A COUPLE PICS REGARDING AERATING THE RES
The girls are about two weeks into flower after about three weeks of 12/12. I had a busy weekend, and didn't get to the res changes until this morning.
When I did, I snapped just a couple of pics of each plant.
First, I need to tell my Brother, XLR8, that this is NOT to tell you that you need to have an airstone in your res! We're running different systems, and I don't know how much the extra aeration will help in that VERY cool undercurrent system of yours!
But, I thought this was interesting....
BOTH clones were started at the same time from the same mother, and went most of the way through veg in 100% perlite hempys. I moved them both to the waterfarms on the same day, in their last two weeks of veg and both were of similar size & development.
I was short an airstone at the time, so one plant went 6 days in the waterfarm without an airstone in the res (until I got another!) while the other plant has had the airstone the whole time in the waterfarm.
Here's the plant that went the first six days in the waterfarm WITHOUT the airstone:
Here's the one that had the aistone the whole time. The pic is taken from a little closer, but you can still see the difference:
Now for the roots...
Here's the one with six days of NO airstone in the res:
And, here's the one that had the airstone the whole time in the waterfarm:
Considering the difference is only six days of having an airstone in the res, I thought it was a pretty significant difference in development.
Happy Harvests!
K