[Dab Strudel]

Originally Posted by overbudjet

Water temp at 80deg. Equal disaster period ! At that temp water can't retain enough o2 to sustain a fast grow or nice harvest i kept mine at 66~68 to max out
o2 contain vs water temp(water to cold below 60deg slow the grow rate even if more o2 is in the mix imho )
This Bud is for you Rykus
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Thank you SIR, do you run a chiller or an AC? or any mycos or zymes? That pic is the cola porn that keeps me on the hydro track. Thats WITH glass Rykus, imagine tweaking the situation a little more to be glass-less or hood-less?

[overbudjet]

I use ss coil (same as the one i use with my mk3 )in my oxy-bucket
For bene i use greatwhite and subculture B room is cooled by 24kbtu a/c i also use co2 at 1100ppm .
Some bud porn to keep you on track

[rykus]

Looks good Overbudget! Wasn;t saying it could't be done, just saying at a piont (lets say 6-10 1000w) the price of equipment that will circulate the cold water and provide adequet air is going to become exponentialy more expensive than other hydro systems, and unless your up in the game soiless in drip is WAY safer, and often more productive over a year time.

Also seems conter productive trying to get water to be a good medium, and even with good AC plants grow slow if the room has to be rez temps. A good drip with res chiller/AC will cost less on any more than a few buckets.

[growteam]

Originally Posted by overbudjet

I use ss coil (same as the one i use with my mk3 )in my oxy-bucket
For bene i use greatwhite and subculture B room is cooled by 24kbtu a/c i also use co2 at 1100ppm .
Some bud porn to keep you on track
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Your full of shit. I caught one of your plants drinking red bull. Thats your secret.

[DJXX]

Originally Posted by overbudjet

I use ss coil (same as the one i use with my mk3 )in my oxy-bucket
For bene i use greatwhite and subculture B room is cooled by 24kbtu a/c i also use co2 at 1100ppm .
Some bud porn to keep you on track
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What strain is that sipping on the Red Bull...they look crazy good...Sativa what?? DJXX

[overbudjet]

White Widow :-)

[Joshua Ntr]

No!

[ChasingGreen]

Agree with what Dab posted as the 1st reply. You have to use silica to help prevent against disease and you have to use Great White to eat the bad bacteria. Also, you'll need twice as much air as you would for say a 70F res. Can't have too much air. For example, I can verify you can run a res at 78F with GW, Silica, and a 4-port air pump going into 2 airstones in a 15 gal res.

You can also lower your res temp by buying the car reflectors at Walmart, cutting them and taping them securely to the sides of your res. Lowered my temp by about 5 degrees! Don't fuck around with water bottles (you'll introduce more bad bacteria from your freezer, handling, etc and they only last like an hour).

[LostTribe]

Originally Posted by PetFlora

80*s is playing Russian Roulette with your plants

My last grow (hot summer) I was having that same issue. Once I got rez temps ~ 70*s, plant growth improved significantly, better still ~ 60*s

I use a bubbler to start my plants, but once they get big enough I switch to my DIY Mini-Me F & D. It's a much safer method, and easier to work with

See my sig if interested.

I do the same veg in bubblers and transplant to 5 gallon ebb n flo with 100% hydroton on a drip timer. Wouldnt change it for anything I have worked with. dwc, nft, soil, coco just nothing.

[Goats]

Originally Posted by ChasingGreen

Agree with what Dab posted as the 1st reply. You have to use silica to help prevent against disease and you have to use Great White to eat the bad bacteria. Also, you'll need twice as much air as you would for say a 70F res. Can't have too much air. For example, I can verify you can run a res at 78F with GW, Silica, and a 4-port air pump going into 2 airstones in a 15 gal res.

You can also lower your res temp by buying the car reflectors at Walmart, cutting them and taping them securely to the sides of your res. Lowered my temp by about 5 degrees! Don't fuck around with water bottles (you'll introduce more bad bacteria from your freezer, handling, etc and they only last like an hour).

i third this as well. i can't say enough about what silicates do for your plant.