chabnock
Well-Known Member
Ok, Here is what is happening.
This is my second Hydro grow. My first one, I bought one of those Botanicare Micro Hydroponic systems. Which is a flood and drain system with a plant tray that is about 12"X23". good for 3 fully grown plants. This time I built a new grow room, with an AC unit because of my heat trouble, an R/O filtation unit which fills a 55 gallon barrel with a float valve for water supply. My grow tray is now 3'X3" with a 40 gallon res. 400 watt HPS/MH light, with (6), will be(
43 watt cfls. the walls are covered in Panda Film. One side reflect 90% light, the other is black and lets zero light out.
I used my old system to get 7 plants going for 3 weeks, and then moved them to the new room. WOW. I have enough room for maybe 16 Plants, My room is one big hummmmm, with all the fans and pumps and air stones and r/o water dribbling. My elect. meter is turning pretty good, but livable. I did not realise that my system could do so many plants. I have been hitting some probelms though, And would like some suggestions, or what ever.
Where I live we have very high temps in summer, up to 120f, with humidity outside of 3%-20%. So i put and Air Conditioner unit in my room. I did a dry run, no water, just my 400 light. Temp was at 75f, not like 88f-94f my last grow, and humidity was at 30% about the same as last grow. OH, I had bought a 20" box fan for exhaust from room, but then I noticed the fan would let in light into my flowering room, so I figured my AC unit has an inlet and outlet for air. I ran it for 12 hours, with 55 gallon supply tank full, and res tank full, and My humidity was 55%. So I went and bought a squirrel fan with 6" flex ducting..
Check this out, I go into Lowes, I ask this person who works there, where are the Squirrel Fans, she replies you will have to go to a pet store for that, I replied, you are joking, right??? She replied, No we do not sell pets or pet supplies.. ROFLMAO..
Anyway, My plants are 19 days old from when they poped out. The PPM is 900, and PH is 5.8. Temp is 78f, and humidty is 38%.
Zoom in on the one picture and you can see how much of what I am adding to water in res in my journal.
Hope you all like the photos, but if you see something wrong, please let me know.
Oh yah, these photos are two days old, I already had to move the lights twice, the light burned two of my leaves ever so slightly.
Oh yah, these plants are from Nirvana Seeds, they are Northern Lights.
I used a small amount of clonex and Pot of Gold to germ them in, Took 24 hours for 8 of 10 seeds to crack. Then I placed them in rapid rooters, with the same water mix. I thought I would have 2-3 days to get my room running. But with in 24 hours of putting them in the Rapid Rooters, I had 2" of root hanging out the bottom of the rooters. I was scabbleing to get my room running that night. Had no R/O water( did not have my own system yet) and a bunch of other things I had to do also.
Well, hope this grow goes well.
This is my second Hydro grow. My first one, I bought one of those Botanicare Micro Hydroponic systems. Which is a flood and drain system with a plant tray that is about 12"X23". good for 3 fully grown plants. This time I built a new grow room, with an AC unit because of my heat trouble, an R/O filtation unit which fills a 55 gallon barrel with a float valve for water supply. My grow tray is now 3'X3" with a 40 gallon res. 400 watt HPS/MH light, with (6), will be(
43 watt cfls. the walls are covered in Panda Film. One side reflect 90% light, the other is black and lets zero light out.I used my old system to get 7 plants going for 3 weeks, and then moved them to the new room. WOW. I have enough room for maybe 16 Plants, My room is one big hummmmm, with all the fans and pumps and air stones and r/o water dribbling. My elect. meter is turning pretty good, but livable. I did not realise that my system could do so many plants. I have been hitting some probelms though, And would like some suggestions, or what ever.
Where I live we have very high temps in summer, up to 120f, with humidity outside of 3%-20%. So i put and Air Conditioner unit in my room. I did a dry run, no water, just my 400 light. Temp was at 75f, not like 88f-94f my last grow, and humidity was at 30% about the same as last grow. OH, I had bought a 20" box fan for exhaust from room, but then I noticed the fan would let in light into my flowering room, so I figured my AC unit has an inlet and outlet for air. I ran it for 12 hours, with 55 gallon supply tank full, and res tank full, and My humidity was 55%. So I went and bought a squirrel fan with 6" flex ducting..
Check this out, I go into Lowes, I ask this person who works there, where are the Squirrel Fans, she replies you will have to go to a pet store for that, I replied, you are joking, right??? She replied, No we do not sell pets or pet supplies.. ROFLMAO..
Anyway, My plants are 19 days old from when they poped out. The PPM is 900, and PH is 5.8. Temp is 78f, and humidty is 38%.
Zoom in on the one picture and you can see how much of what I am adding to water in res in my journal.
Hope you all like the photos, but if you see something wrong, please let me know.
Oh yah, these photos are two days old, I already had to move the lights twice, the light burned two of my leaves ever so slightly.
Oh yah, these plants are from Nirvana Seeds, they are Northern Lights.
I used a small amount of clonex and Pot of Gold to germ them in, Took 24 hours for 8 of 10 seeds to crack. Then I placed them in rapid rooters, with the same water mix. I thought I would have 2-3 days to get my room running. But with in 24 hours of putting them in the Rapid Rooters, I had 2" of root hanging out the bottom of the rooters. I was scabbleing to get my room running that night. Had no R/O water( did not have my own system yet) and a bunch of other things I had to do also.
Well, hope this grow goes well.
