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If you were using RO, I would stop using CalMag at the beginning of week 6 for a ten week strain... Especially since DM Gold seems to have enough N, Ca, and Mg at stronger dosages. Also you shouldn't need much CalMag with tap water starting at 130 PPM @ 0.5 conversion to EC. Either way, I'd really love to see some lights out shots with the camera flash on for accurate colors... If your camera has a custom White Balance setting, you can adjust it to the HPS and remove the yellow cast off... :cool
P.S. I wouldn't use Roots Excelurator past week 4 of bloom, but others may have a different opinion...
I've never used cal-mag but a friend of mine has been using and are having great results, give a shot!!!!
Nice job by the way.
Hi Shady!
Thanks for being so helpful!
I am not using tap water. The water PPM was at 130 because when the system was flushed it still leaving a little bit of the old water, which increases the PPM.
I'm trying to figure out how to change the camera settings to HPS but I guess my camera doesn't have this option. When I go to functions, I have:
Auto, Day Light, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H and Custom. I'll buy a better camera if everything goes well after :harvest:
To be honest I wasn't sure if I should keep using Roots Excel, but I did :(
What could possible go wrong using RE after week 4?
Re - Camera Settings.
'Custom' is what you want. Usually you will take a piece of white paper, and to set it up you snap a pic of it under your HPS lighting and that will 'set' your white balance and save the setting. Then anytime you are going to snap pix of your girls, set it to custom and it will remove the orange hue.
RE - No problems using it past week 4, other than the expense of it. Roots don't grow much past week 3 of bloom as the plant uses its energy for flowers.
I didn't see anyone mention it but i think the bio balls are a great option. I used them in my saltwater tanks for bennies and they work great and last forever.
There are some cheap places on ebay you can get a big box of black ones on the cheap.
I run them in my netpots because of breath-ability over hydroton. I love them.
Good luck
nah I don't use them in a canister filter. I just prefer them to any other media for the netpots. They last forever and they breathe easy for good o2.
If I was going to do a biofilter, I would just get an extra bucket plumbed next to the epicenter and fill it with bioballs. Toss a little pump in to the epi and you're good to go. I would raise the "biobucket" up so it gets only half water and half air (similar to a wet/dry trickle filter) and be good to go.
Actually now that we're talking about it.. it seems that the epicenter would be a great place to make a filter. Just have to figure out the autotop off ..
Yep jungleboy, thats exactly what I mean. Only thing I would add to that pic of yours is a drip plate to spread the water/aeration out a little pit.
Nice updated pix mang, looks good.
RMCG, what design is flawed?
'Trickle' filters aren't as efficient as submerged media filtration (canister type). Even with spray wand or some other diffuser, they are better at aerating than filtering.
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