Recent content by CWB

I've got 34 plants going, I expect to lse about 1/2 as males. They began germination on January 11. They are currently between 28" and 32" tall. I've got 10 White Widow, 10 White Lady, 10 AK48 and 4 AK 47. 2 AK47 males have been pulled. I set the light down to 12/12 because the AK47 was showing...

I'm an indoor guy. If you have a small grow, stay inside. The electric company is not going to alert the police over a $50 increase in your bill. I'd never go over 1500 watts inside, you're asking for trouble. If you have an unfinished basement or an out building that's secluded you're much...

My White Widow arrived today. Also got free AK47. A little over a week for both parts of the order to the SE U.S.

Got my seeds today. White Lady and AK48. Waiting for my White Widow. The Doc told me they were sent in two packages. I used a credit card. Ordered on Sunday evening and received them on the following Saturday. I'm in the SE US. While I will not go into details about their shipping method, I...

Hi; I am in the finishing stages of my hydro system and I'm ready to order seeds. I was going to start a thread asking about drchronic.com, but I may as well ask here. Are you ordering with your own personal credit card? Are you in the U.S.? Are you actually receiving seeds in 4 to 10...

Stoney; I did have one question about your system. Why are the grow tubs so large? I understand the 14" depth of course, but 18" x 24" seemed a little large. Does each tub contain more than one plant?

For the size of system you're talking about, I'd follow Stoney's system over in the DIY forum. Just add a T, a couple of valves and some garden hose in the line between the reservoir and the growing tubs if you want to pump outside. His system only requires changing the water/nutes in between crops.

An ebb and flow system can be designed with an outlet to pump out the water, A couple of PVC valves and some garden hose will work. If the outlet on the reservoir is low enough you will get almost all the water out. A shop vacuum can be used for any residual. I did this, the only problem was...

That's interesting. I've been reading about germinating in a wet paper towel, then transplanting to rockwool and then into the grow system. I assumed there must be some advantage to it. We used to just germinate in a Jiffy-Cube, then put the cube directly in the gravel when the seedling was...

Jiffy Cubes have been known to work. They are better for transpalnting into soil than hydro. You will be introducing a small amount of soil-like stuff into your system. If it's a large system with a big pump you probably won't have a problem. If it's a small system with a small pump, the...

Hi; I read your article about the DYI ebb and flow system. There was a device we used called an irrigation indexing valve.This allowed us to use a smaller reservoir. http://www.krain.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=indexingVlvs.4000series It switches to a new circuit every time the pump starts...

OK, the lights now must be more consistent than we had. The lower wattage MH lights were visibly more blue than the higher wattage. I was told that this was because they were more efficient. It would make sense that this problem has been fixed. Thanks;

Hi; I'm new here. I'm starting an ebb and flow hydro system. I did this about 25 years ago with very good results. I've always used metal halide lights. Way back when, using anything else was considered a waste of time. Now I see a lot of references to HPS lights. (high pressure sodium?)...

Hi; I'm just about to start a new ebb and flow hydro project. I did one about 25 years ago that worked well. After reading some posts here I can see that the basics are still the same but there have been a few improvements over the years.