New Aeroflo2 60 Grow! Started from the ground up! Lots of Pics!!

Thanks man!! I appreciate it. I'm checking it out now!

Your plants have grown quite a bit since i last checked up on your page. lookin good. glad you was able to get past the mites.

brandooo- good to see ya dude.. yea the tallest one is about 3.5 feet! they are a week into flower tomorrow (tuesday) I still have some mites but I just found out that the bugs that were sucking on my roots weren't mites, they were root aphids!! arghhh they were sucking the life out of my plants! I've been dosing them with azatrol in the roots and today I found some more mites on the underside of the plants so I am going to apply it when its dark also!

Hey all.... Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I was out of town and now my camera has broken... These are all pics that I took with my phone!! I'm about 2 weeks into flower right now and you can see that the buds are forming nicely!! I have also built the frame for the trellis...I am going to try and tie that plants down tomorrow so That I can maximize the light to the lower nodes!!

B E A UTIFUL, that filled in real nice, good timing on the vegg, any longer and it would of been even more crowed. Im so impressed, with the results, best of luck

Thanks Kev... Im still working on the room everyday.. My waterproof dig camera got wet lol so no I have to get a new one. I will try to post some more pics after I get some more done!

I tied down the plants today.. I mostly tied them to the sides tso that the middle gets more light and so that the lower buds could get more light also!I did some serious trimming to the mothers.. I hadn't trimmed them in about 2 weeks and they were out of control!The mothers...I built this table today so that I could have the dehumidifier drain straight into the RO bin.. I use these bins as fresh water for the res.Tri-Meter...

very smart with the dehumid, the water it collects go's into your RO res. Very efficient and eco

Well in this business its always better to go Green

Alright.. here are some more pics taken from my cellphone!! Sorry they are not the greatest but I just ordered the new Canon Rebel t1i.. Its being shipped so as soon as it gets here, I will post some high quality pics..

There are some serious trichomes developing on the flowers and they are becoming more and more dense by the day. Tuesday was the 3 week mark of me switching the lights so next tues will be a month I am gettin all anxious! I notice that some of the lower leaves are dying off. I think it due to lack of light but there is nothing more that I can do right now. Maybe for next crop I will start looking into side lighting. I am also going to need that in my mother room. I also just ordered a dehumidifier for that room. The lower leaves dont look so hot in the mother room either because the t5's are too far away! Current reading in the flowering room are co2 ppm-1250, temp- 70-78, humidity- 40.. Water stats-- pH-6.8, temp-69, ppm 1000!! ALL QUESTIONS COMMENTS AND CONCERNS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!!!

nice grow for sure. just a little tip if you want to use it. if you want to control the growth of the mothers so they don't out rageous before you need them to be for taking clones, clip the big fan leaves off and that will slow the growth and be more controllable for you. wasn't sure if you knew this or not.

i have a feeling ur gonna have some niceeeee budzzzzz cant wait for some more pics

Irish.. thanks man I appreciate it. I was trying not to shock them too much. I was having some problems with that room and I'm still tinkering with it lol.. I just ordered a dehumidifier and it will be here tomorrow. That should take care of any further pm problems.. Now I am dealing with them not getting enough light... I am thinking about trimming off the top of all the moms so I can lower the lights again!

Kev- not sure if you saw my other post.. just ordered a sick new digital slr camera.. got the canon rebel t1i....It should be here on thursday.. Def check back that night for the updated pics!! you know that Im going to have to play with the new toy its suppose to have a sick macro setting so Im hoping to get some trichome shots!

i still have mites on all my leaves.. can I still spray with azatrol? tomorrow it will be one month exactly since I flipped the lights! HELP!!!!!

dpagano7486 said:

i still have mites on all my leaves.. can I still spray with azatrol? tomorrow it will be one month exactly since I flipped the lights! HELP!!!!!

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Hi mate, been watching your grow with keen interest and you seem to be doing a great job..

With regards to your mites. In all my experience in growing, the only way to get rid of mites once in flower is obviously not to use any chems if you can help it.

I have been using Sulfume Hotbox units in my grows for a few years. I have it set to come on for 1.5 hours during lights out even if there are no mites present. Once the unit is setup it takes about 4 or 5 days for the mites to start going as the sulfur puts them off their food so the ones that are already alive die! Then once all the eggs have hatched they need to die also.

It doesn't burn the sulfur but vaporizes it so there is no chemicals going into your plants at all. Its also great for preventing fungal infections so its a great thing to have in your grow room as an all round bit of kit. I am not sure where in the U.S you will find one but here in the U.K they are about £70 with 5kg's of sulphur - 5kg's has lasted me almost 1 and a half years and is cheap anyways.

I have seen them used in large scale commercial grows and I know that Shantibaba from Mr-Nice uses them also.

Here is the info on the unit here.. http://www.hotboxworld.com/products/hotbox-sulfume/8/cat

There is a trick to making the unit most effective. When you have the unit set to come on make sure your extraction and intake are off or set to go off.. You want the sulphur vapor to spread around the room on its own so it fills the grow room completely. Once the room is full (in my case about an hour) - You can turn on the extraction. Its a good idea to make sure you have a CF connected to your extraction to process the smell off the unit. Thats the only downside to the sulfume. The smell is a bit like burned matches but its easily managed with the right extraction.

Good Luck..

Doobz.. thanks man.. Ive been looking into one for a while now and I think thats what I'm going to do! Im going to do some research this week and hopefully get 1 soon!! Thanks again.. Heres some new pics of the room too...

Heres some new pics for everyone to enjoy!! There are some pics of the moms, flowering room, macro shots of buds and trichomes, I insulated the a/c exhaust and added backdraft dampers to all of the exhaust lines, there are pics of the mother area where I just added a new dehumidifier today! Any other questions comments or concerns are always welcome!! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!!!

UPDATE: I did a reservoir change today! I have switched to 2tsp/gal floramicro, 4tsp/gal floragro, 1ml/gal floralicious plus, and 2tsp/gal KoolBloom liquid. I also moved the lights up... The lights are almost to the ceiling now... Just past week 5 of flower now.. i am also moving my room right after this grow so there will be a lapse in time before my next grow of 2 systems.. Hopefully only a week or 2 though.

wow man i been just got finished reading your thread man you have a nice setup. wish i could grow like that what have your rez temps been like i have been having troble with mine they stay like 75-80 i ve been trying to use the frozen water bottle thing but its no use really temps just climb back up

sin inc said:

wow man i been just got finished reading your thread man you have a nice setup. wish i could grow like that what have your rez temps been like i have been having troble with mine they stay like 75-80 i ve been trying to use the frozen water bottle thing but its no use really temps just climb back up

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Yeah reservoir temps are extremely important in aeroponics with chemical nutrients because over 68*F bacteria and fungi grow. If I cant keep my reservoir temps down I will change reservoirs every 3 days to keep from build up. Also a few drops of bleach goes a long way to kill bacteria in nutrients. I was also wondering how dpagano keeps it below this tempature. I had to completely rebuild my piping and ran the reservoir/pump in my air conditioned bathroom in a seperate room. I have seen aeroponics work right and its amazing how fast roots develop when the conditions are perfect and I have every condition perfect but the reservoir temps.