Since I left the east coast and have come home, I have been a very busy person. But in my spare time, I have been working at my dream. Being as i seem to have more and more free time these days, my dream has become my hobby and passion. I won't bore you with silly details, here is what i have made for my first grow. It's a combo drip/aero ponbox that I pieced together out of an old aquarium, some PvC and other bits and bobs laying around the house. The goal is to recreate a 7.5 week AF Lowryder grow that I observed on youtube. If i am successful, I'll probably clone the design of my box (even thought it's huge, clunky and inefficient, I like it. ) out six or seven more times and get to work producing medicine. -Glopanel45's LED lighting. -Rio+ 1100 Aquapump -Soul Synthetics Hydroponic Grow Solution -Soul Synthetics Infinity Catalyst Product -Clay Pellets -Femenized Autoflowing Lowryder Seedsx4
Had a bit of a scare in the middle of the night where I checked the PH of my solution to be 4.6. After I checked again I started to sweat... how much PH- is too much? Mixing up another couple mils of nutes, I guestimated how much based on how many gallons I had, how much the PH raised when I nuted it up while priming etc etc etc. Anyways, PH is back up to 5.5... Other changes: Noticed the drip line was occasionally wetting my seedlings. Frowning, I lowered drip-line to basically touching the rock-wool. Baby girls are looking less wet and more happy since.
Ugh. After a couple days of fiddling with my dripline, i have battered my poor seedlings into submission. One strange thriver was transplanted to an earthen pot to finish out it's life in the dirt science room while i reset and reorganize for another attempt at aero. Obviously, I must overengineer a perfect dripline. . . . ¬_¬
Furiousurvivor: unless you're foliar feeding clones you might want to remember what our Ag. teacher told us, "Water the soil not the plant." It looks like you have a pretty good size reservoir, but you might want to get in the habit of checking your pH daily, especially when growing in artificial aggraget. I have the same problem in my Aerogarden, but I only have 112 ounces of nutes and I can get some pretty will pH swings when my ladies are feeding.