so after work I got the new pump. its a Sunleaves 1586gph. the spray pattern is not what I want. I would like to see lots more splashing and a finer mist, but this pump will have to do.
the area I use is a bathroom in the basement. I built a wall to divide the room. the half with the shower is where the flower room is. the shower is what is use for the veg room. before I had a separate cabinet for the propagation area. now I will build a shelf and use the bottom part of the shower for veg and the top for clone and seed propagation. to separate the flower room from the veg room I use a piece of Styrofoam wrapped in Mylar to divide the room and make it light tight when both areas are in operation.
the reservoir is now behind the wall. that room has a window that I open and push the cold winter air into the flower room with the fan built in the wall. with the reservoir being in this room now, it stays at constant 68f. even with the new pump submerged instead of in line. so that problem is solved.
some pics.
the reservoir
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this is the flower room.
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the prop and veg room. shelf coming soon. the 2nd pic is with the Styrofoam up as a divider.
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here is a pic of the hillbilly chiller. hopefully I wont need it during the winter. and just maybe I can pick up a real chiller by summer. pretty self explanatory. pack with ice, run lines from res/pump to chiller, then chiller to the torpedo. the water cools as it runs thought the cooper tube packed in ice.
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here is what the root shot looks like. never got roots like this with drip/ntf/DWC. when I used the same principle's in the 5 gallon buckets the roots would fill half the bucket.
these where germinated on 10/6.
sprouted on 10/9 placed in propagation tray with dome till tap roots pushed out the bottom of the 1in rockwool cubes on 10/17
put in cloner for veg till 11/10.
today day 2 flower.
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these are not much different than yesterday, but i already mention i am a pic whore. you can still see the nute deficiencies. i did not really add much nutes until about a week ago. far to late.
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any comments welcome. any tips appreciated. and if you have a grow similar to mine please leave a link.