Javadog's Next Adventure

glockdoc said:

Lol well said JD!! like papa said, it could very much be a motto!

bassman once roots hit the res you should see noticeable growth from my understanding. you watering your hempys enough for a lot of run-off?!?! it is important to do so, the run of enables air to get sucked down into medium. that and im sure you dont want stagnant nutes chilling in the bottom of the pot. check up or ask around on how much run off people are allowing.

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I am slacking on them honestly, thanx for reminding me of that!

The ebb ones get 2x daily, and I bet thats why they are passing them up.

Ill look at the hempys and see if they have roots out the inner buckets yet

Here is the one with the best roots (ebb BBK)


The hempys have no roots showing, and only half of the ebbs have roots.

I think they are both lagging honestly

Stagnant nutes! Just saying it again its bad!

HydroGp said:

Stagnant nutes! Just saying it again its bad!

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I am flushing right now, and getting a fresh start on them.

I think the black pots and lines are bad in this setup

read up and get some input from jd as well..i think they need watering everyday to provide oxygen. more then what we perceive of it as just watering for water. feed everyday and allow ample amounts of run off and we will see from there!

maybe have a 5-10 gallon res with airstone in it for your hand watering. my plans for when i get back at it.

glockdoc said:

read up and get some input from jd as well..i think they need watering everyday to provide oxygen. more then what we perceive of it as just watering for water. feed everyday and allow ample amounts of run off and we will see from there!

maybe have a 5-10 gallon res with airstone in it for your hand watering. my plans for when i get back at it.

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that sounds manageable

I think that your lapses have been par-for-the-course with a new
process and what you are seeing is just a delay in seeing the leap
that reaching the reservoirs will produce.

As to the Res, I have not had to set one up yet, but I did learn that
the amount of air that you need to be adding is large and that it gets
much larger as the volume increases.

This is why it is often smarter to run a smaller batch of compost tea,
and then to dilute to result into the desired volume than it is to try
to make the full desired volume of tea.

One thing that is cool, if you can handle the sound (tho I like it), is
to add a second pump to the one that squirts the water around.

This one would just take water up a tube to drop back down into
the Res. A WonkaFall.

I do this with my tea barrel outside and I can brew fairly big batches.
(tho I need to get my TDO meter going before I brag)

Good luck!

JD

Ihave a 55 gal res, but use 40 gal in it and have 3 air stones on a 20 watt pump, has it boiling lol

bassman999 said:

Ihave a 55 gal res, but use 40 gal in it and have 3 air stones on a 20 watt pump, has it boiling lol

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BASS...

I had horrible slime problems when I did DWC. Never did RDWC. I used peroxide but it was only a temp fix. Thats what drove me away from that type of hydro... just too much work keeping water perfect for me. Jig has it down. Personally I have stuck with hempies and do great. Sorry you have been having issues. I totally know how that can stress a person out.

i just read something i will find for you

check this out http://www.michiganmedicalmarijuanagrowers.net/index.php?/topic/533-compost-tea-for-hydro/

Like^^^^^^^^^^

Frost seems to be gone for good so i just plugged the "rainwater collector" back on. Bout time. Water is expensive when you cant use the tapwater.
Someguy yeah hempy's do great. But dwc just pushes it to the max. Atleast thats my experience. Sry it didnt work.

Its ok.. I was really too lazy to deal with the rez and all TBH. I have my hempies down so that I dont really work all that much and what I do, I enjoy. I am beyond all hope now for DWC because hempy has been so easy..LOL

NOt all of us can rock at all the grow methods like Whodat...LOL!

That was a great call. I was going to comment on the same...teas for slime.

The tea dudes are all over it. Isn't Mad monitoring this thread?

Well, in any case, I was stoked to read "has it boiling lol" as this
sounds very much like enough air action. If you have good aeration,
have the right bugs in the broth, then you should be slime free.

This is something that I will want to nail when I try RDWC.

JD

yea i am getting up to speed so i can make the switch

I might decide to ditch the DM Zone and sterile res for the living bacterias later

Ooh, yeah, Jig and DM make nugs like fine wine, no doubt....but I had
not heard the word "sterile" bantered about on this topic before.

In my mycological experiences this word is problematic. It is an invitation.
LOL. Sterile is like a vacuum, and nature hates a vacuum. (Horror vacui)

One thing I am sure of is that my reservoir, lines, and buckets will be a zoo.

I just have to try to make sure that the right animals inhabit the zoo.

My compost tea is a sloppy mess that my plants love, but I am sure that
on occasion I am feeding them the dead bodies of the microbes instead
of the live culture that I really want.

For the garden this is fine as it is still a very good food. For a reservoir
it is a recipe for a slime disaster.

I say take the advantage and pre-populate!

JD

P.S. I occurs to me that I will probably not be successful in RDWC unless
I can master, and consistently use, my TDO meter. That it all it takes.
Keep the O2 up where it should be, and there will be Joy. :0)

I have tried organic and it got anerobic really fast with brown slime, this was in soilless though

Yeah, there is a balance to maintain.

It is an environment where "more" can be bad, ie. when I over-feed my tea
it makes for a bloom which makes an anoxic environment which kills everything.
(food == death....wonderful! ;0)

I will have to shake out my TDO meter.

I will post about it. They are freakin expensive, but I got my kinda by accident.

JD