wonderblunder
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Nice grow. Don't have time to read it all right now, so i will be back... scribed......
Bubblelicious, New York Power Diesel, and Super Skunk in DWC
- Thread starter Bob Smith
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The abridged version is "spent lots of money, lots of failures trying different bubbler setups, then decided to go E&F for flowering".
The End
But anyways, happy to have you aboard, and to anyone else reading, just getting things ready before my filter is delivered today - basically just last minute things, taping up the rez and grabbing a bottle of Floranova Bloom from the hydro store.
That and cleaning my other Rubbermaid full of hydroton and then I'm ready to install it as soon as the filter gets delivered - with any luck have the clones vegging in there before I go to bed, but more likely tomorrow morning.
Also having an issue with the sativa mom - been noticing it for a couple of days now, but seeing as how I'm 90% that she's not going to be needed further, I haven't really cared about it.
That being said, I guess it would behoove me to figure it out in case it reappears in the future with a plant that I want to keep.
Gonna have a pic update as soon as the clones are vegging, so stay tuned.
wonderblunder
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I am feeling you. I have spent a assload on hydro stuff, and then to timid to make the switch. I build some nice E and F tables that I don't even have a place for. I am condo living right, now thus cannot make any changes that are too permanent to the house. Should have a workshop, or warehouse space to grow in by january. That will be the day.......washing hydroton.......I hate it....... I will read the whole thread this evening and then post..... Glad to be here, thanks for having me. Judging by the first post we have somewhat similar setups.......
Very nice to have you aboard, my friend.
wonderblunder
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What is the difference between the New York City Power Diesel (funny: NYPD) and NYCD
"NYCD"? Do you mean ""NYSD"? Because I believe the "power diesel" is simply a knock-off of "sour diesel"; not sure what you mean by "CD".
wonderblunder
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New York City Diesel. I believe is the original strain....... then I was thinking sour diesel and pwer diesel came off it? I have no clue, I was wondering.
Well, the filter's here - this thing is much, much bigger then I thought it'd be.
They also thoughtfully didn't include any large screws to mount it, so I'm off to Home Depot to grab some of those.
Will have pics up sometime tomorrow; wish me luck on this installation, this looks a little more complicated then I'd bargained for.
They also thoughtfully didn't include any large screws to mount it, so I'm off to Home Depot to grab some of those.
Will have pics up sometime tomorrow; wish me luck on this installation, this looks a little more complicated then I'd bargained for.
Yeah, I stand corrected - aside from the mounting of it, the rest was pretty fugging easy - it's running now, going to let it "flush" itself (as per the manual) for a half hour, and then take a sample pH and TDS reading.
Hoping for 6.0 and anywhere from 25-50, but we'll see - my tap water was 7.5/150 before.
Integra, how do you know how fast to pump water through it?
Mine says that 90PSI is the max water pressure, but I don't have a meter for it - just turned the hose on a very, very light pressure.
Sound about right?
Integra21
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Water pressure in pipes is always below that. You should be able to have the hose full open with no problems.Trust me when I say you want as much pressure as you can. you'll know if the pressure is too high by the ppms. But pressure is almost never too high strait off of the lines. they say that max for people that hook up pumps to try to get higher flow rates. With that as the start point, my guess is around 7.0ph/3-9ppm's. But we'll see in a little bit. My base is 7.3ph/330ppm and after ro is 6.8ph/9ppm.
Not sure why, but I assumed that RO water had a pH closer to 6.0 - 6.2...................somehow my pH went up (to 8.0), and my PPMs are at about 3-5.
Oh well, that sucks - was hoping the filter meant that I could throw out my bottle of pH Down, but I guess that's certainly not the case.
Lol, probably would not have bought it knowing what I know now, but such is life.
At least I've got really pure water now
Anyways, gonna get 45 gallons of pure water tonight and load up the tent tomorrow morning.
Pics will come after.
wonderblunder
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Just got caught up........ Looks good.. Lots of money spent... hope the results are good. Im here for the road........
Glad to have you, friend.
BTW, no one told you that you can only get great herb by spending obnoxious amounts of money? C'mon dude, that's Gardening 101
Anyways, hoping the investment pays off and then some, but only time will tell.
Twils
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Not sure why, but I assumed that RO water had a pH closer to 6.0 - 6.2...................somehow my pH went up (to 8.0), and my PPMs are at about 3-5.
Oh well, that sucks - was hoping the filter meant that I could throw out my bottle of pH Down, but I guess that's certainly not the case.
Lol, probably would not have bought it knowing what I know now, but such is life.
At least I've got really pure water now
Anyways, gonna get 45 gallons of pure water tonight and load up the tent tomorrow morning.
Pics will come after.
Glad to see your filter came in and you got it up and running.
I've been thinking about switching from distilled water and getting a RO filter, but if its raising pH I'd rather not , as the pH of my tap water is already at 8.5.
Burn on!
Well I think it raising pH in my case is more the exception then the rule - as Integra said, his pH went down, and that seems to be the "norm" - anyways, I did some reading on it and got some scientific mumbo jumbo - if anyone's interested, check out the link.Glad to see your filter came in and you got it up and running.
I've been thinking about switching from distilled water and getting a RO filter, but if its raising pH I'd rather not , as the pH of my tap water is already at 8.5.
Burn on!
Now, meant to get up at about 4:00am and turn the water back on (just didn't feel right leaving it running all night), but didn't do that, so probably won't have my forty gallons until sometime this afternoon - no worries, just doing some more prep work.
Also, good thing I'm changing the nutes today because these little bitches have a nice little mg deficiency happening right now.
http://www.watertechonline.com/detail.asp?Parent_ID=138441
Twils
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Very interesting, thanks for the link. It seems that guy is having the same problem as you?
Burn on!
Seems that way, but that's way too much chemistry for me 
Anyhow, looks like I should have my 40 gallons within the hour - getting somewhat nervous about putting those goobers in there
Anyways, just doing some last minute checks before the tent's officially christened.
Pics to follow within a few hours.
Anyhow, looks like I should have my 40 gallons within the hour - getting somewhat nervous about putting those goobers in there
Anyways, just doing some last minute checks before the tent's officially christened.
Pics to follow within a few hours.
Twils
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Seems that way, but that's way too much chemistry for me
Anyhow, looks like I should have my 40 gallons within the hour - getting somewhat nervous about putting those goobers in there
Anyways, just doing some last minute checks before the tent's officially christened.
Pics to follow within a few hours.
Been so long and so much planning, no stage fright now!
Can't wait to see this work of art rocking and rolling. Me thinks you'll be super happy and relieved to see that hard work finally paying off!
Burn on!
Lol..........yeah, just a touch nervous about the clones dealing with the stronger light, stronger nutes, and 1500PPMs of CO2 all up in their grills, but I'm confident they'll handle it.Been so long and so much planning, no stage fright now!
Can't wait to see this work of art rocking and rolling. Me thinks you'll be super happy and relieved to see that hard work finally paying off!
Burn on!
Doing some checking to make sure what I'm seeing is actually a mg deficiency (pretty sure it is) while I wait for this fugging filter to gimme some more water - looking like it's gonna be at least a few more hours.
Jesus.
Anyways, I'll do an update in the meantime, and then do another update once I've put them in there.