(10/30)(12:32pm)

Well its been about one week since I first put the water and clones in the cloners so its time to change the water. I thought about it and I figure that I probably don't need 20 gallons of water in each cloner right now, they just don't drink that much water yet, so I only set aside 20 gallons of water instead of 40. For now I'll just have to wait another 6 hours or so until all the chlorine is evaporated out of the water before I can use it. Also to clear up any later confusion, I cut my clones last thursday, so thursday is the first day of "week 1" and the beginning of each week for them right now, when the veg cycle comes around just after week 3 I'm going to wait a few days until monday to start the veg cycle so that the beginning of their week from then on is monday.


So while we wait, here are the current cloner stats as of this morning:

24 Clone Setup:
20 gallons of water/25 gallon rez (pump timer is set to 1 minute ON and 10 minutes OFF, now that the roots have popped they are actually drinking water now so I lowered the OFF time by a lot)
PH - 7.1, so brought it back down to 5.8
Nutrients - 1.1ml per gallon of H&G's Roots Excelurator (for the first 5 weeks), 1.5ml per gallon of H&G's Aqua Flakes A&B (for week 1)*
PPM - 323
Temperature - Air 78.8 degrees F, water 75 degrees
RH - 45-49%

6 Mother Clone Setup:
20 gallons of water/25 gallon rez (pump timer is set to 1 minute ON and 4 Hours OFF, I lowered the OFF time by 4 hours because the air flow in the closet was cuasing the hydroton rocks to dry out quicker than I thought)
PH - 6.6, brought it back down to 5.8
Nutrients - 1.1ml per gallon of H&G's Roots Excelurator (for the first 5 weeks), 1.5ml per gallon of H&G's Aqua Flakes A&B (for week 1)*
PPM - 295
Temperature - Air 78.8 degrees F, water 75 degrees
RH - 45-49%

*I ended up changing my mind a bit and decided to give them the Aqua flakes near the end of week 1 (this last tuesday) instead of at the beginning of week 2 (today). So now, because of this, I plan to give them 2.5ml per gallon at the beginning of week 2 (today) and then 3.5ml per gallon at week 3 (next friday).

Pictures:

Damn the roots grow fast! Here's a pic from yesterday:



And here's today:



Here's another pic of the clones (taken today):




Update (9:44pm):

K well the water should be good enough by now so I just filled up the cloners and like I said before I only gave them 10 gallons each this time. I also increased the amount of aqua flakes from 1.5 to 2.5ml per gallon since it is now the beginning of week 2.



24 Clone Setup:
10 gallons of water/25 gallon rez (pump timer is set to 1 minute ON and 10 minutes OFF)
PH - plain water was at 8.4, brought it down to 5.8
Nutrients - 1.1ml per gallon of H&G's Roots Excelurator (for the first 5 weeks), 2.5ml per gallon of H&G's Aqua Flakes A&B (for week 2)*
PPM - 387
Temperature - Air 78.8 degrees F, water 74 degrees
RH - 48-50%

6 Mother Clone Setup:
10 gallons of water/25 gallon rez (pump timer is set to 1 minute ON and 4 Hours OFF)
PH - plain water was at 8.4, brought it down to 5.8
Nutrients - 1.1ml per gallon of H&G's Roots Excelurator (for the first 5 weeks), 2.5ml per gallon of H&G's Aqua Flakes A&B (for week 2)*
PPM - 368
Temperature - Air 78.8 degrees F, water 74 degrees
RH - 48-50%