The Daily Grow w/ Bud Fullotrichs

[basementbotany]

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Sorry guys, i get bored on the days i'm off!

[basementbotany]

quick update, pistils are starting to shoot out at each node. i'm not going to post pics for awhile, as they are still quite un-exciting. temps. are starting to get up in the high 70's to low 80's. can't seem to figure out why my night temps are hotter than my day temps. right when lights came on it was 81, with lights on for an hour temp dropped to 75, confused? do you think the dehumidifier is keeping it that warm in there during lights out? all i have going during the night cycle is a dehumidifier and an oscillating fan, i also close the door on the room at night, should i leave it open?

[fosomker]

Looks good.

Yes the DH will cause heat, though I am not sure that much, it would depend on venting.

One thing I notice and I am a noobie, but you dont have a lot of roots (at least in the pics I seen). I am going to go take pictures of mine right now and post them in my growlog to show you the difference. Both my grows have been this way because I do DWC, more roots = more buds.

I tried e&f was not happy, so I switched it back to DWC. I think e&f are a little harder, DWC is is almost like plug and play. Run your pump 24/7, recirc you water every few hours, and check eviroment (RH, PPM,PH,Temp).

You shit looks good, I will be watching this throughout your flower. As several has mentioned the method to growing is patients, dont give too much nutes too fast, dont do big changes, let the plants tell you what they want. I use a simple system, new nutes 1 a week, check PH twice a day and add some water (they get thirsty). I only increase the nutes if they are all happy, at the first sign of changes (bad ones) since I look daily, I am slow and methotical (sp?) about reversing anything I have done. Basically I keep telling myself keep it simple stupid.. It has seemed to work.

[basementbotany]

that's about the way i've been playing it too.....keep it simple...with that being said, i'm also down there about once an hour just to have a peak! When you ran the E&F were your roots anything like mine? or were they much bigger? i have recently seen 1 of my buddy's e&f's and his roots look about like mine. i did start adding H2o2, maybe that will give them a bit of a boost. I started with this system, as i was told by my amigo that it's the most simple, so being new to hydro this is my entry way to a bigger and better playing field. have done LOADS of research on RDWC, and have come to the conclusion that i may go with a DWC/E&F hybrid and have an air pump kick on during the flood cycle, and buy about 30 of thos 1" airstones and line the bottom of my flood table with them. any thoughts?

[fosomker]

Okay I more than twice on most days, but that is my minimum looks a day.

So that is kinda what i did with my veg station. I do e&f until a few roots are out of the baskets (7-14 days), then I switch the drain tube to a shorter one and basically recric all the time but have an air stone in each bucket, cycle the pumps off at night and let drain. When doing the e&f I have the air stones running. I focus on getting good roots. I figure that is what makes the rest of it grow and if you are seeing those grow nice a fast, the rest tends to follow... And the way to get monster roots is air.

For the air pump I would get some long air stones, I like the 12" for resivors. I had some 4" ones and they cloge in just one cycle and were weak. In my buckets I run 5" round in the center. I like the AP40 pump, it has plenty of air and is QUITE. I run 10 stones in the veg and still have ports blocked off and I get great bubbles. You can find them on ebay for 100-120.

[basementbotany]

so basically, i would drop my overflow drain down an inch or 2, buy a kick ass air pump, about 6-8 12" stones, place around the 3 plants, flood constantly, except during night cycle, and i basically have a recirculating dwc....do i have that correct? believe i'm going to do something like that, sounds much better for root development! MUCHO GRACIAS AMIGO!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[fosomker]

I have been looking at just running a 30-40% duty cyle. Run for 90 minutes off for 270?? But basically yeah that is all I do in veg. The rockwool clones seemed to do better too over the bubbler, not sure if it was just because how they would act like a wick.

[basementbotany]

hell yeah, thx fosomker, believe i'm going to go ahead and do something like that for this grow, maybe i can bulk them up a lot more than what they will be before harvest. though, i do want to see how the e&f turns out on it's own; i also don't want to decrease final yield just to see how the hell my e&f turns out the way i have it.

[gainesvillegreen]

I have been looking at just running a 30-40% duty cyle. Run for 90 minutes off for 270?? But basically yeah that is all I do in veg. The rockwool clones seemed to do better too over the bubbler, not sure if it was just because how they would act like a wick.

Just a forewarning: duty cycles for tools and such are calculated on a period of 10 minutes, not whatever time period you want. So, at 40% duty cycle, it is designed to run for no more than 4 minutes at a time before overheating.

[fosomker]

I only meant on time.