loving the pineapple my friend, do you think the flower time is longer with bigger plants, would it finish on time if it was indoors and much smaller, ive noticed a few outdoor grows seem to be taking longer but all the plants are pretty big, so im wondering if the plants uses more energy on bigger plants which in turn slows down the growth,
also what problems you having with a dwc, my res is just 3/4 of a 2ltr pop bottle so temps could get warm pretty quick in a small res, they did at first and roots went slimy brown, then i realised the light was shining on the res, so what i do now is use cardboard and have it so the res is totally in the shade, the light was warming the res up slowly causing me problems, so since making sure the res is in the shade ive had no problems,
you could even cover the res with something that would help keep it cool, some foam or something, something that would absorb the heat of the room and not pass it through to the res, i also found having the res off the floor an inch or to helped as well as it allowed air to circulate around the res a lot better, as long as you got plenty of air then the dwc should be ok, ive not needed to check ph or ppm, i fill the res with nutrient mix then let it pretty much go empty then fill it back up again, i found keeping the res topped up caused big problems, but letting it run down to about the last 2 inches of water then i top it up, then every week ill empty the res and just rinse it out, i know its not as easy in a bigger res but maybe letting the water run low would also help any problems your having, i tried keeping it topped up so it was getting max nutrients but that just caused root problems, so letting the water level drop encouraged the roots to grow so it could find the water again.
also what problems you having with a dwc, my res is just 3/4 of a 2ltr pop bottle so temps could get warm pretty quick in a small res, they did at first and roots went slimy brown, then i realised the light was shining on the res, so what i do now is use cardboard and have it so the res is totally in the shade, the light was warming the res up slowly causing me problems, so since making sure the res is in the shade ive had no problems,
you could even cover the res with something that would help keep it cool, some foam or something, something that would absorb the heat of the room and not pass it through to the res, i also found having the res off the floor an inch or to helped as well as it allowed air to circulate around the res a lot better, as long as you got plenty of air then the dwc should be ok, ive not needed to check ph or ppm, i fill the res with nutrient mix then let it pretty much go empty then fill it back up again, i found keeping the res topped up caused big problems, but letting it run down to about the last 2 inches of water then i top it up, then every week ill empty the res and just rinse it out, i know its not as easy in a bigger res but maybe letting the water run low would also help any problems your having, i tried keeping it topped up so it was getting max nutrients but that just caused root problems, so letting the water level drop encouraged the roots to grow so it could find the water again.