Man this system has been straight drinking water, like 20 gallons in 2 1/2 weeks with little plants, I can only imagine what it's going to drink when they get really big... But the pH is completely stable and has not required adjustment except for the one time so far. The water level dropping is not an issue and can be left for over a week and still be in optimal range at this point. I'm sure in the future it will need water every few days or so- but for now it's very low maintence to say the least.
Tonight it needs more food and we will be doing all future feedings with FloraNova Bloom, even though he is going to veg them another couple weeks or so. You can veg with the bloom too I believe, but starting with the grow and doing all future feedings with bloom is what Lucas said worked the best. The plants eat the grow nutrients into flower and towards week 3 are seeing mostly bloom nutrients. Works out great, they call it "feeding the stretch"- using a little bit of extra nitrogen in the first 2 weeks of flower which comes from the grow.
Anyways here's the pictures- loving this system so far. The egg crate foam really helps out a lot with noise, it's much more quiet.
I'm really impressed by the strong branches under the cfl's... I never saw branching like that under floros... But I wasn't using that much light a plant either. 3 of them are Miss Hulk cuttings and 1 of them is a Shug cutting, so that's why the one is smaller if anyone is wondering. I didn't have 4 Miss Hulk cuttings so he had to take the extra Shug clone I had.
Well that's it for now, check back in a couple weeks when these babies are young ladies!
