DIY waterfall rdwc system

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MItonic

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Ok ladies and gents, i have built this system from the ground up. System includes,
24x18 gallon totes
1x55 gallon epicenter
Danner 1200 gph water pump for circulation and chiller run through
Lifetec 4200 gph water pump for waterfalls
3/4" outlet waterfalls in each bucket
1" mains feeding falls
2" feed piping
1" return tubing.
Ppm was 230
Ph 5.8
Water temp 70°
Room temp 78/80
RH 75-80%
Pool shock
Athena ag blended line nutrients
PowerSi prototype for rdwc/dwc

Was running hydrogaurd as it did me great my last run but wasnt doing fck all this run

18 apple fritter (lumpys breeder cut)
4 singapore sling (tiki breeder cut)
2 Ice cream cake (our own pheno)

The 18 fritters took 25 days to root and actually reveged due to the stress of rooting, they were grown in rockwool and were introduced to the system June 14th. They got fcld somehow and would NOT take off so 1 week ago i carefully peeled off every bit of rockwool from the roots and stems and they have blown up with roots and started filling out now.

Pics below are the system and the plants on day 1, will post pics of today later. Starting ppms were 500 but since the fritter wouldnt take off i cut ppms back to 230 and they have done great!
 

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Here are the current pics as of today, one thing i HATED but got lucky with was i had SOOOO many fucking issues with my first grow that a few of you were involved with helping me on fixing, that u pretty much tried every gosh damn thing know to man to save those 28 plants.

And i DID i saved all of them but 1 and got them to a good finished harvest. I do have a notebook i will retract to writing up here on that grow as well when i have a month to do so (lmfao). This is why i didnt trash these right away, i had a damn good feeling i could do it.
 

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Update, dont really know what the deal is. They were starti g to grow decent adter shock recovery and have been idle at growth and root growth for about a week now and look like this. 2 nights ago i flushed then last night i refilled system at 210ppm and 5.7 ph, water temp at 68 running shock at .3g per 10 gallons.

The roots that looks brown have no slime or smell whatsoever. I need help gents, im once again at my witse end and rdy to just scrap the whole room and go to rockwool. Idk how they could possibly be locked out my oh has never been higher than 5.8 or lower than 5.6, some plants actually look nute burnd a bit (ppm no higher than 250 last 2 weeks)

Room is at 76/78 day and 72 night
Rh 70-75%

I need help, lol
 

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myke said:
Starving,500 ppm should be.
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You think those leaf tips and edges are doing that because of lack of nutrients? That would make sence to me as well for sure, early on when it first hit it looked just like nute burn but seeing the rest of the leaves deficiencies starvation would make sence!

Ty sir
 
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MItonic said:
You think those leaf tips and edges are doing that because of lack of nutrients? That would make sence to me as well for sure, early on when it first hit it looked just like nute burn but seeing the rest of the leaves deficiencies starvation would make sence!

Ty sir
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And some calmag,girls are big enough.Youll see them start to green up soon.
 
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UPDATE

After talking a long while with Current Culture engineers my Waterfall pump was simply not enough pressure to support the system i built so i was definetly lacking in DO because of it. I have added airstones to all buckets but 8. Those 8 buckets are still waterfall only and have great pressure, all plants are doing awesome and definetly finally taking off like they should. Also i am still at 530pp like @myke suggested to do and am going to continue hydrogaurd again the rest of this grow (will switch to diluted Souther ag at 1.5ml per gallon solution wich is equivalent to 1g of hydrogaurd)

Still running Athena AG nutrients blended line but seriously thinking a out switching back to floraflex or going with current colutions

Ppm 530
Ph 5.7
WT 69°
RT 78°
RH 75%

Water dropling daily still, roots pearly white and growing.
 

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Everything is looking absolutely gorgeous and im Going to flip in another 2 weeks possibly less. Building a 2" thick insulated isolation wall and door between grow room and utility area this week as well.

RT 78-80
RH 72%
WT 68-72°
PPM 700
Rapid start
Nutes are Athena Ag blended line
Testing a prototype for PowerSi made for undercurrent systems (its been absolutly fantastic)
Botanicare Calmag
Floraflex veg foliar mix for spray
Athena IPM 2x weekly for pests and diseases

Ty to all who always help me
 

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