You might get away with turning board down and keeping them very far away. Do you have a lux meter by chance? Do you have fans in the tent? No fans or air blowing on the clones or they will wilt. I don't buy the high temp needed for LED at least for quantums. I run them alone in one of my genetic test tents and temp never gets above 75 in there since it's in my lung room for other 3 rooms(hps and qbs combined rooms) and there beautiful healthy girls. I find nutrient levels effect plants more under QBs when transitioning into bloom to keep them thriving then temps. I fell for the high temp needed for LED people promote but after using them I don't believe in that theory anymore but some do and whatever works for them or you or me I say just stick with it and keep everything simple. I've ran my water down to 65f before with ambient around 68f with no issues besides taking extra day or 2. Out of all the years I've used aerocloner I've only lost 1 clone out of hundreds and hundreds(probably thousands).
Exactly.. a manifold. That's exactly what I was invisioning
Awww that's a bunch of phooey. I've cloned in a DIY bucket for years.
I've always used just ro. Not ph d. Just straight
I agree. There's nothing like a low wattage 4000K flouro for clones. It just works.
Cancel that order right now. You'll need no more than 100GPH MAX for a cloner manifold in a 5gal, Bruv.
I told you to try the 30GPH. You can absolutely make that one work you'll just only be able to use maybe 1 or 2 spray heads in the square manifold rather than several. Which is better anyways you're not trying to soak them.
I got that one because it’s adjustable and I might go bigger than 5 gallon. 210gph is just its absolute max. I’m thinking about making one out of a 10 gallon rectangular tub. Just depends on what I find when I get to the store. Back when I was much younger I was a professional aquatic garden tech. I hooked up pumps and ran pond plumbing for a living. I always liked to do overpowered pumps with flow control because more powerful pumps are just generally better.
Why not PVC, just out of curiosity? I can get black vinyl at Lowe’s but I wanted something rigid.
You can use pvc but there's just a lot more ease with vinyl. And you can not get the stuff I'm talking about at Lowe's. 9/10 I've ordered it, it's been HydroFarm brand.
The problem is that the containers off the shelf in most places will cause leaks. I made DIY for years in another country where they had better containers, but in America everything I could find would leak out the top unless you installed rubber striping, which is silly when you can buy one for like $100.
Bruh.... Buckets have an ez peel off lid that's PLENTY water tight. That's why we use em. And it's especially why I reccomended to the OP to run to Lowe's for their SQUARE 5Gal bucket that comes with that same style lid as almost all other 5gal buckets use. It's just square, so a lot more uniformity when cutting out sites for clone collars.
Some of us have time, others have money. I can only wish I was one of the latter.