newbie hydrocfl experiment

LOL, there aren't any plans, just in my head and good luck finding anything in there!
really though, the pics tell 99% of the story and the rest will be detailed as i go. i kinda feel though that the detail depth will be dependent on questions and comments i get. some of the stuff i've done seems so simple to me now that it wouldn't need to be mentioned, except that when i started i didn't know jack, i've done sooo much reading my eye-balls are permanently fuzzy feeling i think.
anyway, like i said in the thread heading, this is an experiment. i truely hope it will succeed, i think it will, but if it doesn't then i will have learned one more way not to do it! LOL wish me luck

Hey, nice. Looks like your plants came along nicely. I like the spirit of invention. I can only recommend one thing at this point, but it's a biggie. At least in your new experimenting, you should consider buying a big air pump and adding as many air stones as the thing can power. You've touched on this a little already, but it's the best thing you could do for your grow. You want to try and supply as much air to your roots as possible. They should stay as dry as they can without stressing the plants. Adding more air stones will most likely eliminate any problem with root rot, and your plants will grow much healthier and bigger to boot. Also consider an innoculant and microorganism booster like Subculture by General Hydro.

I used this stuff when i did a NFT grow, worked great on the roots.:)
CANNAZYM is a high-quality enzyme product. It consists of more than 12 different kinds of enzymes to which vitamins and extracts of desert plants are added. CANNAZYM speeds up the process of breaking down dead root material and activates the micro-organisms. In addition to this, CANNAZYM facilitates the improved absorption of nutrients and increases the resistance against pathogenic organisms.

thanks guys, hadn't thought about the enzymes and Opie, i was kinda droolin' over this big pump i saw in my local grow shop, just like the one Weedhound uses. gonna go get one on the first of the month.

Your doing pretty good....no real catastrophe. I concur with Opie. I use DWC and I have four 14 inch air stones in a reservoir the size of yours.
I use Hygrozyme once a week or sometimes every other week.
I bought a pondmaster ap40 pump which is a deep water pump and can really put out some air.
It pours out the bubbles in five different air stones with power to spare.
If you keep the temps down in your water as much as you can and kick up the aeration you might get by without the Hygrozme.
I put frozen water bottles without the lid off in my res, as the water melts it bleeds into the res and replenishes the res with fresh water.
Good luck and keeps us posted.

yeah, i know i need to up the air, and i'll definately be looking into some enzyme products. at this point though, i'm only looking for multiple rooted clones from all the plants, once i have those, i'm gonna cut the plants down so i can seperate the clones, 2 held back waiting to either become mommas or to die. 2 others from each plant will be flowered to determine sex and once i weed out the males, i can raise up one of the held back fems (i actually want a fem from each of the bagseed strains i'm working with) to become mommas that will produce 4 cuttings each, every other week. that's when i begin my SOG.
and i wonder, could you fill those bottles up with nutes instead of water?

Well I got way lost with all the different plans/ideas/jerryrigs etc in this thread but the plants sure looked healthy and happy in that last photo of them.

the plan has always been the same, SOG is my plan, 3 mommas and a steady sea of weed to feed my head. i was trying to show the progression toward success so far. by no means do i claim to be anything but a beginner but i thought my fumblings would at least amuse, if not enlighten.
anyway, wish me luck, i don't plan on giving up any time soon

bozo,
peace, love, dope

As long as you are happy with it...who cares? I'm just saying I got lost in one thread about cloning, holding back other plants, sexing, then growing the held back plants..........and then I was REALLY lost so I just looked at the photos.

Good luck with your grow.

like i said in the beginning, i'm not exactly organizized.
that's why i added the pics, to make up for my helter\skelter style of note takeing. lol
anyway, thanks for taking the time to look and comment, i can't talk about growing here (at home) so this (online) is it, so again, thanks

bozo,
peace, love, dope