Stinky's Crash Course in "nOOb Hydro"... Welcome to the Darkside

[Chronisseur]

since you have that up in your kitchen, can i have an order of egg's over easy, sausage (links unless you have some real sausage then i will take that) wheat toast, oj, and coffee with cream and sugar.......

...that is NO JOKE... I'm not sure if she's a better cook or cultivator!

So Stink, when ya gonna fill that biatch? Still 4 (?) left? Anymore hydroton 'dam-age'?
... I'll just leave the 'bad engine, excessive vibration thing over my head where it belongs

Sup Hound?

[stinkyattic]

I've got 3 more pumps (correct size) coming this week, and need just 2 more pails and air pumps and that beast will be full.

Smelly-The-Dog decided to have some clones for a midnight snack last night though... so I will have to use some runty ones.

Thanks Chron! Hey if I've got company you can be SURE that company is going to leave a couple pounds heavier than they showed up... Here's a bong, here's a pile of food, let's see what you can do.

[whatsthatsmell]

Yeah....it's now back out with the spa......lunch orders?

ok, for lunch, i want a REAL rueben, with homemade potato chips, a dill pickle, with makers mark on the rocks and a tall glass of sweet tea.... for desert, i will take vanilla 2 layer cake with strawberry filling and chocolate frosting and side of french vanilla ice cream

[Weedhound]

ok, for lunch, i want a REAL rueben, with homemade potato chips, a dill pickle, with makers mark on the rocks and a tall glass of sweet tea.... for desert, i will take vanilla 2 layer cake with strawberry filling and chocolate frosting and side of french vanilla ice cream

One peanut butter sandwich coming up.....

Stinky that is EXACTLY what I do with company also....here's a pair of muck boots, here's a manure fork...let's see what you can do. :wtf: Don't get alot of return company for some reason.....

Chron....aren't you a sweetie for helping with all that. :thumbsup: Could use you my way if you know how to handle a tractor...

[stinkyattic]

Well this is day five of my hydro experiment and I'm having to drop the pH twice a day. I've been brining it down around 5.8 and daily it creeps back up into the 7s. The plants aren't terrribly happy as you can imagine, but no mortality yet. Teh system appears to be working though.

[BigWeed]

:rasta::rastasmoke:Hey stinky I just read all of this log and would a ebb&flow with hydroton filled up all the way in the tray and just plant the clones in the hydroton like you would in soil in a sog style. If you want you could still add the drip to it and it will be a drip plus ebb&flow. Oh yeah and its reusable. Less moving parts to.:rasta::rastasmoke:imp:

[xxxhazexxx]

me to just found your thread stinky this grow will be fun it mite even turn you to the darkside full time lol everything your doing is spot on.
goodluck.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Weedhound]

Stinky....are you using hydroton? If so....that's probably where your ph issues are coming from......drove me crazy and I finally had to switch to something else (or BACK to something else as it were.....)

[stinkyattic]

Yeah, I'm in hydroton- I should have just run the system with no plants for a couple days first- the pH appeared to completely stabilize over the past 24 hours. When I got up this morning, it was right where I'd left it.

I just picked up a set of Canna Aqua A+B anyway; it's buffered in the right range... a little more security there.

Anyway day 7 of the experiment and I can report:

-The plants are still alive.
-pH is stable (knock on wood).
-It has only overflowed twice, and hasn't fallen through the living room ceiling yet...

May I say it's an unqualified success? HAHAHA sometimes it's nice to have low expectations... :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

I don't know.....I've honestly tried that......running the system with just hydroton and it never helped me any. I never did find the answer to the stuff. Glad it seems to have straightened out.:thumbsup:

Only overflowed twice eh? You're right.....that is a much better record than say.....every day or even TWICE a day so...ummm....yes.....what a plus. :wtf:

Whats causing that problem...can you pinpoint it?