Originally Posted by catainahab ok so summer seems to have arrived with a fucking heat wave from hell. how long will my plants last in this heat i have no idea. current temps are room 35 c to 38 c and the water temps reached 30 c last night. the thing is the plants dont seem to mind it at the moment and are growing nicely. topped them the other day and they look happy and roots look fine. i lack a freezer so ice bottles are out and i'm a bit skint at the moment so a nute chiller is definitely out. the forecast for the weekend ...
Originally Posted by catainahab so its been 2 days since my last post and the possible algea problem is still there plus a minor fuck up with ph. i have added some hygrozyme to try and sort out the algea and changed the bucket for a bigger 1 which has sorted the light leak. i'm using gh micro hard water and it brings the ph down gradually so when i correct the ph 5.8 about 24 hours later its taken it down to 5.4. one of the stars has now got an MAG problem because of this, i know that the mag is in the soup so i added some plain ...
Originally Posted by catainahab so pics as promised nl x bb on the left star 47 on the right now never having to see the root system before im not sure if this is normal looking micro bacterias or the rhizotonic it looks brownish. its only on this 1 plant at the moment and this is the best picture i can take of it. if anyone can ...
so its been a couple of days since the last entry. the roots have exploded with growth, rhizotonic is the muts nuts. i think i have a light leek in the nursery bucket and i have aquired a tiny bit of algea. because the lid is for the system i havent built yet i think the light is getting in around the edge . not 100% on that though. I changed the water on saturday i was hoping not to have to add nutes other than the rhizo but they are showing the 3rd set of leafs other than the cotyledons ...
ok so here i go. started a number of grows ago with dirt with tasty buds then moved to coco with bigger yeilds now is the hydro. hydro set up is 5x 25 litre buckets 1x 600w duel spec bulb 1x 250w cfl blue spec GH nutes g. m. b. Rhizotonic Hygrozyme MJ 500 water pump 30w air Pump 8x 4" air plates Plumbing pipes and fittings silver tape to light proof buckets Nutradip tri meter crap camera ...