Hi Guys and Girls, I hope you are well and growing good.
OK here goes with my first journal of my first attempt at hydro/aeroponics.
Set up: Hydro to start with then Aeroponic once roots are established with Fogger and sprays.
Room Dimensions W61cms x D61cms H 122cms Mylar Diamond covered.
Room Temperature 22 - 25c
Light 120w Tri Band LED panel
Water Pump Microjet 320
Fogger - Ebay with just 1 LED not the 12 LED versions you see advertised.
3" Net Pots with Root Riot surrounded by Clay Pebbles
Tote Box - W40cms x D35cms x H35cms (approx)
White Widow - Green House Seeds NL
Nutrients - Canna Aqua Vega/Flora
Day 1 - Soaked seeds overnight in glass of tap water.
Day 2 - Planted 4 seeds in Root Riot cubes and placed in cellophane sealed Ice Cream container over night room temp 20c.
Day 3 - Three of the four seeds are up and showing so I now have to get the cupboard sorted quickly as it wasn't quite finished.
Day 4 - Finished cupboard off (Well almost, I have to madly do things when certain people are out of the house) gave seedlings a spray of plain tap water, this is hard water area and I've not checked pH levels yet still waiting for meter to arrive in post, put three seedlings under 120w LED panel for first time
Day 5 - Just checked them having spent their first night under constant light and they've grown about 1/2 - 3/4" and are just forming the first serrated leaves.
I've put the fourth seed back into sealed pot to hopefully germinate, if not will stick with three plants instead of four.
Issues:
Slight problem I have to get sorted very soon is the irrigation as the drippers don't seem to dripping correctly.
The drippers at the end of the line are dripping water but the Tee bar drippers in between are releasing nothing. Not sure if pump is pushing enough pressure but with only four drippers, 2 x Tee bar and 2 x end drippers the pump should be able to cope I would have thought as the whole length of tubing is less than 1m.
If it can't cope pushing water through drippers it certainly won't have enough pressure to create the spray/mist I want when I go Aeroponic.
It's the 6mm tubing I'm having probs with not the 13mm, which I will be using when it's Aero.
Will update this every few days or so, maybe daily, I'll also take some pictures and post if I can.
Best wishes to one and all,
Toaor
OK here goes with my first journal of my first attempt at hydro/aeroponics.
Set up: Hydro to start with then Aeroponic once roots are established with Fogger and sprays.
Room Dimensions W61cms x D61cms H 122cms Mylar Diamond covered.
Room Temperature 22 - 25c
Light 120w Tri Band LED panel
Water Pump Microjet 320
Fogger - Ebay with just 1 LED not the 12 LED versions you see advertised.
3" Net Pots with Root Riot surrounded by Clay Pebbles
Tote Box - W40cms x D35cms x H35cms (approx)
White Widow - Green House Seeds NL
Nutrients - Canna Aqua Vega/Flora
Day 1 - Soaked seeds overnight in glass of tap water.
Day 2 - Planted 4 seeds in Root Riot cubes and placed in cellophane sealed Ice Cream container over night room temp 20c.
Day 3 - Three of the four seeds are up and showing so I now have to get the cupboard sorted quickly as it wasn't quite finished.
Day 4 - Finished cupboard off (Well almost, I have to madly do things when certain people are out of the house) gave seedlings a spray of plain tap water, this is hard water area and I've not checked pH levels yet still waiting for meter to arrive in post, put three seedlings under 120w LED panel for first time
Day 5 - Just checked them having spent their first night under constant light and they've grown about 1/2 - 3/4" and are just forming the first serrated leaves.
I've put the fourth seed back into sealed pot to hopefully germinate, if not will stick with three plants instead of four.
Issues:
Slight problem I have to get sorted very soon is the irrigation as the drippers don't seem to dripping correctly.
The drippers at the end of the line are dripping water but the Tee bar drippers in between are releasing nothing. Not sure if pump is pushing enough pressure but with only four drippers, 2 x Tee bar and 2 x end drippers the pump should be able to cope I would have thought as the whole length of tubing is less than 1m.
If it can't cope pushing water through drippers it certainly won't have enough pressure to create the spray/mist I want when I go Aeroponic.
It's the 6mm tubing I'm having probs with not the 13mm, which I will be using when it's Aero.
Will update this every few days or so, maybe daily, I'll also take some pictures and post if I can.
Best wishes to one and all,
Toaor
1 ration of Red, Blue and Orange, which supposedly takes them right the way thru from seed to flowering.
