WaterFarm Club

GAH my babies have root rot 6 weeks in They look awful, are getting yellow with black spots>.< Tryingto save them with all my might!

Today was the first day of 12/12. They have been thinned and spread quite a bit for two days time but the tiny shoots will definitely turn into substantial bud sites. The screen should be filled in 3 days time. I will continue weaving until the screen is filled then I will let them go. They recovered faster than I expected so I may have waited too long to switch to 12/12. As a result the canopy may end up uneven. Nutes around 700 ppm , change fresh every three days RO water. Im looking forward to seeing all the other fun with waterfarms on this site. And some updates from everyone.

Hey there Hydra, how is it going with the root rot?
Hidden face your plants look terrific! they are going to really fill up beautifully.
things are going very well for me presently. The girls are in tip top condition and eating lots and lots!
jack herer was really stretching . Bubba Kush is short and big flowers. I decided to put down an additional scrog screen about 2.5 inches above the first one. It is working well and JH is still popping up over the 2nd screen .... I have created a much more even canopy to deal with with the addition of the 2nd scrog screen. Bubba is sitting pretty just under the second scrog screen. She seems to have stopped stretching up and I have a good feeling JH is finally slowing down. Im at day 29 flower.

Looking Great Guys And Gals Keepem Comming.Brother Hydra Have You Considered Running A EWC TEA?It Fights The Dreaded Root Rot And Keeps Your Ladies Protected.Heres My Ladies Babs And Becky At Week 12 Day 3 Of Flowere.I Will Be Chopping Becky This Weekend And Babs Will Follow Next Week.

P.S. MicroSoft Windows Did An Update To My O.S. And It Really Fucked It Up.I Had To Do Some Registry Editing And It Did A Full Factory ReBoot(WTF)Well I Did Have Some Files Backed Up But I Did Lose All My Pic's.I Have Now Turned Off My Auto-Windows Update.Also Im Considering Buying A Mac,Peace And Opposum Grease

Thanks for the kind words. Hey Dr. Amber Trichome I was watching some HYGRO "home movies"(youtube), its cool to see a grower evolve their style knowledge and experience. It was entertaining to me because he was so like myself even down to the tools he used. We live and learn. Made it to the site with the real waterfarms today and was attacked by wasps. I did not get pics I will go back tomorrow with an exterminator. I hate to kill things but they flew directly for me and dive bombed my head,. soooo.... Pretty much these girls all but stopped stretching so I changed the light to HPS. I delay the switch to HPS until a week after the switch to flower because this strain seems to stop growing for a few days if I switch the light and the schedule at the same time. I dunno what that's about but it doesn't bother me . They didn't seem to like the nutes so I dropped it down to 350-400 and I will be getting Ca Mg tomorrow cuz they are in RO water and they usually need it in the flower. They stretched a good inch today.The majority of the fan leaves was removed today and the little branches that did not make it to the screen will be removed the day after tomorrow. 1000 HPS Flora Nova 350-400 ppm pH 5.5-5.7 Female seeds WWxBB. View attachment 2799909View attachment 2799915View attachment 2799916View attachment 2799910View attachment 2799911View attachment 2799912View attachment 2799913View attachment 2799914Oh yeah Im done weaving.

Babs and Becky lol, if they only knew. Will you give us a dry weight and smoke report when its time. Lookin good Dawg.

im getting no luck in my own started thread. Seeing as this is a group of people with some Water farm experience maybe you can help

copy/paste from my orig - thread https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/717421-troubleshoot-help-gh-waterfarm-8pk.html

I cant seem to figure out how to get the air pressure great enough to have a ample amoount of nutrient water coming out of the drip rings on each individual waterfarm in my chain (controller unit, 8pk)

Please any help or suggestions will help, im not having anyluck searching for a answer, prolly gonna call GenHydro tommorrow.
but I always love talking to fellow RIU'ers first seeing as we share the common love of a single plant

Respectfully R/ BBYY

The first two pics are of the real water farms .Notice the difference as they sprouted one day apart. This happens every time.It is a testament to the growth potential of the waterfarm. The smaller plant will alwaws be one day behind but never a lesser plant. WWxBB Female seeds 150HPS 150-250PPM Flora nova bloom pH5.7, started third week today.They started under 300MH 3 feet away until I put the HPS to try to encourage stretch.This strain is very bushy and short in the beginning but can get really huge.11oz. with a 6sq.ft. scrog is all I can manage as she has HUGE fan leaves for a relatively small plant,bigger than my head.The last two pics are maybe a week old. Their into the third week of 12/12 starting today. Days ago I lowered the ppm to 250 added calimagic and then brought it up to 400 yesterday as they were not mature enough for 700.If it looks like I ravaged them its because I did . I did this for data on this strain.I changed the system for these two but Will explain next time.

