Hey everybody!
The last few days have been busy with work and finishing up my first grow. I have what will hopefully turn out to be 2oz's of beautiful Northern Light drying in my closet. I want to do a smoke report in a couple weeks and a 1st grow wrap up between now and the smoke report. And that will be the end of my first journal.
In the meantime, I can finally start to focus on this grow. I have a large to-do list before I can get started.
I need to bleach everything inside and outside the tent. bug bomb and re-bleach.
I still need to finish the build of my EnF. Another coat of black paint, a little precautionary sealing. Once the build is complete, I will have a quick guide to how I built my EnF.
I need to find a couple of stands that are about 9-10" high for the buckets. They are too heavy for tote lids with the extra water. I cant find anything that size, luckily I have a friend who owns a wood shop and should be able to have him throw something together for me pretty inexpensively.
Along with the stands, I am still trying to decide between 1 res or 2. I like the simplicity of 1 res. 1res to clean, one pump to run, one air stone,
2 res is ore to deal with, 2 res to clean, two pumps running, two air stones. Two res to worry about PH and nutrient uptake. Running an auto on one res and a photo on the other will mean both res will measure differently as the plants will be in wildly different life stages. The big Pro for a 2 res system, is I can really bring the buckets down and gain some height.
If I added a second pump to a 1 res system, could said second pump, pull the water out of the buckets once the flow stops? Then I could just have the buckets on the floor and have maximum height available.....hmmmm I will need a digital timer because it wont take long to drain the bucket, couple minutes maybe. A digital timer will do just a couple of minutes right?
So I am trying to wrangle my brain to figure it out, but it's not close enough to the time where I need to make a decision and stick to it. So there is still a lot up in the air. Thinking is hard sometimes
I will be once again using the TGA Super soil on this grow. The Scientific Soil was unable to be gifted to me due to unforeseen circumstances. A little lit of a bummer as I was looking forward to trying something new. But also, and mostly a relief. I know the Super soil. I know it works and I know I wont have to worry about it. With my new venture into hydro going on next to it, it will be nice to have something I know I don't need to worry about.
Cleaning starts today.
Hope it's green in your world.