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Nesta’s World

Nesta said:
Quick update. Since transplant all four were looking pretty sad. I thought I may be have caused a lockout somehow. I flushed the two plants on the left (Trop Cherry and Gary Payton), to see if they improved and ironically they didn’t, but the two on the right (Jealousy and Chem 91) did. EC, PH, Temp, Humidity, and Airflow are all in check. I lowered the PPFDs and raised the heat a bit. The two on the right are looking much better and I’m hoping the two on the left rebound. I was able to get the drip rings installed today, and im cautiously optimistic about them. The way the ring connects to the blumat seems awkward to me. I have made sure they are below the top of the blumat and no kinks in the line. We shall see…. I am curious if any of you are using the AC Infinity Cloudforge T7 humidifier? This thing is great but it dumps condensation. I had to put a small bucket to catch the condensation out of the hose. I have placed the main unit outside of my tent and am running the hose into a bottom access hole. I have it set to maintain 55% humidity, and running at a 6 on a scale of 0-10. Curious if anyone has a better solution?
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When I was looking into the T7, the solution to condensation was to keep a vertical orientation on the hose. What if you ran it through an upper hole and ziptied it to a corner post?
 
GrumpAzz said:
When I was looking into the T7, the solution to condensation was to keep a vertical orientation on the hose. What if you ran it through an upper hole and ziptied it to a corner post?
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Interestingly enough, when I first installed the hose, I ran it through a lower hole and ran vertically up the post and zip tied it. Problem was that the tube filled with water, and would not allow humidity mist to flow through into the tent.
 
Nesta said:
Interestingly enough, when I first installed the hose, I ran it through a lower hole and ran vertically up the post and zip tied it. Problem was that the tube filled with water, and would not allow humidity mist to flow through into the tent.
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Effectively forming a p-trap.
 
Just a quick update: the bluemat drip rings didn’t drip at all for me so I removed them. They all had water in the rings, but no evidence the water was actually dripping out of the rings. Still struggling with chopped cherry and Gary Payton on the left. I just ran a thorough flush with 5.8 pH water last night. I’m hoping this turns them around. jealousy and Chem 91 on the right are greening up and looking pretty good. Going to let them get a little taller and then will install the Scrog net.
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Depending on size of ring there are only a few drip holes.
8 holes on the 10 inch and 4 holes on the 5 inch.
My 10 inch arrived but they won't fit what my plants are in now so I ordered the 5's and stashed the 10's.
They 5's haven't arrived yet.
I will say upon inspection of the 10 inch rings I could not see one of the holes?
Maybe they are on the side where you can't see?

How high up is your reservoir and how large is it? The rings will definitely create resistance.
I just raised my 32g brute up to be completely above a 5g height.
Still waiting to see how it goes, but when the 5's arrive I will be installing them.
 
I ran into a similar issue with the T3. The hose is useless as water collects and when it fills up it just becomes a mess. I moved the humi inside the tent and fabbed up a dispersion pipe from a bunch of parts I found at Home Depot so that the cold mist gets dispensed above the canopy to either fall onto the leaves or dissipate into the air raising RH when the oscillating fan blows on it. It works fine but I do have to remove it when I need to refill the res. If I'm working on the canopy I remove it as it's not securely attached to the lid and falls over if I bump into it but once everything is in place it works fine. I used the original cap it came with for the dispersal head.

Your T7 should have already come with an extension pipe. I'd move your humi into the tent and use the dispersion pipe and head. Toss the flex tube unless you have some other use for it. That thing is useless for a humidifier.

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steamroller said:
Depending on size of ring there are only a few drip holes.
8 holes on the 10 inch and 4 holes on the 5 inch.
My 10 inch arrived but they won't fit what my plants are in now so I ordered the 5's and stashed the 10's.
They 5's haven't arrived yet.
I will say upon inspection of the 10 inch rings I could not see one of the holes?
Maybe they are on the side where you can't see?

How high up is your reservoir and how large is it? The rings will definitely create resistance.
I just raised my 32g brute up to be completely above a 5g height.
Still waiting to see how it goes, but when the 5's arrive I will be installing them.
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Your guess is as good as mine, as to where the drip holes actually are. I could tell my plants needed water, which is why I just removed the drip rings, but I haven’t had a chance to investigate the actual rings any further. Maybe this weekend. My reservoir is about 4 1/2 feet off the ground
 
Rootsruler said:
I ran into a similar issue with the T3. The hose is useless as water collects and when it fills up it just becomes a mess. I moved the humi inside the tent and fabbed up a dispersion pipe from a bunch of parts I found at Home Depot so that the cold mist gets dispensed above the canopy to either fall onto the leaves or dissipate into the air raising RH when the oscillating fan blows on it. It works fine but I do have to remove it when I need to refill the res. If I'm working on the canopy I remove it as it's not securely attached to the lid and falls over if I bump into it but once everything is in place it works fine. I used the original cap it came with for the dispersal head.

Your T7 should have already come with an extension pipe. I'd move your humi into the tent and use the dispersion pipe and head. Toss the flex tube unless you have some other use for it. That thing is useless for a humidifier.

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Thanks roots. I think moving the unit into the tent is my only real option here. Will try to rearrange the set up this weekend.
 
How did things work out with the rings, humidifier and Blumat watering system?
 
I ditched the rings in quick order. I have been running blumats successfully for a couple years in both promix and Coco though. I ended up ditching the humidifier hose and placing the unit in the center of my tent. It worked out just fine. I am still running the bluemats in Coco now, but I’m also taking a shot at DWC, which I am logging in a different thread.
 
I just chopped my 4 site RDWC grow yesterday. Will post pics in the other thread. Now on to the next.

This will be a four plant RDWC grow. 2 Pluto and 2 Grape Gas. There are 3 Grape Gas in the pic, the best 2 will make it. Still running GH trio with Ruby Fulvic, Armor SI and bennies.

Lets gooo!

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Nesta said:
Sorry for the delay. Been crazy busy. Here we are, about 30 days in the RDWC. Running 1.0 VPD/400PPM on 500 scale/5.8ph. Hoping to defol and drop a trellis this week. The Grape Gas (left) is far outpacing the Pluto (right).
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beautiful green and overall health

that boat shit cracks me the f up! lol

Nesta said:
Exactly. Running it up through the top hole and barely having the tube enter the tent might work though.
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just seeing this, this is what i did in veg and it worked out. humidifier fan needs to be on beast mode. the issue i had was with mold growing on the tube. thinking this out, i'm wondering if a black panty hose or something that thin that will let the moisture blow through but block most light from entering the hose... hm...

nice grow!
when are you scheduling the flip?
 
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