Go to the pet store and buy an airpump for a fish tank with a long tube and a long flat bubble wand. place the wand in the water with the roots and you are on your way. They actually sell a multi tube pump but you can start with one. :)
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Go to the pet store and buy an airpump for a fish tank with a long tube and a long flat bubble wand. place the wand in the water with the roots and you are on your way. They actually sell a multi tube pump but you can start with one. :)
reverse osmosis needs a certain water pressure to work, i believe its around 50 psi. I would look into it and make sure you have enough water pressure first. It works by forcing water through an impermeable membrane, which means, water goes through it, and solids dont, but you need enough pressure to force the water through the membrane. They make an RO unit with a pump, not sure how it works, but supposedly it makes the process more efficient so you dont need as much pressure. To answer your question, yes you can hook it up to a hose if it has the correct pressure.
Never heard of dry ice in the resi, might not be a bad thing, but not a good thing for sure.
Pretty sure roots breath oxygen. Thats why you want to oxygenate your water with air stones and h202.
Leaves breathe c02, thats how photosynthesis works, the plant uses the C to make CH2O, which is a carbohydrate, and the 02 is released into the atmosphere as oxygen. Thats super basic, but you get the point.
No dry ice in the rez. It can cold burn roots. Use a plastic drink bottles as big as you need and freeze it. The plastic will slow release the cold to the water and not hurt roots. Like a buffer between hot and cold.
so i fucked up earlier was showing off my roots to a friend and forgot to plug the pump back on, :yippee: it was off for a good 2 hours. now my white fluffy roots look like little white Ethiopians. SHIT....
i've read that drought ridden roots don't bounce back and that they have to grow new one. But, this is a great exercise in fuck ups and if anyones wondering how much punishment a little plant can take and still live it'll be from your truly.
before a i was going to post that i had some new pics, i chopped some roots (the catalyst to the drought) that looked funky, they weren't soft or soggy but its here and there and hoping its from what i read on a post earlier that it might be just discoloration from the nutes. all though now, who knows, its no longer the issue.
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i don't know if i wrote that understandable last time but there 2 to 3 inches apart.
hello everybody, where to being.... well lets start with the new fuck ups:mad:. i had drilled some holes it two coroner of the bottom res ( little flat part shaped like a triangle, those of you who know know what I'm talking about) to originally run cords and air lines. found a better way to do it and ended up super gluing some plastic over them so water wouldn't leak out. super glue failed, not realizing where the water all over the floor was coming from about 4 days.
i had filled up the res up to 70g to help with the heat issue (which didn't work on hot days) and lost 40 of those gallons. fixed that with some gorilla tape but didn't think about the other side which failed the next day and dripped all over my air pump. needless to say:dance:. sucked cuz i had just hooked up a new 8 inch disc air stone, its a beauty!
now the good things:cool:. after hooking up a stronger exhaust can fan, and directing the heat outside, completely outside grow area and room, i have dropped the res temp down to 62f when the lights off and slowly creeps up to 71 73 tops depending how hot it gets during the day. it has stayed at 71.2 for the last week when lights are on:yippee:.
was also able to find some microwave fans laying around that i was able to convert into intake, out-take for the inside of the root chamber. what else can i call it:smokin:? just fyi i got like 19 inches of space with 30g of water between the top and bottom of of this two res's. i mean, thats a lot of space for the roots right? any who, my intake has a pipe that runs down to the first lip of the top res, so it blows air right on top of the water, if its filled up to the full 70g. my out take is only about 3 inches in to suck any heat out the top. had to make a little box for it out of cardboard i took from the box my recycling timer came in, and gorilla tape. love that stuff.
some pics then some more ranting.
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bud drying , plants on the last week, little off subject but i liked the pics
now that i have spent about 8 hours:detective1::asskick:, on and off looking up ec, ppm, tds and all that noise. there is just too much out there to put my finger on it. but the one thing that made the most sense to me was to just study your plant closely and look for any sign's of stress. instead of going with ppm, I'm just gonna run with ec since thats what it say on the bottle for the aqua flakes program. i found some AF web pages that said not to use air pumps for the water but found some forums saying it was bad translation from Holland to the english version. anyone know the bottom line on that?
so as you can see my drought might of just slowed me down but didn't knock me out of the game. i was able to get some root excellurator and sure think it helped. even using it on purple urklre clone i had to save but thats for a different post I'm working on. as you can see there's plenty of nice white roots every where. i was trying to work the six week cycle on this purple diesel's but gonna do the eight week cycle now, after all i think it is a seven to eight week strain. i was just trying to force it to finnish early, which i don't now if that even possible.
my ec has stayed at 1.8 for the most part, jumped down to 1.7 for a day or two. as far as i read if it stays consistent i don't have to worry much, (even though its higher then i would like). i should be starting week three of bloom, and once i get some fresh water, try to drop my ec to 1.3 1.4, or since they seem to look ok should i just keep it where it's at and raise weekly from there, what dose anybody with experience think?
since it's doable for me, i figured i'd just get me self a 32g trash can and fill it up at a friend house in town, ppms read at 0.2 ec, just got to bubble it for a day to clean out the chlorine.
one last thing, check this link out, my girlfriend has one of this laying around, never use it, let me know what u think? i'm gonna try it out let everone know what happens.
DIY Reverse Osmosis - For Scale Grower - Cheap, Portable, & Effective - Page 7 - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums
had to pluck this bitch out.
really after this whole damn time! good shit, really cleared up shit about ppm's, besides why the fuck there calculated different, but that don't matter no more, 4th week starting out great!!!:smokin::thumbsup::greenthumb::dance::yipp ee:
just one thing though, i found aphids in my roots, can this get bad, of course i could see it getting bad, but i would think they would drown in that environment. what should i do if i see them spread, never heard of this.....
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