uh oh...had a power outage

Ramona's

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i'm running a deep water cultivation setup that i made for 4 plants, it was my lights out time anyway, but somehow the power went out and my air pump was off for 3 hours with my little babies just sitting in it. i went and checked on them 9 hours after turning it back on and they all seem a lot bigger, stronger, leafier, and doing generally well so i'm assuming this 3 hour no bubble time didnt hurt them bad enough.

this is my second day in a dwc as the plants were all organic soil and cfl. then they got switched to a 250w Mh and the bubble box.

anyone think i still need to be careful?
 

Ramona's

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so any help? should i be worried or what? i'm worried that somthing might come up eventually, like twisting leaves from stress or what.
 

LonghornFan

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You should not be worried at all...Not enought time to hurt anything. You didn't stress them enough to make any difference. Matter of fact, you did them some good from the results. It's not uncommon for stuff like that to happen. They are too strong of a plant to let that 3 hour time period even bother them...keep up the good work...put some pictures up!!
 

pencap

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check this out...I cut power to my outdoor grow room cuz the plants were not doing well due to a root rot problem, so I killed power....left it that way for a week..........went out there to get some netpots for my closet, and those two were still alive, I yanked them from the netpots and left the rootball on the patio table for a few hours, then decided, WTF, I'll put 'em in dirt....now look at the, taken today.....




Nahhhhhhhhh, a couple of hours isnt going to affect anything...even a flowering cycle...
 

jigfresh

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That's wild that they can take more than a couple days like that. Good info on lack of bubbles. When the power was switched off how full was the reservoir? I would guess that would make a difference, if it was topped off, vs half full.

I run dwc too, but do you have any idea how long those aero guys have before the roots being dry messes their plants up. A couple hours?
 
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