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+1 for Technaflora, thats what I started with and I had much success. Slowly migrating towards Dutch Master though...

Yea I've always had problems with anything but NTAG(NOT true aeroponic grow) aero setups, ie. micro sprinklers. But after listening to heisenberg a little too much, j/k, I tried beneficials and have been having much success. So i figured I'd build a RDWC setup since these undercurrent systems...

So I noticed one of my plants not keeping up with the rest; it looks fine, just not growing as fast. When examining the roots I noticed that half the roots had some very minor brown algae/rot or something on 'em. Currently I run Technaflora nutes + Great White + Humboldt MycoMadness @ 70F...

I guess that does kinda sound fowl now that I think about it... Can anyone help me out with my blockage? Can you tell me about your worst case of blockage? Metamucil is not the answer I was looking for.

So i'm switching my setup from Aero/NFT to a RDWC-Undercurrent type setup to reduce complexity & maintenance tasks. I've got my buckets (9, in 3 rows of 3) & they've been drilled & fitted with 1" PVC bulkheads, but not connected to each other and this is where I needed a little design advice...

Yea I know I'm resurrecting the dead (thread) here. But for anyone who tries this w/ a 555, please note that you need protection diodes wired backwards across the relay. When the contact on the relay's coil opens, there is a mag. field "held" in the coil which gets dumped back into the circuit...

After checking out the label on my can of Great White it appears that it contains everything in the Aquashield & ZHO Powder mentioned in the Breed your own microbes thread. So I picked up some ancient forest & I'm gonna give this tea thing a shot... My first attempt at this will include the...

Thx Hiesenberg & others, this is good stuff. Personally, I've had a couple good runs w/ dwc but after maybe 3 cycles the slime moved in. I might have to give it another shot after reading this thread. Here are a few things I experienced when I was doing DWC... Physan-20(N-Alkyl Dimethyl...

So I usually run NFT, but inherited a bastard plant in soil that came from outdoors which is turning out to be quite a problem child (Just recently conquered the spider mites 2-3 weeks ago). What am i doing wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. These are from a cotton candy...

I'm not so sure that rainstorm was necessarily a good thing. Moisture/humidity + lack of airflow (can) = mold. As of recently, I'm a huge fan of neem oil (a mild fungicide, insecticide, and miticide) and would recommend everyone use it at least a couple of times while in veg. FYI i had a...

+1 on plastic sheeting. I've sealed my area in plastic sheeting with pest control in mind, but also a preventative measure against PM, Botrytis, etc. Depending on what part of the country u r in, seasonal weather, the state of the basement, etc, you might find it easier to control humidity if...

I run a couple of small bubble cloners using aerated tap water + VERY light nutes + great white. I've noticed that my res water seems to acquire musty smell after a few days but rooting/growth seems relatively unaffected. I was considering trying a regular schedule of small amounts of h202...

Yes you do get what you pay for, to varying degrees. Regardless there is a lot of companies making a killing in the home gardening industry. 3,4,5 hundred bucks for an AeroFlow system that is little more than PVC fence posts, tube, and a Mag drive pump? $800 for a "PowerCloner" system...

+1 on the price gouging. Automated grow equipment is a complete ripoff. Period. I realize there is SOME increased costs involved in manufacturing electronics for the general public, but the fact of the mater is that the price of IC's and electronics components has fallen off a cliff. Since...

Just whipped up a DIY peristaltic pump for expanding my automation setup & I thought I'd post some pics in case anyone gets a kick out of this kinda stuff. Electronics consist of an Arduino, small stepper motor, and an Easy Driver v4 stepper driver on controller duty. The Stepper/Driver/Pump...

Sorry didn't mean that to sound condescending (which it did after I read it). Beneficial fungii attaches to your roots and the spreads out through the medium which basically increases the effective size of the rootmass; all the while, the roots exude fungii food & the fungii make food for the...

Uhm... use it for flushing? How/why would you do that? Perhaps you need to further investigate how its properly used. I use it; especially from seed(ling) through early/mid flower. Used some on my lawn too (serious drought around here). I haven't done any serious comparison's but I...

Im building an aero/hydro system & need a little help in the math dept... How does one go about calculating pipe diameters?? if I have a container which has 14 sprayers (Typical microsprinklers from Lowes) spraying at 10 GPH each (140 GPH total) into it, how large of a diameter drain pipe do I...

Al b., thanks for confirming my intuition that organics have no place in my res despite the constant barrage of bad advice from hydro store workers and friends whom have jumped on the organics bandwagon. Regarding the hay smell; I'm still a newb here so take this at face value.... but after my...

Sure you can flower 'em w a fluorescent tube fixture. You could probably flower 'em with a strong enough flashlight if you had to. Its all a matter of yield. In your case, more light = more bud (presuming you are doing everything else correctly). Those fluorescents are a good start, but I'd...