
Iron (Fe)
Iron is an important component of plant enzyme systems for electron transport to carry electrons during photosynthesis and terminal respiration. It is a catalyst for chlorophyll production and is required for nitrate and sulfate reduction and assimilation.
Iron deficiency:

From Plant Biochemistry: current research

Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous prosthetic groups required to sustain fundamental life processes. The assembly of Fe-S clusters and insertion into polypeptides in vivo has recently become an area of intense research. Many of the genes involved are conserved in bacteria, fungi, animals and plants. Plant cells can carry out both photosynthesis and respiration - two processes that require significant amounts of Fe-S proteins. Recent findings now suggest that both plastids and mitochondria are capable of assembling Fe-S proteins using assembly machineries that differ in biochemical properties, genetic make-up and evolutionary origin.

On the back of CAL-MAG it says

***NOTE-in hydroponics, iron falls out of the solution relatively fast due to the use of magnetic driven pumps without grounding probes and high levels of dissolved oxygen from air stones and pumps.

I'm not shure what this has to do with the ripening of plants but it could definetly slow down the process.

When using air stones i think it is safe to say that a little addition of CAL-MAG can be highly beneficial.