formfactor
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Wait... Are you serious? It actually calls you? Very cool... Could you hook it up to some kind of USB relay and have it send you an email?
For All Cap Ebb and Grow Users
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hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
clearex is not needed I think its a waist of money
Ferredoxin
Active Member
I clean my res every week with my res change. I use bleach at around 1/2-3/4 C per few gallons...Its not precise. Quick scrub, double rinse, and refill.
Ferredoxin
Active Member
hellraizer is right....CLearex is a waste of $$$. Think about it...the purpose is to leach as much salt into the solution as possible in order to clean your medium. Leaching works via osmosis....from high to low concentration. Adding anything to the leach water will only serve to decrease the amount of nutrients that can dissolve in the solution. Starting with as low PPM water as possible is best for leaching....ie tapwater or DI/RO.
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
hey ferredoxin you change out every week geez doesnt that burn up the nutes fast?
Ferredoxin
Active Member
Not really....I only use about $200 in nutes every grow. I keep my EC around 1.8 when they are really cranking...usually around 1.5. Are there people who dont dump their res each week to clean it and freshen it up? I add almost 10 gallons of fresh h20 per day....by Lucas standards that would mean a changeout every 5-6 days. I thought I was pushing it by going every 7. How are you supposed to change the strength/ratio of the nutes according to the growth stage if you dont dump every week?
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
I dump every 2 weeks but due to slime im thinking of every week to.
tommyo3000
Well-Known Member
i've been slime-free for a month now because of chlorine bleach. I pour some in my rez every day or two..
Ferredoxin
Active Member
Do you top off with full-strength nutes or fresh water?
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
Once a week I add nutes to my add back at 1/4 strength the rest of the add backs are plain fresh
Water
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
If your useing technaflora thrive alive b1 then bleach is a no no,
Im switching to tech this run with the full resipe for sec hope to
See good results. So #1 system is tech #2 system is AN and
#3 system is GH il be switching the GH for dyno gro as soon as
I can get it on order. My goal is to find the cleanest running nute
Brand out there.
drgreentm
Well-Known Member
i want to know the same thing, i run the gh flora now and its WAY cleaner than the floranova and i have also heard great things about the dyna gro, im interested to see how it works for you.
researchkitty
Well-Known Member
DONT USE BLEACH. This was discussed in this thread *four* times before already, and determined every time to be not good for Hydroponics. 
You can use a little bleach in a spray for a cleaner, but dont go filling up your 55 gallon rez with bleach water then draining it out.
To clean your 55 gallon rez, use a sponge and water. No need for any cleaners or chemicals of any sort. ALL of that nasty brown residue that you see there is just nutrients settling. Add a cheapy recirculating fishtank pump to help prevent that, they are $6 at a Hydro store. Just drop it in and let it run! No hoses required.
I never clean, nor change my water, until after each harvest. Its always a top off and balance ppm to whatever week the plants are on, and if there's any "new" nutrients for that week they get the full 55 gallon dosage of that particular product then just continual balancing after that.................... Each 8 week harvest uses about 150 gallons of water for every 3000 watts of lighting. Pretty low usage and low waste...........
Hope this helps
You can use a little bleach in a spray for a cleaner, but dont go filling up your 55 gallon rez with bleach water then draining it out.To clean your 55 gallon rez, use a sponge and water. No need for any cleaners or chemicals of any sort. ALL of that nasty brown residue that you see there is just nutrients settling. Add a cheapy recirculating fishtank pump to help prevent that, they are $6 at a Hydro store.
Just drop it in and let it run! No hoses required.I never clean, nor change my water, until after each harvest. Its always a top off and balance ppm to whatever week the plants are on, and if there's any "new" nutrients for that week they get the full 55 gallon dosage of that particular product then just continual balancing after that.................... Each 8 week harvest uses about 150 gallons of water for every 3000 watts of lighting. Pretty low usage and low waste...........
Hope this helps
endogarden
New Member
What is this object you describe? Some sort of aquarium water filter? That sits in your rez and cleans the water, but doesn't remove useful particles?To clean your 55 gallon rez, use a sponge and water. No need for any cleaners or chemicals of any sort. ALL of that nasty brown residue that you see there is just nutrients settling. [red]Add a cheapy recirculating fishtank pump to help prevent that[/red], they are $6 at a Hydro store.
You never change your water???!?!?!? And everything is fine????DONT USE BLEACH. This was discussed in this thread *four* times before already, and determined every time to be not good for Hydroponics.
To clean your 55 gallon rez, use a sponge and water. No need for any cleaners or chemicals of any sort. ALL of that nasty brown residue that you see there is just nutrients settling. Add a cheapy recirculating fishtank pump to help prevent that, they are $6 at a Hydro store.
I never clean, nor change my water, until after each harvest. Its always a top off and balance ppm to whatever week the plants are on, and if there's any "new" nutrients for that week they get the full 55 gallon dosage of that particular product then just continual balancing after that.................... Each 8 week harvest uses about 150 gallons of water for every 3000 watts of lighting. Pretty low usage and low waste...........
Hope this helps
researchkitty
Well-Known Member
Its the pump that most nutrient manufacturers say to use in your hydroponic reservoir.
Not "this particular pump", but one like it is plenty fine:
http://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Aquariums-Fountains-Pump-Mini/dp/B000HHQGM2
All you do is plug it in and drop it in the rez. It keeps the nutrient mixture moving around so that nutrients dont settle on the bottom of the tank, where your pumps are. Really helps alleviate most of the cleaning requirements of Ebb & Grow.
The exact model I use is like $6 at the Hydro store, whatever their least powerful smallest pump is will work just fine.
Remember, no hoses, just toss it in the barrel and leave it on 24/7. It wont move enough water to spray it out of the barrel, nowhere near that much pump power.
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
I run a recirculating pump already but Im not baging on you and your method of not doing res dumps just im not going
to jump into it without alot more info on it. ive seen and heard people do it just not comfortable yet.
to jump into it without alot more info on it. ive seen and heard people do it just not comfortable yet.
tommyo3000
Well-Known Member
i've flowered with only two changes with superb results. I would think that no changes could produce good results if the rez is big enough,,