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TheFertilizer
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Well, I don't think that the CS treatment is working at all this time around. The last time that I did it with some success, I was spraying and reversing little clone plants. These big full-sized ones just seem to absorb all that I can spray on them and flower without a problem. I am really wishing I had put these girls in the 3 gallon pots in under the CMH light instead, given how beautiful they are turning out. I'm real tempted to just swap the lights into each tent right now given that the CS seems to have no effect, but these girls are real lanky and the ones in the 5 gallon pots are much larger so I think even with all that yellow ugliness I will yield more off of those large plants with a large light. They'd probably wither up and die if I tried to put them under this little T5.
Speaking of the girls under the CMH, they're at least starting to flower nice and decent now. Their leaves are very perky, and they're training under the net just fine. Honestly they seem very healthy if not for the yellowing. Some of the tops seem to be getting better color to them, maybe they just wanted to flower.
Meanwhile the auto-watering has been going okay, but I don't know how accurate this timer I've got is actually keeping time. I've ran these pumps with a stop-watch many times to calibrate things, and I know they do about 400 mL/Minute yet when I set the timer for 1 minute, there's a little less than 400 mL in the jar I've setup under my recirculation tap. Then the other day it should have ran 2 minutes, but there was much less than 800 mL in the jar. I'm thinking it may have siphoned it back out of the jar though.
bob that bottom feeding method sounds pretty interesting, how does the water not just start spilling out of the top, or is it like a recirculation setup? I just have mine setup drain-to-waste, though I don't have the pots in one tent elevated so they've been sitting in the run off for a while now :/ It doesn't seem to evaporate fast enough when the pot its stitting in isn't wicking it into the air so fast.
I'd really like to get a setup tapped into the main water line so the plants just drinkup all they want without me worrying about it. I'm pretty sure with those blumat water spikes it could be done relatively cheaply with what I have, what I really need to build is a resevoir with a float-switch that I can pump out of.
Speaking of the girls under the CMH, they're at least starting to flower nice and decent now. Their leaves are very perky, and they're training under the net just fine. Honestly they seem very healthy if not for the yellowing. Some of the tops seem to be getting better color to them, maybe they just wanted to flower.
Meanwhile the auto-watering has been going okay, but I don't know how accurate this timer I've got is actually keeping time. I've ran these pumps with a stop-watch many times to calibrate things, and I know they do about 400 mL/Minute yet when I set the timer for 1 minute, there's a little less than 400 mL in the jar I've setup under my recirculation tap. Then the other day it should have ran 2 minutes, but there was much less than 800 mL in the jar. I'm thinking it may have siphoned it back out of the jar though.
bob that bottom feeding method sounds pretty interesting, how does the water not just start spilling out of the top, or is it like a recirculation setup? I just have mine setup drain-to-waste, though I don't have the pots in one tent elevated so they've been sitting in the run off for a while now :/ It doesn't seem to evaporate fast enough when the pot its stitting in isn't wicking it into the air so fast.
I'd really like to get a setup tapped into the main water line so the plants just drinkup all they want without me worrying about it. I'm pretty sure with those blumat water spikes it could be done relatively cheaply with what I have, what I really need to build is a resevoir with a float-switch that I can pump out of.
) if I'm going to mess around with the Blumats. But I've seen other growers swear by them.
