My First Bagseed Hydroponic Grow

Feel free to post any questions, concerns, or comments.

My germination tray. It's in a cabinet with a humidity dome and 24/7 flouro light. doy co2 generator feeding co2 to my germination tray.




My nutrients, ppm tool, ph tool, and trimmign scissors.[FONT=Tahoma, sans-serif][/FONT]

Keep it up man, so far so good!

subbed for this grow

What kind of lighting solution did you come up with?

I am using a 4 bulb t5 lighting fixture with 2 blue spectrum bulbs on the outside and 2 red spectrum bulbs on the inside. The CFLs are there to eradicate a little of the dark area. Im also growing a lot of other different things, I want to set up a room for blooming so i dont interrupt the growing of the other things.

Having a flowering room is sweet! I really would love two separate areas.
any thoughts to what you will use for lighting in the flowering room?

I'm subbed bro cant wait to see how you make out my next grow is definitely going to be a hydrogrow.

justparanoid said:

Having a flowering room is sweet! I really would love two separate areas.
any thoughts to what you will use for lighting in the flowering room?

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Im pretty sure im going to build a 4x8 room with a diy aeroflo 60 and use 2 400 watt high pressure sodium fixtures.

cannot wait for your project to develop rep+

Just a couple of quick snap shots of root growth in my hydroponic unit. the seedlings are about 4-8 weeks old, i forget when i planted them. it isnt a true aeroponic unit yet as i need the nft-1 or the art-2 to get the pumps to turn on and off. but i am getting some nice "air roots".


my seedling tray without a humidity dome. the only thing in there right now is a bunch of jalapeno i over planted, a bhut jolokia plant, and a fatali plant.


a fan strengthening stems and blow co2 from my diy co2 generator. i have a second co2 generator attached to my germination tray with a humidity dome.


The timer for my t5 light fixture and my 2 cfls. currently set to 18 hours on and 6 hours off.


my old 330 gph pump that i converted over to a 3/4" fitting to attach a garden hose to it. i have several rain barrels in the back yard that i water my backyard with. now i can pump it out instead of hauling buckets.


my 1 head nutramist fogger that a friend gave me. he didnt buy the power supply though, so i had to order that today.

just FIMmed 3-4 plants that have 4 nodes.

looks like a really nice setup, lookin forwards to the results

just drained both hydro units. drained all but like 2-3 gallons in each reservoir. then refilled with the washer spigot. ph of water is about 7.2. i added 5 mL of ph down to both reservoirs.

7 am -
hydro 1 - 137 ppm and 5.53 pH
1 capful of foxfarm grow big added
1 capful of hygrozyme added

hydro 2 - 225 ppm and 5.18 pH
2 capful of foxfarm grow big added
1 capful of hygrozyme added
1 mL of ph up added

lemme tell you, there really isnt anything to support hygrozyme being useful on the label, but it has made a world of difference to my plants. they grow bigger and faster.

11pm -
hydro 1 - 198 ppm 5.53 pH
1 tsp maxigrow added
5mL azamax added

hydro 2 - 654 ppm 5.42 pH
1 Tbsp maxigrow added
1 capful foxfarm grow big added
5 mL azamax added

removed timer and am using lights 24/7 again

here are some pics. 5-26-2010 taken at 4:30 am.


This plant has been overfed, underfed, over-watered, under-watered, sat in too high of a pH, sat in too low of a pH. everything. I can't believe that it's even alive.


Recovering from the FIM.


I'm pretty sure I cut too much above the fourth node when I FIMmed this one. This is my biggest one, so I'm assuming that it's a male anyway.


Another plant that I moved to Hydro 1, which has a much lower ppm than Hydro 2, to recover from all the hell that I have put these plants through.


Plant on the left and right have been FIMmed and are recovering nicely.


A little clearer shot of the plant that I think that I cut too much off of the top when I FIMmed it. The plant at the top with the round leaves is a Bhut Jolokia pepper plant. There is also another plant with elongated, round leaves, I have no idea what kind of plant it is, but it's still growing, so I'm willing to find out what it is. I really need a bloom room soon to move these things into. The plant inthe middle looks like it's droopy to me, probably because I just took all the hydroton out to shove the plant lower in the basket, I'm thinking shock of some sort.


Plant recovering from a FIM.


Hydro 1 on the left - Hydro 2 on the right.

Hydro 1


Hydro 2

Covered Germination Tray


Uncovered Germination Tray


Hydro 1


Hydro 2

5:30 am
hydro 1
298 ppm
6.2 pH
added 1 mL ph down
added 1 tsp maxigrow

hydro 2
698 ppm
5.74 ph
added 1 tbsp maxigrow
added 1 capful grow big

my goal right now is increase ppm of hydro 1 to about 350-400 and have a ph under 6
the goal of hydro 2 right now is a ppm of 1000 or so

can anyone tell me what the purpose of the foxfarm trio is? i know there is the grow big for the veg phase and the tiger bloom for the flower phase, what is the middle one for?

just put up some panda film today and got 2 drip buckets and 22 inch double flouro lamp. buying a 4x4x7 grow room complete with fan and light for 350 sunday. for my flower room.

Moved a large plant to a water farm, under a 22" 2 bulb t5 with a red and blue bulb.


Another large plant moved to a water farm under the 22 inch t5.


With and without flash of water farm 1 and 2.


Hydro 1. added 1 mL of pH down.


Hydro 2. pH is fine with me, i added a couple drops of pH down anyway. ppm is 1080.