Time for an upgrade to an s24 ultra
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Haha, Iâve been considering it. I had a fold 4 but the screen died so went to a backup and havenât gotten anything new since. My wife has one and the photos are spectacular.
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The night shots are amazing these were taken at around 10:30pm
I caught the Starship Enterprise coming out of warp. My camera picked it up but you couldnât see it with the naked eye. Didnât even know it was there until I looked at the pictures. Thought I was taking a picture of a rocket engines exaust trail.
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Very nice, and you have a UFO taking a look at your plants?
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Did I just mess up 
I was refilling the res and I like to immediately put in 80g of part A jacks. Let it dissolve as it fills then about half way through itâs ready for 40g of part B. Dissolve then monitor ppm until it hits 850 and cut off water. Well, I forgot to shut off the res valve to the autopots. I donât know if any filled during that time but if so could I have made a mistake that could hurt the plants?
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You could open the valve at the end of the line and the reservoir and let it flush out a bit. You are probably ok. More extreme is to get the nutes out of the pots, then let them refill.
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@plumbdand He is talking about the pot and plant floating in the water as root volume increases .
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I am concerned about too much root mass in the base but please explain how the pot would be floating in the water
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Iâm going to assume the large tap root(s) and bundle will cause some buoyancy, kind of like having wood in water. Iâm not familiar enough to have experienced it with any plants but also never tried putting one of the pots and plants in 2+gal of water. I did experience the tap and root ball growing out of the base of the bag causing the plant to fall over as it raised it 3+ inches off of ACI base in the center. So if it did that in the water it could also tip. Which could be a real risk because once its submerged those roots are going to go wild wanting to take over the water area.
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It would be better to suspend the bag in the water. You could take some stainless steel or non reactive metal bar through the bag to suspend it say half way into the water with the rods taking the weight. Could also drop it into a 5 gal bucket and as the bucket tappers it will hold the bag but allow room for the roots and some of the bag to be in water.
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The base can hold 100lbs the pot doesnât sitin the water theres an air gap
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The only difference to normal use with these bases is im not lifting and cleaning the wicks ans i have airstones in them.
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Oh I think the assumption was you are submerging the pot now into the base of water without the wick lid. You mentioned like DWC so thatâs likely where the confusion is coming from and sort of what made me also think that.
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I run rdwc systems with double scrogg tables and no mediaâŚ
Super simple and easy to maintain and keep cleanâŚ
I wouldnât do it any other way and Iâve done it so many different wayâs that im sure Iâve forgotten a fewâŚ
When in water , the temps are your biggest enemy, room temps and water temps , water temps being the biggestâŚ
But with minimal control and you can grow monstersâŚ
Once you get good at growing in water , you have to learn how to stall out the plantâs , because more than likely you wont have the room for themâŚ
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Whatâs the temp of your water/nutrients
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I try to not let my room get any hotter than 78 so that hopefully my water temps stay around 76 at the hottestâŚ
I made it so that i can run 2 litter frozen water bottles if necessary, but typically its not necessaryâŚ
Ideally 66 to 70 degrees for water tempsâŚ
My systems sit on the floor, so it helps to keep things coolerâŚ
The hydroguard and orca help keep things in check alsoâŚ
The other big thing is to make sure that youâre using real hydroponic nutrients that are geared towards water only growingâŚ
Theres alot of nutrients out there that are not meant for water only grows and can lead to all sorts of issuesâŚ
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After reading that entirely I think im wrong about the Rainbow mix
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