beginning bubbleponic problems

woke up this morning.. everything seems to be okay. didnt get time to check ph or anything but i get a break around 11 and 1 so i will go by and check on one of those trips.

put cardboard over the net cups but still looks like light is getting in res. could it just be since the light is lighting up everything around the set up it is looking like the light is getting in?? any other suggestions??

crackadelic said:

woke up this morning.. everything seems to be okay. didnt get time to check ph or anything but i get a break around 11 and 1 so i will go by and check on one of those trips.

put cardboard over the net cups but still looks like light is getting in res. could it just be since the light is lighting up everything around the set up it is looking like the light is getting in?? any other suggestions??

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I use this.

looks like i might be getting those.

just got my 400w hps light in today. im swapping the 150w for that. how far away from the plants should the 400w be because i know that things deff gona get hot!

You should keep it about 12-18 inches away. Put your hand at the top of the plants and if it feels too warm on your hand then it probably will be for the plants too.

aight thanks. i have la diva which is an autoflower and lavender beans also and i think i might run one of those in soil or just in a 5gal bucket sog under the 150w. what would yeild the most and which strain should i use to get most production??

checked on other ladies lookin good just not getting tall starting to get alot of leaves but stay low to the top of the system. maybe the new light will change that.

also thinking about getting a grow tent. good or bad idea??

Grow tents are great IMO. Check out my grow (link in my sig) and you can see it is working for me. Also, it is good that your plants are short and bushy. That's exactly what you want and it means they are getting adequate light. If you want to have a second grow going, I would definitely recommend hydro. In fact, you could use the 150 watt for the flowering stage and the 400 watt in a grow tent for flowering. This way you could have a perpetual harvest going, and get fresh buds about every 2 weeks. Just an option.

that is a very good idea.. i would love to do that just dont know when i would sprout up others to get ready to throw in tent after harvest of ones already in tent.

crackadelic said:

that is a very good idea.. i would love to do that just dont know when i would sprout up others to get ready to throw in tent after harvest of ones already in tent.

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These tents are awesome!!! I have the DR80 about to get the DR40 to hold a mother.

lol.. i want a tent for light reasons but i also need to find a way to light proof the res.. since its a blue and the light shines around it 18 hours of the day the res seems to be lit up so i need to find something to wrap around that.

crackadelic said:

lol.. i want a tent for light reasons but i also need to find a way to light proof the res.. since its a blue and the light shines around it 18 hours of the day the res seems to be lit up so i need to find something to wrap around that.

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Those tents are 110% light proof. Here is my set up. Should be right up your alley.

okay. got home from work.. everything is looking fine but right under the net pots about an inch of the roots is turning a brownish color.. what is wrong and what should i do to help??

flushed tank and scrubbed it out. washed all of the accessories inside of the tub off. 5 gal of water fill up. put two half caps of hydrogen peroxide to help roots. put 1/4 grow and hard water softener per gallon. dropped ph to 6.2 and that was reading 5min after nutes and ph down was put in. so in the morning i will check and lower a little bit more if needed. suposed to wait until 14 days but it was starting to feel slimy inside the tub so i did it before i let things get ruined.. let plants and roots air out for about 15min.

put the 400w light up about 18" from top of plants.

ordered a 4'(L)x2'(W)x5'(H) grow tent. need ideas about how to do the fan and what to buy for it.

if there are any suggestions please feel free to let say whatever it is you would like.

Did you get a Dark Room? Those have intake and exhaust ports which give you a lot of options for air cooling that light and running a carbon filter. I used soler palau 100 cfm to suck a 100 cfm carbon filter through a 250w hps. On top of that light I have a 85 CFM Radio Shack AC computer fan pulling heat from the light. Keeps my tent 76-80* with no air conditioning. Light is cool to the touch too. Just look at that pic I posted and you'll see what I'm talking about. You'd probably want a bigger CFM fan, S&P has a lot of options. The bigger the CFM fan the bigger CFM rating for the carbon filter you need though.

Amazon.com you can find combo deals for those S&P fans and CFs

Use that black and white poly film to cover your res if you want to black out the inside.

checked on everything before i left. seems they like new light better they seem to of perked up a little bit. ph was 5.2 so i put half a cap of ph up in there hopefully bringing it up somewhere between 5.5 - 6.

i just ordered one of those tents off ebay. hopefully it works good i dont see why it wouldnt.

you cant change thread title can you??

crackadelic said:

okay. got home from work.. everything is looking fine but right under the net pots about an inch of the roots is turning a brownish color.. what is wrong and what should i do to help??

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Over half the nutrients available will stain roots brown.
The real test is the sniff or smell test.

In Hydro, good reservoir water smells like crisp lettuce or freash alflafa sprouts.
Bad water STINKS like a moldy floor mop.

Smell it and see.

will go on break and do that.. im sure its prob fresh right now since i put fresh water and cleaned everything up last night. i marked the tub each gallon so i can keep track of how much is being taken in also.

thanks for all support so far. any input is always much needed!

liking all the tips roseman. helps out alot and all the post of instructions.

so i went home and smelled the res.. its actually doesnt really have a smell.. ph is around 6.0 maybe a lil over im waiting on my digital ph reader to get here.

everythings actually looking good. i think it is algae sitting on the roots but since i cleaned it and put some hydrogen peroxide in the res it seems to be going away slowly.

getting excited and starting to get the feel for this. how long before i should change res again??

crackadelic said:

so i went home and smelled the res.. its actually doesnt really have a smell.

That is Good! No smell is good!

. ph is around 6.0 maybe a lil over im waiting on my digital ph reader to get here.

everythings actually looking good. i think it is algae sitting on the roots but since i cleaned it and put some hydrogen peroxide in the res it seems to be going away slowly.

getting excited and starting to get the feel for this. how long before i should change res again??

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Every 7 to ten days is recommended.