Kuwl's AutoPot Grow - Deja Vu

[PipeCarver]

Spring is here and weather is nice out.
So I closed up the veg tent and put
the clones outside in the greenhouse.
Not sure how they will do but I don't like the plug being warm
and they are not growing at all with no heat, min light, no fan/ movement.
They are not absorbing the nutrients and will prob get root rot or mold
so outside they go and hope they do well.
Plus the one plug in the outlet the veg tent uses is a bit warm so off it goes.
I can plug all the accessories into that one and feel a lot better about it.

I fed 6 gals into the res tank today.
PPM = 880 PH = 5.8
ProTekt = 1 tsp. per gal.
Foliage Pro is down to 1/2 tsp per gal
Bloom is up to 2 tsp. per gal.
Mag Pro down 1 tsp. per gal.
Zyme = 1 tsp. per gal.

Everything going well
Clones got flowers no coconuts :)
But forgot to crop em so the girls gone wild on me.
Lots of LST in the future.
I tried to strip a little bit and did but not my usual strip.
Hard to get in there without disturbing the lines and netting.
So did what I could and continue so it will be ongoing threw out the grow this time.
(I usually do a heavy strip at 21 days into flower.)
The Flowers are really stacking up and all plants looking good to me.
No burn yet but I expect a lil burn on the tips with 880 PPM feeding them.
Clones got a little bit of burn? spotting on a few leaves but not much and nothing I am worried about.,
Pic's

Looks good, I finely took my cuttings off the girls in my Auto Pots so I flip tonight. I've been lazy I could have done this a week ago but I guess with the air and everything running now I didn't do too bad. I'm anxious to see the QBlue again, I took 3 cuts off here and 2 off the rest. I want a tent full of them....

.I can only hope they turn out like the last one did.....I want to be done flowering in the summer, 99f @ 99% sucks for everything but mushrooms and I'm not growing them so....

 

[kuwl]

4 Weeks in Flower
Temps outside are a high 80 degrees today.
Hummi also up.
Cellar humi is 60 deg and tent is 46.6
Almost too high, I am putting off firing up the
humidifier as long as possible.
PPM = 1100 and they are sucking up 2 gallons a day.

F OG

SD

QC B

Clone #2 (3 wks behind)

Clone #1 (2 wks behind)

Wifey and I was sitting on the front porch last night
and seen a Peregrine Falcon, known to live in the gorge area of
Niagara Falls State Park about 10 blocks from here.
I had to call my Daughter, who lives across the street and let's her
2 Chihuahua dogs out in her backyard.
The Falcon was sitting on the very top branch of a tree in front of her house. Yipes!
We used to have one hanging around because of pigeon over population.
Not anymore! Then last Spring found it dead by my greenhouse, dunno what killed it.
I took a pic of this one, hunting in the evening light.
(The other 2 pic's are just a reference of what they look like)

Pic I took last night.

This is what a Peregrin Falcon looks like, pretty cool.

 

[PipeCarver]

4 Weeks in Flower
Temps outside are a high 80 degrees today.
Hummi also up.
Cellar humi is 60 deg and tent is 46.6
Almost too high, I am putting off firing up the
humidifier as long as possible.
PPM = 1100 and they are sucking up 2 gallons a day.

F OG
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SD
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QC B
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Clone #2 (3 wks behind)
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Clone #1 (2 wks behind)
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Wifey and I was sitting on the front porch last night
and seen a Peregrine Falcon, known to live in the gorge area of
Niagara Falls State Park about 10 blocks from here.
I had to call my Daughter, who lives across the street and let's her
2 Chihuahua dogs out in her backyard.
The Falcon was sitting on the very top branch of a tree in front of her house. Yipes!
We used to have one hanging around because of pigeon over population.
Not anymore! Then last Spring found it dead by my greenhouse, dunno what killed it.
I took a pic of this one, hunting in the evening light.
(The other 2 pic's are just a reference of what they look like)

Pic I took last night.
View attachment 1350789
This is what a Peregrin Falcon looks like, pretty cool.
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Hey nice shot, do they go after small pets?

