Second Hydro Grow, please comment

[Chabnoc]

Ok, my room has been up and running now for 2 1/2 hours, as a dry run. My 400hps light has been on, and so has the a/c unit set at 8/10. The room is 76f, Humidity is 24%. Just as I was worried about. The a/c unit has lowered the humidity from the grow room, and is putting this moister into the rest of my house. How low can the humidity get before it is bad for a plant? Humidity in my home is usually 30-35%. Today outside we hit a very balmy 18% humidity. Yesterday was 3%.


I also am think about how much of a waste all this water is, going down the drain from my R/O system, even though I do not pay for water where I live, I do live in a desert, and you should not be wasting water down the drain. Any suggestions on what I could use this water for. I do not have a yard, but I do have veggies growing outside. Only a small 4'x8' area. Could I let this water sit for a few days and use it to water my outside, soil plants? I need my home grown tomatoes, watermelon, and canilopes. The store water ones have no taste.

Would love some advise on low humidity, I know I can raise it with a humidifier, but I would really like to stay away from one.

[LOC NAR on probation]

I could barely keep my RH down to 30%. Yours should do well. Don't use the waste water from R/O it is full of what you don't want on anything.

Your room is looking smart. Good job. Can't wait to see the grow.

[Chabnoc]

Thanks LN,
I am off to to lowes to pick up a quick connect fitting for my float valve that will fit in my 55 gallon barrel for my r/o supply.

[Chabnoc]

People, I am sorry for getting a little defensive. I went over board. But I have been reading these threads and such for about 8 months. It kind of upset me when I am told I need to read more, and that this and that is wrong, when I have already talked about how I am trying to fix this. For this I am very sorry, After thinking about it, I know have figured out that many people do not read the whole thread they just read the last page or even maybe the last few post. I do need help with this. There are so many things that I have no idea about. Like this 26% humidity, while my system was running dry,, no water, nuts, or anything, just lights and A/C unit. Today my system was turned off, and Hum. in the room was 28%. so once I get my 55 gallon supply tank full, and also the 40 gallon res. I am sure this will help to raise my humidity.

Thanks everyone for your help. And I am very sorry for being snippy with a few people.

[Chabnoc]

Ok, I got my new system up and running. My plants are now 19 days old.

I just placed them in my hydro system at 900 PPM nuts, and 5.8 PH.

I am thinking that I could start flowering now, with the size of these plants, but i will go at least 7-10 more days of vegging, what do you all think? The Cfls will only be set up this way until I start flowering, then they will be placed on the sides. I also think I will take 2 cuttings from like each of the plants.

This was a lot more work then I thought it was going to be. Even adding the water and nuts was work. At least I have the R/O water right there. I had to add my water 5 gallons at a time, because I would not be unable to tell how many gallons I had used, once I used (5) 5 gallon bottles worth of r/o water, I marked my 55 gallon barrel telling me when I pump out that much water, (25) gallons.

here are a few photos.

P.S. Also if you look at the last photo and zoom in, you can look at my note book for 6-27 and see what nuts and how much I put in res.

[Chabnoc]

My room has been up and running now for about 4 hours. My AC unit is set at 7/10 power, My temp is 76, and my humidity is 35%. I think it is looking good. Also I have my 400 watter running in the there also. But I think the system will need to run for at least 24 hours before I will know for sure. I think it helps with the humidity to have 70-80 gallons of water in there also. I guess time will tell.

[Chabnoc]

Oh, check out this photo, most of my rock wool blocks have roots coming out the bottom. I am wondering if I should get one bag of those orangish little round clay pellets, and put maybe 2-3 inches of those in my grow tray. And if so, how much more work are they? I have never used them either.

I kind of like it this way, because I can move the plants around the tray. I ment to go bigger, I just did not know I went big enough to get like 12-16 plants in there. 12 would be nice, 16 I think might get tight. My grow tray is 3'X3'

[Chabnoc]

Ok, here is what is going on now.

As I said i started up my system yesterday, I have my AC unit running. But I did not put in an exhaust fan. I bought a 20" box fan for that, and it would let light into my flowering room. When i woke up this morning, my room was at 76f, but my Humidity was 55%. So today after work I went to Lowes to buy a squirrel Fan. I went up to one of the ladies who works there, and said, where are the squirrel fans, she replied you will have to go to a Pet Store for that. I said, you are kidding, right? She said No, we do not carry Pets or Pet supplies... WOW!!!
So anyway, I bought a 300 cfm squirrel fan, and some 6" flexable ducting, and walla, problem seems to be fixed. Room Temp is 78%, Humidity is 35% right now. But time will tell.

I still do not think keeping my CFLs within 2" is a smart move, today was the second day I went in to check my plants and they grew 2"+ and were touching the light. So I am putting them 4" away.

Well take care everyone, wish I could light one up with you all.

[Chabnoc]

If you notice in the pictures I put on link #29, look close, the chain that I used to connect to the cord to the 400 watt light, is so long that my plants will get so tall someday, that I will not be able to lift the light high enough. Fixing this is going to be hard. I have little to no room to get up there, plus I need to hold the light up while I disconnect it. These are the problems that will happen. The little things can bite you bad. I have a lot of work to do on my light set up. :beatdeadhorse:

[Testament]

Here are a few pictures of my plants at 11 days from planting. the last picture is of my system for raising and lowering my lights. It works out very well, and is very cheap.

My temp in my House is 80 degrees right now, and my vegggy room is at about 82. My Res is at about 82f also. I am hoping to get my Res Temp down to like 75 degrees in my flowering room. Even if i have to vent some of my air from the AC unit I bought straight into my Res water like a Bubble Machine.

Not that great of pictures. I did not want to move my 48" light.

Happy Smoken to all you..:smokebong:

OH>> P.S. My next time around I will also have a Air Conditioned room just for Vegging. So Next time I will drop in my 400 watt MH light. I could not do it this time around. I needed the 400 watts in my flowering room more. and I can only have time to build one room right now. Going to work eats up a lot of my time. WORK SUCKS at eating up my time. I need a job that I show up and Noon, leave at 1PM, and get an hour paid lunch.

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