A sealed room would also solve you heating issue. One of my favorite things about sealed rooms is outside temps have almost no effect on temps inside the room. Its ~12 deg outside right now, but my room is a toasty 80 degs. A/C hasn't even been on for a couple months. That's with 5-8 600's + 1200w of t-5 running at any given time.....
The other option i'd recommend is to add more light to increase your heat load and promote more growth while you're at it![]()
You mite wanna get in there a clean some of that over growth out Dave it can help with air flow and transpiration
I hear you, maybe try and tie some of it back then. sucker branches should be taken no mater what. If it don't have a nice sized crown on it get rid of it it is only going suck up food that could be given to bigger sites. Hope everything works out for you though Dave I am in your corner bud.
when growing trees you have to tie things up.
Double post. But that fan is still in the way.
Are you running an upper res alone or do you have it fed from a lower res with a pump circulating solution up to your upper res.
Not sure.. just tossing that out there.. Having a lower res keep the upper res full 100% of the time.. and via overflow back to your lower res works pretty nice.
Now I've heard someone mention that this isnt the case and water level in the upper res shouldnt be a concern as pressure should be the same as the exit point remains at the same height
PS - get yourself a green head lamp or light bulb and start doing your work during the dark period. Only takes a few millasecond of touchin' skin to an HID lamp and you'll regret it. Was dragging a watering hose/wand through my circles room a while back and the tubing got caught on simething pulling the back of my hand right into a lamp. Left me a pretty nasty melt welt that was a bit hard to explain to those inquiring "What the heck happened to your hand dude!..that looks pretty bad!"
Best of luck Dave. <- for some reason I like to say your name in my replies. lol.. doesnt happen with others posters.. just you Dave.
Hey Dave.....FF asked yas above which rez setup yas had , as in JUST an elevated rez , OR an elevated rez with auto top off from a lower rez with pump and an upper overflow to keep constant down pressure on the cones.....and.....
and.....it`s highly possible with the heat issues you`ve been dealin with , that the medium as FF stated above can be stealin more juice from the cones than they can supply from the rapid evaporation in the top levels of your containers cuz a proper coco mix dries out fast.....and....
Good luck with them big bitches , and hope Harvey`s good to yas.....
bullshit. basic physics says that more water at a higher level = more pressure. less water at a lower level = less water. Its why every water pump has a maximum height as well as a volume rating.
Also, have you found your sweet spot with maxibloom and coco yet?
After finding I had a high EC run-off I've been hand drenching to run-off daily with around 1.0 EC. Sometimes Maxibloom and Silicate. Other times Maxibloom and pH up only. My plants are still looking like shit. Not perky, lighter yellow, brown/rust spots. Purple leaf stems. Almost like I'm getting deficiencies now.. .but perhaps just not flushed down enough yet or still experiencing toxicity/lockout.
In my own experience, the runaways have all been user-error. That is, usually my drunk ass stumbling into the garden, figuring "HEY LEMME JUST DIAL IN THIS BLUMAT A LITTLE BIT IT'S KINDA DRY HERE LEMME JUST OPEN IT UP A SMIDGEN HEY LOOK IT DIDN'T FLOOD WHILE I'M STANDING HERE LOOKS GREAT"
Been there done that many times. It takes huge self control to not still do it now. But i dont (most of the time)