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Ok so I thought I would start a thread monitoring my new grow. They are still babies with just seedling feed right now but I decided to try out the gh flora series nutes... was using floranova series but I remember getting a better yield off the gh flora series nutes. Anyhow... as time goes on I will be wanting some helpful hints in ways to improve my yield. I am using a 400 watt hps light for this with a 3x3 hydrohut mini 170 cfm fan with an elf carbon filter.
Nice and super clean! I personally would use 5 if you can. In a dice pattern. That will really make best use of the light and also if possible move the air pump outside that will pump in cooler air.
Thanks! I forgot to mention that they are about a week old right now. They grow so damn fast in a hydroponic setup though. In about 4 weeks they will be ready to bloom for sure. I don't have the money for another waterfarm right now but if I get at least one female I'm happy. Its for me, not for everyone else :). If I moved the air pumps outside the tent, I would have to buy all new air tubing because of the fact that they have been cut to a certain length. My tent never gets hotter than 85 degrees. The fan seems to suck enough air in through the floor vents to keep the temperature down. Plus our central air conditioner does a great job of keeping the temps down especially in that room. More pics to come!:smokin:
consider turning your rez into a recirculating wf.....if you think they grow well now.....
http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...ng-system.html
Don't know if you've seen this thread but you can set the system up easily and cheaply. Your plants will LOVE the recirculating part and grow a bit better for it.
Good luck.
I have to ask... wtf is a recirculating kit and why would I need it? I don't even have a controller.. I top off each farm when needed. Please explain the benefits versus what I have going already. I am just using 4 individual waterfarms not 8. thanks for info ahead of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
No controller? Well no recirculating for you then!! Just carry on the way you are going.
The reason for recirculating the nute solution throughout the system is to keep all the waterfarms numbers more even and balanced without the ph and ppm jumps you get in each individual w/f. GH talks about how you can adjust ph etc just from your controller but as you have found there can be large changes between each w/f so keeping tabs on the numbers from the controller alone isn't really practical unless the system recirculates. Also water that is moving around also picks up more oxygen which translates to happier plants as well.
Here is a set of pics I took today... growing rapidly! :)
Not too worried about the oxygen since I have an air pump for each res. Plus its not hard to keep on top of four systems. Maybe when I do 8. lol
That's what you say now.......
Wait until they are larger and in bloom. I actually do a recirculating system even just for one plant.
But your way will work fine as long as you stay on top of your numbers and amounts and dont let them get rootbound in those red buckets which is kind of common. So keep an eye out for that as well.
Good luck.