What's new

Newb here, would this be possible/super inconvenient?

moe.red said:
Hydro checklist (others please chime in)

Perfect world this is the goal. Fudge where you need to

Below:
RO water
Cal mag to 100ppm on the 500 scale.
Grow nutes light feed schedule to 300ppm.
Add the micronutrients last
Ph to 5.8
Temp at 70-72
Active bubbling
H2o2 (amount based on water volume and % on the bottle.)

Above:
Temp to 78
Rh at 60%
Leaf temp about 76
Veg spectrum
18 on 6 off.
200ppfd or less if you are having issues.
Very light breeze at this point

You want night time temps to drop a bit. This will happen when the lights go off. Can also cause an rh spike. Too much rh can cause fungal issues so keep an eye on it


This is the slow down and recover plants in early veg formula I would start with.

A lot more to talk about but letā€™s start there compared to where you are
Click to expand...
In my experience the recovery speed difference is night and day within these parameters.
 
Skinnypuppy80 said:
I appreciate the encouraging words :) I am currently trying to get water from the tub(tote inside) about 40ft(same floor) to the res just to fill and do a leak check. Will also have to do the water change the same way. The RO is installed about 30ft from where my RO barrel will b,that barrel will b right next to the res
View attachment 84478
Click to expand...

If you just want to move the water into the new container to do a test, rather than test any connections, just use a hose to siphon from one bucket to the other.
 
Update: Leak test failed due to 1 of 3 bucket crack repairs failed(out of 8 holes drilled for return pipe). New to drilling holes in hdpe, I'm surprised I didn't crack more. In the next 4 days I hopefully will have it tested and running w the new buckets. I ran across another thread here(slow night at work) that mentioned having to "burp" the caterpillar of the pahydroponics fallponics system, didn't know that was a thing! Just put a 1/4 valve at the top w a line? I believe @moe.red and @SweetLeafGrow were involved in this thread. Thanks for any input!!
 
If you have the hump in the return like pa hydro then yes bubbles will collect in the top of the hump and restrict flow back to the res.

Gary did it that way so he could still sell the tent I think.

I cut a hole in the tent where I needed it to avoid the hump altogether

Do you have access to a 3D printer? You can likely fix your leaks with some custom tpu gaskets that would cost pennies to make. Shoot me a closeup pic of the leaks and Iā€™ll send explain
 
GoodShit97 said:
Try cutting your holes with a hole saw in reverse. (if you haven't)
You can even tape over where you are going to cut as well for extra support so it's less likely to crack.
Click to expand...
I did do it in reverse but the teeth on the hole saw i bought seemed more like for wood. Shouldve done the tape method though, I completely forgot about such.17355855566987432981577523775565.jpg
what i used b4
17355856124698388758642881615535.jpg
what i will be using
 
moe.red said:
If you have the hump in the return like pa hydro then yes bubbles will collect in the top of the hump and restrict flow back to the res.

Gary did it that way so he could still sell the tent I think.

I cut a hole in the tent where I needed it to avoid the hump altogether

Do you have access to a 3D printer? You can likely fix your leaks with some custom tpu gaskets that would cost pennies to make. Shoot me a closeup pic of the leaks and Iā€™ll send explain
Click to expand...
Yeah, I'm assuming u r right that it was a way to please his sponsor. Avoiding the hump altogether sounds more practical and less expensive considering the cost of elbows. Probably gonna be impossible to see exactly where the leaks r. The first pic is a site return where I cracked it and tried to repair w a heat gun and spare hdpe. It initially tested leak free when i used a spare bulkhead and gorilla tape for the opening of the bulkhead(pre installation of the bulk + pvc. 2nd pic is the bulk outlet from the res to waterfall. that one I believe I just got a little to close to the curvature of the round end resulting in a bad seal for the gaskets(3rd pic.)
1735585907046413074337046276865.jpg
17355863281353953121555385419015.jpg
17355872676138260550326293363387.jpg
 
I have 3 spare buckets to just drill again and replace those 2. Should I look into trying to find replacement gaskets or should the originals still be fine to use?
 
Well if you have the buckets might as well do it right.

If the gaskets are clean and undamaged reuse them.

Stay away from the corners too. The pressure pipe is a bit to close to the corner for a good seal imo. The purpose of using square buckets is to have a flat space to mount to so there are no gaps in the fittings.
 
Been side tracked cuz it was my 45th yr of life. Tmrw I will finally get my system going. Yes, I'm newb. Yes, this has been a 3 month setup w/out an actual grow. Maybe some day, someone will b able to learn about what to do!
 
Weird how life is. I asked my friend to come out totally expecting to pay for all. After bar closes, dude unexpectedly drops off 2 plants. Might have to "experiment" w those 2, the crown rot survivor, and some other little bitch.
20250109_035106.jpg
20250109_040119.jpg
20250109_040134.jpg
 
Got 5 white widows in my first VG germ attempt. Anything above a 23% success rate would be nice. I get those to sprout and the reaper comes to whipe out the rest. May try to dwc 1 of the whatever survives if I get 4 widows, probably the crown rot survivor that I fim'ed and fucked up.
 
So I'm thinking my Crown rot surviving, Highly neglected, Experimental, Auto freeb(CHEA,) is in week 2 of flower?!
20250115_183641.jpg
20250115_183627.jpg
I moved it from a small clone tent into the 5x5 by itself. Currently in the small(15"Ɨ8"Ɨ5") clone tub as I have 4 photo seedlings ready to go in tmrw or the next day. I am just winging shit at the moment but am super excited as this is my first mature(I think?) plant!!
 