 

[kuwl]

Hey nice shot, do they go after small pets?

Not sure but they sure decimated the dozen or so pigeons that were hanging around here.
Her dogs are very small.

 

[kuwl]

4 Weeks in Flower
Temps outside are a high 80 degrees today.
Hummi also up.
Cellar humi is 60 deg and tent is 46.6
Almost too high, I am putting off firing up the
humidifier as long as possible.
PPM = 1100 and they are sucking up 2 gallons a day.

F OG
View attachment 1350782
SD
View attachment 1350781
QC B
View attachment 1350780
Clone #2 (3 wks behind)
View attachment 1350783
Clone #1 (2 wks behind)
View attachment 1350785

Wifey and I was sitting on the front porch last night
and seen a Peregrine Falcon, known to live in the gorge area of
Niagara Falls State Park about 10 blocks from here.
I had to call my Daughter, who lives across the street and let's her
2 Chihuahua dogs out in her backyard.
The Falcon was sitting on the very top branch of a tree in front of her house. Yipes!
We used to have one hanging around because of pigeon over population.
Not anymore! Then last Spring found it dead by my greenhouse, dunno what killed it.
I took a pic of this one, hunting in the evening light.
(The other 2 pic's are just a reference of what they look like)

Pic I took last night.
View attachment 1350789
This is what a Peregrin Falcon looks like, pretty cool.
View attachment 1350790
View attachment 1350791

Slight correction the PPM @ 1100 was measured in the bucket the actual PPM in the res tank is 980 as I added 1/2 gal plain water to up the PH to 5.8 from 5.6 (Plain water = 7.0 PH)

 

[PipeCarver]

Slight correction the PPM @ 1100 was measured in the bucket the actual PPM in the res tank is 980 as I added 1/2 gal plain water to up the PH to 5.8 from 5.6 (Plain water = 7.0 PH)

Hey Gday, I was wondering how you change formulas and up your Bloom nutes in flower. Do you dump what is left in the reservoir and start new? I've just been adding 2 gal at a time when the tank gets to about 2 gal left of about 1/2 strength nutes, first week in flower now they're getting the same 4ml/4ml/4ml/ gallon I recently added Diamond Nectar for the Fulvic & Humic acids I get in the Flurolicious I use in soil that's too sticky for the reservoir and peroxide at 2.5ml/gal and I added some Epsom Salts

I will want to up my bloom nutes to double what I'm feeding soon. Do I just add 2 gal of my new mix which would be 4/4/8/ ++ to the existing 2 gal still in the tank or should I do a tank cleaning and start with a new batch?

 

[kuwl]

Hey Gday, I was wondering how you change formulas and up your Bloom nutes in flower. Do you dump what is left in the reservoir and start new? I've just been adding 2 gal at a time when the tank gets to about 2 gal left of about 1/2 strength nutes, first week in flower now they're getting the same 4ml/4ml/4ml/ gallon I recently added Diamond Nectar for the Fulvic & Humic acids I get in the Flurolicious I use in soil that's too sticky for the reservoir and peroxide at 2.5ml/gal and I added some Epsom Salts

I will want to up my bloom nutes to double what I'm feeding soon. Do I just add 2 gal of my new mix which would be 4/4/8/ ++ to the existing 2 gal still in the tank or should I do a tank cleaning and start with a new batch?

When I changed the amount of nutes, increase/decrease, I do it in my 2 gal bucket and dump into the existing res tank.

Not saying you can't clean out the tank and refill with updated res amt. but I don't.
I believe it lets the nutes gradualy increase as they drink it up.
Mine is up to 900 ppm give or take 50. It's slowly increasing as I increase the nute amounts.

I don't let the res tank get that low anymore.
If it's half way down I will throw in 2 buckets of nutes (4 gal)
But usually one bucket then if too low the next day I will add another 2 buckets.
I will add when the tank is not lower than 2/3 down.

