1st ebb/flow grow

[scottcc5s]

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:

No worries, I need to learn as I move along. After a couple of days of flowering I realized I had not changed my bulbs to my HPS. I think I am finally on the right track. Thanks for all the help

[scottcc5s]

My update is I am 1 1/2 week into flower, things are getting thick and heat is up a bit this week to 85 degrees or so during day time.

Trying to get my 1 runt plant (last pic) to get going with UFO light on it but I think I just have a runt. Overall pretty happy with the ebb/flow system I bought.

[scottcc5s]

Just changed out rez and put in 35 gallons, girls are drinking a lot so I just added more water this round to last for the week. I know one thing my back yard plants have never look so good. I guess one of the benefits from changing the rez once a week

Enough bubbles/O2 for 35 gallons?

[tinytoon]

Doesnt look bad from here. I run 2 6" airstones atm but after this run I am going to switch to 2 12" stones. I run 40 gals in flower.

[mainmanvern]

Cool Post man!! Mine just came in the otherday, just got the rocks in the buckets and test ran yesterday. ( the store sells these inserts instead of clay-anyone ever use?) Anyway, Im new to hydro, but many yrs in soil. looks like your about 1 month ahead of me. Im gonna tag along this post cause so far the info is GREAT. Im lost as to what RO water is?

[scottcc5s]

Cool Post man!! Mine just came in the otherday, just got the rocks in the buckets and test ran yesterday. ( the store sells these inserts instead of clay-anyone ever use?) Anyway, Im new to hydro, but many yrs in soil. looks like your about 1 month ahead of me. Im gonna tag along this post cause so far the info is GREAT. Im lost as to what RO water is?

Thanks man, just trying to keep a time line from begging to end to show others what I did right or wrong since me being a new guy to hydro. I will post some new pics later. If you keep reading you will learn a lot from guys on this forum, good luck with your grow. RO water = "reverse osmosis" water, much cleaner than tap water. RO water is the way to go for hydro.

[tinytoon]

RO water would no doubt be a good thing to have but as long as PPM out of tap isn't out of site and people can actually drink it without growing extra body parts then tap should do you fine. In my opinion anything under 200ppm is usable. Mine runs around 120/130 and I raise it to 200 with calmag before adding anything else. As long as I can do what I have been doing with tap I'll stay with it, to me RO seems to be a pain and takes to long but if my water was up around 600 I would no doubt be singing a different tune :wtf:

[scottcc5s]

Not a lot to report other than little heat wave in my area, grow tent temp is higher than normal. Temp inside the tent has been 85 to 87 range for last few days. Lots of fans blowing lots of hot air around. I have been using the frozen plastic liter bottles to try and keep res water cool enough, so far so good. Change two of them out in AM and PM every day. Water staying under 75 degrees.

Plants are pretty thick and have stop turning them, just do not want to break any branches. The sativa/indica (OG Kush) are taking over space for my sativa (Super Lemon Haze). Next time I will not mix plants up like this.

[tinytoon]

I hear allot of peeps saying they wont mix plants again, sounds like good info.

[scottcc5s]

I have couple of plants in "soil" and both plants have this issue. What do you think is causing this?

I am using RO water, cal mag and all the botanicare mixes. I am following amounts on label to mix in so just a little strange on what is up with these spots on leaves. Plants are 5 weeks into flowering.