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Yodas, this is KICK ASS! I'm pretty psyched you got this shit rolling!
DOIN IT!!!
GO EAGLES!!!! (drunk and couldn't resist) :)
DOIN IT!!!
GO EAGLES!!!! (drunk and couldn't resist) :)
Looking good, bro - keep that RH up and keep up the good work :)
Any noticeable difference between the perlite and hydroton at this point?
GO EAGLES!!!! (drunk and couldn't resist) :)
Yodas, this is KICK ASS! I'm pretty psyched you got this shit rolling!
DOIN IT!!!
Thx for the very kind words my friend! I'll have to check out your thread in a minute and see how the trailer is rocking... :rockOH SNAP!!!! It had been about a year since I read up on VPD and that's definitely an issue I have going on now. I knew I had too low humidity, but didn't realize some of the stresses I was causing. -- Shady is the MAN! Thanks for posting the links.
Thx for the kind word as well buffbuds! I'm glad the links have helped... I've been preaching about VPD way before the article came out in Urban Garden magazine... Ahhh, those are just a couple links amongst many bookmarks in my research... :coolShady, I must say, your recommended reading was very enlightening, thank you for offering that, I only ever knew to be between 40% and 60% humidity, I am glad to understand the underlying physics! You're a cool dude, I'll be following your posts :-)
I guess there's a reason he thought my advice worked, him and I were both experiencing the same problem of humidity in addition. My room is maxed out at 45% at night, 15%-20% daytime. My growth rate is slow, and I could be using my nutrients more efficiently! (let this happen to make sure powdery mildew goes away) Your advice reminds me why I come here!
Very nice job brah! Those girls are starting to bounce back... Here's a couple thoughts to consider... If your goal is for a SOG, then you really could use smaller pots and increase your density of plants under each light. The idea is to flip now, if SOG is really your goal...Update gentlemen....As you can see things are really taking off. Here are a few updated pics.. Looking very healthy.. LUCAS FORMULA is working for sure. With alittle Shady and Bobby help!!!!!
Also have been able to keep the humidity alittle better at around 20% to 28% but still far from ideal..
Thx for the very kind words my friend! I'll have to check out your thread in a minute and see how the trailer is rocking... :rock
Thx for the kind word as well buffbuds! I'm glad the links have helped... I've been preaching about VPD way before the article came out in Urban Garden magazine... Ahhh, those are just a couple links amongst many bookmarks in my research... :cool
Very nice job brah! Those girls are starting to bounce back... Here's a couple thoughts to consider... If your goal is for a SOG, then you really could use smaller pots and increase your density of plants under each light. The idea is to flip now, if SOG is really your goal...
On another note, I'm very curious about the hydroton performance vs the perlite... What are the flood durations and intervals? :wondering
Hmmm, maybe I don't quite understand your ebb and grow buckets... Do they simply flood and then drain completely? How long do they stay full of water? In my veg ebb 'n flow setup, I only flood at lights on 7 am, and then at 6 pm... light's turn off at 1 am. The flood only lasts as long as it takes to saturate my pots with hydroton, and then the drain begins. Granted my little ghetto setup is under T-8's and not HID's... Let's see what the other farmers experienced this type of setup have to say... :wait
Yoda - you should only be flooding as long as it takes to get the water level in the buckets up to your flood line and then the pump(s) should shut off - unless you want to put an airstone in every bucket (and turn them into DWC), letting non-aerated water sit in there for any length of time is not recommended.
Like Shady I've never run an Ebb 'n Gro, but I'd have to imagine it's fairly similar to hydroton in a normal flood table - I flood every two hours for 6 minutes (how long it takes me to flood my table) - it's almost impossible to overwater in hydroton as long as your floods are quick and don't leave the roots unnecessarily submerged (I've gone up to once an hour but didn't notice much of a difference so went back to every other hour).
Have you checked any of your bucket's moisture levels in-between floods, or are you just flooding for the minimum number of times per day to avoid wilting? I ask because at the size those plants are I'd be flooding at a minimum of four times per day, and more likely in the six-ten times per day range.
If you have different setups, perhaps experiment a little with different flooding frequencies and see what seems to work best?
BTW, is your spacing in the pics in post #100 a temporary veg spacing or will it remain that way through flower? Unless you want to run single cola SOG plants, that spacing isn't gonna give you very large plants in flower (I've never seen an E&G run SOG, always 2-4 ounce bushes with more spacing than yours have).
EDIT: flooding more often will also have the side benefit of increasing your RH to some degree - might not take you from 30 to 50, but it will help.
How r ur nutes at 1290-1350/ dont mean to sound stupid but im new to hydro, ive never had my ppm above 900 in promix, but like i said that high for flowering? im scared bc i have a 60 site aeroflo on its first run and veg with canna my plants look perfect and the ppm never gets above 800 at most and ph around 6.
Ya them plants lookin much better my dad did something real similar to this on a smaller scale. 62 yrs old no experience drops 18grand on his first setup used lucas formula plants looked tge same as yours at the beginning but also came back nicely now he juseeds to figure out his root rot issues. When u get this figured out call me. can u say Tumbleweed check it out on u tube.