Ok there already liking their new homes. I hadnt hooked up the chiller yet and actually its a damn good thing i did set it up tonight! The water actually was hitting 90°!
morning PB… 90F is a bit hot for sure…get that chiller going…
Chiller is going my friend! And were perfect now.
The lowest i have ever got the water was 69°.
There adapting to their new homes nicely.
The roots are creeping out of the hydroton. I cut sections out of the net pots but only on some of the pots. Im going to cut out bigger pieces next time so i can pull more of the roots out of the net pot in the beginning to start with and see if they grow even faster??
So far so good.
Theres one plant in there thats grown a bit bigger faster its got me worried it might take the tent over.
Ah this is good, perfect for testing out what the LF likes, before sprouting those fresh beans!
This is exciting! Love to follow your dwc grows man. Have those plans as well, can’t wait.
Ok update here this plant has massive leaves!
This was 3 Days ago. Notice the leaf is bigger than the 5 gallon bucket it’s in!
Ok heres the plants tonight. There all Lava freeze. And i have 6 clones of this plant. Im flowering 1 now. The 4 in the hydro are still in veg. And i have a baby mother thats growing in another tent in an autopot system im testing out.
Heres the mother.
happy hump day PB…
Hey whats up man? Good to see ya. I had to be at a sales meering at 6am so I was outta here.
morning PB… I was out at the camp yesterday clearing the trails for the last time before season opens up…have a great smoke session…
Sweet sounds like it was a lot of work?
Lol my wife calls yhe plants dinosaur plants because there so big.
hydro does produce those big fans …pretty to look at but they do block light to below and can hinder growth IMHO…have a great Taco Tuesday growmie…
Yep they will be getting defoliated shortly. Been busy with fall clean up. Getting yard debris cleaned up and to the dump. Then the trucks expired and i had to install 2 new catalytic converters.
So the grow turned into crap. The plants got damn big in the stretch. So only got half the harvest i should have had.
One plant was Huge and you can see by the root balls.
And i reset the hydro tent tonight. Me and my friend trimmed 2 plants and then i reset the tent. Cleaned it all up changed the air stones cleaned all the pumps and air lines. Set it at 71f water temp 600ppms and 5.8 ph.
Im running 4 pirates cake x lavender in this tent.
I didn’t do worth a damn with my CDWC setup and when I finally got it running right wound up in the hospital so lost the whole damn thing. Threw all the buckets and lines out this past summer. But anyway…I always thought that roots were supposed to stay cooler than ambient temps? More natural.
Just my thoughts.
Marty
Very nice setup!
How big is your reservoir?
Marty
Its a 20 gallon reservoir. And the buckets are 4 gallons square and have flats sides. I run about 15 gallons in the entire system. Because that gives me about 1.5" air gap for the plants roots. 17 gallons is almost too much. And the pvc tubing is 3" to prevent roots from clogging the system and for ease of cleaning. This 4 site is part of an 8 site system i use in my Big 10’x10’ tents set up. I kinda down sized after a close call with the police. Im running half my set up and packed up half my equipment and shut down my tissue culture lab put away my laminar flow hood. I just doing some light breeding and growing out more of my strains i made. You know in house testing…takes time but worth the efforts.
Yep I figured out a long time ago that my little 5 gal resevoir was to blame for a lot of my trouble, that and refusing to stop using rainwater lol. The only way to do hydro is with RO water. And a lot bigger tank. Shit just goes south way too quick with a tiny amount of water. they look fantastic Prey.
Marty