| Title | Description | Added |
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| Front of Flower Box |
Box dimensions are:
5' 5" Tall
3' Wide
2' 10" Deep
Vented Light Domes added 7/31/07
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07/31/07 |
| Transplanting to Flower Box |
Finished transplanting. Heat has been 95F with both lamps on and box all shut up. Added vented light dome/hoods, attached with 4" dryer vent hose to the intake of a 400cfm squirrel cage blower. Exhaust side is open, and shooting straight up towards the box exhaust fan. |
07/31/07 |
| 165CFM 4" Can-Fan Exhaust Fan |
Venting air from the top of the box to outside of the box, on the "roof". Have a matching 165CFM 24"L active filter, unhooked until smell occurs. |
07/31/07 |
| Nutrient Mixture |
5 Gallons of water per 5 gallon bucket. 1 plant per bucket.
Nutrient Mixture: (All Measurements Are Per Bucket)
1ml Tap Water Conditioner
2 TSP Hydrogen Peroxide
2 TSP GH HardWater Micro nutes
1 TSP GH Bloom nutes
1 TSP GH Floralicious Plus
1 1/4 TSP GH PH Down
Starting PPM 112 | Starting PH 7.0
Ending PPM 312 | Ending PH 5.1 |
07/31/07 |
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| Passive Intakes |
2 2" Passive Intakes on rear right side of box. 2 2" Passive Intakes in back wall (not shown) |
07/31/07 |
| 3x5Gal Reservoir |
1 5Gal bucket linked via 1/2" tube to another 5gal bucket, and that one is linked to a 198gph in-line water pump and that connects to the 5gal controller bucket. There is a liquid level controller in the Controller bucket that keeps all 5 buckets full. |
07/31/07 |
| Res Buckets Above View |
Shot of 198gph Eheim inline/submersable pump with a 1/2" barbed inlet and outlet. |
07/31/07 |
| To Flowers On/Off Valve |
An On/Off valve connected between the controller bucket and the flower buckets. |
07/31/07 |
| Flower Box |
All Closed Up |
07/31/07 |
| Vented Domes Installed |
Vented domes were installed to help lower heat, currently 92F :(
Helped by 3-4F |
07/31/07 |
| Bubblin' Babies about 1 Week |
Both are to be vegged for two weeks from yesterday, that is if they take well to my nutrient mixture.
Each in 5gal bucket, each bucket is in a 25gal (i think) tub incase of overflow/leakage. Tubs will be added to the reservoir buckets soon. |
07/31/07 |
| Random |
Far Right: Liquid Level Controller (on/off switch to water pump)
Airline tubes and 1/2" water hoses |
07/31/07 |
| Random |
400CFM Blower - Inlet connects to vented light domes. |
07/31/07 |
| Random |
Yucky Temperature!!!
Last resort is to tap into central air conditioner, was hoping to avoid that all together. |
07/31/07 |
| Humidifier |
Holmes Humidifier - Holds 1 1/2 gallons of water, has three fan speeds. Has not been installed into flower box because of location of one of the blowers. |
07/31/07 |
| Air Pumps |
One General Hydroponics Dual Diaphragm air pump per bucket. So two air pumps total. No air stones used. |
07/31/07 |
| Silvery Goodness |
Hung 400cfm squirrel cage blower, and re-routed vent tubes. |
08/01/07 |
| Re-routing/Adjustments |
Vented 250watt HPS via the 165cfm Can-Fan (moves more air than the 400cfm), and vented the 175MH with the squirrel cage fan. Hoping this will lower temperatures to mid 80's |
08/01/07 |
| 6 Days Veg |
These babies have been in veg under the HID have 6 days. |
08/04/07 |
| BG 8 Days in Veg |
Looking decent, roots are taking off quite nicely. Changing solution and res tomarrow. The writing on the tub lids means nothing |
08/06/07 |
| Richy Plant 8 Days Veg |
Good root development, great growth going on here. Same as before, the writing on the lid means nothing. |
08/06/07 |
| Res Adjustment |
Had to adjust my reservoir setup and move my inline pump to inside the middle res bucket with the water outlet hose coming up through the lid. Reason being, water was back flushing from the controller to the 2 res buckets. Also added a dual diaphragm air pump to the controller bucket. |
08/06/07 |
| Res Adjustment |
Just another angle. |
08/06/07 |
| Fresh veg Nutes |
Flushed about 10 times each bucket. And remixed at 1-1-1tsp GH FloraMicro, Gro, Bloom, and 1/2tsp Floralicious. Reason for dropping nute levels is, seeing signs of damage to plants and my PPM meter is messed up. Have the covers off to dry up some mess I got in the overflow tubs. |
08/07/07 |
| New Res Setup |
Didnt know I had and extra 18gal tub so I decided to eliminate the two (main res) 5gal buckets I was using and go with just one to make mixing nutes a bit easier. So the controller bucket gets a dual outlet small airpump and the 18gal main res gets the dual diaphragm airpump. |
08/07/07 |
| BG Problem |
Still unsure of what this blotching is exactly. Its very visible in the picture. Changed nutes from GH Flora Series 2tsp Hard Water Micro, 1tsp Bloom, 1tsp Floralicious, 2caps H2O2, 1ml Tap Water Conditioner TO the following (same GH nutes) 1tsp Micro, 1tsp Gro, 1tsp Bloom, 1/2tsp Floralicious. Starting PPM in 7ph tap water should be about 112 |
08/07/07 |
| Richy Problems |
This plant (which is the plant on the right), where its crumbled off just happend early this morning, unsure of this as well. No other signs of damage on it. |
08/07/07 |
| House Plant Seedlings |
Some Coleus, Morning Glory, Parsley, Salvia and I forget the others. They love the HID lights, and they grow so fast, its great. :) |
08/07/07 |
| Both Babies |
Day 13 of Veg in the box. |
08/11/07 |
| Richy Plant |
Possible Nitrogen Deficiency. Current nute solution is GH Flora Series 2-2-2tsp & 1/2tsp Floralicious Plus |
08/11/07 |
| Both babies Day 14 |
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08/13/07 |
| Richy Plant |
This is the right plant. |
08/13/07 |
| Big Green |
This is the left plant. It gets very big and broad. |
08/13/07 |
| Big Green Burnt |
Possible burn occuring here in this picture. PPMs remain steady at 354-359 for both plants as well as ph no more than 6.2 for no longer than a day. I try to check PH once daily in everything and set it to 5.8 |
08/13/07 |
| Big Green Plant |
Picture was taken 8-14-07 |
08/17/07 |
| Richy Rich |
Picture was taken 8-14-07 |
08/17/07 |
| Both of my babies |
MmmMm, so cute. Picture was taken 8-14-07. Digi-cam is now broken, could take a long while to replace :( |
08/17/07 |
