1st ebb/flow grow

[tinytoon]

Nice :thumbsup:
You have a fan in there creating a lil breeze to strengthen stems and such Yes? :jointsmile:

[scottcc5s]

Nice :thumbsup:
You have a fan in there creating a lil breeze to strengthen stems and such Yes? :jointsmile:

Yep, just have one fan on them running at low speed. Have another fan when needed.

Question for you....Changing water every week a must do or is it OK to go 2 weeks before changing the res? I have no problem doing it ever week just wonder how critical it is to do every week.

[tinytoon]

When they are real young like they are now I might do a 2 week run since right now they are building a root system so they are not going to take in allot of nutes and such. They get a little bit bigger and switch to full str on nutes then it would change for me to every week since you dont know for sure exactly what they are feeding on mostly or how much. Yup you can take a pen and check your PPM's but what are you low on?? My case would be either Micro, Grow, Bloom, calmag, florious plus or in flower KoolBloom. To my knowledge there is no way to tell if they are feeding evenly across the board or if they are using all the grow but none of the bloom. Weekly rez change will help eliminate the guess work as you start fresh every 7 days :thumbsup:

[scottcc5s]

When they are real young like they are now I might do a 2 week run since right now they are building a root system so they are not going to take in allot of nutes and such. They get a little bit bigger and switch to full str on nutes then it would change for me to every week since you dont know for sure exactly what they are feeding on mostly or how much. Yup you can take a pen and check your PPM's but what are you low on?? My case would be either Micro, Grow, Bloom, calmag, florious plus or in flower KoolBloom. To my knowledge there is no way to tell if they are feeding evenly across the board or if they are using all the grow but none of the bloom. Weekly rez change will help eliminate the guess work as you start fresh every 7 days :thumbsup:

Thanks for info, this weekend will be 2 weeks and I will change out the res with RO water then. Just put in my meter to check PPM and right now at 840.

Here's what I started with 2 weeks ago: RO water and put in CAL MAG and got it up to 275 PPM and then put in 1/2 strength MICRO, BLOOM, GROW. Not sure how you guys figure out what the plants are using and how much but I will cross that bridge later.

[tinytoon]

I dont know what the plants use and what they dont use thats why I change my rez every week but when they are babies like that they dont feed as much so you can cheat a lil as long as no ill effects are seen on plants :thumbsup:

[Zeffer]

Hello enlighten, heightened ones !
Here is great place to be. I will post some pics today sometime...
My ? is this ...How should i treat these delicate babies now ?
As you can see they are just seedlings...When should i put them in the
Hydroton buckets /

Thanks for being there for us newbezza !

Zeffer

[TerraPharma]

I like your set up, but what keeps your buckets from overflowing?

I use a flood table that fills to a set level then drains back to the resevoir. I don't see how your set up accomplishes that.

Thanks

D

[TerraPharma]

I like your set up, but what keeps your buckets from overflowing?

I use a flood table that fills to a set level then drains back to the resevoir. I don't see how your set up accomplishes that.

Thanks

D

Dang it... never mind I see it now.

[tinytoon]

runs off a controller box. It is same thing as Ebb&Grow just different name. In one room I have buckets and out side of it is rez and controller box, plumbed through the wall.

[scottcc5s]

2 weeks update pics and still on 1/2 nutes and 24/7. Going to 18/6 and 100% nutes this weekend. Future mother plant on right (in soil) hope my clone efforts go better next time around.

All plants in buckets are seedlings due to my bad cloning efforts. I do not have as much room as Tiny does but my res water temp is OK so far (72 to 74 degrees) and room temp OK also (72 to 77). Will see how temp goes when I switch to HPS bulbs.

Does temp go up much when going to HPS bulbs??