You can make a easy and cheap diy co2 system. There are some on here that do it.Thanks for the encouragement man ! ts great not to feel alone when s88t hits the fan lol !
[BNice to hear that you like the setup - took me ages to decide what to get - the only thing i want to improve in the near future, is to build the RDWC bucket system myself from scrap. The seals on the kit i bought suck and took some major work to get sealed properly - makes it very fragile in terms of moving anything around possibly causing a leak - but fixed for the time being.[/B]
Apart from that want a co2 system... but we can all dream haha
Will do so when i get home --> in regards to spider mites - are they visible to the human eye - ve been looking every day but have seen nothing suspicious... Also been looking out for webbing but also not seen anything tell tale - saw a piece of dust or teo a couple times - but removed and placed on paper and looked at under bright light and am sure that it was just dust that got in the tent somehow...
Spider mites are very small.
I hope its not them.
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I dont mind at all - the extra attention is more than welcome - and I am humbled by your link =)AP -
Hope you don't mind, but I put a link to your journal in my journal to try to get more eyes on your issue for you... I want you to get some peace of mind over this so you aren't stressing - I know what it's like to be worried over your plants.
Hi Alpha, It sounds like your conditions are perfect so I would think it has something to do with either the chiller or the ph down you added directly to the res. You have to dilute it a bit(1 litre of water) it takes several hrs to blend in with the nute solution so it is very possible that they got a concentrated dose to the roots, it also has a bad effect on the nutes when you mix ph down directly to the res. did you notice any white clouds when you added the drops? Didnt notice any white clouds when i added the drops - normally dont put ph down in pure into reservoir but had a noob moment and thought it best to bring down the ph for some reason - part of me was even thinking not to do it but noobism got the best of me at the timeDid you run a high concentration of h2o2 water through the chiller before you hooked it up? How long did it sit before you got it? There could of been mold or something in it.This is one thing that only occured to me after reading your post - i did briefly think of flushing it through for half an hour or so, but when i unpacked it from car the thought completely left my mind. The chiller hadnt been used for a good 2-3 months and was sitting wrapped up in a friends spare room.Get rid of the foil and pick up some panda film, cut your circles with a slit and place them white side up, this will reflect the light evenly and stop any algea from building up.the foil is a no no it will cause hotspots 100%.I personally have never used AN's base nutes before but ive read alot of mixed reviews about it so I stay away from it.up until my current grow I was a Gh flora guy, this round I switched to BPN's High Yield System and so far its hands down the most stable stuff Ive ever used. Shipping for me was $200 for the kit but the kit was only $140 for a total of $340. On average with Gh flora and all the addatives I used before each round was costing me well over $400 so even with shipping to Canada BPN is cheaper and so far imo better.Personally I would take the girls out of the system, dump a ton of h2o2 into the res and run it for a good hr. Drain everything and then dry everything to make sure you got all the h2o2 out of there and start over with a 1/4 strength solution for a bit and see what happens.I think this sounds like a good plan in any case - do you think it is enough to take the plants out and add the h2o2 and then run for an hour ? Or should i be draining whole system - putting in tap water +h2o2 and then runnign it before flush + dry + refill with nutes ? You mentioned in your intro that you feel soil is more forgiving than hydro. I have to disagree with you there especially if your going organic, once the soils mixed you cant get the nutes out, with hydro its as simple as adding more water to dilute the solution.
Just about to go buy another thermometer fpr my water as the one i used this morning seems to have dissapeared - will check it again but im fairly confident that it is around the 66-68 range.For something like this to happen this quickly it has to be caused by one of the recent changes you made.If your thermo is off and the water is colder than you think that could also cause problems quickly, I hope you figure it out im kinda stumped on this one. Im subbed up and will stop by from time to time to see how things are going.
