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Hey sap,
Did you switch to the recirculating system. I saw that you got the controller and res going and was curious to know if you modified it to a recirc. to get the most out of that system.
If you can't keep the clones in the bubbler for long enough to flower the farms out, you could make a mini ebb n flow system really cheap with 2 or 3 inch net pots and transplant them into the farms when the other ladies are done doing their thing. just a suggestion
later, D:S5:
No, I haven't started the recirculating setup yet but I just wanted to get the controller for now and will follow up on that at a later time. I have stretched myself out financially for now. I know its only 30 bucks but I need to wait. All ph levels are stable in the controller, reservoir, and the farms.
By the way, I did go ahead and cut some cuttings off the plant to get some clones going in my bubbler so no worries now overall. :D
Everything is looking great bud. Im glad that super healthy one turned out Fem. Should serve you a long time if the clones work out good.
I finally got my rapid rooters and have my bubbler going and everything seems to be fine. One thing though, have you ever had roots break off in the bubbler? The plant looks plenty healthy but when I checked the ph a while ago, there were 3 hair sized roots floating around in the water. They were still white, one had just a tinge of brownish, but didnt look bad. My wife checked the ph last night since I was gone so maybe she did it and just didnt know. Im just curious if its normal.
Um.. dunno man.. never really paid much attention to that. As long your babies are nice and green and stay perky I wouldn't worry about it. I ended up ripping out 2 plants... the little one and the super huge one which was a male.. the little one was not thriving enough for me. I also took out the controller reservoir system. It was such a pain in the ass to drain and change. I work much better without it. I am selling my controller with the reservoir and all the tubing and parts for 60 dollars plus whatever shipping is. So anyone interested let me know and we can do paypal or something. I am thinkin about listing it on ebay for buy it now.
Here are 2 pics... one of the girl up front and possible male in back, and my clones in the bubbler. I cut them small so I would have time to get my girl bloomed out and harvested and be ready to transplant them to the water farms. Like I said.... I am not going to use a controller again because of the trouble with having to drain each bucket and nowhere to drain them to.
I think there must be some mis-understanding on the usage of the controller. Could you explain how you were draining, it sounds like you were doing it wrong.
Another thing, you mentioned that you took cuttings to clone. Where did you take them from on the plant? The top? Middle? Bottom?
i took the cuttings from the middle of her. When I drain... I drained from the controller but did not get any flow from the water farms. I had to take a cup and dip out the nutes from each water farm. Could not do it any other way. Keep in mind that this is not a recirculating system.
The bottom tier are the newest growth hormones and the easiest to root, the top the oldest and hardest, so keep that in mind.
Even without a recirculating system when you drain the controller, all of the farms need to drain into it. There's gotta be something wrong. I really encourage you to keep trying it will be worth it down the road.
In order for me to drain the farms into the controller, I would have to have them sitting higher than the controller to encourage the flow back to it. It just takes much longer to do that way and I can usually have all my plants drained, flushed, and new nutes mixed in half the time it took me to do that. Plus when it comes time to weed out the males, I have to disconnect all the tubing and reconnect so that I don't have any spillage from the barbs that were in the other waterfarms. I dunno man.. just seems way easier this way for me. If you know anyone who wants a controller let me know. Still have everything it came with, although I did have to cut the tubing for the farms. But I am asking 60 for the setup plus whatever to ship. Thanx for the info tho. My clones are doing great so far. They are nice green and very happy. I replaced my fluoro bulb 24" with a new one and has made a difference for sure. I'm just waiting on this girl to do her thing and I will plant the clones soon after.