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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Macmac124 said:
@AlphaPhase hey ive benn running my table for about a week in a half now the clones look good but when i went to swap the rezs the ph seemed to shoot up in the high 6 range from 5.9 when i started the rez i havent seen any problems plant wise but was just wondering if you kept and eye out for shit like that with the hydroguard and pond zyme being in rez i think its just the bacteria doing it but havent seen a problem with plants yet i remember you saying you dont ph so i havent did anything about it but change the rez after every 4 or 5 day to make sure it doesnt get too high
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I always pH, I monitor pH every few days and adjust, 5.5-6.2ph is where I like to keep it, I never really change my res often, maybe every 4 weeks. It's natural for pH to go up the first 4 days or so, it will rise due to chlorine and other stuff evaporating, my tap water comes out at about 6.2-6.4 and is 7.2 after 4 days, hope this helps!
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Aeroknow said:
I was just pounding some beers with the dude. We are both down with the lollipopping;-)

@AlphaPhase heres the sunset sherbert side in that lil spare room i got going. Exactly 30 days in:
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Here's a shot of one of the blueberrycookies in that room
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Fuck yeah! I can't wait to flower out the Blueberry Cookies outdoor, the thing grows like a freaking beast! Definitely more Blueberry in that gene :) here's mine for outdoor I cant wait
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fandango

fandango

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Aeroknow said:
I was just pounding some beers with the dude. We are both down with the lollipopping;-)

@AlphaPhase heres the sunset sherbert side in that lil spare room i got going. Exactly 30 days in:
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Here's a shot of one of the blueberrycookies in that room
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Looking good,
What are the details on your grodan slabs and cube on top...pump size too
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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fandango said:
Looking good,
What are the details on your grodan slabs and cube on top...pump size too
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Thx bro!
They are 3x3x2.5" cubes on top of 4x6x36" slabs. 3 plants per slab.
I'm using basket drip stakes(one per plant), so quite a bit of gph is needed. This particular setup, i'm using 3-585gph ecoplus bottom draw pumps to water 48 sites, run to waste, in 2-4'x8' trays. 3 DE's are the lighting.
It only takes a little less than 60 seconds for runoff to begin coming out the bottoms, so I run it for 2 minutes right when lights come on. I've seen no need to feed them more than the one time per light cycle.
I haven't rocked the slabs in probably about 13 or so years, and I'm liking the results:-)
 
fandango

fandango

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Aeroknow said:
Thx bro!
They are 3x3x2.5" cubes on top of 4x6x36" slabs. 3 plants per slab.
I'm using basket drip stakes(one per plant), so quite a bit of gph is needed. This particular setup, i'm using 3-585gph ecoplus bottom draw pumps to water 48 sites, run to waste, in 2-4'x8' trays. 3 DE's are the lighting.
It only takes a little less than 60 seconds for runoff to begin coming out the bottoms, so I run it for 2 minutes right when lights come on. I've seen no need to feed them more than the one time per light cycle.
I haven't rocked the slabs in probably about 13 or so years, and I'm liking the results:-)
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Very Cool set up...

I have a 5x5 tray under the 1000W triplexxx/8"ducted.
If I did my math right,should I run 12 plants?
And do a single 585gph?
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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fandango said:
Very Cool set up...

I have a 5x5 tray under the 1000W triplexxx/8"ducted.
If I did my math right,should I run 12 plants?
And do a single 585gph?
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Actually each 585gph is doing 16 plants;-)
There's 3 of those pumps doing a total of 48 plants:-)
I like the sound of 5 slabs with 3 plants each, for a single 4x4 tray. You wouldnmt need to veg that long at all that way. Maybe 6-8" tall, topped once? Or not :-D
Also, those pumps I mentioned are way better than the cheaper active aqua ones;-)
 
fandango

fandango

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Aeroknow said:
Actually each 585gph is doing 16 plants;-)
There's 3 of those pumps doing a total of 48 plants:-)
I like the sound of 5 slabs with 3 plants each, for a single 4x4 tray. You wouldnmt need to veg that long at all that way. Maybe 6-8" tall, topped once? Or not :-D
Also, those pumps I mentioned are way better than the cheaper active aqua ones;-)
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Dang DE lights at my local Hydro shop are 600 bucks
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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ThaMagnificent said:
Alpha,

Im about 3 weeks from seed. What do you think?
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They look behind schedule tbh
How often are you watering
How hot is the temp at canopy level
What light are you using
What ec and pH are you feeding them


Here's day 14 and day 21 using that same system, I hand water seedlings for about a week until a few roots come out of the pot, usually 1x a day or so (I use rapid rooters to start the seed in). I use about 70w of lighting until they are a few inches tall. Then when I see roots I put them in the flood tray at about 700ppm or 1ec for a week, flooding every 6 hrs using 200w of t5 lights at about 24" above the plants.. then 1000ppm (1.4ec) around week 3 flooding every 4 hrs when they are well established, using 400w of t5 lighting at around 16" above the plants.. When they get big, the light of t5 can be really close, like 8". . PH 5.6-6.0

Day 14
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Day 21
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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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This is how big I let them get with hand watering only before I put them in the flood tray, using the rapid rooters. This is maybe a week or or old.

You'll get the hang of it magnificent, it'll take some tweaking and a learning curve. I just switched to rockwool so I feel your pain

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AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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Well, the house i wanted had a bad well :( the well goes dry in the summer and I just don't want to have to ever deal with that, I never really thought about wells being bad since I lived in NY forever and wells were great everywhere.. Its something I'll need to take into consideration now and make sure it's good in the house search :( oh well - no pun intended

Im buying a couple double ended lights to ease my pain and start the upgrade for when I do move.. Figure might as well get the equipment now since I'll need it later.. And just grow a little until I find something. Will be doing just 2 double ended lights on rotation, which 2 DE lights are equivalent to 3 1000w lights, so less electric but more power! Can't complain :)

My grows have kind of been neglected and after switching to rockwool I'm having a learning curve.. I've thrown out a couple dozen plants so far and might throw out another tray if I can get them looking healthy in 7 days. I've taken an oath to myself that I will not flower any deficient plants again, it's just not worth it to me and just too stressful getting a sub par end product :( my mendo Breath and black lime grow barely got a lb, if that, most likely 13.5 zips. It's because the plants weren't that healthy going into flower and that's one of the worst grows I can remember.. The buds are good at least but I need to start getting back on track like things used to be

So I got some healthy clones in the cloner now.
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I have a tray of rooted cuts I'm trying to baby the best I can to avoid any bs deficiency or burning.. They are going OK for now so wish them luck..
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And i have these I'll probably throw away if they don't get green and impress me in a week. I'm not sure what's up with them but I'm guessing its a watering issue /salt buildup, I'm at the point where it's probably better to grow the other cuts above out for flower and cull them
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Which ever 15 plants are the best will be flowered under the new double ended light in a month or so. Kind of pulling my hair out lol
 
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