250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Hettyman

Hettyman

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OK peeps, I needs some help with my DWC. This is my first go at hydro, and have got the starts of calcium def, and it's already getting pretty bad. I think that this is due to pH levels. I have been running at around 5.9-6.1, but now dropped down to 5.6-5.7, hoping this sorts it. I have only been using BioGrow for nutes so far, apart from 2 days ago when I added some Hesi power zyme, which is micro elements, including Calcum. Think I should buy some cal/mag?
 
ace720

ace720

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I'm in the same boat over here Hettyman
This excessive heat (95)got my ph going all over the place(I think), and I refuse to cool tent with AC this summer
So my plants not looking that good. But I'm not triping I'm going to let them do what they do.
They might just die:?
 
Hettyman

Hettyman

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Thanks for chipping in Ace

See, I wondered if it was the heat wave causing the issues. What pH do you feed at with hydro?? Also, never had a Calcium def like this in soil, so not sure what to expect from recovery... no new spots, or do the old spots repair as well?
 
Hettyman

Hettyman

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OK, so I have just been into the spare room that houses my tents, at 7am, before light on, and it's an overcast morning, prob about 20-22 degrees C at most, and my thermom is reading 26 c!! I knew it was slightly inaccurate, but that's too much. On the plus side, i'm hoping that when it reads 32 cos of the heatwave, it is really more like 28, not great, but better.
 
ace720

ace720

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Whats up hettyman
I try to feed at 6.0-6.2 but I really don't check as much as I should, when I'm mixing stuff up I do the same thing everyday and just assume it comes out right. But I know I really shouldn't do that because my water can very sometimes depending on when on when they put a new filter on the RO water machine at the store. I use to do DWC and if I remember correctly the PH should be around 5.8 (I think)
 
Hettyman

Hettyman

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ace720 said:
Whats up hettyman
I try to feed at 6.0-6.2 but I really don't check as much as I should, when I'm mixing stuff up I do the same thing everyday and just assume it comes out right. But I know I really shouldn't do that because my water can very sometimes depending on when on when they put a new filter on the RO water machine at the store. I use to do DWC and if I remember correctly the PH should be around 5.8 (I think)
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Lazy Fuck!!! lol to be honest you are usually doing ok, as i'm much the same, 2ml of this, and 1 ml of that, and a drop of pH down or up, and usually end up right where i want it (6.6 in soil) or at worst 6.5-6.7...but I always double check and alter accordingly, cos i'm like that. Rang the guy at what wll be my new local hydro store, to see if he had any Calcium suppliment in stock and got told "lots of people coming in with same problem,check your environment, lower your heat, and if that doesn't help, come buy some". I like it when ppl don't try and sell you stuff for no reason. Got some extra fans dotted around the tents and the ambient room, and they seem happier already.
 
ace720

ace720

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Anyone know where I can find a cooltube that will fit in a 2x2 tent?
I think I need one. I'm starting to get heat spots with the fiberglass
I'm using. Its gotten warp form all the heat and now burning my
plants (just a little) but I still don't like it.
 
Tillinah

Tillinah

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Here is my 250 watt cooltube setup 12/12 from seed - "Female Seeds" C99 and a free seed, about a week and a half since flowering. . Started with a PC grow with cfl's and felt it needed to go bigger. I'm thinking of going barebulb to save space but I'm concerned with the temps.
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ace720

ace720

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No bro ya can't go bare with your plants soo close.
Their going to burn and dehydrate at the same time.
You're doing fine now, but where'd you get the tube :)
 
ace720

ace720

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Hey everyone how's it going?
Im do good. Just got back home
from vacation and seen my lil plants
were all dead :( it's ok. Im just gonna
pop more seed. Lol really didn't care
about the last batch anyway.
So now I'm planting a G13 labs Blue og
and a TH seeds Underdawg og
i guess lets see how this go.
Im excited about the blue og so
i WILL be finishing this one out :)
 
Hettyman

Hettyman

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Sup fools.

Ace. just buy a small fan and hang it under the bulb, from the reflector, worked all through the heat wave, and for 2 years. Seriously. 3-4" inches is no problem (like I tell my wife).

You are very zen, I would be gutted about losing all my plants, cos I would run out of smoke (which I did 2 weeks ago, and been sober since, not happy, but will do me good)

Here is my DWC, that had root rot issues, but al sorted with some cleaning and a little H2o2. Recon i'll finally be pulling a decent harvest from my 250 :)
 

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Hettyman

Hettyman

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Thanks, I'll be doing a lot better when I get smoke. This has probably been the most THC free I have been for 13 years, so really looking forward to the drop in tolerance.

Got lots happening. 10 small bluberry auto's at week 3 above soil, and already forming flowers, just. Gonna put 2 outside this weekend in a local forest, and try guerilla.

Trying two sativa dominant strains, 5 weeks veg, being flipped tommorrow. Going for my biggest plants to date, but recon the DWC will still beat them. Oh yeah, thats another Indi, so hoping to have something dried in the next 6-7 weeks, even if I only chop down one auto a week earlier than the rest.

Hope you're all good other then the loss.

This place seems queit these days, no Grazzmon, or Doobius, I guess a thread can lose momentum pretty quickly
 
ace720

ace720

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Yes a thread can lose momentum quick :-(
But It seems like you're doing great :-P
Im ok myself Just taking it easy
Here's my blue OG IMG_20130802_203512.jpg
 
xp0c

xp0c

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My girls are getting pretty big. I veg'd almost four weeks, and they took a week to show. Right now they are on the second week of stretch. My cool tube is about 8" away.
The Atomic Bomb is producing buds faster than the C99 right now, but that may change because she's supposed to be ready in 52 days. I'm going by first pistil, so she may have 43 days left:)
Hopefully I can get about five zips of these two, so I have a nice stash between grows.

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