1st ebb/flow grow

[scottcc5s]

I do 4 floods, 1 ever 4 hours when light on. Light comes on at 5 and that is flood one, 9 is second and so forth

Thanks, that's what I will do. Just been following your lead on what to do, I hope my Bush Master experiment works. Like they say, live and learn.

[tinytoon]

exactly right my friend!! life itself is nothing short of trial and error. If we dont try new things and fail we will never learn.

[scottcc5s]

Only ran Bush Master for 3 days.....the PH was at 6.5 and I could not get it to come down for the life of me. I would keep adding PH down and nothing would change so I just changed it out after 3 days and went back to normal nutes and went to 12/12.

Kind of pissed (see pics) I found what looks like a male in my soil plant that was going to be my mother. Pissed because I order nothing but fem seeds from Attitude!! I hope I am OK and did not fuck up my other plants, I think I got it early but I do not know. Whats strange I fed the mother plant on Saturday and it looked OK and today (Monday) I see on "balls" all over it, again hope I did not fuck up my other 12 plants that just started 12/12 last night. All my plants are from seeds.

I know its my fault but just PISSED I got a male out of all the fem seeds I ordered. It just caught me off guard and now I know never take FEM seeds for granted. I pulled the plant, its was my best looking plant but it had to go!!

If this male plant was in there for couple of days and by looking at it do you guys think I am OK with my other plants that just started 12/12 flower last night?? The mother plant was 2 weeks again of my other plants that just started flower 12/12.

[tinytoon]

You should be fine. You said you yanked it (hard thing to do sometimes) and the pods look like they were just forming so carry on! Personally I make mothers from clones.

[scottcc5s]

You should be fine. You said you yanked it (hard thing to do sometimes) and the pods look like they were just forming so carry on! Personally I make mothers from clones.

Thanks, hope it will be OK. Maybe I panic but when you get this far into the grow I just hate to see anything go wrong with this much time/money spent.

Update pics, will see if Bush Master worked. 7 sativa plants and 5 indica/sativa plants.

Question, when you check PH in your res to you stir it up good before you check it with your PH meter or do you just check PH without stirring up the res??

[tinytoon]

You should have enough O2 being pumped in there to keep things mixed fairly well if not you might want more O2 in rez. I run 2 6" stones in the 55 gal drum but next time I'll up them to 12".

[scottcc5s]

You should have enough O2 being pumped in there to keep things mixed fairly well if not you might want more O2 in rez. I run 2 6" stones in the 55 gal drum but next time I'll up them to 12".

I did not know about the air stone idea, I will check them out and get a couple. Thanks

[tinytoon]

I thought you had an air pump and air stone in your rez or am I gettimg to many grows mixed up??:wtf:

[scottcc5s]

I thought you had an air pump and air stone in your rez or am I gettimg to many grows mixed up??:wtf:

Got two air stones going in my rez now so all is good with H2O flow. Went with these round air stones, seem to be flowing good.

[tinytoon]

yup they should work good. Sorry about not mentioning the air pump. Anytime you have a standing supply of water (rez or dwc bucket) you want an air pump and air stone(s) to aerate the water and try to pump as much O2 into the water that you can. The more O2 in the water the happier the plants will be :thumbsup: