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wyteberrywidow

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Haha hell u r going to be a busy man. I look outward to seeing some monsters. I'm coming over when they are finish so I can be a strain hunter .. Saying its smells like pine lol.. Post on YouTube lmao.
 
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jski9999

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I saw waaaay back in the beginning of this thread that you are running h202 @ believe you said 225 ml per 55 ga. Was wondering what percent h202 you use if it's diluted etc. I've tried the block thing it's ok. Run air to the buckets works great till around the third week of flower then the buckets separate and I'm mopping floors. thanx.
 
hellraizer30

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jski9999 said:
I saw waaaay back in the beginning of this thread that you are running h202 @ believe you said 225 ml per 55 ga. Was wondering what percent h202 you use if it's diluted etc. I've tried the block thing it's ok. Run air to the buckets works great till around the third week of flower then the buckets separate and I'm mopping floors. thanx.
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When i was using h202 its was 29%
can you give me more info on this third week flooding?
 
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jski9999

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I run 4" airstones between the buckets, once the roots get to a certain size there's no where for the air to go so it spits out between the buckets taking nutes with it. Wouldn't call it flooding, annoying for sure. Doesn't always happen I've gone full cycle without issue. Other times like the batch I just sent in two weeks ago, it happened in two weeks. I can tell ya the benefits in veg are huge. I have the same size plants in 3 week I used to have in four. Flower? Juries still out on that one.
 
billcollector99

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jski9999 said:
I run 4" airstones between the buckets, once the roots get to a certain size there's no where for the air to go so it spits out between the buckets taking nutes with it. Wouldn't call it flooding, annoying for sure. Doesn't always happen I've gone full cycle without issue. Other times like the batch I just sent in two weeks ago, it happened in two weeks. I can tell ya the benefits in veg are huge. I have the same size plants in 3 week I used to have in four. Flower? Juries still out on that one.
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Sounds like your buckets were too full...
 
hellraizer30

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jski9999 said:
I run 4" airstones between the buckets, once the roots get to a certain size there's no where for the air to go so it spits out between the buckets taking nutes with it. Wouldn't call it flooding, annoying for sure. Doesn't always happen I've gone full cycle without issue. Other times like the batch I just sent in two weeks ago, it happened in two weeks. I can tell ya the benefits in veg are huge. I have the same size plants in 3 week I used to have in four. Flower? Juries still out on that one.
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So your running air in between the outer and inner bucket! Is there left over standing water in the buckets after each flood?
I raise my bucket 2 in to make shure there zero water left over, but i have been thinking of running a air stone to each
Bucket and set a timer to the pump to cycle on during flood times. The air pushing water out seems like a draw back but
If you turned down the amout of air going in might solve this.
 
kevin murphy

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now thats a setup...sweet grow rooms hr...
hellraizer30 said:
My 4x4 veg has x2 8 bulb hydrofarm lights above it!

My plans for uc system are gunna be put on hold till summer :( lack of funds lol
So to boost my veg scene up a bit im striping out all the stuff in my 4x8 tent and
Puting in a ebb&grow in it, reasons for this are larger area for plants to root in!
Plus there zero transplant just slide out and slide in :) no stress= better yields in
The end.

Gen. Layout
10x14 bloom room= 6 to 8 600s and replaying all bulbs to digi lux hps.

10x10 bloom tent= 6 600s also going to digi lux bulbs hps

4x8 veg tent= x3 8bulb t5 hydrofarms pannels

My bloom tent will be just my gage green test tent :) lots of good gunna come out of it !
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hellraizer30

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Thanks kev! I just order a d7000 nikon aswell combined with my 105mm vr macro lense and a r1 speedlight i should be taking
Super kill pics, but i got to figure out the setings in this thing lol
 
InsaneMJ

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I've seen the ebb sets with the air stones in em' seems like a great idea to help keep the water air raided. But I keep on thinkin of the uc system which allows a fresh supply of water an nuts not just oxygen.. I'm still in the middle of customizing my ebb an grow. Once I'm done though I hope it doesn't back fire lol. I was curious too, with the uc system is it a flood and drain cycle or just a constant supply of water & nutes?
 
InsaneMJ

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So when you say a constant fresh water, does that mean your replacing the water daily or weekly? I assume since it goes threw nutes faster you'd have to do it atleast weekly?
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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InsaneMJ said:
So when you say a constant fresh water, does that mean your replacing the water daily or weekly? I assume since it goes threw nutes faster you'd have to do it atleast weekly?
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Well to start off in uc you use half the nute levels you would in a ebb! The 8 gal 8 bucket uc system uses 98 gal. And needs to
Be topped off with frest plain water daily to control water level, this is done by a float switch connected to a large fresh water
Res. I have read that in the peak of bloom a 8 site uc setup can burn 30 gal a day and adding back nutes strait to the system
Not the res is needed, plus ph control to. As for weekly or by weekly system clean outs, ive read theres no need to due to the
Amount of fresh going in :) during transition from veg to bloom you do a clean out and flush! One reason im thinking why to use
Half strength is the roots are constantly in fresh nutes.
 
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