Recent content by flannelanvil

Hello, I have a 2 plant aero grow going, they've been in the system about 3-1/2 weeks, and one of the plants started developing spots about a week ago. Here's what I have: Homemade aero tub with a buttload of nozzles Tub drains into separate res 396gph pump 8 gal res 250 watts of LED light I...

I just buried my first aero grow due to root rot. My babies were in their 3rd week of flowering and BAM, 7 plants, 1 a day, bit the big one. I tried everything to save them, but they were jacked. I'm still convinced that aero is the way to go so I'm getting ready for grow II. My res temps run...

How do you keep your res temp down? I keep a gal of ro water in the fridge, that's about what I was adding a day, to help keep the temp down. But if the room is like a constant 80, short of ice, how do you keep your res temp below the room temp? I've read where res temps are most excellent at...

Thanks for the replies. In order to remove a plant I had to do some root trimmin', they were all intermingled and tied together, but removed most of the bad stuff with them. I flushed the reservoir again, with clear water, and will now do the root cleaning in the sink, then flush again. Should I...

This is my first aero grow and after not killing at first with overaggressive nutes, they were freakin' flourishing. Turned lights to 12/12 4 weeks ago, everything was cool. I flush my 8 gal res weekly, nutes are now at 1200PPM. This last Friday one of the 5 plants starting looking a little...

I'm at the end of the 3rd week of flowering in a homemade aero system. Everybody was looking really, really happy, then yesterday one of 5 plants started looking a little sad. This morning, 2 plants are really wilting and I found spots on leaves, pics attached. I flush my reservoir weekly, and...

I've been cleaning/flushing my reservoir weekly, last week I saw that my roots were starting to grow down my drain, so I cleared them, thought anyway. So when I checked my tub this weekend I saw like 2" of water in the bottom, and then found more root lodged in my drain. This is my first aero...

Hi, My plants are in their 3rd week of flowering in a homemade aero system. The plants themselves are awesome, looking great. When I flushed my reservoir this weekend I found that there has been an obstruction in my drain, causing a buildup of water in my aero tub, where the roots were. It's...

Hi, My kids are in their 2nd week of flowering, looking most excellent. I have a homemade aero system using Humboldt nutes. I change the water weekly using ro water. I mix my nutes, I'm kinda scared here as I almost wasted them once, so I am at about 1000ppm. I adjust my water to a PH of 5.8...

I just turned by first aero grow to flower, they are looking awesome, but I'm learning from all the things I did wrong, or trying to. This first time I started my seeds in baggies w/water, after cracking open I put them in rockwool starters, then placed those in 5" net pot lids. After...

Thanks much for your replies. Once my seedlings had some root growth, I put them in my system, with 5" net pots. They started drooping and looking really crappy, so I figured they were starving for water and pulled out the net pots and they have been flourishing since....well up until the day Ms...

Hello, I'm in the midst of my first aeroponics grow, the plants are looking most excellent. I built this aero system using a plastic tub with a pvc manifold. The drain water drains out of the system tub into a separate reservoir. Due to heat issues, I went with LED's. Humboldt nutes. RO water...

Here's a few pics of my setup. On the shot showing the reservoir, under the black coffee lid is a cottage cheese container that looks like Michael from Godfather, which has cheese cloth inside filtering the return water. The next day after I added nutes I noticed the brown on the roots, kinda...

Thanks you guys for your input. I put this system together from info I found online: 1 each bigass tub, about 27 gal size, with 8 sites in the lid, but I only have 6 plants going. I used 1/2" pvc for the manifold that has 24 nozzles. There is a drain in the bottom of this tub going back to the...

I appreciate your replies, dudes and dudettes. Some of the nutes I added looked like brown dye or something, and today, the new root growth doesn't seem to have it, so I'm thinking the brown was from the nutes. Plus, I don't feel any slime at all. My plants look awesome. After adding the nutes...