Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics Tutorial

How do you feel about using sprayers or misters on the ends of the feeders rather than just an open tube? I'm going to be upgrading what i have, to bubbleponics, just had the idea of putting sprayers on the end or misters. lemme know asap i llove his tutorial and u have convinced me to convert. lol

i took your tutorials advice. and well. i did it. thanks for the help. you can check it out in my journal.

i have read sprayers clog easy, and can become a hastle/

Nevermind Roseman, I asked that question when i had only read up to page 5. Got to page 16 tonight and got the info I need. Thanks.

Roseman,can you switch a light schedule from 18/6 to 24/7 4 weeks into a grow?

Hey Roseman.. Been following your Thread for a while. This is my first DWC grow and i need to advice about H202.

Please check out my thread: https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/254316-hydrogen-peroxide-question.html#post3212948

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It is finally getting cooler in my area, and I no longer have any HEAT issues. I was running the Central Air Conditioner often, and all and every trick I knew to successfully cool my reservoir and grow area. This many watts in that closet did generate SOME heat, although nothing like HID Lights (High Intensity Discharge). I got up to 86 degrees in the grow area and up to 75 degrees in the tank one time. I averaged 82 degrees and 52% humidity during the hot days. I was always able to keep humidity at least 50%, very desirable in the VEG Cycle.
Temps and Humdity look great now! 79 Degrees and 62% Humidity is very good to me!





You can sucessfully do a grow without a pH meter or a ppm meter. But an electronic themometer that will show HIGH and LOW temps is an absolute necessity. You have to know what is going on in the grow area while you are away and at night in the darkness of 12/12.

I want to show you how I prepare and do my daily maintenance. My closet is neat, clean and orderly, but my room is sloppy. No one sees it but me and my wife.

Daily, I get home in the evenings and I bring three gallons of water to my closet. Each tank is drinking a full gallon daily, and the bucket drinks about 3/4 gallon daily. I used to prepare my water at the kitchen sink, but I have found this way much easier. I keep a towel and a paper towel handy at all times. I also keep a plastic bag for dead leaves and an empty bucket nearby to put water I might drain out in. And I have a trash can near by too.





Here you see my home made prop to hold my lid up, my pH Down, my little yellow plastic measuring spooon, my quart mixing jar, my small glass for taking water samples, my half of a styrafoam cup to hold the glass, my pH meter and the 3% peroxide. I take water samples in the small glass, about a 1/3 glass full, then I sit the glass in the strafoam cup. The cup catches the leaks from the wet glass to prevent soaking the carpet, and it helps prevent the glass from falling over when I rest my pH meter in it to take a reading.










I took these pics just to show you the pics and not while I was really doing my testing.

Here you see my handy dandy little yellow measurer, it holds exactly a teaspoon. I got it from Stealth Hydro in 2007 when I bought some Foilage Spray and a Spray Bottle. I loaned the spray bottle to a friend when I also loaned him my kits and I never got the spray bottle back.




My routine is I get home and find the tanks a gallon of water short. A missing gallon of water is a good sign, you do not want to find they did not drink a gallon after drinking a gallon everyday. 5 or 6 plants will drink a very close to a gallon after the first two weeks, depending on the temperature of the room and water. The 3 plants in the bucket drink 3/4 gallon daily. Once when it got very hot, they drank a full gallon.
I get home, I take 3 gallons of water to the closet and then I can sit down in front of my plants.
I remove a few dead leaves from the tank lid and lower parts of the plant. Going in and out of the tank ocasionally pulls a root off and that causes a small leaf to die. I think an ocasional large fan leaf yellowing and dying is normal and to be expected too.
I look in the tank, and find a gallon of water missing. I take a water sample in my small glass, sit the glass in the cup, and take a pH reading. Normally everyday, it is 6.8 to 7.1. I have learned that a level 3/4 to 5/6 teaspoon of pH Down will take the tank to 6.0 on average. To gradually adjust it, I fill my little measuerer almost half full with pH Down, put it in the quart jar, fill the jar with water, stir it, and pour it in the tank. Then I add a 2nd quart jar of plain water.

NEVER ADD ANYTHING TO THE TANK WITHOUT FIRST DILUTING IT. NEVER MADE ANY DRASTIC ADJUSTMENT THAT CAN BE DONE GRADUALLY.

