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That's not bad. The BS dial HAS been up to 11 in the past. :lol:

Screw the fruit trees. I'm getting one of these. :twisted:

Phosphorus supplements will burn plants quite effectively at 4x the correct dose! Dump the tank and remix. Flush your plants with plain water adjusted to pH 5.8 to get the overdose out of the medium. P burns look a lot like this. You'll be quite unhappy in about 2 weeks if you leave the...

And a bummer it is, too! Effin' good thing these jokers don't sell tyres. Imagine! "Our tyres don't come with a 'when to replace light' but you'll know when they're due for replacement when the tread flies off on the motorway. Experience with one of our products will help you when you own the...

I can't recall any mfr of the things giving any sort of estimation on how long they last. That's my problem! I don't know how long they're supposed to last and I definitely can't trust my own schnozz to tell me when they're spent!

Are you running a flood or a drip system? If a flood system, flood to 1/2" below the RW cube. The water level should not touch the cube or it will saturate and give you root rot probs. No! Wet the pellets, never the cube. The RW cube should be put in the pellets when it has a decent spray of...

Yeah, I know ya poms think 31C is a heatwave. *giggle* We had a 45.1C day wrapped with a few 42-43C days last summer. Now THAT'S a heatwave, bro. ;) I will agree that change of season is a rough time unless you have perfect, year-round climate control, tho. Unlikely, I'm afraid. The feller...

We shall see. It's a bit of a mess at the moment and not worth photographing as I've had a couple of batches of clones fail in rapid succession recently along with a pH meter failure which caused me to shoot the pH too low in the flowering area & clone watering soln for a few weeks. Both are due...

No worries. :) In the time I've been off the boards, I've also added a monstrous carbon filter to the exhaust from my flowering area. The Uvonaire 5000 just could not keep up with the massive 600CFM from the main blower and the output would get whiffy when there were a lot of plants in the...

You'll be able to rely on the Truncheon for years. Just follow the mfr's instructions for periodic cleaning to assure accuracy. Put a good pH meter rather high on your wishlist. It's a necessary bit of kit in any hydro op. Your fears regarding integrated meters are well founded. Only those...

Now you're just making me blush. :oops: I'm glad I could be helpful, but please don't give me too much credit! Probably a catfight! :lol: While I see what he's after, notably eliminating reflectors from the lighting system, causing all light to come directly from the lamp, eliminating...

Looks great! It'll start packing on the budmass now. Mahalo to you, too. :) How did you know I glow in the dark? :lol:

You're most welcome. :) Keep in mind that I didn't invent SoG. My only innovation (and I'm sure it also has been done before I yapped about it a lot) was the staggering of crops in 2-week intervals to break up the harvesting job a bit yet keep a steady output from the op. My main...

Whether it's important to you or not, Mr Moneybags ;), you better believe that it'd affect the lamp life! HPS lighting should not be hot started. Unless in a fan-forced cooltube, 10 mins is not enough time to cool the bottle & socket to ambient temp. It is startups, even from cold (but...

no wucking furries, mate. :) Thanks for the welcome, but I can't really do the whole Q&A trip anymore. I once was putting 6-8h/day into it, inclusive of frequently repeating myself when a new grower would join one of the 'Ask Al' threads late in the game. Yeppers. While vascular plants...

bwahahahahaha... :? off to the punitentiary with ya! :D Back on topic, I forgot to mention that one should plan some overhead for HID lighting startup current draw into any wiring plans, whether that is with heavier gauge Romex (you can't ever go wrong with 10ga) or by stagger-starting multiple...

Depends on the circumstance. In a bubbler op where you're not using H2O2, the loss of the air supply can encourage anaerobic pathogens and thus root rot, etc.

Just in for a stickybeak. No 'Ask Al' threads gonna get started, I hope... I just haven't got the time for it these days.

Thanks for the greets. :) My comment on molasses of course is made in the context of a hydroponics forum. Molasses may have some use in soil, but it should be kept well away from hydro ops.

The Bluelab Truncheon is the TDS meter to beat. I have one which has more than 8 years service and is still going strong. Buy well and buy once . pH meters are much more problematic as a rule. Since pH electrodes in even the best meters last only about 2 years, the pH meter you buy should have...