The reason is.....after letting the tank go down to a gal or 2 multipul times
That's when I noticed the moldy stuff on my pump an side walls.
With only a gal or 2 in the tank, I think the pump warms up the water enough to cause mold.
That is the only explaination I have of the mold problem I had.

 

[PipeCarver]

When I changed the amount of nutes, increase/decrease, I do it in my 2 gal bucket and dump into the existing res tank.

Not saying you can't clean out the tank and refill with updated res amt. but I don't.
I believe it lets the nutes gradualy increase as they drink it up.
Mine is up to 900 ppm give or take 50. It's slowly increasing as I increase the nute amounts.

I don't let the res tank get that low anymore.
If it's half way down I will throw in 2 buckets of nutes (4 gal)
But usually one bucket then if too low the next day I will add another 2 buckets.
I will add when the tank is not lower than 2/3 down.

The reason is.....after letting the tank go down to a gal or 2 multipul times
That's when I noticed the moldy stuff on my pump an side walls.
With only a gal or 2 in the tank, I think the pump warms up the water enough to cause mold.
That is the only explaination I have of the mold problem I had.

Hey thanks, I was wondering. I added 6 gal at first and after it gets down to about 2 I've added 2 more. I'm getting a silt on the bottom but I don't feel it with my fingers when I do your reach in and feel method but i can see where my finger went across the bottom.....I'm going to dump it when it gets down a bit this week and clean it then do a refill with upped bloom. I didn't do a proper cleaning to start and I just don't want issues further into flower

 

[kuwl]

Problems this morning
Checked on em as I do every morning.
First thing I do is look in the tank to see if more res is needed and how much.
Surprise, tank is still full, not good.
I looked in the trays and they were wet but empty.
Turned off the valve in front of the feeder tank and pulled off the main feed
hose and turned the valve back on....... nothing!
Pulled out the pump and there was a bit of residue on it.
Yellow Gunky stuff but very little and wiped it off,
no problems there. Bubbler had a tiny bit on it also, wiped clean.
Pulled out the filter in the res tank and bingo! There was a gloop of yellowish stuff
plugging up the nozzle. Looked like yellowish toothpaste sticking out the tube.
Cleaned it up and decided to clean out the trays, they had a bit of dirt or debris in them.
(Be carefull when cleaning the valves, there are lil round blue rubber stoppers on them, don't mess with them and don't loose em)

In order to do all this stuff I had to remove the nets Arggggggggg!
Gave them a lil trim while they were easy to get to.
Put it all back and still no res feed into the trays.
I checked the main feed line and blew throuhg it, ah plugged!
Ran hot water and dish detergent through it and filled with water and blew it out.
Squeezed the line as tight as I could and slid down to the end to squeeze any poop out of it.
Ran more hot water thru, done!
Put is all back and good to go.

I did not clean the tank itself out because I seen nothing in it to worry about.
Maybe I should but I guess I will find out if I should have or not.
Tank was almost full, prob 10 gal in there and my back would not let me do it.

Man that is the last thing I wanted to do, it broke my back doing it.
It's done but what was the yellowish goob of gooo??
Never happened before and hope it never happens again.

So I would suggest checking the filter in the res tank once a week, it only takes a minute.
Another thing I do is lift the tray lids to check the water level each day.
I also check the filter on the intake fan once a month.

This grow has a lot of "Never Happened Before" in it, very fustrating.

