oceangreen
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Ditched this method when I found out I can do just as well with 1/4 of the effort
Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
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oceangreen
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You will learn alot from this method. its a very advanced method, where yo uare in full control. So, If you are not up to par with exactly what your plants need, things can go sour fast.
sky rocket
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Ocean green so what method do you use that's 1/4 the effort?
AKGrowAreo
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Lol. Thats hilarious. You must be running magnetic ballasts???
AKGrowAreo
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Maybe he's talking about soil? Less watering and generally less equipment to fail on you. I however like the complete control that LP Aero/NFT offers and will probably be stinking with it for the long haul.
Year in soil and other hyrdo/aero methods including DWC, HPA, Drain to Waste, and many more, but non were superior to LP Aero/NTF. I am not saying that Aero/NFT is the end all say all growing method, its just the method that I have personally had the most success with. I am anal as fuck about keeping my grow clean as to keep out pests. Its really fucking hard to run a clean soil grow...soil=dirt, dirt + water = mud, mud = dirty grow area. I also love the fact that there is no medium in proper aero. Medium is just another place for pests to reproduce and thrive. No medium = now place for pests to reproduce. I run a fully sealed grow so I am able to fully control my environment. I guess I am just a control freak...lol!
joey green
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its a Lumatek LK6120 600watt, i believe its a digital ballast.
i had 2 x 600watt dimmable lumatek's running before with no issue, recently i bought 2 more Lumatek ballasts, they are used 600 watters and they are not dimmable but i picked them up for a good price. I switch out the ballasts i was currently using, and tested the new 600's for a week to make sure they worked fine, a week later i got the cable guy at my house.... i need to find a way to block this interference im causing... does anyone have experience with his?
Sal Baretta
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How far is your ballast from your TV keep it as far as possible. .
Sal Baretta
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From tv's and cable boxes and Internet modems
questiondj42
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Any hydro store should have it. Any aquarium store too.
joey green
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cable box is in the backyard maybe 20' away, modem is upstairs and in the front of the house. no TV near the grow, i dont have cable but my internet goes thru my cable, i read that i need to cap all my unused cable cords, something about them amplifying the signal...
chaz if your ballast question is to me everything i am using is Lumatek.
questiondj42
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Digital, electronic, or magnetic? If you're getting that much EFI, it's probably magnetic and you should invest in a digital ballast. The switching is better and generates less EFI.
questiondj42
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What PPM levels are you folks running in your setups? I'm running ~300 in veg and ~450-500 in flower. And I'm still seeing little bits of tip burn. Ideally, I want zero tip burn. My suspicion is that DynaGrow is just stupid potent and I really need to run very low concentrations.
chaz67
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Thanks Joey! Would like more input on this anyone else want to chime in? Thanks to all of you for sharing all this info freely to us newbies
sky rocket
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550-750 ppm in veg but I use canna Aqua and R/o water
Sal Baretta
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Chaz you can get ph up or down on Amazon ... And I think the guy is using a lumatek ballast same once I use for my tents.
ttystikk
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Your problem IS your ballasts; because they're HIGH frequency digital ballasts and unshielded, their RF interference is terrible and fucks with cable systems all the time. You can get inline power isolators but that isn't always the source of the problem. Better, properly shielded ballasts are the better solution. Sorry to say, but Lunatics are awful for this, they're a shit product from a shit company.
Ignore the uninformed poster who's trying to blame a mag. Those do NOT produce EMI, or electro magnetic interference, due to their LOW frequency operation. Other low frequency, especially digital square wave ballasts are much preferred for better performance and low EMI.
The BEST solution? COB LED! Those drivers output DC current, with no EMI at all- and as a bonus, COB LED is up to twice as efficient at producing PAR light for your grow than HID options, even DE or 315W CMH.
Hope that helps, and for all the amateurs out there; unless you KNOW, do us all a favor and don't spew bullshit you 'heard' from somebody, first get your facts straight...
...Straight from the manufacturers, as I've done in this case.
Sal Baretta
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Maybe Joey green doesn't like LED like I don't I'll choose HID'S over LED any day. And I used lumatek ballast for years and never had a problem. .... but comes down to personal preference. ....Joey likes hps not led his question was what to do about his problem. ...not about amateur or professional ....lol
Sal Baretta
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Let try to help out not make people feel like idiots....by your comment....