Update: its a good one too!
Gabriella after roughly 36 hours after activation.
Added a lil more calhypo and topped the nutes off with a gallon more. Drinking about .5gal a day still.
Tank is 5.88ph 0.9ec
Lights at 95%
Looking good. I bought some air domes, what pump do you use? I have one that I may be able to use, I think I would have to buy an outlet manifold to support multiple pots? I saw some that you can adjust the air flow with them.
I use Amazon.com : HITOP 3W Adjustable Aquarium Air Pump: Dual Outlets Aquarium Bubbler, Quiet Oxygen Pump for Fish Tank Up to 100 Gallon : Pet Supplies
And i turn it on about 1/2 strength. The recommended air flow for airdomes is 15 gph. Between my two domes thats about 20gph per plant.
I think you will like having them.
Was having some drift from my ph pen so ordered a new probe end for my Apera PH60. Its working much faster and percise now.
My ph was off in the rez. Up to nearly 6.5ph. I dropped it down to 5.87ph its just over 1ec. Glad I ordered the new probe. Thing was way off.
Been doing some leaf tucking on Gabriella. Not really wanting to train her a bunch just gonna let it ride till week 3 of flower and do an updress and decon then. Xyla is starting to do some real growing. Its. Crazy she broke ground a day after Gabriella but she is almost a week behind her at least.
Things are going well. Day 32 above ground. Rez still clear at day 9. Calhypo really does its job and plants havent minded. It will be interesting to see the roots in the end, will microbe free be that much different? This grow is moving along well and Im having fun with the control I have over the environment this time. Gabriella is starting to stretch so I brought the temp down, the humidity down and the vpd up.
Rez change! All new and fresh, went 10 gal at 5.89ph and 1.7ec I think anyways my ec meter is not reliable. Gonna have to get a new one asap!
In my last grow my ph held more stable than in the past grows. I think I read the procedure on @Dman1969 journal. The change I made was in how I mixed my nutes. I use Ro water as base, then I add silica and let it sit for 12 to 24 hours or so. I use coco so cal mag is used every feed, which I mix with the silica in the bucket and let that sit a while. I then take a quart of the 4 gallons in the bucket and add my MC1 nutes and let a magnetic stirrer spin it a while. I then add that to the bucket , stir and set the ph and dump in res. In previous grows I would go in at 5.6 or so and it would climb to 6.3 pretty quickly. I was always adjusting the res, not so much last grow. Your grow is looking on point.
Got a new EC meter. Old one was off bad. Thought I was 1.7ec but am infact 2.2ec. Girls seem to be ok with it.
Has it really been 3 days?
Lets welcome @openMeasure to the forum!
Shave and a haircut!
New rez! 50/50 flower/grow 5gal to transition away from veg nutes into flower. Planning another light decon around week 5/6. Rez set at 5.75ph and a 2.4ec, tray ph about 5.9 environment more stable around 1.5-1.6 vpd
This grow is driving itself I swear!
Update: The girls plowed through that 5 gal rez like it was going out of style. So last night I made a new rez up. 10gal full flower nutes 2.4ec 6.69ph.
The blue plastic barrels are 13-15 gallons and widely available, I run two , just drill a hole at the bottom and put a fitting in for outlet hose . They run less than $20 around here on marketplace.
I’ve been looking into a new rez solution. The flextank that came with my autopot leaves alot of solution unable to exit the tank. Throw away at least a gallon each rez change.
If you had a small stand, you could tap the fitting into the bottom of the barrel and it would drain almost entirely.
Gabby’s buds look like they are getting frosted and stacking up.
