Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

Supaleeb, were you running the tea in with the Botanicare that Stink uses or did you already stop using those nutes by the time you used the tea?

How is everyone keeping the lights out of the flowering rez? Where the fence post drain back into the rez, it is cut to let the water in and the light comes in to...

I wanted to also give an update on my rez temps. I have insulated the rez on the sides and the bottom with that reflective bubble wrap insulation from home depot and have had much more success controlling the temps! The temps were staying below 70F with the room temp at about 70. Today I started creeping the temps back up in the room to 75. It took a couple hours for the rez temps to get to about 71F so I put in a 2 liter with water frozen in the rez and it went down to below 58F and kept under my 70F threshold all day with the room temp at 75F.

I know that low water temps are bad too but we would want the lower temps compared to the bacteria growing and throwing everything off right?

With the insulated rez at least I am making some headway. If anyone has any comments or suggestions about the low water temps and its effects plz let me know. I will try to keep updated.

petersonscott79 said:

How is everyone keeping the lights out of the flowering rez? Where the fence post drain back into the rez, it is cut to let the water in and the light comes in to...

I wanted to also give an update on my rez temps. I have insulated the rez on the sides and the bottom with that reflective bubble wrap insulation from home depot and have had much more success controlling the temps! The temps were staying below 70F with the room temp at about 70. Today I started creeping the temps back up in the room to 75. It took a couple hours for the rez temps to get to about 71F so I put in a 2 liter with water frozen in the rez and it went down to below 58F and kept under my 70F threshold all day with the room temp at 75F.

I know that low water temps are bad too but we would want the lower temps compared to the bacteria growing and throwing everything off right?

With the insulated rez at least I am making some headway. If anyone has any comments or suggestions about the low water temps and its effects plz let me know. I will try to keep updated.

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I don't bother covering the little amount of light at the post drain, You could just cover it with reflectix.

Correct cool is better than warm, but you can still get Brown slime at cool temps.
I run Co2 @ 84F. My rez are coleman 30 gal ice chests that are " supposed to " keep Ice for 5 days. I use 1 gallon frozen milk jugs for ice to kool my rez', my res will be at 64F +/- at lights on and if I don't ice the rez it will be at 74F +/- by lites off.

I experimented with an outdoor rez this winter. Minimum temp was 52F in that rez, had a slight N lockout, and when the temp got around 60, all was well. That rez now runs up around 70 as the outside temps are warming up to high 60's so I am beginning to Ice it.
I believe the temp rise is primarily coming from the residual temp of the posts, I am going to pick up some reflectix next time I go to the HD and insulate the posts.

I have pretty much copied Stink's entire setup and I don't monitor my res temps. You guys are making me think I should tho.

Yes, the temps need to be <72 I'm told.

I haven't had a problem yet but I know *prevention* is the key, so I will have to get some thermometers for my res'es soon. You guys do clean your systems every 3 weeks right?

I have been cleaning mine every week. I just cleaned everything again tonight and added Hygrozyme (sp). Hopefully things stabilize now and I get some clones a rootin!

Nice thread, but ive found that using DWC, aero, or nft will yield a#/ 1000w hps regardless of the # of plants. Be it 4 or 14, and if you use say a 14 pot turbo garden as a DWC system instead of ebb and flow like it was designed, ( dont use a timer and let it cyle constantly and add aerator blocks to your top tray to inhibit root rot.) you can run 4 systems in an 8' x 16' room with 4 1000w hps and harvest a # every 2 weeks! Probably the most efficient way to SOG or SCROG that ive found. Truly going superman!!!

ive never "cleaned" my rez. ive only had one episode of algae breaking out. and that was cuz i left the lid off of it. my rez stays 68 -65 ALL the time. its a 20 gallon rez and every sunday i will take 5 gallons out. but everyday i top it up and make sure its full and check the ph and ppm. everyday. its always good so not much else. i bought the milwaukee ph600 meter. the yellow and black one. you gotta keep the meter in water so the probe dont dry out, but its so much more damn easy than those little drops and bullshit. o, i bought clearex... used it yesterday. dont know exactly why sugar is good to flush your plants with. but whatever ill roll with it.

