I LOVE THIS THREAD! i'm a E&G user as well and I'm 19 days into flower.
GreenThumbSucker your journal inspired me and has been a great guide for me! most of my friends are on another site so my journal is over there
Xceptional's #5's Grow Journal
- i'm running 12 buckets
- 1k in a magnum xxxl hood, one more 1k in a magnum is on order and adding next week.
- 10 x 10 room
- Lucas Flora formula kinda (1 - 2 ratio Micro to Bloom added daily to reach the desired ppm)
- 35% food grade h2o2 was added every day at 1 ts per day through veg but i haven't been adding it as much in flower every 3-4 days.
no real issues besides a power outage for 10 hours because i pushed my circuit to the limit with a 400w mh in my mom/veg tent.
i would NOT raise my buckets. i think that bottom 1-2" in the buckets is a life saver in a power outage and i don't see what it could hurt. most of the roots are out of the water anywyas so they are getting more then enough air.
i do NOT run a bubbler in my res or buckets. i'm adding a 305gph pump to my res that i'll just be dropping in there and leaving on to circulate the res. i would add a bubbler but House Garden says to not airaite the res and i plan on running Aqua Flakes the next cycle.
two weeks before the flush i'm adding 1 sachet of shooting powder to my res to see what it does!
a tip a $4 paint mixer attachment on a power drill works wonders for mixing the res to check the ph or ppm afer adding nutes/ph adjustment.
a aquarium floating thermometer is a great addition to the res. just let it float in the res and grab it out to check the temp. just don't be a retard and forget to remove the glass thermometer from the rest before using the paint mixer and shatter it in your res like i did once lol.
here is some porn from the last week.....