Too much of everything is just enough 
So I really want a couple of things and I hope I'm working towards them.
1) I'm tired of experimenting with equipment and techniques, so I've tried to take what I've learned and create a closet that I'll be happy with for many grows in a row, so I can play with genetics for a while.
2) I wanted a good grow of this Neville's haze that I aborted in the high pressure aero setup. It would have probably grown out ok, but I just wasn't happy with it.
3) I think that with dwc, or in this case, dwmc (deep water media culture), changing out the reservoir frequently once the tree gets big is essential and as close to drain to waste as I'll get. I loved the dtw aspect of high pressure aero. I have an automated drain valve hooked to an interval timer and interfaced with my solenoid automation box thing so that once she is big, I can set the system to drain every so often and refill itself.
4) I wanted co2 back, but I'm tired of getting cylinders and the room is too small for a generator, in comes the new MiniGen water cooled co2 generator.
So..
-Nevilles haze clone from my aborted aero tree. The clone has grown with much different characteristics than its mother from seed. I don't know if that's related to clone/seed or the vastly different setup.
-12 x 100 watt tri-band flower LED UFOs, and 2x 240 watt 6 band veg panels, and a dual arc 1000 watt hortilux air cooled overhead
-MiniGen co2 water cooled generator. I took the heat transfer unit out for the winter, I actually need the heat in there. It is for propane, but I might convert to natural gas if possible, I have access there and their larger generators have conversion kits.
-A new DWC technique that I am gonna try. DWC with hydroton filling the bucket. DWMC (deep water media culture) 12 gallon multi purpose bucket. It has a floor drain in the bottom and a riser pipe so I can access the water level outside the bucket to view or use sensor. Its filled with 52 liters of hydroton, a big bubba airstone buried at the bottom, and my 50 LPM air pump. It recirculates through a small reservoir where the ph/ppm meter is, an aquarium heater, and it also goes through my big chiller for when it warms up. It is setup so I can do an undercurrent setup some day, but this time I'm pumping in the recirculation to the bottom and draining off the top throgh a 1.25 inch bilge pipe. The bucket is on wheels so I can move it around to access and to get light into the deep plant as it fills in.
-Flora Nova Nutes, Cal Mag, and micorizal innoculant from GH, at about 850 ppms. Per "Heaths Tree Grows" I'm gonna run nutes at about this level throughout the grow.
-An automated "spa and pool valve" that lets me automate the floor drain, the pumps all turn off by solenoids when the drain cycle turns on. It drains in 5 minutes and refills in about 15. The 12 gallon bucket holds 52 liters of hydroton and with hydroton in, it holds 7 gallons of nutes before roots take up some of that volume.
It's gonna be a long grow. I have topped once just last week to allow the sides to catch up to the top. I plan to move it into the "dark" corner, light only covers 180 degrees, and I might prune back some of the branches that will be cramped when I do that as she gets taller.
So I really want a couple of things and I hope I'm working towards them.
1) I'm tired of experimenting with equipment and techniques, so I've tried to take what I've learned and create a closet that I'll be happy with for many grows in a row, so I can play with genetics for a while.
2) I wanted a good grow of this Neville's haze that I aborted in the high pressure aero setup. It would have probably grown out ok, but I just wasn't happy with it.
3) I think that with dwc, or in this case, dwmc (deep water media culture), changing out the reservoir frequently once the tree gets big is essential and as close to drain to waste as I'll get. I loved the dtw aspect of high pressure aero. I have an automated drain valve hooked to an interval timer and interfaced with my solenoid automation box thing so that once she is big, I can set the system to drain every so often and refill itself.
4) I wanted co2 back, but I'm tired of getting cylinders and the room is too small for a generator, in comes the new MiniGen water cooled co2 generator.
So..
-Nevilles haze clone from my aborted aero tree. The clone has grown with much different characteristics than its mother from seed. I don't know if that's related to clone/seed or the vastly different setup.
-12 x 100 watt tri-band flower LED UFOs, and 2x 240 watt 6 band veg panels, and a dual arc 1000 watt hortilux air cooled overhead
-MiniGen co2 water cooled generator. I took the heat transfer unit out for the winter, I actually need the heat in there. It is for propane, but I might convert to natural gas if possible, I have access there and their larger generators have conversion kits.
-A new DWC technique that I am gonna try. DWC with hydroton filling the bucket. DWMC (deep water media culture) 12 gallon multi purpose bucket. It has a floor drain in the bottom and a riser pipe so I can access the water level outside the bucket to view or use sensor. Its filled with 52 liters of hydroton, a big bubba airstone buried at the bottom, and my 50 LPM air pump. It recirculates through a small reservoir where the ph/ppm meter is, an aquarium heater, and it also goes through my big chiller for when it warms up. It is setup so I can do an undercurrent setup some day, but this time I'm pumping in the recirculation to the bottom and draining off the top throgh a 1.25 inch bilge pipe. The bucket is on wheels so I can move it around to access and to get light into the deep plant as it fills in.
-Flora Nova Nutes, Cal Mag, and micorizal innoculant from GH, at about 850 ppms. Per "Heaths Tree Grows" I'm gonna run nutes at about this level throughout the grow.
-An automated "spa and pool valve" that lets me automate the floor drain, the pumps all turn off by solenoids when the drain cycle turns on. It drains in 5 minutes and refills in about 15. The 12 gallon bucket holds 52 liters of hydroton and with hydroton in, it holds 7 gallons of nutes before roots take up some of that volume.
It's gonna be a long grow. I have topped once just last week to allow the sides to catch up to the top. I plan to move it into the "dark" corner, light only covers 180 degrees, and I might prune back some of the branches that will be cramped when I do that as she gets taller.
