Doco's Waterfarm Hut

[xcrispi]

It wasn't even in a real large res. either man , just a huge cloner .
I hollered at him since last post to make sure he got the right 1 ofter lookin at the link , there's 2 dif temp. ranges and he does indeed have the colder of the 2 . I been looking for a cheap pump powered chiller and theres no such thing so far = 350.00 - 400.00 . I'm prayin my bro. inlaw gives up on the saltwater reeftanks soon so I can nab his . LOL .
You find another cheap way out , by all means holler .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[home.grower]

Brilliant thread... Plenty of motivation in here for any budding Dro Wizz, can't wait to see the bumper harvest you get of just 4 plants... good work

[doco]

Thanks home.grower! Its down to two plants now but one of them is spreading out all over the hut so it still should be a good yield anyway - assuming they survive till harvest. I'm starting to wonder if me & hydro are like weedhound & soil - everything that can go wrong does!

So after finding that dropping pH can be associated with root rot, and reading a post from another thread, I dosed my PPP pretty heavy with h202 Saturday night - a quart of 3% in my 12 gallon system. It may have been a little too much. The pH immediately quit fluctuating and stayed rock steady the entire light cycle.

I was nervous about it and could hardly wait till next lights on to see how it took it... when they came on, she looked mostly fine but some smaller leaves at the main tops have curled down and look stressed. Overall the plant looks pretty healthy but I hope I didn't burn the root hairs too much. I did a res change last night and there was more sediment & crap in it than usual. The pH remains dead-on so at least something positive resulted. Will see how it goes. These pics are 48 hrs since the h202.

Here are a couple of pics. First 3 are the PPP and the others are of the fat little TroubleMaker Kush.

[Weedhound]

They look Great!! Still got a lot of room?

[doco]

So far, so good on the room...I can only raise the light a few more inches and some of the tops are only a foot or so from it. It's a cool tube but there is still some heat off of it. Its digital and I am overdriving it by 7% too. If she keeps going vertical at all I will have to start bending some of the tops away. In fact, I may do that anyway just to be proactive. I should have topped her twice instead of just once.

[doco]

Crispi, I am this close to getting a Prime USA 1/15 HP 750 BTU chiller for my res - it's $280 delivered. Claims it will lower the temp by 10 degrees in a 80 gal tank so it should be fine for my use.

BTW, anyone that saw "John from Cincinnati" on HBO last night - that show is set in my town and the main set (the motel) is only a few blocks from me. I see them filming around town all the time and Ive watched them do a couple of scenes...

[Earthy Dank]

So far, so good on the room...I can only raise the light a few more inches and some of the tops are only a foot or so from it. It's a cool tube but there is still some heat off of it. Its digital and I am overdriving it by 7% too. If she keeps going vertical at all I will have to start bending some of the tops away. In fact, I may do that anyway just to be proactive. I should have topped her twice instead of just once.

Thats a good idea. I noticed some of the "upside-down canoe" leave. Those are from high temps and high nutrients. I'm having that same problem... my room stay around 90*F because we have a massive pool pump that puts out so much heat... Its whatever though.. I grow sativas don't mind the heat too bad.

[doco]

Well it's been a long while since I stopped by so here's an update: the summertime hydro experiment didn't go too well for me as I was unprepared for the heat (first indoor grow was started last fall, the hydro was my third, first summer) and I got a lot of brownish root rot, initially from high res temps. It seems that my rapid pH dropping was a signal that I didn't interpret in time and when I did nuke it with H2O2 I may have overdone it. Temps were into the 90's on several occasions - 600w is a lot warmer than 400 even with the cooltube. Finally put a chiller on the res and finished the plant out. It had massive amounts of airy fluffy buds that taste & smoke great but are weird cause they are so fluffy. Here's a pic of one of them.

Finally found some Afghani Bullrider clones and grew a mother. Current (soil!) grow is 5 of them in my trusty HydroHut with a 600W. I flowered them early and didn't top these as an experiment since I have topped all my grows in the past, I wanna compare.

Anyway, just wanted to stop by and give a shout to the many folks here who helped me get started in this great hobby.