DWC Solar Storm 440 LED X 2 First grow(Comments Welcome)

Creating a journal welcome to give advice ask questions ect.

California Solar Storm 440 x 2
Fully lined in orca paper
All walls, ceiling, floor insulated
6'x8' and 7'high room
Phresh Carbon Filter 200CFM 4" by 12"
270CFM Exhaust Fan
Box fan rigged to door for intake fan double filtered
5 gallon buckets x2
41 watt 951gph air pump
2x Large Air Stones
2x small fan
large oscillating fan
Dehumidifier

Soon to add:
Temp controlled chiller
13 gallon res
2x eco 264 water pump
1x 210gph inline water pump

I will be updating in near future!

Started 4/16/17

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Almost killed them too much nutrient, Member Satori helped me get them in line.

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Currently 21days into Flower
Room Temp 68-79
Bucket Temp 70-75
PH 5.8
Ppm 800
Humidity 40-50%

Running UVB The full 12 hours

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Waiting on some grommets to change the setup a tad.

They look good, I have a question about your air pump. I am currently using a little dinky one with 2 ports out. They connect to 2 air stones inside my tank. I want to upgrade to a larger pump but they all have like 4 to 8 ports out of them. If I want to use one of those and still just use 2 air stones what do I do about the empty ports? One of your pictures looks like you are just connecting a hose from one empty port to another is that how you handled it? That doesnt cause any built up pressure in the system?

Thanks!

Kontraband81 said:

They look good, I have a question about your air pump. I am currently using a little dinky one with 2 ports out. They connect to 2 air stones inside my tank. I want to upgrade to a larger pump but they all have like 4 to 8 ports out of them. If I want to use one of those and still just use 2 air stones what do I do about the empty ports? One of your pictures looks like you are just connecting a hose from one empty port to another is that how you handled it? That doesnt cause any built up pressure in the system?

Thanks!

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Thanks for looking! It does make it work a little harder getting warmer then normal. I put a little fan on it. Soon enough I will be running 4 stones which should be easier on it.


Edit: I actually Or the fan on it recently. It used to run at about 127 degrees. Now it runs at about 97.

I keep my pump outside my tent to prevent extra heat buildup inside, but where I keep my pump probably wouldnt be enough room for a fan. Would it hurt the pump to just keep the non used holes open or does that reduce the pressure to much?

I am running a 10 gallon tote with between 5-6 gallons filled. Everywhere I read says I need about 1w per gallon. The 2 hose pump I have is only 3w so its not meeting that requirement. All the 6W+ have 4 or more hoses so I am not really sure what the proper protocol for this is. I guess I could just run more air stones but I feel like all those extra hoses will clutter up my res space for the roots.

Nice setup I have the clw ss 275 it's going in a 3x3 tent with a single dwc with a dripper the other tent is gonna be 2 plants under cobs I'm really happy with the overall quality of the clw light I'm glad to finally run into someone using their lights I took a chance when I bought it but think it's gonna do a good job for me your grow is looking good if it's cool I'll tag along

JohnDoeTho said:

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Almost killed them too much nutrient, Member Satori helped me get them in line.

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That's exactly what I did & really made a mess of things I learned the hard way about keeping the ppm. low on the small plants I had my plants looking like cauliflower they were so mutated

horribleherk said:

That's exactly what I did & really made a mess of things I learned the hard way about keeping the ppm. low on the small plants I had my plants looking like cauliflower they were so mutated

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Yep I did the same thing my first nutrient feeding. I was following along the schedule from the bottle. This was way too high, luckily I caught it early enuff to not completely murder my babies. I ended up flushing and running no nutrients for a few days then went to 1/4 strength schedule. Im now up to 1/2 strength and seems to be right where my ladies like it.

One thing I started doing that helped me tremendously with the nutrients is this:
I start the nutrients out low and record the ppm then do the following:
On next day ->
-if the res gallons drops and the ppm drops, add more nutrients no water (try to raise +50 ppm from day before)
- if the res gallons drops and the ppm raises, add just ph water (get ppm back to to the last recorded value that was at equilibrium)
- if the res gallons drops and ppm stays the ~same you are dialed in to what your plants like

I not a nutrient guru & when I get overwhelmed with things I go to ttystikk,im4 satori ,home brewer & there used to be the fat man when they say something I listen even just reading over some of their post sometimes answers my question without having to ask there is a core of good individuals around there is some knuckleheads as well

I read the technique I posted somewhere buried here in a post, good odds it could have came from one of them.

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Thank you sir. These arrived and should alleviate prior leak issues.

I still like my CLW solarstorm 400. alot of peeps bad mouth blurple, but it grows some good flowers esp with the UV bulbw

Kontraband81 said:

I am running a 10 gallon tote with between 5-6 gallons filled. Everywhere I read says I need about 1w per gallon. The 2 hose pump I have is only 3w so its not meeting that requirement. All the 6W+ have 4 or more hoses so I am not really sure what the proper protocol for this is. I guess I could just run more air stones but I feel like all those extra hoses will clutter up my res space for the roots.

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I wouldn't worry about only using two stones. I don't really like the advice you got of 1watt a gallon. I'd probably stick with around 20watts a bucket.

horribleherk said:

Nice setup I have the clw ss 275 it's going in a 3x3 tent with a single dwc with a dripper the other tent is gonna be 2 plants under cobs I'm really happy with the overall quality of the clw light I'm glad to finally run into someone using their lights I took a chance when I bought it but think it's gonna do a good job for me your grow is looking good if it's cool I'll tag along

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Awesome! Yea that's why I wanted to start this journal cause I went out on a limb with the light as I'm a new grower. And id like people to be able to see what they are signing up for.

rkymtnman said:

I still like my CLW solarstorm 400. alot of peeps bad mouth blurple, but it grows some good flowers esp with the UV bulbw

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I'm not complaining yet...... so far it seems like I might be trading a little quality for a little bit of yield. Which I would happily accept. I'll know in about six weeks....... I was hoping for 12oz total.