^Slanty
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I hear you there in regards to cost. As for the slime issue, I chose to treat mine the natural way by brewing EWC tea and it worked like wonders for me. I try to stay away from chemicals as much as possible. The less going in the better imo.Yeah. I got the slime and then I got a little agro and basically shocked my plants with physian and bleach they just sat there for two weeks doing nothing so I pulled it. Prior to that though I was having deficiency problems. I'm not sure what the hell the deal is with the air. I like the UC in theory, I mean, it's fucking cool with all the water moving around. I just hated emptying it and it's finicky as hell.
Might give it another go in the summer I have two harvests before then that I HAVE to kill it to find expansion plans. 31,000 watts of gear and 9 tons of AC does NOT come cheap. Shit, the fucking bulbs alone are going to cost me $2,300.
I am contemplating on expanding and becoming a legal grower for medicinal patients in the future. Here is a tid bit of information for you though in regards to the emptying hassle. I have only done a complete system change out ONCE and I am at roughly week 8 in the grow.(guessing ~40-50 gal total for the system) I changed out at 12 days into bud I think it was roughly.(~6 weeks without change out) Been rocking it non-stop without having to even change out the system! I have been adding water like no tomorrow to the system to keep it topped up because they drink so much, but my methods have mirrored prior feeding schedules with other methods. ie. I top up the water for a couple of days; let the pH fluctuate/rise a couple of points and PPM drop; then ~day 3 I top up the system and feed again to get my PPM's back up to my target. Has worked flawlessly. Once the system is dialed in, the water additions and then nute additions pretty much level the pH again on their own as well. I don't know what else to say other than I seem to have this shit dialed in and I can literally walk away for days without a worry. I love it!