Sweet Zombie and GDP

Hi y’all. It’s been a while. I made a new system for the latest batch of seeds. I’ll be adding content weekly. I tend to forget things. If you’re reading this and see something I missed, please say something. I’m open to any and all advice.

So here were go. This is the setup:

Lid for the top of the 38 gallon reservoir.


A peek inside the lid. Inside, I have two airstones, 2 submersible pumps and ph/temp probes.


BlueLabs ph controller. I’m using GH down. I have it set for 5.8


Inside the tent. Using the Mars hydro tsw 2000w led light. Duct fan is Vicodin 8” 720cfm with an 8” carbon scrubber with a prefilter. Duct reducer to 6” to fit thru tent duct port. Tent is a 48”x36”x72” from topogrow.


Hose mess. I need to do some hose management. This allows a view of the connections I have.


Buckets each have a airstones and are ran by an aquafarm drip ring. Hydroton for substrate.

Nutrients:
GH FloraDuo A&B
cal-mag
rapid start/clonex
UC Roots
Armor Si
Flora nectar
Diamond nectar
Fulvic and Humeric acid


RO water starting ppm of 12.
EC is 1.0 (BlueLabs commercial ranged EC truncheon)
PH is 5.8
Temp is 77f
RH is 38%

I see the large fan leaves on the SZ is showing a cal mag deficiency. I added more today. I’m running about 30% of the dosage chart recommendation. GDP looks a tad twisted. Ph flex from the rock wool? Idk. I soaked it in 5.4 solution for a few hours. I germinated all these seeds in rock wool.

I should explain the pumps. One is straight forward. 400gph in the res pushes the solution thru the water chiller. The other pump in the res is also a 400gph, circulating the solution. The pump-out hose splits and fills the buckets, with an elbow in the bucket to create the waterfall effect. Another hose towards the bottom of each bucket gravity feeds back into the res. The circ pump is on a timer with settings of 20 seconds on and 3 minutes off. It’s odd, but this works to stop the buckets from overflowing and allow time for the solution to gravity feed back into the res. I expect I’ll need to adjust the settings as the inner volume changes with the increased root growth. Sight tubes would have assisted in this. I’ll do that upgrade after this grow cycle. So there it is. First post in a long time. I look forward to any changes or tweaks yall recommend.

Regular grandaddy purp from the attitude seed bank.


Femanized freebie Sweet Zombie from the same seed bank.


Active Aqua 1/4 HP water chiller powered by a 400 gph Active Aqua pump. Vinyl 1/2” hose.



The tent sucks in when it’s zipped up. It’s not bad, but it does. Fan on low. I’m going to try to add a variable speed controller to it. Also need some more fans pudding with in. There are unused 6” duct ports in the tent. I need to get a couple inline fans and fit them into the ports to force air in. I have a small cheap-o fan blowing across the canopy.

Went to a trade show at the local grow store. Got all this swag for free.

Dialing back my GH a & b and adding the emerald harvest micro. Also adding the Drip clean.

End of week root porn.


Lollipopped


3 days after topping.

Not sure how to flip these pics.







5.8 ph
1.4 EC
66 degree nute solution
72 air temp
70 humidity
Light at 32” on 85 power
Flipped to 12/12 today.

Sweet Zombie is a Cal/Mag whore.........I use r.o. water and have to feed her 10ml Cal/Mag per gallon with most waterings to stop her from showing deficiencies.

sshz said:

Sweet Zombie is a Cal/Mag whore.........I use r.o. water and have to feed her 10ml Cal/Mag per gallon with most waterings to stop her from showing deficiencies.

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I remember you telling me that over on that other site. You’re so right. I had some rusting on lower fans earlier on. I took your advice and it cleared up in a week or so. Good info.

moved lights up as high as I could