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01-06-2011, 05:44 PM #8
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have waterfarm questions
id love those pictures and a step by step and parts list if it will lower my cost. and my kits cost 12.95 my hydro guys brother ordered and they got 250 of them hehe he lowered the price to get rid of them. just real curious as to how to build the pumping collumn. and if it can save me money oh ya.
Well, I don't have a pic of it that I took a while back, and my camera is on the blink, but...
I tried to modify Waterfarms kit first, but found that nothing I could buy at the hardware store would work to modify it, maybe its metric, I don't know.
So I started from scratch. I bought some 1/2" CPVC and started on the pipe that sits near the bottom, and cut about a 12" piece of pipe. The top would come up just above the hydroton. The bottom is cut at a 45 degree angle, so it doesn't get blocked. About a half inch above that cut, I drilled a hole at an angle the size so that my 1/4" tubing would fit in there. I placed the tubing just barely into the hole and taped it onto the 12" CPVC. Then just try it out by holding it in a bucket of water and put an air pump on the other end of the tubing. You will get some water getting pushed up that 12" pipe. From there on its just a matter of putting an elbow on the top and I had another 3" cpvc piece on the elbow. Then a Tee, and you can maybe some other small pieces of cpvc on each side of the tee, and perhaps a couple of 45 degree elbows at the end. They don't need to be glued because there is not much pressure. Then drill a few holes along the way so it can drip wherever you want it to.
i fixed my splashing problem. i removed 1/4 inch off each end of the ring, and 1/3 inch off the colomn. it now sits even with the top of the netpot and is resting on the hydroton i ran it for 3 days non stop and no splash out of water. the hydroton in the center is very damp. still dont get how it wicks to the center point. i want to run 2 or 3 but if i can get the cost down ill run 4.
oh ya got a question my last crop had no males(2 pants) there were no male flowers and never had a male in the area and no other growers were in mine or i in theres. how is that possible. there were no male flowers at all. hey it gave me about 20 seeds of which i germed 4 and they are just poking little tails out i am going to put them in root riots when it gets to about 1/2 to 1" long.
What you experienced here is a plant that "hermied". That is a female that partly turned into a male and female and fertilized itself. This can happen if the plant is in stress, that is, say the lights were on while it was in dark, or anything else that would stressful to the plant. If I were you, I would throw those seeds you gathered from it away. There's a great possibility that the seeds it gave you will become hermies too. Take a look at this:
Cloning a plant that hermied - 420 Magazine
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