I was right. It was so simple as to totaly confound my senseslol no prob man cant wait to see some more i will be in here quite often.
I run the sprayers for 1.5 hrs on and 30 min off. this is really on the high end of run times. but it is part of this baseline sysstem to compare with adjustments over time. Ill probably try out a timing in the opposite extreme eventually.Thing of Beauty...
Am interested in ur flood boxes. U use sprayers, but your water is not aerated. How often is the sprayer on?(1.5hrs/30min?) What system do you use to change the water on all of your boxes? Do u have drains set up? As your boxes are all changed how often? I just think it must be a bitch to change a shit load of water all the time. (12*27gal=324gal).
Am interested to know the setup. Did u construct everything yourself?
Thanks,
Tricky B.
OOOHHHH GASP>> LMFAO.I run the sprayers for 1.5 hrs on and 30 min off. this is really on the high end of run times. but it is part of this baseline sysstem to compare with adjustments over time. Ill probably try out a timing in the opposite extreme eventually.
I do NOT change out my reserviors (Unless I have too due to other issues) and I plan on running that way for the entire year. I want to get a lot of comparative grows to evaluate against a system that does change out the res. By then Ill have constructed a central reserviore system and then upgrade each grow zone to operate as one unit instead of 4 seperate res'. Its a little more radical than what I got going now and I am excited about designing it. I have those plans almost finished will post them shortly.
For now I am mixing sauce....adjusting pH and PPMS only, and when its time to change the nutrient levels, I add new nutes on top of old. I know, I know.... Somewhere somebody just gasped!!! All in the name of science folks!
And yes. Everything you see in the pics Except the walls was designed and built by me. . I even added a new set of ceiling rafters to the flower room to support the rigging. Original ceiling is too old and leaks.
Also, I totally secured the downstairs and made it into the grow while the upstairs is a seperate dwelling. The house entrance is from upstairs so it works great. The place was in pretty bad shape when I took over. 2 steps away from a crack house ;D. I had to replace the entire veg room floor because the cement was cracked and collapsing. Lotsa Lotsa work.
I am currently building an interior trap door staircase between the top and bottom floors.
Pretty cool. When its done Ill have emergency access to the grow from the 2nd floor.
Kinda like my own personal Rabbit Hole
So far the only Oh Fuck moment occured because of an out of calibration PPM Meter. I run my nutes pretty hot as it is but my meter was wrong so I had major nute burn. I had to do an emergency res change and mix all over once I figured out that it was the Meter.OOOHHHH GASP>> LMFAO.
I have been reading about perp systems that run on only refill water, but at the same time, I always worried lol. I am very excited to see how it turns out, as I am gonna run the box system, although I'll have a fill and dump pipe like ebb n flo, but actually just to change the water for all 4(,6,8,10... doesn't matter) at the same time. I think it would solve about a million problems of water management, and I hate getting wet lol.
When u say u don't intend to change the water. What is the guideline for OH FUCK I MUST lol? Nute lock and or other havoc?
"I run the sprayers for 1.5 hrs on and 30 min off. this is really on the high end of run times." - What volume are your pumps and nozzles I guess? And your water cooling must be kinda a scary thing as 6 x 1kw are a hot little oven.(this is why I am thinking about LEDs)
And last but not least, thanks for the POS schedule. Looks pretty decent. SOG all the way bro.
I'm sure one day we'll all be stoked to see the progress made from this little experiment.
Tricky B.
This is a 4 into1 design so 4 res get fed by one main. Meaning there will still be one reservoire for every zone. this must be done because each stage runs on different nute schedules. But 4 is a lot less to fill than 12...and eventually 18...Lol. I like to mess around on paint when I'm baked lol. Here is a visual of brain picture lol ebb n flow single fill n drain for easy nute changes?
I'm interested to see the 4 run as one system plans though.
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Tricky B.
Sweet! Would love to see some pics!nice thread & setup! I harvest my JH last month had some PH issues in my DWC but other than that she turned out fairly good