 

[Deaner]

Problems this morning
Checked on em as I do every morning.
First thing I do is look in the tank to see if more res is needed and how much.
Surprise, tank is still full, not good.
I looked in the trays and they were wet but empty.
Turned off the valve in front of the feeder tank and pulled off the main feed
hose and turned the valve back on....... nothing!
Pulled out the pump and there was a bit of residue on it.
Yellow Gunky stuff but very little and wiped it off,
no problems there. Bubbler had a tiny bit on it also, wiped clean.
Pulled out the filter in the res tank and bingo! There was a gloop of yellowish stuff
plugging up the nozzle. Looked like yellowish toothpaste sticking out the tube.
Cleaned it up and decided to clean out the trays, they had a bit of dirt or debris in them.
(Be carefull when cleaning the valves, there are lil round blue rubber stoppers on them, don't mess with them and don't loose em)

In order to do all this stuff I had to remove the nets Arggggggggg!
Gave them a lil trim while they were easy to get to.
Put it all back and still no res feed into the trays.
I checked the main feed line and blew throuhg it, ah plugged!
Ran hot water and dish detergent through it and filled with water and blew it out.
Squeezed the line as tight as I could and slid down to the end to squeeze any poop out of it.
Ran more hot water thru, done!
Put is all back and good to go.

I did not clean the tank itself out because I seen nothing in it to worry about.
Maybe I should but I guess I will find out if I should have or not.
Tank was almost full, prob 10 gal in there and my back would not let me do it.

Man that is the last thing I wanted to do, it broke my back doing it.
It's done but what was the yellowish goob of gooo??
Never happened before and hope it never happens again.

So I would suggest checking the filter in the res tank once a week, it only takes a minute.
Another thing I do is lift the tray lids to check the water level each day.
I also check the filter on the intake fan once a month.

This grow has a lot of "Never Happened Before" in it, very fustrating.

Life long learning. 1000 variables.

 

[CactusJack1]

Looks like something your mixing in your res tank isnt happy to be there !

 

[PipeCarver]

Looks like something your mixing in your res tank isnt happy to be there !

I'm getting some debris in my tank as well, the solution in the tank is clear but I see something brownish on the bottom. I'll clean it this week.

I have different valves I don't have the little foam ball, there's a silicon looking cap but not the removable ball I've seen on demo's....That would really piss me off losing one of those critical small pieces.

 

[kuwl]

I'm getting some debris in my tank as well, the solution in the tank is clear but I see something brownish on the bottom. I'll clean it this week.

I have different valves I don't have the little foam ball, there's a silicon looking cap but not the removable ball I've seen on demo's....That would really piss me off losing one of those critical small pieces.

Ya I lost one of those blue silicon stoppers what a pain to order as the description of where each one is is confusing
I had to order again after getting the wrong one the first time
They are dif sizes.
They come in 4 packs so I got plenty :)
Problem is they charge min $35 no matter what I send to Canada plus the postage.

 

[kuwl]

Well I didn’t kill ‘em yet lol
Now to figure out a support system cause they getting heavy.

 

[kuwl]

Well, well, well
I think I found the problem.
I got up this morning and checked on the tank.....ugh!
It went down 2-3 gals but now I can see in there better.
Globs of stuff clinging to the sides of the tank and in the pump.
Took it all down and cleaned it, oh my back.
Cleaned it all, pump, lines, buckets and all with dish soap and vinegar.

Started over adding 2 gals at a time of my nute mix.
After the 2nd bucket and as I was loading my shot glasses with
product I seen something in one of the shot glasses.
I just put the Dyna Gro - Pro Tekt in the glass and seen some globs of stuff.
I also read that it is to be put in the mix first because of mixing prob with other nutes.

Ahh ha moment but not sure if my shot glass contaminated it or the measuring syringe I
use was the culprit. idk but it also could be the whole bottle is contaminated.
Not sure but the Zyme looked funny too.

Soooo nixed the Dyna Gro products and will use KoolBloom for the rest of the grow.
Will add Mag Pro if needed or what ever I think the plants need extra.
Also will add Re-fertilizer to the mix once.
I ditched the pump I had and used a backup new one from Vivosun (Green) I brought.
Not using the bubbler or H202 right now as I need to monitor this for a bit.

PPM = 950 PH = 5.8
KoolBloom = 1/4 tsp per gal.
Re-Fertilizer = 1/8 tsp per gal.

