Indoor Northern Lights Blue Auto-Waterfarm-LED

[Smokechoke]

Think she will handle 3/4 or full strength nutes yet? 15 days old looking healthy

 

[Smokechoke]

I did a res change and boosted the nutes to full strength and as i was doing this i spotted this beautiful site!!!! The first of many roots in the res has appeard!!!!:jaw: 15 days old and going strong.
505 ppm
5.8 ph
80*f in the tent with a 50% humidity
Res temps are like 17.1*C which is wayyy colder than the 21*C its normaly at and the leaves started to curl down almost immediately after res change so i threw my 23w 5000k bright white cfl and my 23w 2700k cfl in and closed some vents to warm things up a bit. I hope thats why there curling downward? Idk you tell me? Theres no signs of burn and its been two and a half hours. Please help, Id appreciate any advice.thanks

 

[Smokechoke]

So i diluted my res water she wasnt likeing the jump to high ppm so after last night she seems to be doing terrific and im happy to say that everythings going okay, still having to check my ph 3 times a day, but all is well

 

[KsjAuto]

Take it Easy with your nutes. Im doing 430 ppm with 260 ppm of Water and im on Day 52.
That is about 1/2 Strength of What it says on the bottle
If the ppm drops up the nute.if She gets pale up the nute.
She Will show you if She need more food...
Peace

 

[Smokechoke]

So i been checking on her just about every two hours, the stems thickining and only the new growth seems to be gaining today, ppm is around 400 wich seems to be okay, no color changes or dark veiny-ness no burt tips or curling of any kind, seems to be normal, i considerd turning on my two cfls for a few hours mid way through my light schedule to simulate the hottest point of the day otherwise things are pretty easy going, i just looked at the bottom of my grow chamber, saw some more roots starting to come through wich is awesome and clearly a greay thing

 

[gradolabs]

So i been checking on her just about every two hours...

They don't grow unless you check on em. That's rule no. 1. Looks healthy anyway. I'm off to catch up on your grow!

 

[Smokechoke]

Haha yeaaaaaa... I get so boerd i wanna tweak and tune it as much as possible, got any advice so far??

 

[Smokechoke]

Day 18

So after diluting the nutes things are fine. ph was adjusted to 5.8 and my ppm is trying to creep as my water goes down and im going to let it for a little bit i turned on my cfls and im maintaining temps by opening her up, i rotated her since thismorning to get some of that cfl loving. Undergrowth continues to thrive and things are moving right along.
Nutes
Running flora micro, grow, & bloom also using root 66 and sugar daddy and gave a foliar feeding of thrive alive b-1 green

QUESTION: if i have roots coming through my grow chamber now does that mean they have to be summerged in a bubbiling nutrient bath in my res? Idk that they are right now i just keep the water level at the line marked on the indicator should i change this? What do i do?

 

[Smokechoke]

Do the roots coming out of my grow chamber need to be submergend in oxygenated nute solution or is it okay to let them hang in the air until the reach the water level ? As of now i have my water level high at about a half inch above the fill line on the external water level tube is that okay?

 

[newbud]

the farm originaly works means of dripper system. but we can make it into a DWC (deep water culture system) too!

by adding an airstone to the reservior.. another air pump like the one included with the 'farm along with an airstone (from a pet shop dealing with fish and aquariums) will be added to the reserviour to oxygenate the solution even more. respect go's to shark for this post