Chikagobnd
New Member
What's up? Well, I'm doing what most are told never to do, but I have started my first real grow and I'm going the hydro route. I've got a bubble bucket setup and I'm about 2 weeks in. As you'll see, some of my setup is less than practical and maybe unworkable...but while I certainly want to see a return in my time and effort, this has been more a hobby than anything else. I'm fully prepared for failure...but all is good so far. I'm using a 5 gallon bucket with a dual air pump with 1 1/2" airstones on each, plus another single line air pump with a 4" airstone disc. Perlite/Vermiculite medium mix in netpot. I successfully transplanted a bag seed that was soil grown, and was transplanted when it had two small sets of leaves. Transplant went well and plant has really taken off. Was on a strictly H20 diet for first 8 days and have now added GH nutes. I'm only at about 450ppm right now, but she(hopefully) seems to be loving it. PH is between 5.8-6. I will post some pics below of after 8 days in H20 and todays pics after 6 days of H20 & nutes. Oh, and I guess pretty important is my lighting...using a 400W metal halide with "cool" light bulb. My biggest problem and possibly my death nail, is that I live in a warm climate area and my setup is in my detached unairconditioned garage...so temps get quite high. From what I read, it looks like I can expect a root rot problem. But anyways, we'll see what happens....been floating around the boards for a while now reading all of your processes, progress & failures...its been really cool! I've got roots beginning to emerge from the bottom of the pot and they look good so far. I'll keep you updated. Any creative ways to cool the reservoir would be great...I bought a portable AC from Home Depot, but its kind of a POS, not very practical and takes up a lot of room in my fairly small space, so I'll probably be returning that. And now I see I can't yet add attachments to my posts, so the pics will have to wait for now I suppose. Any comments, suggestions or even flaming is welcome...I'm a big boy!
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