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Yea, that's definitely no bueno.dude little bit more respect for the roots you have dead leafs just rooting between them you are asking for problems.
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Ah ok thank u, temps around 21 ish, it varies through the day I have 2 small tube heaters in the tent on a thermostat but I’ve come to think they are a waste of time and humidifiers on a stat to and that seems to keep t fairly stable, the inlet fan and exhaust fan should be controlled by a controler that should keep temps and humidity at set levels, u can see by the graphs how the levels are doing (the dips in the middle of the day are where I’ve been in the tent messing about again, the float of the bucket got caught yesterday and the pots had over filled, I lost about 50 litres to the floor so had a right mare when I checked today) night time the humidity goes up quite a bit, thank u
for the vpd do I need to measure the temp of the leaf? Or is it just assumed it’s 2 degrees lower than the air temp?
yeh sorry, I was mid way through cleaning everything through, had total mare with the filter and everything caught behind it, everything’s all cleaned down and spotlessdude little bit more respect for the roots you have dead leafs just rooting between them you are asking for problems.
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should be higher
Not under LED lighting
I’ll get one ordered next time I get paid, and try get it dialled in, and I guess it changes from top or bottom of the plant ? (I tried to get my canopy flat but it’s not quite there
You will want to stabilise the temp and humidity so it’s even with no more than a 5 degree drop overnight.. if your humidity spikes like that overnight when your in flower you will struggle with mould.
yeh it’s odd I use a G.A.S climate controle it’s connected to both inlet and exhaust fans, it’s suppose to keep the temps and humidity at the set values, but still can’t get the humidity at night figured out and why it spikes so high, the last crop I put in the room was absolutely rammed (only 8 plants), they were lowryder autos and to be honest they got way out of hand size wise even tho they were supposed to be low growing things, but the humidity at night didn’t seem to be much of a problem, I’ve got good air flow but it’s something I’ll have a look at trying to figure out over the weekend as it should be making the fans work to keep things stable, i always thought the 10 degree difference at night was good for them in flower
They looked nice n healthy tho..
yeh they were monsters, the climate controle was set the same so figured the air flow in the tent was good enough, it was the first time growing autos and was told to just let them grow from seed to finish, I did no pruning or defoliating either so it was a proper thick dense grow with no issues with mould anywhere it was a bit of a test crop and wasn’t expecting much apart from getting the room set up, outside humidity is high at the moment tho as the weathers crap, I’m not sure if the air being drawn in is having much affect due to heavy rain every day and night for the last 3 months, I wouldn't have thought it would be much different to the humidifier running in side, I’ll have a play around tho and try and figure it out
How are you finding the alien RDWC setup?
yeh, I have no issues, it’s clean and tidy, kinda wish I’d got the vortex system tho as the air pump I have running it is giving of a hum even tho I built a silencer box to house it in , where my tent is in the shed it’s in is about a foot from the pavement of a busy road for foot traffic and at night if the local bakery at the end of the road is quiet u can hear it, there was also a bit of vibration from the water pump but got some foam to sit all the pots on which sorted that, but as a system it find it was worth it, saved me messing round building my own, I was looking at getting another 4 pot system with the quad lids and using it to veg in another tent and then just using the set up u see in the photos for flowering for a quicker turn around on things but I’m a bit skint at the moment, I was using the gravity fed bags before from alien, I studied hydroponics in collage about 15 years ago and always wanted the dwc set up, but maaaaan have I forgotten allot of stuff, it didn’t help it was a hazey 3 years in collage to, I’m happy for all the comments from everyone good or bad, for me it’s all about learning
Leave the filters out in the alien rdwc, they do more harm than good.
ah no way, I was talking to a friend yesterday about fitting extra filters between each pot to try and catch either the bigger stuff or just save the return filter having to deal with everything
Yeh I made a right mess with it all there was a coco ball stuck in the close valve so when I closed it and grabbed the filter and turned to clean it when I came back it had slowly emptied it self over the floor of my tent, it was a pig to try and clean it all live, the 2 filter system (one closed one open) sounds easiest for me, or just sucking it out the top, I’m beyond skint at the moment so might try see about another filter and split when I get paid, reducing the nutes to might help, I had them on a heavy feeding schdual, and looking at what others have said I think most of it is just being wasted, I’m not sure where the gunk has come from weather it be the plugs I used from seeds or just organic matter and nutes congealing, I’ll figure it out tho and get something sortedAnother trick, is that you can usually swap out the smaller drain cap on the y-filter housing for a ball valve. Technically, the irrigation y-filters are designed so the cap faces down for drainage, but for RDWC an exception is usually made to have it installed upside down and facing up. Anyway, even though its facing upwards, you can hook your shop\wet vac hose up, open the valve, and suck most of the the crap right out of the mesh tube, faster than the water can leak out onto the ground, and without even turning the system off or closing more valves if you got enough HP.. Slurp! Clean out in 10 seconds