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Very nice set up you did here. I’m very curious as to how it working out for you. Maybe do a journal on this set up and grow. That way we all could learn a long the way.It has been a min but got everything in and running smooth. Other than humidity I have to get that under control. Running around 35-40% rh when lights on with an 80 pint humidifier so I got a 300 pint and it keeps it right at 55 to 60. Once the lights go off it goes up to 75-80 so getting a bigger Dehu tomorrow to keep that in check. Res temps wouldn’t drop below 73% so had to get another chiller now holding steady at 66*. Have a few stunted plants I shouldn’t have pulled them from cloner but there was only 4 or 5 that are getting left behind but still growing. Being my first grow I have made some mistakes mixed up a 250 ppm n solution for getting them rooted but then the plants started turning bad fast. So I upped it to 500 and nothing after a day or so so I upped it to 750 and things started going bad. Nuke burn and toxicity’s. Probably should have just left it alon. The larger plants seemed to like it but the little ones did not a friend of mine come over to check it out and ended up with 250 with a little bit of cal/mag in it and things were going good till today. When I came in and they were all wilted. They all look like a way overwatered soil plant my co2 was out of propane and levels were under 200 wondering if that had something to do with it. So lots of learning going on. If anyone has grown in nft and wants to give there opinion on these roots it would be greatly appreciated. Had some light coming threw the pool noodles so I covered up with panda paper. Picture is from day 3 or 4 after transplant when I decided to give them stronger nutes. Anyways I am just wingin it trying to keep them Alive. Any tips would be helpful I will post some more pics soon. Keeping a journal of what not to do with nft and will be sure to post it towards the end of the grow! Hopefully it’s not within the next 10 weeks! Right after typing that I knocked on wood. It is really impressive to see such good plants in this site and all the help people give to those that are trying to learn along the way.
They are 9 inch nft channels from farm tek. So I have been having an issue with the wilting of these plants all of them seem to be doing this. I had a ph issue two days ago were it got down to 4.7 for about 6 hrs because my doser Jose was not at bottom of ph up bottle. they seem to be getting better but the wilting has been there from before but the ph issue just made it worse. I know they start to droop at end of the light cycle and they do more so during that time but they don’t really get the praying hand effect often. My ppms are 800-900 on the 500 scale. Temps hold steady at 75 humidity holds steady at 60% they are getting on average canopy height 600 ppfd. Co2 hangs right around 750 There are no signs of root rot roots look healthy there is a ton of new growth every day. I have adjusted the water flow from about half a gallon a min to 6 gallons a min threw channels and seems to make no difference. My slope on channels is 4 inches over 20 ft. Any help would be appreciatedVery nice set up you did here. I’m very curious as to how it working out for you. Maybe do a journal on this set up and grow. That way we all could learn a long the way.
also what did you used to make that nft?
I’m no expert either and I really admired your grow set up. Also since you’re using co2 and i see that your res is open top... could that be the reason why ph went down so quick? A quick ph fluctuate search came up with “Carbon dioxide is the most common cause of acidity” and from what i know co2 tends to falls down. IdkThanks for checking out the thread. I really think I got it narrowed down to the very regretful ph fluctuation that I had. The nutes that I have are weird it’s lotus and it’s powdery but A wet powder when I got to the bottom of a jug it was like mud consistency so I called their customer service and said it was normal and it was ok to use so I did and that’s when what what I’m callin the great ph swing of 2020 happened. Talked to a few experienced growers and they said to get away for these nutes if they are inconsistent well my nutrient water will be also. Thinking I’m going to flush and go with advanced
Also I’m getting a top put on it this weekend to make sure that is not the case and running the air hose to outside so I know it’s fresh air going to the aero mixerSo I was wondering the same thing but wouldn’t it be doing it all the time? Not just out of the blue almost three weeks in?
Don’t smoke actually was a business adventure that partner went rouge and I was already to far in to just back out so taking a Swag at it. What’s the worst that could happen I loose money in clones and nutes and electric. That’s a lot less than I got into just the ac. Maybe it works out maybe it doesn’t.I really am enjoying the learning process of it all and I am enjoying the tending also it’s a nice change of pace from working a 9 to 5
I was only jokingDon’t smoke actually was a business adventure that partner went rouge and I was already to far in to just back out so taking a Swag at it. What’s the worst that could happen I loose money in clones and nutes and electric. That’s a lot less than I got into just the ac. Maybe it works out maybe it doesn’t.
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