Omw into a crash course of hydro. Got 4 white widow photo seedlings in their final home on the 20th. Also couldn't just trash my first pine auto seedling(11/28,) which is in early flower, so put that in a makeshift dwc 7gal bucket. I'm assuming this is bad practice as they r all in the same tent. The auto is currently stressed by what I believe could be a P or K deficiency? Red stems everywhere. At this stage it should be a 1-3-2 nute ratio, yes? Gonna do a bucket swap today, so gonna have to figure out a diff mix of nutes with the bottles pictured below, any suggestions? Also, I'm suppose to remove fans below any bud sites or that r blocking light, yes? Thank you for any input/advice you ganja gurus out there may have!!
20250120_122112.jpg
20250123_094017.jpg
20250123_094047.jpg
20250123_100414.jpg
20250123_100812.jpg
 

Attachments

  • 20250123_094004.jpg
    20250123_094004.jpg
    844 KB · Views: 1
I also just ordered a humidifier. Otherwise I have to keep most of the tent air flaps closed, exhaust fan off, and the mammoth mint 8 led at 30% to maintain like a 48% rh. But that leads my tent to b at 80Ā° and water temps at 75Ā° My lungroom(bedroom) is like 10% rh. I'd like to b able to turn on my exhaust, open up more air flaps, and turn my light up w out the RH dropping to like 10% and my heat going up probably 10Ā° or more. Grow some weed I thought, shouldn't be all that hard lol. I'll get this shit dialed in at some point!
 
Again, I'm a complete newb at growing, but here's my next question. Should I mix my nutes in the 55gal ro barrel or just add them to the res while do water changes? I'm assuming u can do either but I think in the barrel maybe easier? I dunno, I tend to over think everything...
 
Skinnypuppy80 said:
I also just ordered a humidifier. Otherwise I have to keep most of the tent air flaps closed, exhaust fan off, and the mammoth mint 8 led at 30% to maintain like a 48% rh. But that leads my tent to b at 80Ā° and water temps at 75Ā° My lungroom(bedroom) is like 10% rh. I'd like to b able to turn on my exhaust, open up more air flaps, and turn my light up w out the RH dropping to like 10% and my heat going up probably 10Ā° or more. Grow some weed I thought, shouldn't be all that hard lol. I'll get this shit dialed in at some point!
Click to expand...
For flowering under LED, 80F is actually a pretty ideal temperature. I try to keep my grow area between 78-84 during flower. If I'm at 80F, things are good. I haven't been following close enough to know if you're using anything from AC Infinity, but if you are ... they have a couple excellent choices in humidifiers that plug right into the AC Infinity climate control (UIS) system. The controller gives you the ability to have pretty tight controls over the environment. The AC Infinity humidifier also has presets that allows you to use it without the controller in the event you don't want to purchase it all at once.


Here's the link for the controller:

 
MiGrampa said:
For flowering under LED, 80F is actually a pretty ideal temperature. I try to keep my grow area between 78-84 during flower. If I'm at 80F, things are good. I haven't been following close enough to know if you're using anything from AC Infinity, but if you are ... they have a couple excellent choices in humidifiers that plug right into the AC Infinity climate control (UIS) system. The controller gives you the ability to have pretty tight controls over the environment. The AC Infinity humidifier also has presets that allows you to use it without the controller in the event you don't want to purchase it all at once.


Here's the link for the controller:

Click to expand...
Thanks for the response! And here I was thinking 80 was a little high lol I have a 6" charcoal exhaust, 4 6" S2 fans, and the humidifier I ordered i went w the t7. I guess what I was saying was I'd like to bump my light up, open up my tent floor air flaps, and turn on my exhaust w/out dropping RH significantly. I'm thinking of doing this to create better air flow as well as turning up the light? Dunno if that's a thing or not.
 
Skinnypuppy80 said:
Thanks for the response! And here I was thinking 80 was a little high lol I have a 6" charcoal exhaust, 4 6" S2 fans, and the humidifier I ordered i went w the t7. I guess what I was saying was I'd like to bump my light up, open up my tent floor air flaps, and turn on my exhaust w/out dropping RH significantly. I'm thinking of doing this to create better air flow as well as turning up the light? Dunno if that's a thing or not.
Click to expand...

Just so you know, I grow in soil. Many things are different, but also many things are still the same

I don't focus so much on raising my humidity. Yes, I get it that if you're looking to establish a certain VPD or VPD range why you might use a humidifier in some situations. I bought my T3 to use in my mushroom tent when I was growing them. Since I stopped growing mushrooms, I don't use the humidifier(s) for my grows. I'm much more concerned about high humidity during flowering than I am about low humidity during veg. My grow area right now is running about 50's% RH. My plants are only a few weeks old. "Ideally" the RH should be in the low to mid 60's according to optimal ... but the humidity level my plants are in is not harmful at all.

You're running hydro. I have a hard time believing your leaf VPD is as low as you're thinking. It's leaf VPD you're interested in. Your plants transpire. It's not the same as room VPD ... so my guess is that part of your environment is better than you might think.

Now root temperature in hydro is critical for optimal growth, and "too cold" or "too warm" will cause issues. I saw some posts where the hydro gurus were helping you through some root issues. You're in good hands with @moe.red or @Aqua Man guiding you.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

I
A sneek peek deep into N2's garden thread
6 7 8
Replies
237
Views
7K
Aqua Man
Aqua Man
Back
Top Bottom