BudMcLovin
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I had a couple of test this week. A ball buster of a calculus test so I havent posted much. So that means a big update with lots of pics. Whats the point of a journal without pics.
The day after I changed my nutes out last time the roots on my biggest plant had a brown goo all over them. I thought it might be root rot since my temps seem to be hovering around 73. I havent done anything about them because I want to see if it causes a problem. Anyway the brown goo has since disappeared and the roots are looking good.
The roots of the others are all about the same size.
The smaller 3 are all about the same size and have started growing good. They all turned a little purple yesterday and it got a little worse today. So Ive decided to change the nutes out today.
The bigger plant has been topped and tied down. She is growing but showing signs of nute deficiencies. Its crazy how fast she is growing.
Picked up some A.N. Bloom yesterday.
They are getting 1/2 strength this time. Hopefully theyll like that. The valve made it a breeze to drain and rinse the system. There wasnt any film build up or slim on the buckets so I just gave the system a good rinse. As you can see from the root photo above there was a small amount of debris in the bottom of the middle 2 buckets. It took 35 mins to drain, rinse and fill the system. I already had the nute mix ready but that took longer than the change.
Bought a new air pump. It pumps 38 ltr. per min. Im going to run it to all the buckets in my veg room. Puts out a shit load of air, lots of bubbles.
I made an upgraded feeding tube for the system. Its 1/2 all the way to the buckets. While my initial test on it seemed promising when I got it all together it just doesnt perform as well as I would have liked. Currently with a 1/2 hose feeding the 1/4" hoses my slowest bucket changes out its water every 5mins and 4 secs. With 1/2 all the way its reduced to 4 min. even. I guess its the old law of diminished returns. Id need to upgrade the pump to see a major increase. Im sure Ill use 1/2" in the flower room because Ill be moving more water but considering the buckets are already set up for the 1/4" Im going to stick the smaller hose.
Ill be putting my other clones in that system tomorrow. Im letting it pump a mix of water and h2o2 tonight to clean it all that crap from the fox farm nutes out.
The day after I changed my nutes out last time the roots on my biggest plant had a brown goo all over them. I thought it might be root rot since my temps seem to be hovering around 73. I havent done anything about them because I want to see if it causes a problem. Anyway the brown goo has since disappeared and the roots are looking good.
The roots of the others are all about the same size.
The smaller 3 are all about the same size and have started growing good. They all turned a little purple yesterday and it got a little worse today. So Ive decided to change the nutes out today.
The bigger plant has been topped and tied down. She is growing but showing signs of nute deficiencies. Its crazy how fast she is growing.
Picked up some A.N. Bloom yesterday.
They are getting 1/2 strength this time. Hopefully theyll like that. The valve made it a breeze to drain and rinse the system. There wasnt any film build up or slim on the buckets so I just gave the system a good rinse. As you can see from the root photo above there was a small amount of debris in the bottom of the middle 2 buckets. It took 35 mins to drain, rinse and fill the system. I already had the nute mix ready but that took longer than the change.
Bought a new air pump. It pumps 38 ltr. per min. Im going to run it to all the buckets in my veg room. Puts out a shit load of air, lots of bubbles.
I made an upgraded feeding tube for the system. Its 1/2 all the way to the buckets. While my initial test on it seemed promising when I got it all together it just doesnt perform as well as I would have liked. Currently with a 1/2 hose feeding the 1/4" hoses my slowest bucket changes out its water every 5mins and 4 secs. With 1/2 all the way its reduced to 4 min. even. I guess its the old law of diminished returns. Id need to upgrade the pump to see a major increase. Im sure Ill use 1/2" in the flower room because Ill be moving more water but considering the buckets are already set up for the 1/4" Im going to stick the smaller hose.
Ill be putting my other clones in that system tomorrow. Im letting it pump a mix of water and h2o2 tonight to clean it all that crap from the fox farm nutes out.
. How does the pvc mount to the bucket? I'm switching to a 4x4 tent instead of a 5x2 so i'm gonna make a new one. Also did you buy all your stuff at the local Homedepot/lowes? I'm definately installing cut off valves this time. It will make things so much easier.