Then I add a 2nd almost half a teaspoon of pH Down to the 3rd jar, stir and pour it into the tank, leaving me a jar short to make up the full gallon. Then I do a 2nd pH test, and find it close to 5.9 to 6.2. My plain water is 7.0 out of the faucet. Then I add a pinch, like a 1/6 teaspoon of pH Down to the 4th jar of water and pour it in, test it again and I get 5.8 to 6.1 everytime. If it read a little low, like 5.6, I add a 4th jar of plain water. If the pH went too low, like to 5.2 I drain a quart to two quarts of water out and replace it with plain 7.0 water.

If I have time to check it in the mornings, it will be about 6.2 to 6.4. Time I get home in the evening, it is 6.8 to 7.1. Today it was at the highest it has every been, 7.4, and I did find some tiny pieces of dead leaves in the tank that I removed. I added 6 teaspoons of 3% peroxide to that tank.
Tomorrow will be another Drain and Replinish day. I always get a tremendous growth spurt after a Drain and Replinish.

Here you see my large oscilating fan on a stand about 3 feet tall, that runs 24/7 on low speed that is in the center of the room. I also have a very small oscilating fan in the floor in front of the tanks. I unplug the large fan while I am working in there.
The ceiling fan also runs 24/7. Air circulation and air movement are both very important for healthy plants and a breeeze on the plants strenghtens them.

You also see my messy room, full of grow equipment. I am not proud of the mess and clutter, but I wanted you to see that I do use two fans. You also see some useless Odor Control Air Filters. The Ona Bucket works great for odor. We have had company visit and we asked them if they smelled the ferret or anything strange and they said no, they only smelled fresh linens or fresh laundry. (the Ona)

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I'm sure this is answered somewhere deep but I'm curious how many watts of CFLs are you using?

dbo24242 said:

I'm sure this is answered somewhere deep but I'm curious how many watts of CFLs are you using?

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To answer that question, I had to go look to see what I had hanging.

A couple months ago as I prepared this grow, I went to the attic to get my equipment and I realized I had a very large collection of bulbs, some almost three years old that had gone through 3 or 4 grows. I had a bunch of 65 watt bulbs that I knew were very old so I tossed them. I had 8 42 watt 2700k bulbs, that I knew were only one year old and had only done one grow. I set them to the side and saved them for the Blooming cycle.

Then I had remaining 6 6500k 85 watt bulbs that had only been through one grow. I had two 105 watt 6500 k spiral bulbs too. I figured I had enough cool white 6500k bulbs for Vegging so I ordered some mid-range 105 watt bulbs I found very cheap. I ordered two 200 watt 6500k bulbs and I hated them, they got too hot for me and my unvented closet. I took them down after two days.

Hanging now is
3 6500k 85 watt bulbs
1 6500k 105 watt bulb
1 5000k 105 watt bulb
2 4100k 105 watt bulbs
2 3000k 105 watt bulbs
over three containers, over 14 plants.

I will add 4 2700 k bulbs today. I started 12/12 two days ago.

Every otherr day, I rearrange them. I am getting

I got a new tool, a $6.94 Drill Pump from Lowes. I am tired of cleaning that water pump filter every week so I am going to try this to drain my reservoir tanks.
The hoses were $5.46 each and I could of made some for much less and used clamps, but this was faster and easier.

That's really cool. I might do something like that to make it easier to drain my res.

Today I added two 105 watt 2700k bulbs to the front of the closet, mid way half down, and not up over the plants.
I also replaced two gallons of water with two new gallons with BLOOM nutes in the water. I plan to do that daily now that I am on 12/12.

I did the change to 12/12 lights in one quick step, but I am graduating from VEG nutes to Flowering nutes and will make the transistion over 5 days.

Many growers do suggest a 24 hour, 36 hour to 48 hour total dark period when changing to 12/12. I do not do that. I have only read that some try it and claim it makes the change faster or claim they see flowers (sex) faster. I expect to see male flowers first and within ten days ffrom starting 12/12.

I agree on the "dark period" theory. Why waste 12 hours of potential photosynthesis on something that has not been proven?

Only way to prove it is to do it with your stain in your grow situations. Personally, I don't think it does much harm or good. We all do things in an effort to improve. Might make a day or two dif either way and if you're growing from clones you already know what you have. To each his/her own.

These plants are just growing like crazy!

I do not believe any Indica can double in size in the Flowering Cycle as some growers say or claim. I seldom get another foot taller in the BLOOM cycle, but we will soon see.
I'll be up Fecal Matter Creek if they do get over a foot taller. I'll have to take the closet shelf out!





The giant in the center bucket is bent over, trained to grow sideways.