Today was the last trim. I took big fan leaves if they were blocking substantial bud sights further down. I modified the system by removing the bubble column and air supply line. Connecting a water supply line to the drip rings and water pump further down within a larger reservoir 2 weeks in 12/12 reduces the time and effort spent changing water and nutrients.The tube on the side of each bucket used for gauging water level are now drains.They droop a little lights off but perk up lights on. I think this may be due to high humidity more than anything. The 1000w HPS blew up so It is now 600wHPS as of a week ago. BTW don't buy from "hpsgrowlightstore"ebay. http://myworld.ebay.com/hpsgrowlightstore?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 I have bought from them twice and both times the HPS bulb was broken .The second time they refused to replace the bulb under warranty less than 2 months old. They are not responding to contact.

Today was the last trim. I took big fan leaves if they were blocking substantial bud sights further down. I modified the system by removing the bubble column and air supply line. Connecting a water supply line to the drip rings and water pump further down within a larger reservoir 2 weeks in 12/12 reduces the time and effort spent changing water and nutrients.The tube on the side of each bucket used for gauging water level are now drains.They droop a little lights off but perk up lights on. I think this may be due to high humidity more than anything. The 1000w HPS blew up so It is now 600wHPS as of a week ago. BTW don't buy from "hpsgrowlightstore"ebay. http://myworld.ebay.com/hpsgrowlightstore?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 I have bought from them twice and both times the HPS bulb was broken .The second time they refused to replace the bulb under warranty less than 2 months old. They are not responding to contact.View attachment 2809323View attachment 2809324View attachment 2809325

Sorry for the double post RIU is being crazy right now.

its too painful to get under the screen and water her from deep back under there.. So I took a funnel and a hard plastic tube, about 12 inches ,. It fits down to touch the pebbles and sits nicely on an open area in the canopy on the scrog screen. This is a much easier way to feed her and shes eating 2 gallons a day.

This is my DIY water farm.

Hey all.. I found out my issue with my system. The air pump was junk, wrote gh to see if they sell replacement diaphragms, mine were cracked, i used glue to temp fix it hope its gonna work till i can fix or replace. But im still waiting on Roots on clones so i got time, will get some pics up of all the fun once i trust the system to water the plants till i put it under my lights,its big Fucking system.... Oh and my upgrade kit is in the mail. Gonna be doing that this weekend
One thing i took from this, I'll always oil my rubber in my air pumps. I just took apart my others and noticed hydroton anddust in most and very dry but wasn't to late like my other. I'm gonna put the pump back together now the glue id dried wish me luck!! Can't wait to get my system buzzing



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Well a few hours past and my repair worked! The system buzzing and running nicely! I used rolling papers lol and glue to reseal the rubber, not sure how long it will last but i got faith its gonna be a long term fix, gorilla glue worked great! now i just need plants
well roots that is! So do i get an official waterfarm wallet card now and where is the special bathrooms?

I don't know why RIU works for me some of the time and not all of the time . I don't have this problem with other sights. Any way here is another attempt to post the pics.

with the small waterfarm bucket and a massive massive plant with an enormous root system in such a small bucket...taking ppm readings when the rez is almost empty leads to very very misleading and false high readings. Im having to have to add a gallon in the AM and another in the PM to get real readings. Measuring ppms when the reservoir is mostly full to half way seems most realistic. I would like to have a continuous feeding system that keeps the 2 gallons full at all time.

I'm sold on the idea of having a recirculating reservoir. In my version the level in the WF and the reservoir would fall at the same rate. A float valve could be added to the reservoir to replenish it with plain water if you needed time away.. 12 gal in an ice chest can easily keep up with 2 WFs, and not drop much, with only one daily top off..
You can see the ideas I have on how it would work here...,and a few more on page20... https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/119479-waterfarm-mods-tips-21.html I've changed my ideas on a few things.. Moving up to 3/4" tubing and fittings would be a great improvement over the 1/2 " I used...

I found that the plants like the water spitting and bubbling from the basic column and air setup that comes with the original system, with the replacement of the POS air pump that breaks down under three months every time. They don't seem to like the constant flow of the water pump modification until they are well established and large. I usually switch to the water pump and alternative reservoir only after the first week of flower .They don't seem to mind other than drooping when lights are off. Doing this means I only feed/top off the res once a week and feed/change the res once a week. I just dump in 4 gallons of water with nutes and suppliments I want and adjust with 2 more gallons adding whatever 30 mins later. The only thing I do with every waterfarm every time (DIY or name brand) is to shorten the drip ring by cutting about 1 1/2 inches total from the ends, making certain the middle of the medium never dries. The whole space in the buckets now belong to the roots and I get more accurate readings from the res, as the nutrients don't turn into a stagnant sludge in the bottom.

Nice fix BBYY

I remember that the smaller of the two in the real waterfarms is actually around 4 days behind in growth. The medium was not completely saturated around the sprout. After snipping the drip ring a bit to decrease the diameter the sprout took off to catch up with her sister.I write it down , too much to remember. Anyway pics are from Thursday.They all received a res change and the big girls received cal/mag, H2O2,Floranova bloom and pH down and are under 1000HPS again. The two flowering are now using 3 gallons a day combined. The ppm is around 660 and falls faster than the water. The canopy is around 9" with the taller colas reaching 12".The leaves no longer droop at all. Unrelated topic: I have disassembled my HEATH style vert. Too much work and resources.