Recent content by Shafto

If the nutrient bath doesn't have enough oxygen then your system is at fault. More roots in nutrients means more buds, simple as that. It's just like soil, except in DWC the water is your medium instead of the soil. You wouldn't grow a plant in a pot, and once it starts budding, dig away the...

I think you should pat yourself on the back then, instead of your nutes! The more I read the more I see that all the nute brands are pretty much exactly the same. Plants take up the nutes they need with ease as long as the PH is in range and there isn't too much of an imbalance. The main...

You should run it right at the bottom of your netpot for the whole grow. You'll hear different I'm sure, but this is certainly the best way. Dropping your water down at all only makes cord roots that don't gather any nutrients, they just support other roots and transport nutrients. If you...

Picture of the month on ICmag is just like your albino male Blue, check it out, http://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=4321531#post4321531

Totes and air stones is easy setup for sure, but like mushmaster has said, it's gonna be a pain later. More thought into your setup means way less work during your grow. I've also been noticing more and more that air stones really suck ass and made my plants grow more slowly. The roots don't...

Icepack worked well, I changed it every day. If I were to do it again I'd probably buy a used water cooler. The kind you put the bottle on top of. You can pick them up used for $20-$30. Little bit of fiddling around and you've got yourself a $20-$30 chiller.

Hey nixusr, You can just see the two valves on the bottom of each cooler in the bottom picture. I attach a hose to them and run it outside and open them up to drain. Then the cooler you can see in the lower left corner, which is my control res, has a pump in it pumping into each grow cooler...

There isn't any one way to do this, there are more than a few. The 3 main ways to recirculate your buckets are: A: Top feed on each grow bucket with drain on bottom of grow bucket back to control res. Water level in system stays level at all the times, and drops as plants drink. (this is what...

Chopped them down yesterday. Sorry for the lack of pics near the end here, just been busy with other things. I'll snap some of the dried buds when they're done. I'll be savouring and smoking on this for a while, cause it's the end for me. Was a sad day tearing down the closet yesterday, but...

There are so many factors to take into account. Here are some figures to shoot for though, If I were scrogging in a tent with a 400W I'd be going for about 14 ounces, with a 600, I'd be shooting for about 20 ounces. Those are good solid goals to shoot for, and you can even get more than that...

Never done it, but heard it's a terrible idea and that it'll muck up your res in no time. PH down is cheap anyway.

Wow, weed so expensive down there. Here a quarter is $50-60, has been since I can remember.

I wanna see the buds do that.. You could probably sell a clone of that for big bucks in Cali.. Think of the marketing with half albino buds, nobody would give a shit about purps any more!

Ok, I found Heath's "autocad" plans here for two different systems. I use the one labelled "Setup 2" No "ball cock" (float valve) for me though. I just manually add more water/nutes to the control bucket as it goes down.

Too low reduces plant metabolism and nutrient/water uptake. Lowering temps later into flower helps with going purple quite a bit though. 68-70 is about ideal with a good system that has maximum DO to keep root metabolism rates up. The chemical processes happen faster at higher temps, though it...