aeroponic plants

i have 2 plants in a 18 gallon tub with 10 sprayers attached to a 300 gph sprayer,i have my timers on my pump set to 18/60. my plants bout 3 weeks old maybe 4 max.they are growing well but everyday in the morning right after a long 18 hours of light they get droopy,the bout a few hours after the lights come back on they perk up then get droopy at the end of the day.i have a few pics,i would appreciate some good knowledge on the matter.thank you

i just need some help fine tuning my system,the plants that are in there are just test plants for my entire system,i have clones comin soon and id like to have the system tuned before they get here,

Whats your water temp,air temp,ph and nute ppm????????

seems pretty slow to me

pooffreakdudeguy said:

i have 2 plants in a 18 gallon tub with 10 sprayers attached to a 300 gph sprayer,i have my timers on my pump set to 18/60. my plants bout 3 weeks old maybe 4 max.they are growing well but everyday in the morning right after a long 18 hours of light they get droopy,the bout a few hours after the lights come back on they perk up then get droopy at the end of the day.i have a few pics,i would appreciate some good knowledge on the matter.thank you

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Totally normal. Mine do that too sometimes during the veg stage. They only droop when the lights are off and then they perk back up a few minutes before they are ready to come back on. No big deal.

I have a feeling it's the 60 minutes of no H20 that is causing the drooping. Get urself a recycle timer (IE: 1 minute on, 5 minutes off). Keeps those roots nice and wet all the time without over-watering.

I run the pumps 1 min on and 5 min off day and night, in all 3 stages (cloning, vegitation and flowering)

When they dont get enough water they will droop and die.

It has never failed me.

awesome i will go buy one of those i saw them for like 100 i figured i might get away with a regular timer i guess i was wrong, so i will update back and let riu know how they are doing,

also just for info my water temp is 75F growroom temp is 77F canopy temp is 70-80F,between 650-750 ppm, ph is between 5.8 and 6.4 always.my humidity is in the 60's

My plants were showing the same symptons until i narrowed it down to my water temp.Before i got my chiller i wasnt able to control my water temp.It was always jumping from high 60s to about 75.I found out that in an aero system, ideal water temp is 68 degrees.My chiller fixed that problem.Hope this helps

what is an economical way to bring my resivoir temps down,so far i have been using frozen 2 liters but its still a pain in the ass to change every few hours,can i diy,or maybe a good priced online site that someone might have an address for.thanks

ive got another question for an aeroponics guy out there,what are good sprayers to use,i bought some ez clone360 sprayers and they suck its more like 2 streams of water then a misty 360 spray,what sprayers do yall use to get an even 360 misty spray?

how do most people keep their resivoir temps down

ex clone sprayers are the best, if you want more fine mist you need a stronger pump, my smaller cloner uses a 250gph pump and i get the same stream effect, works well though, as for timers, you dont really need an expensive cap timer, your pretty close, i get excellent results using 15/45 lights on and 15/60 or 15/130 lights off, before getting a new timer adjust your timer and see what works best for you, as for rez cooling the ice packs suck, i got nasty root rot trying to keep the rez temps in check, i found out quickly that if i can control the environment perfectly, then i cant do hydro in that space, most decent setups i have seen always have an a/c or water chiller, the chiller costs over $350, a 5,000 btu a/c is $99 at home depot...thank you for letting me voice my opinions

another thing about sprayers, i used another 330 micro sprayer cus they were cheaper, but found i need a stronger pump to get the same mist from the ez cloner bcus of the spray hole being a bit larger, now rain drip makes a 360 spray head thats blue with a red cap, the spray pattern is absolutly perfect, unfortunatly 2 of 5 just drip water, and thats when you install them without breaking the cheap caps

yah the holes in the ez clone sprayers are big i had a 396 gph pump on 8 of them in a manifold,they sprayed like hell,but no mist,i went to lowes yesterday and bought some cheap misters from their garden department and they work 100 times better and were only like 3 bucks for 10 instead of a dollar each at the hydro store.but i bet that the misters will clog up more easily,i will just have to keep an eye on them.until i can bring my ambient temps down i guess ill stick to ice bottles during my lights on cause at lights off im like 65 or less
in my res

oh yeah and i raised my mh 400 light up about 6 inches and my plants responded very well,they stopped drooping all together,i guess ijust had the light too close,raising the light also lowered my canopy temps and my res temps,the plants seemed to do a turnaround from just raisin the lights a tad,picky little guys.