New Grow In "Cool Cab" Hydrocabinet-Pictures Attached!

[fishizil]

Hey All…
I recently purchased an all in one hydro setup. I had some issues with my first grow. I don’t know what I did wrong (I followed the instructions to the letter), but my plants just stopped growing and the leaves curled up after 2 weeks. Anyway I decided to flush the whole thing and start from scratch. I am hoping you can help me with this. I see OROD has the same setup as me and is having better results. I have gotten advice to ease up on the nutes, but to play it safe I am asking my RIU compadres to help out. I will post pics as the days go by but here is what I have done so far.
1. I started with 12 gallons of distilled water in the reservoir.
2. I have openings for 14 plants and netpots so I put seeds in all of them and placed them inside.
3. The seeds are 12 good bagseed---1 Northern Lights---1 White Widow (didn’t want to waste too many good seeds in case it doesn’t turn out too well again).
4. I added 2 tsp of Superthrive to the reservoir.
5. I added 2 tsp of Moon Dust (the all in one nute mix supplied with the hydrochamber).
6. My ph is at about 5.5-6.0
7. My ppm is consistently about 300
8. My 2 90w LED grow lights are about 6 inches above the top of the netpots.
9. The water drip is about 1 per 2 seconds on each pot.

That’s it for now. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do?



Thank you and please keep checking in for the pics. I will start posting tomorrow.

 

[orod]

Hey All…
I recently purchased an all in one hydro setup. I had some issues with my first grow. I don’t know what I did wrong (I followed the instructions to the letter), but my plants just stopped growing and the leaves curled up after 2 weeks. Anyway I decided to flush the whole thing and start from scratch. I am hoping you can help me with this. I see OROD has the same setup as me and is having better results. I have gotten advice to ease up on the nutes, but to play it safe I am asking my RIU compadres to help out. I will post pics as the days go by but here is what I have done so far.
1. I started with 12 gallons of distilled water in the reservoir.
2. I have openings for 14 plants and netpots so I put seeds in all of them and placed them inside.
3. The seeds are 12 good bagseed---1 Northern Lights---1 White Widow (didn’t want to waste too many good seeds in case it doesn’t turn out too well again).
4. I added 2 tsp of Superthrive to the reservoir.
5. I added 2 tsp of Moon Dust (the all in one nute mix supplied with the hydrochamber).
6. My ph is at about 5.5-6.0
7. My ppm is consistently about 300
8. My 2 90w LED grow lights are about 6 inches above the top of the netpots.
9. The water drip is about 1 per 2 seconds on each pot.

That’s it for now. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do?



Thank you and please keep checking in for the pics. I will start posting tomorrow.

i will be fallowing this one, anything i can do to help just ask.

good luck!

 

[fishizil]

Hey all.
Ok its been 4 days and my seeds have sprouted. Everything seems to be ok except one thing. My ppm has risen to 350-400ppm. I haven't added anything since the first day. Can anyone tell me why? I dont want my ppm to go through the roof when I add my nutes again in a few days. I will be posting new pics tomorrow night. Please stay with me on this.

 

[fishizil]

Hello...
It has been 6 days and I have a question. Some of my seeds havent sprouted, but thats ok, I have plenty. The question is that I have 1 plant that seems to look ok except it has some white fungi type mold at the very bottom of the plant. I havent added anything yet. Also I am using 2 90w LED lamps. They are at about 12-16 inches above the tops. Should I lower or raise them? But I will start tomorrow night so if I can get some help before then it would be appreciated.

 

[fishizil]

Ok... Here are the 10 day pics...
I am going to heed your advice O and get at least 1 more airstone. My temps are consistently in the mid 60s so I dont know what to do about the CO2 boost. I think I may get one anyway. I wouldnt hurt either way would it. I am hoping it could at least help.
Anyway, if you dont mind check these pictures out and give me some good advice.

Incidentally today at day 10 I added
6 tsp of Fox Farm Big Bloom
2 tsp of Superthrive

All to a 12 gallon reservior.

 

[fishizil]

Hey All.
Does anyone know if I can hook up 2 airstones to 1 pump? I have one now but I think I either need a larger airstone or 2.

And I ned a co2-booster. Anywhere that offers them cheap?

