Barney's Farm - Tangerine Dream - Waterfarm!

Originally Posted by SCOTTYBALLS

Dont worry much about PH guys unless you have some real shit water.. when you get up to 500-600 ppm with the Nova bloom it will have enough buffers to keep ph stable and It will still be about a week or more before the roots will hit the resivor.. still looking good Daytz

Right on - thanks man. I'm using RO water only with the waterfarm and from the jug, it's ~7.5 pH and ~21 PPM. I've been using a bit of pH-down to lower the pH up until now, but since i've started with the nutes now, I want to try and not use the pH-down anymore, and let the nutrient buffer out the pH as much as possible.

Scotty, is it possible my hydroton is not 'seasoned' as this is my first time using it to grow in? I know the ones you've been using as of late were ones you'd already used in a few grows beforehand - do you think that makes a difference? Did you notice your very first grow in the waterfarm hydroton to be a bit slow to start?

How's the lady lookin'?

Still looking pretty good - a little lanky looking but it's coming along. I'll have some more pics up in the next few days.

No, I meant in my Avatar, just kidding bro, I meant your plant. Good to hear, she'll be taking off soon for sure. I'd still like to walk up behind that girl on the tractor though and give her a good tongue lashing!

I just picked up a waterfarm and excited to play with it. Do you check the PH through the water level gauge? Seems when the plant gets bigger you cant directly check the resivor

Originally Posted by ChrisGGG

I just picked up a waterfarm and excited to play with it. Do you check the PH through the water level gauge? Seems when the plant gets bigger you cant directly check the resivor

Yep, that water-level 'gauge' is actually a movable tube that you just bend down to drain a sample into a cup to test. Then the sample is just poured back in the top. The same drain-tube/water-level-gauge is used to drain the rez when changing the water out - for that reason, the waterfarm unit should be up on something so you can easily drain the whole rez into a shallow container lower than the bottom of the rez itself.

Originally Posted by Dayzt

Yep, that water-level 'gauge' is actually a movable tube that you just bend down to drain a sample into a cup to test. Then the sample is just poured back in the top. The same drain-tube/water-level-gauge is used to drain the rez when changing the water out - for that reason, the waterfarm unit should be up on something so you can easily drain the whole rez into a shallow container lower than the bottom of the rez itself.

I have found that a couple of pieces of 4x4 work good.

Here's the pic update I promised - she's looking nice and green today, most likely is tasting more nutes now that A ROOT HAS APPEARED COMING THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE TOP POT!! Yep, things are going to start happening now - there's a nice bright-white root making it's way through the holes in the bottom of the top container!

Here's the pics - enjoy!