New Grower giving hydro a go

[stoneyhomer]

ok i have been thinking of giving hydro a go for a while but was woried about it well 3 weeks ago i got myself a ebb flood and drain system from nutriculture and well its not so hard had a few probs in the first week keeping ph down well a briter water filter seems to have sorted that and now i think im happy with it well here are a few pics from day 16 a lil stunted i know but im puting that down to the first week


o yer i got a new cam as well so pics should be better from now
i gota do a res change later so if i remember ill snap a few more pics


forgot to mention that thay are under 250 watt hps and 90 watt ufo lights

 

[agito]

looks good your solution may have not been strong enough in week 1

 

[Red eyed c]

Nice looking set up u got there mate,I'm subbed in for your grow also I'm curious as how does the briter water filter help with ph mate? I'm also in the UK and my tap water is around 8 ish

 

[realcarlos]

Hey Stoney did you plant them into rockwool first?
Agito a question for you regarding nutes question. Do you start full nute strength from day 1 or build up a lot of people are saying start of half then build up

 

[agito]

you would start on a weak solution depending on brand say 1.2ec if the ec drops to 1.1 the solution is to weak so bump it up to 1.3 and so on you will reach a point where the ec does not change but in time you will learn the nutes and plants and realise where you should start the ec in future grows but most people will never go full strength even when your plants are massive but your plants will tell you if you get a slight rams horn ease off a touch. so if you find out if 1.2 was to weak when you started you may start the grow a touch stronger but take into acount larger plants can take a higher ec. so what you feed in week one will not be the same in week 3
if you have hard water just buy hard water nutes filtering sounds like a pain this will help with ph as it will have buffers in the solution

starting in rockwool is a pain as it needs to be phd and ajusted i just use root riots i have even used soil long as its rooted well and does not come into contact with water

 

[stoneyhomer]

Nice looking set up u got there mate,I'm subbed in for your grow also I'm curious as how does the briter water filter help with ph mate? I'm also in the UK and my tap water is around 8 ish

ok im not shure why it works but it douse or it seems to before i got it i would ph down to like 5.8 to 6 and in a day or two it would be back up to 8 ish a friend told me to try it

 

[agito]

if your using soft water nutes it would explain as theres little buffer in them for ph swings the britra will be making your water softer, another reason veg nutes use nitric acid based or the N in npk and if the solution is not strong enough it will be using it for food

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

Hey Stoney did you plant them into rockwool first?
Agito a question for you regarding nutes question. Do you start full nute strength from day 1 or build up a lot of people are saying start of half then build up

i've started my areo system w/ full dose of nutes but that was organic.

 

[agito]

organic nutes in aero your foggers are not going to last long if your running true aero with small micron foggers/misters

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

true areo? foggers came after the misters...and i've not had a problem yet. i also have mycorrhizae in my rez.