sammyz2646
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So if plants love air temps around 80 and plants love water temps around 68-71, which is more beneficial? Keep my room at 80 and deal with warmer water in res? Or lower temps in room to 70 and keep water cooler. I have been doing RDWC but it was not making me as happy as just doing hydro in rockwool. Seems like i could never keep that water temp just right. I have a great A/C setup and can lower room temp to 65 if desired. So i turned my RDWC into a res that has two pumps. See before, with the RDWC, the pump being on the entire time was creating too much heat and res temps were around 74. too warm! Now back to hydro and rockwool, just using the buckets as a res is working great. I have two pumps in each res. Both on timers. One waters for 1 min 4 times a day during light cycle and another circulates entire system ten minutes prior to each feeding. (This has really helped with res temp control. Helped but not solved. I just left all the airstones in res for extra DO. I have also been doing the ice bottle shuffle just to keep res temp below 70
So my question is, Which is more important? Keep air temp up to 80 for plant growth,or lower air temp to maintain lower res temps. Or just keep the room at 70 and res temps will be fine. Will lower room temps around 70 slow plant growth?
So my question is, Which is more important? Keep air temp up to 80 for plant growth,or lower air temp to maintain lower res temps. Or just keep the room at 70 and res temps will be fine. Will lower room temps around 70 slow plant growth?