Please Help! First time grow with a few questions....

refiGuy · Dec 26, 2009

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4 quantam 1000w ballasts inside of a/c hoods
active carbon filter at the end of all the a/c hoods
all of them piped together with 6" ThermoFlo tubing with (2) inline jetfans pumping the air up and out of an old chimney
I have the ebb & gro system with 40 total pots connected
for the medium, I have about 3-4 inches of hydroton at the bottom, with a layers of canna coco and layers of perlite (i'm retarded, should have mixed them together, not layered separate)
this is located in my basement room adjecent to my bedroom
using all canna products, currently on veg at 24 days from transplant
currently at 900ppm with canna coco a&b, rhizotonic, and cannazyme in my 50gal res.
the big bushy ones in the pictures are Green Crack, the smaller ones are blue dreams and grape punch
I can only water them once a day because the medium stays so frikken wet and get's mold on the top layer if I do it 3-5 times a day.
I have two oscilating fans
With the ballasts running 50% it stays 75 degrees, at 75% it's between 79-81 degrees and at 100% it gets up to 85-87 degrees
humidity is at 50% and varies by 10%
I'm getting an 80mg per hour ozone generator next week for mold and smell
the ebb and gro pots were not fully draining so I put all of them on 1" x "6 boards, now less water is sitting in the bottom

NOW FOR THE PROBLEMS

Temperature, I have to leave the grow room door open otherwise temps are pushing 87 degrees, what is the max it should be??
The leaves are starting to get little spots that are growing bigger every day and turning the whole leaf brown/yellow
little patches of grey/white mold keep appearing on the soil, I['m not able to water more than once a day
the stems appear to be reddish-purpleish in color
do you think it's time to flower?

Please Help! First time grow with a few questions....

refiGuy

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