i hear ya man i hit the max temp recording in my room and it was 105 thats when i made the solid choice to do this. what took me months to setup me and 2 buddies took down and set up in one night lol couldnt have my ladies without nutes and light.
very well hottest it has got up to is 80 when my house t stat was set to 77 so i set it to 73 and the room stays 75.
sweet!! im drawing up a new cooling system myself to solve the heat. hope it works
yup it sure is carpet and that may be a issue not sure but i do have 2 ac units in the house both refrigerated air with return vents so there is very low humidity in the house. i also live in desert climate so we are not known to have very high humidity anyway. i actually vegged my clones in that room for months now and never had a problem so far im keeping my fingers crossed lol thanks for tagging along and for the rep.
hope it works for you to man the heat issue is a pain in the ass and things needed to keep it cool are usually expensive lol.
lol no problem at all about the ?'shey dr great thread, quick ?, those pots in your flood and drain setup, how big are they? less than a gallon i assume? i plan on running a perpetual flood and drain in a couple months and planned on just dumping hydroton in the table, but your way is waaaaaaay cleaner! my only worry would be root space, doing your setup you wont be able to have medium sized plants, just single cola sog style correct? in other words how much would you yield off of 8 plants in one table? what size are your tables??
LOL i just realized i asked like 5 questions and started with one
i know the feeling, sucks when you exhaust all your resources. i really didnt want to move mine to that room as i liked the room for guests but gotta do what you gotta do lol.yep first and for most is a chiller if this shit keeps up lol next would be a location change cus at this point ive tryed everything
or even where you got the ones you are using now?
lol absolutelyok ok ok when/if you do get bigger pots please share where you got them
2 tables share the same res because they are all put in at the same time, how big is your res? just big enough to fill one then drains and fills the other? does that make minimizes nute intake on the second table?
how often do you top off the res? when you do, is it pure phed water or with nutes?
do you top feed every once in awhile when the table is full just to moisten the top layer?
you said to fire away
my trays flood 4 times when lights are on and once when lights out, first watering takes place right when the lights kick on last one being right before lights out. i think 8" pots would work perfectly for larger plants.
the actual trays are made by botanicare i fabbed the stands and the res's i bought from wal mart as the botanicare res's are ridiculously priced.those tables are prefabbed or did you contruct?
THATS IT! no more questions!!
you and me both man tiling would be real nice but i had to do this move quickly but if i see something funny going on i will figure something out quickly lol.
thanks doc