Hey Andrew,
Are you using a 1 minute on 4 minutes off pump schedule? What are your room temps?
Thanx, Bob

petersonscott79 said:

Supaleeb, were you running the tea in with the Botanicare that Stink uses or did you already stop using those nutes by the time you used the tea?

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No, sorry. I had stopped using botanicare nutes by the time I got to using the tea. I do have some still lying around, though, that I need to use up. If I ever get around to trying them out with the tea, I'll post here.

petersonscott79 said:

How is everyone keeping the lights out of the flowering rez? Where the fence post drain back into the rez, it is cut to let the water in and the light comes in to...

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Black trash bags work fine for me.

petersonscott79 said:

With the insulated rez at least I am making some headway. If anyone has any comments or suggestions about the low water temps and its effects plz let me know. I will try to keep updated.

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In the winter, which is the only time I have low temp issues, I have a 50w aquarium heater in each of my rez's, except in my flower room, where it's unnecessary. I keep my veg unit at 70, and I've been keeping my cloner at 74 lately. They're quite efficient.

i have a question when adding water, making ph and ppm adjustments do you turn the pump(s) off or do you make adjustments in the 4 minute window your left with??

nah. im doing a slightly different setup than this. i was just giving some help on reservoirs. my room temp is 75 lights on, 70 lights off

For those that use Stinkbud's recommended nutes (Botanicare), do any of your ladies suffer from too much N?

LVsFINEST said:

For those that use Stinkbud's recommended nutes (Botanicare), do any of your ladies suffer from too much N?

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I use Botanicare only, but I don't run my ppm over 1000 @ .7 conversion. No problem at all with N.

Stinks seemed like high ppm levels to me also.

What I noticed though is all nutes have different ppm even if you follow the manufactured recommendations .

You might mix a batch of nutes for two different brands, mixing according to the 2 week of vegetation according to the manufacturer, and one might be 1600ppm and the other might be 700ppm.

LVs----- are you starting your plants off in veg at 1500 like stink says to do? Are you experiencing any problems with this level?

I would like to know your experience bc I just bough the line stink recommends and would like to learn from others..

Thanks a lot... Have a hazy day fellas.

Well I hate to admit this, but I don't have a ppm meter. I used Stinkbuds recommended mixture initially (which is pretty much the same as Botanicare's feeding schedule btw), then half'ed it the next time around for testing purposes. It didn't make a difference.

I'm about 90% sure the problem *isn't* my nutes anyway, I just thought I'd double check with those that use Botanicare's nutes to cover the other 10% doubt. It's extremely dry in my room to the point where my humidity gauge won't even read, and I think I'm using waaaay too cold of water when I refil the rez's (I use coldest it can go). Then my pH rises along with the temperature of the rez. Also, my room drops to 62F at night now which isn't helping either. Just a bunch a small issues compounding into a bigger problem.

LVs,

Dude.... you dont want to freeze your roots with cold water. I understand you want it chilled, but unless you have a chiller , its gonna stay a few degrees cooler than your growroom bro.

Let that water come to terms with the atmospheric temp and I wouldnt let it get any colder at night than 65. My room was getting pretty cold too and I had to change the light cycle so I made sure my light was on during the COLDEST 18 hours of the day, YA DIG.....

I dont use botanicare, but will b the next round.

It might b different with organic nutes, but I might mix 1500 ppm today and tomorrow it will be 1800 ppm and it changes all by itself.

You are treading in risky water dude.. get that METER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and then get a humidifier ASAP

hey, something is giving me some trouble and i didn't want to post my question anywhere els because it has to do with this system. i see during flower stink runs some of his strains well over 2000 ppm, i just bought a bluelab combo meter and it says that it reads only up to 1990 ppm. will this meter just read up to 1990 ppm or am i missing something?

does it say x 10 anywhere when you max it out? mine goes up to 999 then hits 100 and says x10

You do not need high ppm to get good results. We on Stinkbuddies can prove it. Join our forum and it will all become clear to you! lilbonger
gangly, I run the Bluelab combo too, never been over 800 with it.