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Thanks KC, so they're more on the beneficial side? I'm not a spider fan but if they ain't gonna mess with my crop, and they keep nasties away- they can invite they're cousins to stay lolHey brother I hope all is well with you
I see you got the plants in and there’s a milestone for ya for sure. Nicely done and it’s all coming together.
Good catch on the plugged bucket and I hope you can get this sorted.
I tend to leave a certain % of the not so evil spiders in my grow spaces lmao.
play safe and enjoy everyone
Yup- and I think they overflowed while I was asleep. The smart water sensors that will on the floor have been ordered, hopefully that'll help me in case of next time.Were all the buckets about to overflow like that? Scary stuff. I had to go check ours after seeing that lol.
Today I believe I found the culprit. The perlite. Some of the tiny particles made it threw the screen. I took the shop vac to it and got the sediment build up cleaned up. It was easy to remove the perlite bag luckily.
Now I've got a continuous top feed going- and I'll keep a close eye in case it happens again. I'll chalk this one off to growing pains, I have zero experience with perlite and underestimated the amount of a first rinse needed.
Looks pretty nasty eh? I'll be doing a res change soon as the RO reservoir is filled. What you're seeing is mainly sediment from the hydroton and perlite mixed with the MC and nutes.
No matter how much you rinse new hydroton your gonna get some sediment in your system. I'll be doing extra res changes on a regular till the system is clean out.
Here's some pics of the girls....the last one is quite curious looking.
the SuperSkunk (below)