Sterilizing My Grow With Ozone

[ken dog]

Almost ready to flip... Day 20 since introduced to the system.
ORP turns on at 331mV and turns off at 351mV.
After it turns on, and before it rises, it drops to around 221mV, and after it turns off, it rises to about 376mV.
It stays on for about six minutes, and stays off for another 20 minutes.

 

[timmur]

Lookin good Ken!

 

[All4freedumb]

Nice work. I love the dedication! I'm looking forward to seeing your run finish off real nice for you.

 

[ken dog]

Ready to flip... day 25 of veg.
Also, just in case of too much off-gassing, I have discontinued use of ozone for the past 3 days, and seeing my ORP levels hover around 300mV.

A little over a week ago, I ordered a proper ozone reactor and effluent gas and water filtration system... it is being built as I post, and should be ready by next week. I will post details when I install it.

Check out the root growth that the current inside of the bucket, sculpts the root zone.

 

[ken dog]

here's an update... Ozone is on during the day when I am gone, and two hours before I get home, I turn it off with a timer.

All of this, just in case... Until my professionally built ozone reactor with 2 filters arrives.

Here's a quick picture update...

 

[timmur]

Lookin good in there ken!

 

[ken dog]

Brix is 9.5... I've never had a brix reading this high before.
I'm used to a brix reading between 3 and 5.

 

[ken dog]

Lookin good in there ken!

Thanks timmur... here's hoping your contractor showed up.:)

 

[timmur]

Contractor did show up! Almost done. Finish up the wiring tomorrow. Testing after that!

 

[ken dog]

Contractor did show up! Almost done. Finish up the wiring tomorrow. Testing after that!

Very cool!

 

[palm eezy]

Maybe I missed it somewhere but what kind of lighting are you running in there ken?

 

[ken dog]

Maybe I missed it somewhere but what kind of lighting are you running in there ken?

Right now, I'm running 5 eye hortilux 400 watt bare bulbs In a dice configuration...

Switched over to hortilux HPS during flower and during flower, I also have 900 watts of primarily red LEDs that are distributed in four panels... And they are inserted between the spaces between the five bare bulb 400's.

 

[palm eezy]

Nice. From your pics its obvious you aren't having any issues with the ozone & nutrients. My next setup will utilize a similar deal, based on your success. :) also interested in fractionating impeller style pumps. Are you using anything for roots? I can't hype IBA enough (for us nerdy/scientific types anyway), and am eternally thankful to the folks on here who turned me onto it.

 

[ken dog]

Nothing for the roots...just ozone.

 

[ken dog]

Quick update.... Got the CO2 running, and upgraded the Ozone reactor... More later.
The inside-the-grow pictures were taken through the Method 7 glasses.

 

[ken dog]

Another quick update...

 

[ken dog]

End of 2 weeks into flower... picture taken a moment ago... Through Method 7 sunglasses.
ORP 350mV.
EC .4

 

[palm eezy]

How did the roots look before the ozone ken? What kind of water are you using? Well,city etc.

 

[ken dog]

I'm using City water through an RO machine... the water comes out at .2 - .3 EC before going through the RO machine.

The Roots were nothing special coming out of one of my clone machines... one clone machine which is brand-new, spits out bright white roots, and the other one which is several years old, spits out roots that are a little dingy brown.

By now however, without ozone, my roots would typically be a little bit brown by now.

 

[ken dog]

You must be a racist kenny.....only loving white roots.jkjk lol

I know, right?! LOL