 

[fishizil]

Ok you know the deal if you read from the first post so I'll tell you what the deal is as of today. I am at day 14 and I changed all the water in my res. What a pain in the ass though. Unhooking the lines and cleaning up after spilling the water around was a real hassle. And the res is really heavy with all the water inside so trying to be easy not to damage the expensive cabinet that I know I overpaid for was a real chore. Took about an hour and I got everything back working with new water. I let the water run for about 20 mins before I added the plants. I noticed that some of the drippers were not running that great so I screwed the tops off and pulled them from the main line and they were pretty dirty. Probably from the nutes and the slow drip I have them on. I cleaned them and blew the lines and all was ok. One problem though was that one of the drippers is not able to shut no matter how tight I turn so I have that 1 dripping to the side on the rocks. It seems to be getting pleanty of water anyway with the fogger and drippers all is moist.
After getting everything all sparkly clean I added about half the recommended for my tank size Grow Big and Big Bloom to a gallon of water and mixed it up good and then poured it in. I waited about an hour and checked my levels and I was at perfect PH and my ppm's were at about 600. So I added some of that Bushmaster they supplied to the res and then mixed up some spray grow (also supplied) and sprayed the plants too. I turned the fans of for about 30 mins to make sure I didnt have spray just laying on the leaves and then I turned it all off again. But today for the first time I had a good whiff of that sweet smell when I opened the cab after about 2 hours. Nice!!! Im thinking/hoping it is the White Widow showing off to her neighbors?

Anyway I havent used the Moon Dust at all in this attempt. I think it may have locked my roots up in my first grow so until I get better at working with it I will just store it. And I had the Fox Farms products from my outdoor grow last year and it turned out really nice for a first grow. REALLY NICE!

Anyway here are the pics for 14 days let me know what you all think? The first 2 pics are the WW and Northern Lights from seedbanks. The rest are from my outdoor grow last year which turned out well so I saved the seeds.

 

[cmeezy]

ay man, imma follow this grow, I'm really interested in the UFO led. But anyways I've heard the led lights give off virtually no heat, so why not put them like 2-5 inches away from your plants so they don't have to stretch? Just a thought. Good luck with this grow bro.

 

[fishizil]

Hey all... Ok to all who stayed with me through this thank you very much. Take a look at the pics. I am at 3 weeks now and I have had positive growth over the last 5 days since I drained the res. I think I probably cant save about 5 of them but all the others are growing again. I am at 18/6 light cycle now. I havent added any more nutes and my ppm is at about 650 now. My ph is about 5-6. The lights were too low for a day so i raised them to about 6 inches off the tips. Oh and I also have roots now. One thing though there are some small roots coming out of the sides of the plugs. Should I be concerned?

Please let me know if I should be doing something else as I do not want to lose them again

 

[orod]

Hey all... Ok to all who stayed with me through this thank you very much. Take a look at the pics. I am at 3 weeks now and I have had positive growth over the last 5 days since I drained the res. I think I probably cant save about 5 of them but all the others are growing again. I am at 18/6 light cycle now. I havent added any more nutes and my ppm is at about 650 now. My ph is about 5-6. The lights were too low for a day so i raised them to about 6 inches off the tips. Oh and I also have roots now. One thing though there are some small roots coming out of the sides of the plugs. Should I be concerned?

Please let me know if I should be doing something else as I do not want to lose them again

looking good! how many are in there?

 

[orod]

how u making out? lets see some pics

 

[fishizil]

Hey all.
I started flowering about 10 days ago and I have a few problems.
1 I had to remove 6 plants due to lack of room. That is going to be something any of you who are thinking about this unit have to be prepared for.
2 I noticed that at least two of my remaining plants have all but stopped growing.
3 the leaves at the bottom of the plants don't seem to be getting any bigger. I think it may be a combination of water and lack of lighting reaching the bottoms.

I am going to post pics tomorrow so please give me some feedback.

 

[Donaldo]

you doing OK, would love to see some pics?

 

[fishizil]

Hey All...
I havent really had the best of luck with this one. Thanks for all who have helped me along though. My mom got sick and I just have been taking care of her for the last month. I sort of just let it go. But I do have one WWidow still alive! You can see in the pics!

All the others either died or were males and I removed them. I started with 14 and am down to 1. Take a look and see if you have any idea why? I dont for sure. I will be starting another grow next week. I am going to flush this one in a few days and call it a day. I would suggest though to all newbies thinking this cool cab will solve all of your problems, dont think that. There is still a lot of work to do.

 

[Donaldo]

Hey man so sorry about your MOM getting sick, and your plants...check out my grow, so far so good for me, maybe of some help next time???

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/333249-dual-90-watt-ufo-led.html

 

[dirtysoap]

Hey....

I bought a Caddy, similar to the cool cab. I was doing a search on Moondust and got to your post. I am using autoflower seeds and wasn't seing any flowering at day 24 but today I am seeing the beginning of it. Hope yours is going well!

Here is a link to some pics of mine.

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/353359-auto-flower-not-flowering-day.html

Oh and definately spent way too much on the thing...I know what ya mean. Also changing the res is a huge pain...All in all dissapointed with the sunlight shed team. Was missing a few things when I got it and cords weren't labelled and the backup resevoir leaked all over the place. They sent me two more in the mail before they sent me one that had a tight seal and didn't leak. Way over priced for the quality but I guess we live, learn and blow our money on silly contraptions we should probably build ourselves.

 

[dirtysoap]

Oh and definately spent way too much on the thing...I know what ya mean