18 gallon tote dwc

legallyflying said:

If you happen to find $60 in the couch, I would go buy a good air pump. Those sunbastard "commercial" pumps like you have are ducking HORRIBLE. Loud, hot as fuck and their diaphragms are made of a thin piece of tin that will not last long.

Pondmaster AP 60 would give you 20 lpm per tote..just about perfect. You can't have enough air, especially when they start filling with roots.


Looking good though!

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For sure man thanks yeah I told the hydro store guy just grab me the right size one of course he sells me some cheap shit.
Thanks for the heads up!

Well I live about 15 miles from sunlight supply main warehouse and all the grow shops here just call them and order everything.

I have several of those ecoplus units and after opening one up to fix it I thought..you have to be fucking kidding me.

The pond master pumps and alita are THE BOMB. They are nice and quiet and only get warm. You will think they are not on the first time you turn them on.

I just bought 8 AP100's for $133 each on eBay. They are really nice and you can buy a rebuild kit for around $18 and it includes everything you need to replace everything. All the seals, diaphragms, everything

Im having good experience with my GH dual diaphragm air pumps. I got it online for 60$. 20LPM, never have issues. 40db unconnected. Connected to tubing and air stones its gotta be around 30-35db. One of the most quiet air pumps out there.

Nice man I'll look into those

I'm stoked got my blue lab ph and ppm pen today
Had them at
Ph- 6.2
Ppm- only 160

Which I thought was wierd cause I did a cap full of micro and veg of the general hydro stuff and a little bit of bloom.
Just eyeballed it, but I thought it was a lot but I guess not.

So I got a pipet thing with my ph and ppm pens so I'll be able to measure the right amount of nutes and get them up to like 600.

Some Pics

Got the ph and ppm in check


Ph- 5.2-5.4
Ppm- 600-650

Got the ph in check and it fixed the middle ones leaves.

Just got back from being gone for a few days and things are looking amazing. I'll get some pics up soon. I'm thinking another 7-10 days of veg.

doubletake said:

For sure man thanks yeah I told the hydro store guy just grab me the right size one of course he sells me some cheap shit.
Thanks for the heads up!

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keep the air pump u have, its working, if it breaks then buy a new one... i have a hydro farm air pump looks just like yours with the 8 site atachment, yeh its a little noisy but damn does it produce bubbles..ive been using mine for almost 5 years and its either gotten quieter or im getting used to its sound..either ways it produces more bubbles than any other air pump ive tried. even used it to fill an airbed once..what brand is yours?? all i can say is my hydro farm 8 site air pump is the shit, each outlet will output enough air for 7 1 inch airstones or more,i have 1 going to a 30 gallon res w/ a 12 inch sandstone and it airates the shit out my res..if it aint broke dont replace it!!! your set up looks top notch bro!! thinking of building a couple myself just to do some side by side compares..anyways hope it all works out, you should get some killer yields with that set up..

you can check out my home made dwc if you want,,
https://www.rollitup.org/t/chemist77-pic-journal.850252/

I wouldn't have PH 5.2-5.4

Thats asking for trouble.

I just got a Bluelab combo after having issues with their PH pen. Wasn't a fan of it. This way if the probe goes I can replace it for like $40. Instead of throwing out a $90 pen. Unit and EC/PPM probe have a 5 year warranty. Much better than the 1 year on the pens and 2 years on the guardian.

I liked Hanna handheld combo design better. Being only one probe. And the EC measured hundredths.

I was going to say the same thing. Start your PH at 5.5, don't adjust till 6.1

If it rises too fast, you need to add more nutes

They've been doing
Fine around 5.5 to 6.0

I need to Flip to flower but have to Take clones first I'm scared I might run out Of room i only have 6 inches to raise my light.

And u can see there spread out now like almost using the whole 4x8 instead of just the right side which was only 4x4.

Your definately going to run out of room.
When u switch to flower they will stretch more than 6".
You could put in a screen now and bend them over a bit.
But u might have to find shorter totes

Yeah switch now, I recently had a strain triple on me in size from the switch. And went from runt to giant.

I hate running a variety of strains I didn't pair with strains of similar growth, but this is what happens when you hit the end of your seed stash.

Looking good though.

Get yourself some pgR or you are going to be fuuucked. They will double in size..at least

With this mk ultra I usually see a 50 to 75 percent stretch so We will see guys thanks
For all the positive words hahaha

Looking bad A$$ doubletake! Flip em and see what happens. They look like indica's, hopefully they won't stretch too much! Looking forward to seeing these take off!

yeh, lookin good but 6 inches is cutting it to close..i agree w maybe tieing them down or adding a screen of green tech..but they will definately be nice plants