Recent content by djcronos

I used non-RO water for the first time ever the first 3 days and I think it may have had an initial negative effect on them. After changing out the res the yellowing stopped. Looks like I will always stick to RO water. Thanks for the feedback!

Hi all, I'm looking to get some guidance on making my clone trays have a more successful rooting rate than they are currently. Currently I get close to 90% success rate, but sometimes certain clones take a bit longer than others to be "ready" due to yellowing of leaves. In my 20 gallon res, I...

Hi all, Prelude: Please forgive my lack of technical terms when it comes to electricity and things that relate to it :) I'm having a licensed electrician put a new 40a breaker in my panel and then running that breaker from the garage's power panel and snaked up the garage ceiling into a room...

Hi all, I'm running into an issue and hope the RIU community can lend a helping hand. I'm trying to construct an Ebb & Flow system using two 2x4' trays, an EcoPlus 633 pump, and a 27 gallon res. The problem I am running into is that my trays are on individual shelves, one tray directly above...

Hi all, Planning on building my own ebb and flow system, similar to the ebb and grow. I want to use 5 gallon buckets to house my mothers in a 7' x 7' area, with a little of room to walk in between them. I would like to use T5's. Should I get two 4' 4 bulb T5's, or do I need more? I will be...

Thanks for the responses. Maybe I should elaborate a bit more on what I'm trying to achieve. I'm looking for lighting that will only root these cuttings, nothing else. I will be moving the clones to HID lighting in their veg and flowering cycles.

PharoahBud - thank you for your post - this is good information that I've been wondering. I think I'm around page 700 and it hasn't been put out like this - I've been going off of the comments about the 8amp initial draw, so I ordered a 50A contactor online so I can run more than two pumps...

After reading a bunch on RIU about cloning, I've learned that a simple shop light with T8's will do just fine for cuttings. I visited Home Depot this morning and decided to take a look at their shop lights, and found a whole bunch of options, including T5's and T8's. I saw a 3' 2 bulb T5...

I'm almost through all of the posts in this thread, but I have one question that has been answered here and there, but I'm looking for a more recent answer, with people having dialed in their systems. Can any of you posts your yields you get every 3 weeks, and can you tell me your lighting...

Yeah I think I'm going to use 5 gallons from now on in all my reservoirs, just because it makes things easier. I think when I replied to your post I either just put them in the veg unit or it was a couple of days. It's been about a week now, and now I'm seeing them double in height size. I...

cooley - yeah I used two 18 gallon roughnecks and stacked them. I haven't checked the res yet, but I can easily check it by lifting up the bottom lid. Just for the ease of measuring everything out, since the Lucas Formula is 8ml Micro and 16ml Bloom per gallon, I used 5 gallons of RO water...

+rep moon47 - thanks for the info and links.

Subscribed. Any updates? I'm totally lured in :)

Good thread, minus the flames. I still need to do more research to determine if I want to make the switch away from HPS, but so far your results sound promising. Keep up the great work! The longer you grow, the better you'll get!

I just started my first veg cycle a few hours ago - I'll let you know in a few days to a week how it's going. I doubt I will have any problems, since I was thinking of purchasing an AquaMist aeroponic setup before going with my ebb and grow, and the Lucas Formula was recommended for the...