super13star
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This is a grow completed I did last year. Looking for feedback/input/thoughts, whatever. i wish i had taken more photos but hopefully you will get the jist.
HYDRO SETUP - gravity fed to containers, containers drained into bottom tub. 5x8/10 foot enclosed trailer.
Lighting LED (multiple lights with two/three overhead added halfway)
Medium: Turfus
Nutrients: unknown (see below.)
Containers: 15ish gallon container (top with net pot like thing underneath the lid) + 30ish gallon tub + trashcan + float valve (trashcan was a tiny bathroom like one) x5
THESE ARE ESTIMATES BECAUSE I FORGOT THEM...
CO2 was added with zero to low regulation; as high as 3600 with 2400-2600 being the norm...
temps: 78F veg/72F bloom (I turned up after co2 got crazy, 80-85F)
Humidity: 60-75 veg/50 > Bloom
strains: bluedream x 3
Co. Haze from seed x 2
main res (I would say 40-50 gallon) was gravity fed to the tubs based on the look of the medium (turfus), dry = more water.
Cycles were 1 hour, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, 15 minutes (or close to). So every x minutes the water would cycle on for x seconds (until the water reached the top of the container) and so on and so fourth.
CO2 LEVELS: this is a sealed environment but the tank was not regulated (the fitting broke about halfway through but it "didn't matter") and ppms reached as high as 3600 or so. for a 5x8 foot trailer that seems excessive... it was on all the time but i was told it "didnt matter, ppms are fine to be that high".... There was an air conditioner but I'm certain there was no air in/out vent (unsure if that is even needed in a closed environment, hence it being closed)
i disagree and believed the plants suffered from this in the end. if i am wrong please let me know your opinions!
the next two really grind my gears,
NUTES: the “organic” nutrients i used looked like white and blue laundry detergent, or pool shock... what it really is i will never know because that was another thing he and his partner were trying to patent... i used that the whole grow... the w-h-o-l-e grow guys. is that even possible or suggested? i have learned otherwise and would like to hear if you disagree.
this was the first true hydro setup I've ever ran. i'm used to growing in soil that is mixed with a bunch of stuff and feeding plants a variety of things throughout the cycle, strictly organic. Whether or not to pH in organics is a personal choice but I've always monitored them. i hear in hydro its a must since there is no filter between the roots and the nutrient water, plants are more prone to lockouts and what not if the ph is off...
I was told "you dont have to, ph/ppm doesnt matter because the roots arent sitting in water.” ...
THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME AND YES THEY DO SIT IN WATER... With weird pool shock water! So when the water was filling and the ph was a 3 or a 9 that's okay? Even if it was at 7, the growth stage would be hindered, right? Again, let me know otherwise.
If I can think of more I will add it but here y'all go.
i transplanted my outdoor clones from soil to the turfus (see attached); blue dream x 3 seed starts x 2 (was also told they were feminized but upon further inspection i had to pull one out, thankfully i caught it in time but come on..!)
HYDRO SETUP - gravity fed to containers, containers drained into bottom tub. 5x8/10 foot enclosed trailer.
Lighting LED (multiple lights with two/three overhead added halfway)
Medium: Turfus
Nutrients: unknown (see below.)
Containers: 15ish gallon container (top with net pot like thing underneath the lid) + 30ish gallon tub + trashcan + float valve (trashcan was a tiny bathroom like one) x5
THESE ARE ESTIMATES BECAUSE I FORGOT THEM...
CO2 was added with zero to low regulation; as high as 3600 with 2400-2600 being the norm...
temps: 78F veg/72F bloom (I turned up after co2 got crazy, 80-85F)
Humidity: 60-75 veg/50 > Bloom
strains: bluedream x 3
Co. Haze from seed x 2
main res (I would say 40-50 gallon) was gravity fed to the tubs based on the look of the medium (turfus), dry = more water.
Cycles were 1 hour, 45 minutes, 30 minutes, 15 minutes (or close to). So every x minutes the water would cycle on for x seconds (until the water reached the top of the container) and so on and so fourth.
CO2 LEVELS: this is a sealed environment but the tank was not regulated (the fitting broke about halfway through but it "didn't matter") and ppms reached as high as 3600 or so. for a 5x8 foot trailer that seems excessive... it was on all the time but i was told it "didnt matter, ppms are fine to be that high".... There was an air conditioner but I'm certain there was no air in/out vent (unsure if that is even needed in a closed environment, hence it being closed)
i disagree and believed the plants suffered from this in the end. if i am wrong please let me know your opinions!
the next two really grind my gears,
NUTES: the “organic” nutrients i used looked like white and blue laundry detergent, or pool shock... what it really is i will never know because that was another thing he and his partner were trying to patent... i used that the whole grow... the w-h-o-l-e grow guys. is that even possible or suggested? i have learned otherwise and would like to hear if you disagree.
this was the first true hydro setup I've ever ran. i'm used to growing in soil that is mixed with a bunch of stuff and feeding plants a variety of things throughout the cycle, strictly organic. Whether or not to pH in organics is a personal choice but I've always monitored them. i hear in hydro its a must since there is no filter between the roots and the nutrient water, plants are more prone to lockouts and what not if the ph is off...
I was told "you dont have to, ph/ppm doesnt matter because the roots arent sitting in water.” ...
THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME AND YES THEY DO SIT IN WATER... With weird pool shock water! So when the water was filling and the ph was a 3 or a 9 that's okay? Even if it was at 7, the growth stage would be hindered, right? Again, let me know otherwise.
If I can think of more I will add it but here y'all go.
i transplanted my outdoor clones from soil to the turfus (see attached); blue dream x 3 seed starts x 2 (was also told they were feminized but upon further inspection i had to pull one out, thankfully i caught it in time but come on..!)
