It has finally happened… Turtle has gone hydro!

After much delay (waaay too much, in fact!), it’s ON!

We’re growing two White Widow clones, from a known female plant. It’s inside a cabinet (which sits inside a closet), that measures 20inches by 40inches in its base, and 48inches tall. Because of height restrictions (and newb dreams of grandeour), we’re doing a SCRoG (Screen of Green). Inside the cab, we’re running two bulbs: a 400W MH, and a 600W HPS. Both of them, inside a cool tube (more or less “cool”).

For vegetative growth, we’ll be using only the Metal Halide… when 12/12 (flowering) comes around, we’ll run both MH and the High Pressure Sodium bulbs. That will give us a total of 1000W for the cabinet. I’m aiming at keeping the bulbs from 12 to 14 inches away from the screen.

For exhaust, we’ve got a 300CFM NuTone fan on the top of the cabinet, pulling air OUT. We’ve got a 4” dryer duct fan hooked up at the bottom of the cabinet, as a passive intake. The cabinet inside is Mylared all the way, except the bottom “floor”.

HYDRO setup::: I decided to go the simplest hydro route, and in my opinion, that’s DWC (Deep Water Culture). So, we’ve got one 5 gallon bucket per plant, two plants, and a third 5 gallon “reservoir” bucket”. All three buckets are interconnected, and a small pump is flowing the water through all three.

For the all important hydro readings, we’re running a Hanna meter… we can measure EC/TDS, ppm, pH, and the temperatures of the hydro solution. ( hope I got that right). Anyway, the Hanna meter has two probes, both of which have been located in the reservoir bucket.

Oxygen for the roots::: At the present, we’ve got only one dual-outlet aquarium air pump, running two air stones… one air stone per bucket. Future upgrades (ASAP) are a second air pump, with two more air stones… TOTALS: one air pump + two air stones for EACH bucket. That should give nice bubbles…

NUTRIENTS (“nutes”)::: We’ll be using General Hydroponics (GH) 3-part series nutrients… FloraGrow, FloraMicro, and FloraBloom. Also, GH pH up/down. For WATER we have a RO+DI (Reverse Osmosis + DeIonization) water filter.

NUTE ADDITIVES and STUFF::: We’ve got SuperTHRIVE (basically “a must”). Also, CalMag PLUS (with RO water, basically also “a must”). Later things, I think we have Bloom Booster or something like that…

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Clones are looking great… they’re really growing during these hours. They’ve been in the hydro setup for aproximately 24 hours (actually, less), and their roots have JUMPED! I hope I see some equally impressive growth rates with the upper side of the plants.


Any and all inputs and suggestions are greatly welcomed…

Thanks for stopping by.

-turtle420
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turtle420 Reviewed by turtle420 on . Cabinet, 1000W Hydro-DWC SCRoG White Widow It has finally happened… Turtle has gone hydro! After much delay (waaay too much, in fact!), it’s ON! We’re growing two White Widow clones, from a known female plant. It’s inside a cabinet (which sits inside a closet), that measures 20inches by 40inches in its base, and 48inches tall. Because of height restrictions (and newb dreams of grandeour), we’re doing a SCRoG (Screen of Green). Inside the cab, we’re running two bulbs: a 400W MH, and a 600W HPS. Both of them, inside a cool tube Rating: 5