Source water is something that gets overlooked allot imo... Put all the shit you want in the water but if your water is loaded with bacteria to begin with you need a UV sterilizer inline before your RO otherwise you'll have issues.
Yeah dude I'm actually going to give the bene's a try here as well after seeing how fast his system took off versus using the chlorine. You've got a helluva lot more experience in hydro than I do. If you're having good success with them than its one more reason to give 'em a shot.
Yeah I honestly have my doubts too tbh. I know UC Roots and Success nutrients along with any others that use chlorine/hypochlorite recommend to re-add every 3 days. Based on that and the research those dose values seem like its more of a system shock than anything else. If that wasn't the...
I have a friend who just had a major issue with root rot. He couldn't get the rot under control until he stopped the chlorine and went with benes. I couldn't understand why it wouldn't resolve his issue until i found this this write up on using oxidizing agents in hydroponics. Turns out...
Oh shit sorry man I didnt realize the athena was foaming even without the Power Si....
Can you post a pic or link of these Venturi circulators? I've invested a small fortune in airstones so I'm interested in these lol.
You running sterile or live res with the Athena?
@RCatanese Power Si in any recirculating system is a no-go bro. They go over it on the Grandmasterlevel show on youtube with the owner from Power Si. It'll foam up and fuck your plants in rdwc/uc. It happened to that Lokigrown guy twice in his commercial systems. Crop failure twice in a row...
I got another email about the latest Meijiu panels... The folding 8-bars with the UV. I love my Meijiu's regardless of the bullshit i went through with them early on but they gotta get with the times and start lowering their prices.
When I first got my Meijiu's the cost of the HLG's were too...
Your water pump is whats going to heat up the water, not the air pumps. Air temps dissipate rapidly over length.
2 EC is insane to me but to each their own apparently.. I don't even hit that with my veg or flowering plants and I got 6'-8' girls. I let the plants tell me what they want to eat...
Also... I've been growing from seed the last 2 rounds so I can't do a legit side-by-side of each light. However I ordered the 3500k setup as close to my Meijiu's as possible, and there is a helluva lot more red diodes than the Meijiu's. Both rounds I've seen a considerable amount more trich...
I have the Meijiu A8's and the Hortibloom Megaplus 650's. The couple things I don't like about the Hortiblooms is the hanging brackets, and that the strip bars aren't independent.
If i have a bar failure on my Meijiu I can just pull that individual bar out and have a replacement sent and...