aeroponic grow

[Opie Yutts]

You're very welcome.

[OLDJIMMYBONES]

any updated pix?

[wordsandwich]

Here are some updated pics. I added an air pump and air wand to my setup as you can see, the pump/wand are for a 15 gallon fish tank, so the wand wraps around the bottom of my 1 gallon res two times and the res is filled with tiny air bubbles all day. Total cost was just over $20 at petco (prob could have gotten cheaper at walmart i think) but it's more than worth the money I paid. I have had the wand in there for three days and already there is an amazing difference. The roots have gone from brown patchy dry spots to almost pink and covered in bubbles. and my plants have grown a lot over the last three days. a few leaves of my tallest plant actually hit the CFLs (see pics) and have a few brown burned spots, so I had to get creative with my light placement. my HID should be here today, so next post hopefully I will be reporting some bigger better changes..

I am assuming I should run this pump/wand 24 hrs? or should I keep it on with the lights only?

enjoy the pics...

[Opie Yutts]

That is great. I'm glad they are doing good. Oh what a difference some bubbles can make.

And yes, I would leave it running constantly. I do, and I think most others do as well.

[rza733]

Hello all well I'm going to post in this thread seeing as I'm doing almost the exact same thing so at least you can compare the results from mine to yours.. I've made some improvements to my grow station since my cat went ahead and ate and cracked my stem of my last baby while playing with it (pic taken right before it happened )

Anyway I'm taking everything in this thread and applying it to my current grow aside the 400w lamp. Also I got the newest aero grow news letter in and they have made the aerogrow pro 200 which puts out a lot better light and lets you grow up to 2 feet 24 inches something i will be getting if this grow goes well.

[Opie Yutts]

Hey rza, thanks for the added insight. That's a bummer about the cat breaking your plant. Did you know that you could have taped it back together and it would have healed, even if it was broken clean through? You gotta do it right away though.

[rza733]

HDid you know that you could have taped it back together and it would have healed, even if it was broken clean through? You gotta do it right away though.

I did not know that. This is all very new to me it seems that im learning something new everyday with all of this..

[rza733]

i just got my fox farm grow big in. The instructions say to add 3 teaspoons per gallon.. Ok well thats a no brainer, with the aero garden we are only working with a 1 gallon res.

I assume that i want to do a complete flush ( taking out all the old water and put fresh water in) since i have old nuets in there from the tablets the system origionally came with. Is this correct?

Also how often do i add the 3 teaspoons into the res.?

thanks all!

[Opie Yutts]

Yeah, I would do a flush. Dump everything out, then refill it with plain PH'd water and dump that out. At that point, if your plants are having any kind of problems you should just let them feed on another batch of PH'd water for 2 or 3 days, then dump again and start feeding. Otherwise, proceed as described below.

Also how often do i add the 3 teaspoons into the res.?

Never. Don't ever add nutrients to your reservoir unless you know what you are doing as far as EC and PPM. Unless you have a multimeter monitoring the PPM and PH in the res, you would have no way of knowing how much nutrients or PH up/down to add. It is much much safer to mix up your solution then add it. As the plant uses the nutrients the PH and PPM are always changing. Every time you add solution, you are adding to a solution that is already in there, and each time what is left is higher and higher in salt content and other bad stuff. That's why you need to flush about every 3rd feeding or at least once every three weeks in that size res.

OR

If you don't want to worry about what the PPM or salt content is in your res, you can always play it safe by feeding twice normally, then every third feeding is just PH'd water. This should help keep the salt content and what not low enough that you don't have flush nearly as often, maybe roughly kinda sorta every 8th feeding instead. Personally I prefer more flushing, and therefore more feeding nutrients instead of a watered down version of an old nutrient solution.

As far as how often do you feed? Depends, but I have a similar system right now but on a larger scale, and I just let the nutes run as low as I can without drying out roots too much, then feed. If you have an air stone or wand, you can run the nutes lower since bubbles breaking will splash moisture on the roots. A few days ago that was once every 3 days. Now it's more like once every 2 days. As they get older they eat more and faster.

Oh, and I would just not start right out at full strength with a new nutrient. I use Grow Big, and it seems like 3 teaspoons per gallon might be a little much for even full grown plants, and younguns want even less.

Merry Christmas. Darn I gotta go wrap 2 presents still.

[Atkeni]

i am sorely tempted to try one of these with some of the autoflowering Lowlife strains

The pro version goes up to 24", which is the tallest a lowlife currently gets.

Light shouldnt be a problem, lowlifes are autoflower, so i could just put it in the conservatory, 80w of CFL+Sunlight should be plenty

tempted.., tempted...