I was planning on putting the net back or some other form of support for the plants
but that will wait till tomorrow as my back is done for today.
The stuff in these pic's look exactly like the stuff I seen in the Pro Tekt shot glass.

 

[PipeCarver]

Well, well, well
I think I found the problem.
I got up this morning and checked on the tank.....ugh!
It went down 2-3 gals but now I can see in there better.
Globs of stuff clinging to the sides of the tank and in the pump.
Took it all down and cleaned it, oh my back.
Cleaned it all, pump, lines, buckets and all with dish soap and vinegar.

Started over adding 2 gals at a time of my nute mix.
After the 2nd bucket and as I was loading my shot glasses with
product I seen something in one of the shot glasses.
I just put the Dyna Gro - Pro Tekt in the glass and seen some globs of stuff.
I also read that it is to be put in the mix first because of mixing prob with other nutes.

Ahh ha moment but not sure if my shot glass contaminated it or the measuring syringe I
use was the culprit. idk but it also could be the whole bottle is contaminated.
Not sure but the Zyme looked funny too.

Soooo nixed the Dyna Gro products and will use KoolBloom for the rest of the grow.
Will add Mag Pro if needed or what ever I think the plants need extra.
Also will add Re-fertilizer to the mix once.
I ditched the pump I had and used a backup new one from Vivosun (Green) I brought.
Not using the bubbler or H202 right now as I need to monitor this for a bit.

PPM = 950 PH = 5.8
KoolBloom = 1/4 tsp per gal.
Re-Fertilizer = 1/8 tsp per gal.

I was planning on putting the net back or some other form of support for the plants
but that will wait till tomorrow as my back is done for today.
The stuff in these pic's look exactly like the stuff I seen in the Pro Tekt shot glass.

Somethin aint mixin right.......I gotta get at mine, as I sit here smoking and reading its hard to get work done....I'm out of standing water, I have to fill 30 or so jugs then pack them and store them, pain in the ass to get them up to house temp...aired off and I'll need 9 gal tomorrow....they won't be ready I needed to do this yesterday and here I sit.....lol.....Alaska Thunderfuck today....lol

I just looked at mine again and it has some stuff with stringers on the bottom..not good, feed water is not up to temp so it'll have to be tomorrow......Is light causing this build up, my temps are good but the vent hole and air line lets light in...I'm going to cap it and I think I've some black airline here somewhere I'll change it over if I do....

 

[kuwl]

Somethin aint mixin right.......I gotta get at mine, as I sit here smoking and reading its hard to get work done....I'm out of standing water, I have to fill 30 or so jugs then pack them and store them, pain in the ass to get them up to house temp...aired off and I'll need 9 gal tomorrow....they won't be ready I needed to do this yesterday and here I sit.....lol.....Alaska Thunderfuck today....lol

I just looked at mine again and it has some stuff with stringers on the bottom..not good, feed water is not up to temp so it'll have to be tomorrow......Is light causing this build up, my temps are good but the vent hole and air line lets light in...I'm going to cap it and I think I've some black airline here somewhere I'll change it over if I do....

No light getting into mine but pretty sure it is the Pro Tekt that is causing my problem.
Not mixing with the H202 or something (I'm discontinueing the H202 till things settle down ).
I've used this product in 2 or 3 AP grows and never had this problem before.
Not sure why tho, could be a number of reasons (Maybe to much air with bubbler and H202 together so took out the bubbler also).
Only thing changed was H202 and the HyClean but if the solution is contaminated then there it is.
But Problem was there before H202 cause that's why I added it.
Pro Tekt says to "never combine with other concentrates, always add to water first before adding other nutrients."
That tells me it will not mix well unless it's done this way and I do.
But something is causing it to glob up and idk what that is so I switch nutes till I can figure it out.
I only hope I didn't screw up adding the Re-Fertilizer in the tank, lol (I think I will know by morning if there is flooding).
It's a puzzle for sure.

