Home Built NFT/Aero Hybrid System

[The_Enthusiast]

I think you are fine with that pump - I run 1600L/h that is about 450 GPH...
You need to consider height of the pump - in other words - the pump loses it flow the higher the tube of pumped solution.
My pump is 1.45m max height but even at about 80 cm the flow is about 50% less than "horizontal power" (check the datasheet of your pump)

 

[Silicon Magician]

I think you are fine with that pump - I run 1600L/h that is about 450 GPH...
You need to consider height of the pump - in other words - the pump loses it flow the higher the tube of pumped solution.
My pump is 1.45m max height but even at about 80 cm the flow is about 50% less than "horizontal power" (check the datasheet of your pump)

Oh the distance the pump pushes is 1.5m horizontally, and maybe a few tens of cm vertically

 

[The_Enthusiast]

http://sunlightsupply.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/product/728300_Instructions.pdf

But - sadly there is no graphical datasheet like this:

As you can see - my pump the 1200 model "stops" working @ about 1.5m

 

[Silicon Magician]

Well, here we are at Day 20, 1/3rd of the way there! The plants are just super happy and thriving. They're already getting their first hairs and stretching for bud production. I took a bunch of clones of these three and 5 clones will be going in on March 1st. 20 days later, 5 more clones of Girl Scout Cookies from Amsterdam Seed Bank goes in and 20 days after that a local strain of Girl Scout Cookies I got from another grower.

Just as that last batch of 5 clones goes in the 3 plants in the photo will be ready to harvest. After that 5 plants come out 30 days later, and once that first 5 comes out, harvests of 5 plants every 20 days.

I'm stoked. I guess photos are still down though.