My Hidroponic Indoor RDWC (x8 Mars Sunflash 153E + Super Lemon Haze)

[agustinthea]

Hi everyone,

My name is Agustin, i'm a grower from Argentina, and this is my first grow using hydroponics.

My growing room specs are:
18m2 indoor
- Mars Sunflash 153E (150w consumption, equals 400w sodium) 8 units (covering aprox 80cm x 80cm for each plant)
- 6" Intractor with a flow of 1900m3/H
- 6" Extractor with 2x carbon filters
- Bioproyect minerals + fertilizers (this is an argentinian brand of hydroponics)
- RDWC 8.1 System (8 buckets of 20 liters + 1 deposit)
- Air conditioning + deshumidifier
- 8 Super Lemon Haze BSF bank
- The building of this indoor took me 1 month, im really excited of this process and i want to keep the follow-up of my plants to show you and to learn more about this amazing way to grow.
The plants has 4 days of life.
The cycle started on 28/04.
If you have any advice for me, it will be welcomed. Thank you

 

[amneziaHaze]

Huge space but each plant has her own light soo i will be folowing this diary

 

[Bucsfan80]

I wish you all the luck. I hope the rockwool does ok for you. Is there a pump that returns the solution or moves it at all?

 

[agustinthea]

I wish you all the luck. I hope the rockwool does ok for you. Is there a pump that returns the solution or moves it at all?

Thank you mate! There is a pump that returns the solution and also each bucket has their own air pump. Here is how I found them today:
PH 5.5
EC 390-450

The solution is made by:
1) HIDRO VEGE 2ml/L
Nytrogen 8.8
Phosporus 8.56
Calcium 9.0

2) HIDRO MICRO 2ml/L
Sulfur 0.1%
Iron 0.1%
Zinc 0.0005%
Boonm 0.025%
Copper 0.00025%
Molybdenum 0.00025%
Manganese 0.025%

3) HIDROMACRO 2ml/L
Phosporus 3.43%
Potassium2.28%
Magnesium 2.25%
Sulfur 2.9%

4) Mycorrhizae 1ml/L

 

[agustinthea]

Hi everyone, here is a video about the building of the grow space.
From shed to grow room.
I hope it could help somebody!

Greetings

 

[agustinthea]

Hi everyone, here is an update. This is how i found the plants today.
They looks healthy. Actually, the EC is in 480 and the PH 5.4.
I have to change the solution in 4 days.

The root has already entered into the water, I didn't take any pictures of this. I promise next time I will take some.

Greetings

 

[agustinthea]

Hi everyone, here is an update. Today I changed the solution, I recorded a video but unfortunately I can't upload here
New values are:
PH 5.5
EC 750-800
Plants are looking great, there are some stains in the leaves, its caused by the calcium of my water (so high). I sprayed some water to increase the humidity.

Greetings

 

[Drop That Sound]

800 PPM? If so that seems pretty high, and the seedlings won't be using a whole lot until they get bigger anyway.

The first Res you mixed up could technically cover the entire next months veg period if you topped it up at some point. Or until you notice the EC going down faster. Especially with babies in a large system. Res changes are a lot more important later on for sure. No harm though, unless the high EC starts to cook them.

 

[Bucsfan80]

I agree that's high ec for little plants. Are roots in the water yet?

 

[agustinthea]

Thank you for answering! I'm following the indications of Bioproyect. My water has high EC (400ppm), i dont have osmosis filter, that's why i add the products and the EC goes high.
Roots are already in water. Roots are 15cm length.
What do you think? Should I low the ppms? Maybe I can add distilled water.

 

[Bucsfan80]

I usually go ¼ strength at that age but we'll see how it works for ya

 

[agustinthea]

I usually go ¼ strength at that age but we'll see how it works for ya

I will follow them closely next days

 

[Drop That Sound]

You could transfer them all into a single DWC tote for a few weeks, with a few gallons of water. That way your not forking out a lot for distilled, which you could either use pure, or even mix with your current water to like 100-200 PPM.

I would look into getting an RO filter.. You might be able to pull it off without one though. My well water is like 300PPM and stinks, and leaves way to many deposits to run it through a filter, so I truck in water I get free from town

 

[Drop That Sound]

Free 30-40 gallon RV\motorhome water tanks are a blessing

 

[Bucsfan80]

I have a whole house filter. It connects right where the main supply comes into the house. It's like 50$ for the set up plus the filters are like 10$ for like two filters. They have expensive ones that will filter out pathogens and everything but they cost a lot.

 

[agustinthea]

Here in Argentina RO filter is really expensive. I will buy it to use in the next crop.
Here is how I found the babies yesterday. I have added 5L of destilled water and the EC goes down to 550ppm.
PH is 5.5

 

[Bucsfan80]

I'd like to see your roots on those

 

[agustinthea]

I'd like to see your roots on those

I recorded a video but in this forum i can't upload videos. Tomorrow I will be taking some photos

 

[agustinthea]

Here is how I found them today in the morning.
Im keeping the E.C 550ppm - 600ppm. PH 5.5
Considering topping in the next days, what do you think?

 

[agustinthea]

Quite better than yesterday