New tote set up

I've gotten my grow room set up and finally got it going again but this time with a little bit bigger set up. It's a recirculating system with a half inch piece of pvc coming off of a pump to a T, ran up to the top. I have holes drilled in the side which allow plenty of flow to the net pots. I have 4 plants going right now but I just put in a 200$ order for feminized seeds. Now it's just the waiting game.

In this tote I have enough room for 21 small plants but I haven't drilled all of the holes yet, and the tape is just to keep water from splashing out. I do not have a ton of room, just that wooden platform the size of a queen bed. But I plan on splitting it up and having this tote for veging and a few other ones for flowering.
I would like to know what you guys think might be my best option, weather I should go with totes or bubble buckets maybe. I'm open to any good advice. I'll post more later just wanted to get the grow up on here!



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Shroominnm said:

I've gotten my grow room set up and finally got it going again but this time with a little bit bigger set up. It's a recirculating system with a half inch piece of pvc coming off of a pump to a T, ran up to the top. I have holes drilled in the side which allow plenty of flow to the net pots. I have 4 plants going right now but I just put in a 200$ order for feminized seeds. Now it's just the waiting game.

In this tote I have enough room for 21 small plants but I haven't drilled all of the holes yet, and the tape is just to keep water from splashing out. I do not have a ton of room, just that wooden platform the size of a queen bed. But I plan on splitting it up and having this tote for veging and a few other ones for flowering.
I would like to know what you guys think might be my best option, weather I should go with totes or bubble buckets maybe. I'm open to any good advice. I'll post more later just wanted to get the grow up on here!



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Buckets vs totes:

I vote totes because it requires less plumbing------especially if running recirculation.

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Thanks for the reply! I've decided to go with at least two more of the same size totes. I ordered mostly auto flowering seeds and had not grown them, or even done much reading on them before I purchased. But now that I've done a lot or research I'm glad I went with autos.
I plan on setting up two more totes and one more 4 foot 4bulb t5 up top (making 3). I'm going to start around 10 seeds when they come in and then start 3-4 every week or so untill I run out of spots in the tubs. This way hopefully I will have a good cycle going on.
As I said, I have no experience with autos, but I'm no noob to growing, or hydro set ups. That said, I am definately no expert either! So let me know how to make this plan better

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My cooling system

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Picked up another light today, a 4 foot 8 bulb t5.

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Got the light up today and got the walls covered in a material that they said is almost identical in reflectiveness as mylar, but you can wipe it down. I ran some more four inch flex tubing to around the back of the room from my ac. Temps aren't too bad yet but I haven't turned all three lights on for too long yet.
I plan on seetting up a veg tote in the next couple days. I'm still waiting on all of my seedsss let me know what you guys think!

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Wow I forget to much

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Paint your floor white...it'll be a lot brighter In there.

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Paint your floor white...it'll be a lot brighter In there.

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I still have alot on the roll of mylar I'll go ahead and cover the floor in it too.

I Did some reading on air pumps on here and decided to go with the pondmaster ap-20 due to the high reviews. They are supposed to be high quality and last a long time, with parts that are easy to find/replace.
I switched my four babies to 12/12 yesterday. They're not great seeds or anything and since I'm about to have all autoflowers in the room I'm not wanting to have to worry about different light schedules, or males from a shitty bag seed messing things up.

I went into the hydroponics store the other day expecting them to carry the advanced nutrients products but they didn't.. I've always used they're pH perfect 3 part grow/micro/bloom, and I've never worried about pH. No time better than the present to learn though.

The guy at the store talked me into the canna aqua 4 part and I haven't found many bad reviews mostly just that it is over priced, which I agree with Lol. I paid over 100 bucks for each set of 5L bottles. $230+ total for the four of them. one thing that is nice about canna is their feeding calculator online. It takes everything into account even water hardness and feeding schedule. Got the day off work today so I'm about to go to Lowes and spend some money on some things I'll convince myself I need for the room lol
I can't wait for these seeds to come in!

Got it covered in mylar and also decided to clean the res today. I'll be switching to flowering nutes with this change. I posted a pic of my pump set up out of the res also. This new pump puts out some major air!

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Love your stuff bro! Autos are great as long as there are no hitches! Haha.. I'd be running nutes at 75-85% to be on the safe side. Took my last auto about a week and a half to recover from nute burn that I wasn't expecting! Haha.. I'll sub up for this one!

Thanks man! I'll be real easy on the nutes, everything I've read says no feeding untill at least a couple weeks in.. I'm still waiting on freaking seeds. No company names but it's like the band that sings come as you are. It says it shipped June 27th I thought I'd have it by now.. All this prepping my room there's not much else I can do until I get em!
But anyway, lol. I plan on having 3 totes. The current one for brand new auto seedlings with no nutes in it, a second one with veg nutrients, and a third with flowering nutes. All 3 will be right next to each other as no light change will be needed for veg/flower. The only bad part with this is that I can't share pumps, but it's okay because I have extra ones laying around. I'll just have to make sure they're not all spaced different on the timers so that they're never on at the same time.
I plan on getting a chiller before too long because my res stays around 75f. I haven't done much research yet but if possible I'd like to find one machine that could chill three ten gallon reservoirs. I've just started using Ice packs, haven't got to see what the temp is like since though.

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I haven't posted pictures lately but I had to show off my first auto grow just a little bit!
The totes work great, I changed up how I thought I'd be doing it a little bit. I'm just running two big totes, one veg one flower. I have a water chiller which makes life great!
Right now I've got four northern lights autos and two blue mystic autos both from nirvana seeds.
In the pictures the ones with the more purple stems are the blue mystic and the others are the northern lights. I also have six in the veg tub that were put in there on September 1st. They are Dutch Passion's Think Different strain.
Just wanted to share!

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Also I started flushing today.. I might be a little early but I think they'll be ready to chop in the next week or so. I didnt write down when the seeds popped but I'm thinking it was around Jul 15th.. Do you guys think of be better off running one more round of nutes to make sure I'm not cutting them short? I also plan on giving them 5 days of darkness before I chop.
I ordered a microscope earlier it'll be here by Wednesday.
I'd love some input on how to finish these strong

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