re: Feral's Journal of Insanity & Some Growing
I'm betting its quieter than my buckets.
I have a grommet in the top of my side tube and put the 1/4" airline into it. The air is pumped directly into the bottom of the bucket. When I need to check the water level, I just pull the air hose out for a moment.(mine are sharpied @ 2, 3, and 4 gallons) Added plus I don't have airstones to clean. Down side, it's loud.
Gday RM, welcome dude
Oh yeah its a nice quiet system in the tent, only noisy part is from the pump to the manifold
actually fixed one of them today by replacing the plastic manifold with a steel version with taps so i can turn off individual airlines as i need, probably dropped a good 10db at the same time
I tried running a few of my buckets without the airstones but found because i run so many i was having pressure drops and bubbling almost ceased to exist
Currently running 10 airstones between veg and early veg, another 8 in flower
Great idea with the markings on diff levels, didnt think of that, im used to the levels now though and pretty much guess spot on each time
Speaking of pH pens, it's worth the cost of AN for me to ditch them forever. Haven't checked pH in over a year. Also don't run AN near as heavy as they recommend, and I buy in gallons, so I save there too. Cost divided by ease and laziness makes me a happy lazy grower......fwiw
Each time i switch my PH pen on i save my money on AN nutes
Nah but seriously its a great product and dont have to do much at all to get awesome results, if it wasnt for the price i would use it all the time, not saying it has to be cheap but not outrageous
When i was running the Connoisseur nutes i had them at about 1/2 strength and it was nuts.
GH for me though i find way better results in veg and building the plant up ready for flower, in flower everything thrives just like AN, if not better and at a fraction of the price, takes me about 10 mins to check PH on all of my girls and i know exactly whats going on in there
tbh i rarely check PH besides when changing out reservoirs, if i keep topping them up with water through the week the PH stays nice and solid, no fluctuations
Still use a bit of Bud Ignitor and Bud Candy here and there though
I use AN too but i still ph my add back water, so i keep one around. I haven't checked ph in forever and then my last grow started to shit out in the middle of flower. My ph had bottomed out at like 4.1. Don't care how chelated these nutes are... 4.1 and my plants were not uptaking large quantities of the goodies they needed. Still produced fairly well but i really hurt it by letting that happen. It has made me weary of the nutes now and I'll be checking the next few weeks to see if it was just a fluke.
Feral. Things look really great over here, brother. That plant looks like it has winner written on it, to me.
I have been following along but haven't had much time to comment. Sorry bro.
Thanks Lazarus and welcome mate
I never really checked the PH on AN till i started having issues too, their PH perfect tech aint too perfect if not mixed to their specs, even then will not last long before fluctuations begin, ended up PH'ing my AN mixes from then on out and had some amazing results. Just made me think to myself, no matter of any claims of any nute company i will always check PH, im growing for me not them, if i make a mistake it hurts me not them, 2 mins to check ph and problem averted
Thanks for the kind words about my girl
she really is a stunner
