First time scrogger

[Joefarmer]

Yo, we talkin' bout' scrog or chlorine here?! JK

We just go whichever way the wind blows us.

If I remember correctlyâ?¦.the last time you posted hereâ?¦..I followed your grow and your screen was @ 14â?�. Would you change the height for any reason?
I donâ??t remember the LEDâ??sâ?¦..but then I donâ??t remember what I had for lunch either. So if youâ??re so inclined bring me up to (or back to) speed.
I see that you do a lot of manicuring under the screenâ?¦..lookinâ?? like you donâ??t buy the â??too much stressâ?� theory.
Nice picâ??sâ?¦.thanks for sharing.

Horsemanrocks.

Horseman,
So I was going to mount the screen at 9'' but they got too big too fast, so I installed it at 12''. It's mixed bagseeds so they're all over the place height wise so once I get it full of one strain(hopefully next grow) setting the height of the screen will be easier.

Yeah I trimmed em' up pretty good down below in hopes of getting them to focus their energy on the canopy. I'm done with the worst of it now and they really showed no signs of stress from trimming. I snipped a little bit each day or every couple days to give them time to recuperate.

Ripped a male yesterday and a couple others have lady parts.


Any suggestions on cooling my 15gal reservoir?

I've tried putting the airpump outside the room and put an ac in the adjacent room. Neither seemed to do much. The res is at about 80+- so I'm nervous. I'm kind of out of options to cool the closet too which also gets up to 80+. May just have to wait for outside temps to drop.

[Horsemanrocks]

Any suggestions on cooling my 15gal reservoir?

I personally am a never has beenâ?¦..so take my opinion w/ a pound of salt
Hereâ??s the WeeZard opinion from another threadâ?¦..

Relax Brah. Your tank temp is OK.
As long as the water is clean and the light is excluded you can run as high as 90 F. in the res.
Maybe higher, ah dunno.
But I've run near 90 for 3 weeks and did not change out the water at all during bloom.
I use no preventative other than what's already in my tap water and have yet to see any problems, (3rd grow).
Course, that could just be luck.

Well from what Iâ??ve read a chillerâ?¦â?¦Iâ??m sure thatâ??s no surprise.
I did see a post (I think over at ICmag) where a grower installed 2 PC fans (1 in & 1 out) on the lid of his controller. He loved itâ?¦..if you suffered low humidity to begin with, it might be fun to do.
My best advice is to wait a minute or two��the Weeze is omnipresent�..

Horsemanrocks.

[Horsemanrocks]

Weezeâ?¦..did you ever save a copy of Puffztersâ?? grow log. Maybe itâ??s something that I could model one after.

Aloha,
Horsemanrocks.

[Weezard]

"Then I have to double up to even sleep at nightâ?¦.sheesh!"

We're nocturnal.
We have no eyelids.
Can slip through a gap the size of a usb port.
Have no respect for privacy, or gravity.
And a reptillian code of ethics.

No get me wrong.
We're moral, but that morality is quite different from what humans, call ethical
behavior.
Quite frankly, what humans call ethical behavior, is what keeps us up all night!

Aloha,
Weezard

[Horsemanrocks]

Deja,
Iâ??ve been reading another thread where you were experiencing root rot. Ms Stinky suggested GH subculture. Did you ever try it?......if so, any conclusions?
Somehow the beneficial bacteria thing still intrigues me. Iâ??d take a schoolinâ??.

Still too long to think,
Horsemanrocks.

[oldmac]

Hey Horsemanrocks,

For you or anybody who has resivoir temperture problems and don't have access to Hawain tap water, you might try a product by DutchMasters called "zone".
It will prevent root rot and other root pathogens and will allow for higher temps without damage.I used it while I was chasing the heat ghost in a NFT rez many years ago.

The other solution is to take a small (lunch box sized) styrofoam cooler, put a coil of your air line in it (from your air pump) and fill with ice. The lower you can get the air temp into the rez, the lower the rez temp will be.

[Horsemanrocks]

Good tip on the Dutch Masters â??Zoneâ?�â?¦â?¦.Itâ??s goes right into the res temps fileâ?¦.Iâ??ll likely need it some day. While Iâ??m kinda on hold, waiting for cooler temps to arriveâ?¦.in SoCal high temps can arrive about any time. Tonight the temperature isnâ??t dropping muchâ?¦.so dropping the temps (in the grow room) overnight involves â??active participationâ?�.
My local water is (or could be) very similar to the Zardâ??s description of hisâ?¦..pumped into above ground tanks and then delivered. Iâ??ll just make my best guess, and see what happens.
Youâ??re a good man, and always helpfulâ?¦â?¦I am bound and determined to stay out of the â??plant problemsâ?� section this fall. We shall seeâ?¦..

As alwaysâ?¦.hope that your life is good,
Horsemanrocks��out!

[Horsemanrocks]

One suggestion that I heard to lessen heat (I think that this came from oldmac) was to remove the heat created by the air pump/s for the buckets. (compressing air creates heat to the stones, and heat to the room) My solution was to run an air supply underground 80â?? from a large compressor at a distance and just use a regulator in my flower room. So the heat created locally was no longer an issue.
Since I was never totally impressed with the output (listed 1.75psi) supplied by the air pump I can now up the psi to the airstones to my liking. (with a 6â?� stone, only about half was creating bubbles) This is a recirculating DWC, but would survive easily on bubbles alone. So being satisfied with the output of the airstones, now I have the option of using the pump or not. (eliminating another source of heat) If I decide on full time circulation, putting it on a timer, or circulation solely for the purpose of ph-ing and/or feeding nutes to the buckets.
I do like options.

Horsemanrocks.

[Weezard]

Weezeâ?¦..did you ever save a copy of Puffztersâ?? grow log. Maybe itâ??s something that I could model one after.

Aloha,
Horsemanrocks.

No grow log, but I probably have the spreadsheets.
Would that help?

W.

[Horsemanrocks]

No grow log, but I probably have the spreadsheets.
Would that help?

Puffzter seems like a pretty thorough guyâ?¦..Yeah, Iâ??d love to see it. Even us mentally challenged might eventually learn somethingâ?¦â?¦yaâ?? think?

Manrocks