[med-man]

hey petflora

do you mean for the whole cycle?

if yes, then keep a ton of 2 liter frozen coke bottles on stand by for the rez and drop the room temp a bit if you can

med-man

[PetFlora]

I see how I confused you. I edited the post. Check it again.

Our weather this year is approaching record highs, with only a few days of dips into mid-upper 60 nights, low-mid 70 days

Room has open beam ceiling, only 4" separates the suns intense heat. Typical mid day temps are 83-85, as is the room. Night maybe 72*s

When I'm home, I turn the ac on for a few hours during hottest part of the day, or until room temp drops to ~ 75*

The balmy weather does take its' toll on a grow and grower

Originally Posted by med-man

hey petflora

do you mean for the whole cycle?

if yes, then keep a ton of 2 liter frozen coke bottles on stand by for the rez and drop the room temp a bit if you can

med-man

[med-man]

Originally Posted by PetFlora

Due to heat here, my rez is running 76-80*. I added a jug of frozen water, after an hour, it is still above 70*

Thoughts?

hey petflora

- 1.6 ml 35% h202 every 2-3 days
- more ice packs more often
- airstones in the rez
- water chiller (ouside the room)

med-man

[PetFlora]

Food Grade 35% is tres expensive

Do you think beauty supply grade at that low amount would be ok? I buy it for general purpose cleaning/disinfecting @ ~ $11/gallon. Have plenty on hand. The only things that oogie builds up in (clogs) are the Hydro Halo rings. I have clean/flush them every couple weeks

4" air stone discs are under each pump 24/7 + nutes are recycling through 160 gph pump over polished ornamental rocks, cascading back into the rez. + some magnetic magic

I call it my High Performance Rez

Haven't found a reasonably priced water chiller + monthly energy cost is high on them

Originally Posted by med-man

hey petflora

- 1.6 ml 35% h202 every 2-3 days
- more ice packs more often
- airstones in the rez
- water chiller (ouside the room)

med-man

[PetFlora]

7/7, although a couple did not crack as quickly, and are shorter.

[PetFlora]

Now, this is amazing to me.

Barely 24 hours later...



I dropped 7 seeds in ~ 4 ozs water with a couple drops of Neptune Seaweed Plant Food

24 hours later all seeds cracked

Yesterday I put them in super starter cubes

and placed them under 2 ufo 90s: 3 watt diodes- all white; one is 5000K the other 3500K

Lights are ~ 3ft above the seedlings; 24/0

This morning they have all broken out

I reseated the one on right side that practically grew out of the cube

[PetFlora]

For some reason I am unable to add another photo to my previous post.

Here is pic with lights

[med-man]

hye pet flora

thank you for the update. guess size isnt everything? lol :-)

med-man

[PetFlora]

Like me they're growers, not showers

[PetFlora]

I'm posting this here, as it might help someone from exeriencing the same problem...

Not happy about it, but I had to harvest at least 10 days early- no signs of amber

I made only 2 changes in the last 5 days

1. I put a ladies footie on each pump to keep them clean (I used men's nylon sox in the past, but they are bigger than necessary
2. I started adding jugs of frozen water, reducing the rez temp from ~ 80 to ~ 70

One of the jugs had a label which was barely submerged into the nutes, so not likely, but the footies...

I would not suspect the nylon, BUT, each footie has a ~ 1/2" x 1" tab at the heel, made from some sort of flexible material, both of which were completely submerged

No doubt china made- bought at Wally world

What I noticed in just 2 days was, the main stalks and branches all turned a pale yellow beige + leafs started drooping/dying

Fresh Nutes ~ 250ppm, pH 6.0

Yesterday morning, I noticed the rez had a small amount of soapy looking bubbles mixed in with the air bubbles

I immediately drained the rez and flushed with RO water

This morning no recovery, so I harvested.