SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

Its kind of a faint general smell. Hard to nail them down individually with that much in there. Lol. The smell will be stronger in just a.few weeks though.

My house is very smelly right now:







Cheers,
Mo

Nice dude. Offer still open. Just need a heads up to plan it.

I got the second job offer today. Freaking out!

Awwwww some!

@SomeGuy - I just filled mine again. I'm noticing that my water level indicator tubes are starting to cloud up. I don't know if my local city water has that much minerals (I kind of doubt that) or if the water in the res is murky. Since I can't see into my res and you've checked your roots, I'm wondering if you noticed if your water is clear or cloudy? I would imagine some amount of particulate material is leaching into the water from the wicks, and that the water being a bit cloudy would be "normal"?

Drain some out and smell it and look at it under magnification.

Rob

There is some peet in my water but it's all clear and roots are white. I'm not changing a thing at this point. Lol! Seems to be working too good to need interference from me

Those roots are crazy SG. It really is going well. This cycle should
really explode at the end.

Congrat on the offers Mo, seriously.

JD

Mohican said:

Drain some out and smell it and look at it under magnification.

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OK... next SIP design I'll see if I can make a way to drain water out. For now, I have a clean eye dropper, and I pulled a little bit of water from the level indicator tube. That water has been pushed up from the res, so its definitely res water. The only magnifier I have is a cheap 30x loop I use to look for amber trichomes. I really didn't know what I was looking for, overall the water is crystal clear. But, I did see some little tiny ameba-looking-things swimming around in there. I'm not sure what to do with that information. H2O2 in the res? Or have I simply created a healthy living aquatic system? Since the water is in contact with soil, aren't some micro-life-forms inevitable? I tried to smell it from the fill tubes, got no scent at all.

SomeGuy, you ever look at your water under magnification?

They could have come with your tap water. I had a boss that worked for the water department when he was young and he told me that they had to pull a dead body out of the water supply line once!

A tiny bit of H2O2 or bleach will probably work. There is also a treatment called Pond Zyme that might work.

Mix the bleach or H2O2 with water before adding it so as not to burn any roots.

Mohican said:

They could have come with your tap water. I had a boss that worked for the water department when he was young and he told me that they had to pull a dead body out of the water supply line once!

A tiny bit of H2O2 or bleach will probably work. There is also a treatment called Pond Zyme that might work.

Mix the bleach or H2O2 with water before adding it so as not to burn any roots.

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What if I use my chlorinated city tap water straight out of the tap (without letting it sit for 48 hours like I usually do to let the chlorine evaporate out)? Would a small amount of chlorine help?

What about adding something like Hygrozyme? Is that similar to Pond Zyme?

Rob. I've been Filling up from the hose directly. FYI. No problems it would seem.

You live up in the mountains where there is good water and air!

I would dose some tap water with H2 or Cl then let it sit a day and add it.

I think Hygro is like pond.



Cheers,
Mo

Took my pee test today! I passed - made it all in the cup

You really did have to take the test bro?

Very cool that you made it!

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Took my pee test today! I passed - made it all in the cup

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Congrats mo!

Happy mom's day to all the moms out there! Without you there is nothing.

always glad to hear that

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Took my pee test today! I passed - made it all in the cup

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@SomeGuy - not sure if there is a simple answer to this, but since you are using a scrog/screen, how do you lift your plants up to get those great root pictures?