Nute & Reverse Osmosis questions For Hydro
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Incredible4Mr2E
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Do you have any pictures of the setup? I’d love to see how you had it setup. I was wondering how it’s going to hold up to all the with AN salts. I had a clear hose hooked up to the old chiller. I ran it for like 3 or 4 months or whatever and it was really gross from the nutes. I wonder if washing it out every 2 weeks would help. I wonder what would actually clean it out good though. Like get all the salts off but not screw with the coils or plastic tank inside.
Incredible4Mr2E
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I remember taking ice, putting it in 2 zip lock bags, and throwing it in my control bucket. Came back half hour later and one was just gone. Ended up going through the system but didn’t get to the pump, got mad lucky. I’ve never done that again since lmao.
rkymtnman
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no, i mothballed my chiller once i went drain to waste.
check out ebay or amazon for a SS wort chiller. i used the smallest submersible pump i could find, a 5 gallon bucket and tubing.
so it would flow from bucket out thru the chiller then thru the wort chiller (which was submerged in the control res) and back to the bucket.
Bucsfan80
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I've done the ice thing but couldn't make it fast enough and to expensive to buy. I looked all over for blocks of ice but they don't sell anywhere around my area. I think a big solid block of ice would last the longest. In the fl heat a block would last on our water keg for a couple days
Incredible4Mr2E
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I’ve seen them before but worried about metals leaking into the water. So far everything has been working really good and using co2 this time really made a difference. 20 days in now and this is them so far, stretching like a mother fucker this time. Strawberry kush this is. These two girls are going to be monsters I hope
Incredible4Mr2E
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How’s everything been going for ya?
Bucsfan80
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Still chugging along. Good news tho I have a side job coming up and added an extra 10% so I can get my chiller lol
Incredible4Mr2E
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Hell ya dude! Me and a buddy are starting todo side work. We have a job coming up with cultured stone and we’re trying to pick up some concrete and brick jobs. Union works been slow the past month, need to work and make money. I was in North Florida a couple years ago doing some work and I can’t believe how slow it is. I couldn’t do it and came back north after that job lol What kind of work you into? The International Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) are always looking for good, hard working men and women. Food for thought brother. Dues suck, they do, but I’ll retire with 2 separate pensions and a descent amount of money in the bank. Social security will be so little and drained by the time I retire, it’s what I’m killing myself for.
Incredible4Mr2E
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Stuccoing sucks!
Bucsfan80
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I loved it did it 10yrs or so.
Bucsfan80
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How's the chiller holding up?
Incredible4Mr2E
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Fucking great dude! Keeps my water at 65 degrees constantly. Here’s a picture I just took. I’m 2 days into week 4. I have a third one of them quantum boards that does 250 watts. I want to put it in the middle and spread the light out better and just turn the lights down. I don’t really need 750 watts for a 4x4, just a better spread I hope lmao. How’s your shit been going dude?
Bucsfan80
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It's been going good nothing to complain about. Clone and mom are doing their thing. As soon as mom finishes clone is getting flipped. I think I'll take a cut off the clone right b4 I flip it instead of trying a seed
Incredible4Mr2E
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Looks like after this job I’m currently at, their gonna send me todo some stucco work for a military base. This is your fault!!! lmfao.
Bucsfan80
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Stucco is fun
Incredible4Mr2E
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Hotel life for a week is gonna suck, I’d rather be home every night, but whatever.
I didn’t like the spread four of the boards had. Today I added two more and the readings are so much better. I want to put four strips in between the boards, two each side. It dips 200 ppfd at 10”, I don’t like that. It has three dimmers too so I can adjust for brightness in certain areas. Being away 2hrs from home and driving it daily makes the plants kind of low on priorities. The light was too intense bc the co2 meter was set at the wrong height and stressed the plants and made them fox tail. This is the biggest reason I put the other two boards in. Same watts altogether with way better light spread. Plus it has a bunch of 5k diodes to even it out from the all 3k diodes in the other 2 setups. The strips I want to get will be 4K and 100 watts between the four. They’re gonna run wicked efficient bc I’ll have everything turned way low but just get a wicked nice full spread I hope. Now I just have to learn how to use led lights lmao. I burned the plants even worse last time. I caught it sooner this time lol. I can do 740 watts all together with that thing. It will definitely never see it, but fully cranked it hurts to look at the reflection off the wall lol
Bucsfan80
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Looking good my man
Incredible4Mr2E
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I’ve been changing water every two week. In between changes I just add pure RO water to the reservoir and let it run into the control bucket thru a float valve. If I put nutes into the res it always ends up plugging the float valve. How does everyone give nutes on week two of the water? I have a ppm meter and can see they’re eating, I just don’t want to over do it. I can tell they need more nutes, they’re getting light in color. I have the heat at 88 degrees and swings plus or minus 2 degrees furring the day with my Co2 at 1500 ppm. I’m doing Barney’s farm mimosa x orange punch. They’re doing really good and seems like a good strain so far to grow.