Caduceo's Hydro Grow Log

[JackHerer]

Good to see its still going for you. I seem to be growing through the heat problem as well & like you have increased the humidity. I also tried a CO2 microbe & activator mix which also seemed to reduce temps maybe a dense CO2 environment takes more energy to heat, school was to long ago for me to remember. It smelled gawd awful though.

Dusto & Weedhound were syaing in my log that the humidity is only any good during the veg phase during flowering the humidity should be kept down to prevent mould.

JH

[Caduceo]

yeah, the temperature is 85ish nowadays, which is good! only issue I have is that one plant exploded in growth and is at about 4-5 internodes and the rest are just baby seedlings with only two leaves total, except for one which has 3 leaf sets. That one looks like an indica cuz of its cute round lil' leafers and its short stature

[Caduceo]

hmm, the two biggest fan leaves I had were looking in perfect health for the past 3-4 days, but now they are developing small yellow spots. I haven't changed the water in over 7 days, its been about 9, because I didn't want to rock the boat.

[Caduceo]

I put in two gallons of water, with about 6 drops and an additional half dropper full of nutrient solution, and my plants are definitly responding. I think I even spot a tiny bit of burning, there are some darker green patches. They are growing faster and healthier, they liked the food I gave. Right now I'm a little confused about my MH light, its taking awhile to power up and I don't know why.Its been about a half hour, it hasn't powered up yet.

also, is it possible for a 5 internode plant with aobut 10 sets of leaves to be burned by 6 drops of nutrient solution plus and an additional half dropper full? I mean, I see that as like, 1 ml... I am getting a tds meter very soon.

[Bree1978]

Probably should turn that light off and figure it out why, like right now.....
My MH takes just a bit to fire up...

:jointsmile: Bree

[Caduceo]

but I dunno why bree

[Bree1978]

I'd turn it off let it cool and inspect. It may have blown....Or something else could be wrong. Did you buy the bulb with the switable ballast?

[Caduceo]

do you mean switchable? it has an external ballast.

[Bree1978]

so it is a dual ballast or switchable, I am confused by your first post....

If it is dual, the bulb probably blew, or is about to. My MH had some kind of weird thing happen to it that made the light change.....I should have taken a pic, I replaced it before it blew up! I don't know if it would have blown up, I was saying that for effect.

If it is switchable, I would ck to see if you have the switch on the right bulb, which I know is obvious......

Also, do you have a back up bulb, and have you tried it?

If not, maybe your ballast/wiring is no good........I don't know. Anyone?

:jointsmile: Bree

[Caduceo]

its a bad bulb. my HPS bulb works fine. I need to get another MH bulb but for now this will do.