AsianKatie's First Grow (Indoor)
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asiankatie
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air hose
air pump
airstone
hydroton
rockwool
5 net cups
10g tub
water..
cut 5 (or how ever many plants you will be starting with) holes in the tub the size of the cups. and another hole at the top of the tub just under the lid for the airhose. Test the holes you made with your cups to be sure they are not going to fall through, and there is no significant gaps between the net cup sitting in the hole and the hole itself, you dont want extra light getting through there. and be sure that when your netcup is in the hole that it will be able to withstand some amount of weight inside of it without falling through... you don't want any plant suicides dropping into the water. If for some reason you have found that you have made a hole slightly too big. get some duct tape and layer inside the hole until you find that your desired size has been reached. as you can see that i did in the bottom left hand hole in my set up. feed airhose through hole and attach to pump, then attach airstone to other end of hose inside the tub. be sure to cut the airhose so that it fits, you dont want a lot of slack in the airhose as it will be less powerful the longer distance to be traveled, don't plug into wall just yet. Place tub in desired spot that it will be... fill the tub with about 8 gallons of distilled water, or just above the line inside the tub you potentially want the water about an inch away from the bottom of the net cups, so that when bubbles are running it is just splashing the bottom of the rockwool and hydroton. Once water is inside the tub, then go ahead and plug the airpump in. put a small amount of hydroton in the bottom of the netcups, rockwool ontop of that with the seedling in it(after germination of course). fill the surrounding area around the rockwool with hydroton. place cup inside hole and repeat until desired amount of cups are filled and placed in the lid. be sure they sit tight and are not going to fall through. place lid on top of tub and look to see if the desired water level has been attained as mentioned before.
uhhh yeah think thats about it.
asiankatie
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bongspit
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thanks for the air hose tip, I had a real long hose and I was able to cut 3/4 off and it made a difference. I did not use an air stone this time, wormsway.com had an aerator rubber hose and it makes a bunch of bubbles.
asiankatie
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hmm that works too
asiankatie
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reeffermadness
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dwc...my favorite way to grow. How badly is the yellowing occurring? Like is it progressively getting worse?
asiankatie
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no no, staying the same.. here you can see.. it's still blurry i know but its the best i could do. me thinks it might have to do with the pH. hence the reason im doing a water change today. i gotta go out and get some tubing for the siphon and a jug i guess for the water change
on another note the middle plant (this one) is starting to smell ^_^
reeffermadness
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yup....DWC is fickle when you don't have the meters. Let us know how the flush works out for ya.
FaCultGen
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lol i'm jewish... i'm not trying to hound you or anything, but i just know you need a meter, and also some way to check ph, i see the leaves or your plants, i just had the same problem you are, if you have been feeding, it's definatly nute burn, thats what it was with me, live and learn,don't feed for at least 2 weeks, hope you get that fixed, mine are still all messed up, but i think there pulling threw. -Cult
trapper
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you think it might have something to do with the fact that in the last few months she has asked questions from ordering seeds,to lights to differant online hydro systems,just about everything,she took alot of the advice and even built her own system,now she is useing the information gathered and doing a journal,so alot of newbies wanting to see it done from scratch.prooving that this site is all you need to complete a successfull grow.so when you see someone come with just the desire to grow and then members help it become a reallity,thats what its all about.
asiankatie
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word. you tell em
maseo111
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Yes, yes, and yes. Fairies, check. Unicorns, check, Woodland nymphs? Can somebody cue the nymphs....... This is Trapper's fairytaleland , so can someone please cue the those goddamn nymphs!
It IS all about noobs doing it from scratch, no question.
I just think you might be sporting some serious (alliteration?)rose-colored glasses when it comes to a cute girl with a cute avatar who talks cute getting TONS of help on a thread.
asiankatie
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alright alright, take it easy, ill take some more pictures this afternoon. I didnt do the water change last night. yes, i am a bad horticulturist. I bought halo3 instead and got all tied up with that. so...... yeah i WILL go buy water today, gotta drop off the boyfriend @ school and then ill go buy some water and do the change before i have school @ 1. @_@ yipe. thats a lot of water for a lil lady to carry in the house. FOR THE PLANTS!! But i used to work in a tropical fish store, and it was originally all guys working there and the manager said i was too wimpy so if i wanted to work there i had to be able to jog across the store with (2) 5 gallon containers of water. @_@ i did it. WEWTSKIES. yeah totally off topic but, ill take some peektures. yesterday i went out and bought some tubing so i can do the siphon thing, and a 5 g bucket for mixing the pH down with the water in, and transporting the old water