One Lonely Blueberry

[hydrocannabis]

well the 1st one looks killer.

and the 2ed 1 looks good too but its just a little off.

[Weedhound]

I agree....the bottom part came out clear in the second photo but not the top. I'm going to look at tripods.....guess I have shaky old hippie's hands.

[Markass]

a tip for taking pics weedhound, try leaning against a wall, or anything inanimate, it will be much easier to steady yourself

[Weedhound]

It's my shaky old alkie hands Mark. Believe me, this old croaker of a body needs more help than a wall LOL!!!!! :S2:

I tried setting the camera on something flat but still screwed things up when pushing the button....it's kind of hard to push and I keep moving it accidently.
There is a setting for continous shooting....just holding the button down it shoots one after another with no stopping and once I figure that one out I'm going to try that next.

[evertking]

Looks good!

[Weedhound]

Afraid so. I'm very unhappy with it's inability to remain at a stable ph in lower ppms. Even with soaking it is simply causing too many issues in that I need to be around CONSTANTLY to adjust it and the plants take a step back everytime it gets too high (which takes about 6 hours). Every morning upon getting up I spend a fair amount of each day helping them recover from rising too much while I sleep and I've just plain had it.

I'll be going back to my higromite rocks although I may try the larger size. My blueberry plant has holes in the lower sides and I really have not had any spilling issues with it so that will probably be what I end up doing next.....HOLES EVERYWHERE!!

PS...Anyone want to buy some hydroton? Cheap?

[hydrocannabis]

what do U mean by holes. like holes in the bucket.

[Markass]

PS...Anyone want to buy some hydroton? Cheap?

next grow is going to be hydro..

[Weedhound]

I'll take a pic hydro and post it so you can see exactly what I mean. i thought it would cause more problems but it hasn't so I think the holes and the higromite will be the way I go in the future.

Mark....sent you an e-mail

[Weedhound]

So as I was packing up my hydroton in preparation for throwing it off a cliff I was suddenly struck with an idea. I was having several problems with it....all of them being an offshoot of the same issue, which was unstable ph. I'd given up.....tossed it in.......lost the spark..... but was sad about it because there are several things about the hydroton that I really like such as how light it is and the interesting fact that it seems to repel growing algae much better than my higromite rocks.

The main problem of course was ph. I found I was adjusting it constantly and while I originally thought soaking it helped the problem has gotten WAY worse lately. It was taking 200ppms of ph adjusters to stay within range for six hours and because of having to add large doses of ph adjusters it caused two OTHER problems for me. One seemed to be simply an overdose of adjuster....maybe too much salts? Starting over with a fresh rez didn't help either.....had to add a ton right off the bat just to get it halfway normal and I was having to dilute constantly to keep that number down. It really became a catch 22. The other issue was that I was unable to keep track of how much actual ppm was my nutes and not my ph adjusters since they were BOTH at about 200 but the number changed constantly throughout the day. so the ppm thing was not working AT ALL! :wtf:

SO.....it occurred to me to not use my regular ph up....which is baking soda and use REAL ph up which I hate. It seems to have made a difference (although I used it on my last hydroton batch also and it didn't change things BUT!!!!....I didn't SOAK that batch either) So far the ph has been much more stable.....haven't had to adjust it once in 12 hours which is unheard of.

Perhaps you have to jump the hoops in a certain order with this stuff so i'll keep checking and see. If I can wrestle the ph probs under control I'd like to stay on the hydroton. We'll see.....