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Very interesting! I never knew that tap water had pH buffers in it. That would certainly explain a few things. I switched to RO water recently but I used to have erratic pH swing too, both to the upside and to the downside. I always thought it must be the plants themselves or the nutrients

So I just built a nice RDWC system and went to to fill some of the buckets and discovered that they are leaking around the bottoms of the Uniseals. I disassembled the thing, made sure it was dry, made sure there were no burrs or imperfections around the holes. They are round Home Depot buckets...

So I ordered a bottle of Protekt along with a few other things and the shipping box showed up the other day during a cold spell. I brought it inside but didn't open it until I got back home several hours later. When i finally did and picked up the bottle of Protekt, there was a frozen chunk when...

So I'm putting together a RDWC system and am having a rough time getting the 2" PVC pipe squeezed into the uniseals in the buckets. Soapy water isn't really cutting it. I saw one video where a guy uses vaseline for babies smeared on the pipe to get it in, but before I use anything like that I...

Here is my second experimental configuration: So, what's going on here is that instead of the water being pulled into the control bucket, it is pulled out and through the other back to the pump on the other side. The control bucket itself is top fed like the rest of the buckets. I was...

So I'm assembling an RDWC without air stones similar to the one in this thread: https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/497270-how-rdwc-ucdwc-diy-advanced.html There will be hoses top feeding each bucket then the water is circulated in one way or another back to the control bucket. Here's...

Does anyone recall if Heisenberg said it's okay to use an organic guano product like Budswel in the tea or in a RDWC setup?

Yeah it probably isn't worth it. Oh well, air stones it is then!

Looks fine to me. Sometimes they can release pigment that makes them red, usually the stems of the fan leaves exhibit this. This is perfectly natural. The stems themselves can turn brown and lignify as a stress response. Lignin is a precursor to bark, which forms anyway when the stem gets thick...

Yeah I was contemplating this. I have a few 200 micron filter bags that I could put over the intake of the pump to prevent any large particulants from being sucked in, but getting the concentrated brew in there would be problematic. As it is, I pack my humisoil inside a 200 micron filter bag...

Cool! We'll do the experiment together! I just had a plant with bad root rot that had stopped uptaking any water at all for several weeks and was dying, be completely rehabilitated by compost tea. It is my own custom tea recipe but utilizes most of Heisenberg's original ingredients. Tea is pure...

Unfortunately I don't have a journal because I live in an area where this hobby is frowned upon, but maybe I can take a picture of my setup. Basically the configuration is that the buckets are all connected in-line like a normal RDWC, but instead of air stones, the pump pulls the water from the...

There's actually a guy over on another forum who did an aeration experiment with a dissolved oxygen meter and several different methods. They were all fairly comparable but breaking the surface e.g. waterfall or faucet, was a bit better than all the rest. Water temperature turns out to be a much...

It's probably comparable, maybe a little less costly to get a cheap air pump and a stone or two. It just happens that I have no extra air pumps or stones at the moment, but I do have a rather nice 350gph external mag drive water pump, some uniseals and pvc pipe, and vinyl tubing handy, so I...

Does anyone think that it would harm the microorganisms to use a small inline pump to circulate and aerate the tea when brewing instead of using air stones? The water would be pumped out of the bottom of the bucket, then allowed to cascade back in through the top, aerating the water and...

It's infuriating I tell you! I don't really have a Lowes near me, but if that's where I have to go, so be it. Home Depot is just not getting it done. I think I need a non threaded, 1" slip barb but I'm not positive. I was also hoping to be able to do it without PVC glue but that may not be a...

So I'm building an under current system with a few buckets and I'm trying to construct a build which doesn't connect all buckets to one another with PVC pipe. Instead, there is a small 1 foot length of 1" dia PVC pipe inserted into the side of each bucket through a Uniseal. The PVC protrudes...

Amazing looking bushy plants Dawg! Incredible that they chewed through nearly 600ppm in 2 days! Those are some hungry bitches! But that's exactly what you want to see, your plants hard at work converting nutes to planty goodness :) How would you compare the stretch with the A51's to HPS? Or...

Awesome journals Dawg! I am just catching up on all your work and it's very impressive :) I got my RO and meters from BulkReefSupply too! Those guys are simply awesome! Great support and great products; they talked me through installing my RO because I'm a complete plumbing noob. You won't...

This is a quote from Area 51's Information page, so here's what I'd like to get your opinions on: it states that Umol's/ft is the most important metric, above spectrum. Do you think this all white spectrum of the XGS-190 is more optimum for flowering than the older SGS-160 model which does...