MY FIRST DWC-grow log-#18 og kush

I'm using the ebb&flow for pre veg before buckets, i have my cuttings that are 2weeks at 400 ppm and 5.8, with a 40 gallon rez and Ireally don't need to use it till all the roots got to the bottom, so i have been watering from the top till just today, now they are going up and looking nice, The og i have is #18 from reserve privada and I grew just 1 to smoke in dirt and it turned out to be the 1 of the best strains i have ever seen or smoked, it has it all skunky-fruity-kushy-and taste like chemdawg all at once, even if its the last black hit in the bowl or last hit on joint, I have seen only a few strains that hold true to the core and this is one of them, I would highly reccomend it to anyone who wants "aaa" herb.

As long as you have a fan in room circulating air around you should be able to drop those lights atleast 12-18 inches as long as you still have coverage. After you drop lights down hold hand over top of plants, if hand hurts light to low :thumbsup:

the ppm seems good to me. I have a 10 site ebb & grow system that is on it's virgin run in the basement and they are starting week 3 of flower and ppm has been mid to high 80's since switch and ph is floating in the 5.6-6.0 range. Trying to get use to this large size res, 55 gal drum holding 28 gals of water, just a touch of a change from 6 gals :wtf:

it is just i have seen so many setups and the ones in amsterdam seem to put light way far away and still are getting huge buds. you all have seen racerx he seems to have his 4 750 watt lights far away and look at his plants.

i have the 3by6 table and a 40 gallon rez and i know with bigger rez the numbers don't move nearly as much as with smaller ones....:rastasmoke:

My last grow was similiar your current one. Except, I used the drip system in a tray for vegetation. Plants were in Grodan cubes (rockwool) and put in 5.5" sq. pots 6" deep and filled in with Hydroton.

Vegetating like that under T12 tubes worked well.

When taken to flower I pulled the drip tube and carried it to the flower room and put in in an ebb and flow tray for flowering, pot and all. It worked great except...

The plants never got over 30 inches tall. Reason? the pot size was too confining for the strains I was growing. Not enough holes in the pots for the roots to get out. Roots massed in the pot.

If I do this again I'll ditch the plastic pots and nestle the rockwool and plant in a bed of Hydroton. That way the roots can't blame me for not having enough room to grow.

Hope this helped.

you should think about the 5 gallon buckets they are so easy, and their is no problem with having tons of roots-you should see how fast the roots grow in the buckets!

a little problem in the room! my temp just got to 88-90, idon't want to get a a/c, instead i might run the lights at night- that would be the easiest i guess.....:(

I dont know where your keeping your ballasts, but if theyre in the grow room they are raising the temperature. Having them in a seperate place would cool it down a bit. Especially if you have 2 or three hot ballasts in your room.