I was looking at that AT and also Fat Bastard :) Happy 420

 

[kuwl]

Happy 420 ya'll

Everything seems to be ok in the tent and in the res tank.
They drinking again and look good.

I am going to run a test in a black 2 gal bucket using my Dyna Gro
products measured exactly as I do when feeding the res tank, to see what happens.
I suspect contamination of some sort but we'll see.

 

[kuwl]

Ya know I can't let this go lol.
I looked in the res tank and it looked a gal down so they're feeding.
Next I checked the feed lines and they are clear.
Pot trays are at PH 5.7 and PPM @ 950 plus I checked the
feed going into the pot tray by pulling the pot out for a sec (just a sec or you'll have a mess)
to see it the tray starts filling up and it did.
So everything checks out at this point.

Next I did a experiment with a black bucket, cleaned out good.
Fill with 2 gal of water and started to add nutes.
As each nute was injected into the bucket of water I would rinse out the shot glass and syringe.

I also rinsed out a sm glass that had the H202 in it, that i used to clean out the syringe, into the water glass.

The first nute I put in the bucket was Pro Tekt, then Foliage Pro and as soon as I rinsed the FP shot glass out
I seen the glass of water go cloudy. I continued to put the rest of the nutes into the bucket.
When done, the bucket was clear as you can see in the pic's.
After and hr or so checked back and bucket is clear so I added 4 tps H202 in and it stayed clear, no problems, go figure!

I had a prob with some kind of mold then used H202 to solve that problem.
(I think it was letting the tank get to low along with the pump heating the water temp up because it was a dif kind of mold, dark and slimy.)
Cleaned the tank, pump, etc. out and added H202 to the mix.
Then something started the second problem, globs of goo.
I suspect contamination of some sort, probably my bad habits.

 

[PipeCarver]

Ya know I can't let this go lol.
I looked in the res tank and it looked a gal down so they're feeding.
Next I checked the feed lines and they are clear.
Pot trays are at PH 5.7 and PPM @ 950 plus I checked the
feed going into the pot tray by pulling the pot out for a sec (just a sec or you'll have a mess)
to see it the tray starts filling up and it did.
So everything checks out at this point.

Next I did a experiment with a black bucket, cleaned out good.
Fill with 2 gal of water and started to add nutes.
As each nute was injected into the bucket of water I would rinse out the shot glass and syringe.

I also rinsed out a sm glass that had the H202 in it, that i used to clean out the syringe, into the water glass.

The first nute I put in the bucket was Pro Tekt, then Foliage Pro and as soon as I rinsed the FP shot glass out
I seen the glass of water go cloudy. I continued to put the rest of the nutes into the bucket.
When done, the bucket was clear as you can see in the pic's.
After and hr or so checked back and bucket is clear so I added 4 tps H202 in and it stayed clear, no problems, go figure!

I had a prob with some kind of mold then used H202 to solve that problem.
(I think it was letting the tank get to low along with the pump heating the water temp up because it was a dif kind of mold, dark and slimy.)
Cleaned the tank, pump, etc. out and added H202 to the mix.
Then something started the second problem, globs of goo.
I suspect contamination of some sort, probably my bad habits.

Always something hey, I let the tank get down to about 1.5 gal...I know way too low,,,,, I dumped what was left cleaned everything with H2O2 then rinsed and flushed my lines with 2 ml Hyclean per gal

I flooded everything then opened the valves and dumped it out, Then I added my mix of nutes and flushed my lines with it then sealed it up and flooded the system again.

What I could see on the bottom I couldn't feel with my fingers and it wiped off without much color on the paper,,,kind of an amber smudge....has to come from the micro, its the only thing that's close in color.

My little pump might not be ,mixing the solution very well. I saw a recommendation for a wave type pump they use in Aquariums ....I googled once and they were about the same price as reg small pumps.......always something........420 day///a good day for deals on grow stuff and seeds.....