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    ppms shooting through the roof

    i've attached a pic of the room. right now i pull air from inside my living room and send it out next to a window but then i'm always pulling in air that has been heated by being trapped in my house. maybe i need to send the air into the house and pull from the vent next to the window. i've got...
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    ppms shooting through the roof

    brand new hydrotron and i calibrate my Hanna meter all the time. one problem i'm having is heat. i'm in a closet and it averages 80+ degrees every day with temps in the 70s at night. i can't get an air conditioner because it's a closet so i'm using an air cooled hood with a 6" fan and another 6"...
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    pH drops 2 tenths and plants turn yellow

    no camera and when i try to use my phone the pics are too fuzzy. mG2
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    pH drops 2 tenths and plants turn yellow

    for some reason last week i decided a pH of 5.6 was the way to go and all of my plants quickly turned light yellow and any leaves remaining green were light colored as well. i put fresh 5.8 pH nutes in a few days ago and i'm still waiting to see some kind of change. these plants are all in some...
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    ppms shooting through the roof

    i'm still having the same issues. i've got 4 gallons in a 5 gallon bucket at 800 ppm and two days later my ppm has jumped to over 1000. also, my pH always jumps several points. i set it up at 5.8 and my pH ends up at 6.4 or higher. i'm using advanced nutrients so my pH should remain stable but...
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    crispy looking, soggy feeling leaves

    i had this in sick plants but it was suggested that it might be more appropriate in this forum... i'm trying to run a small ebb and flow perpetual system on a 3 week rotation cycle. i have 4, 3 week stations for flowering, one small veg box and a cloning room (covered shelf) all in a walk-in...
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    Ethylene and Female Dominance?

    i've got some OG seeds that will be spending two weeks with some bananas now! it doesn't sound like it could hurt them so why not? thanks for finding and posting this tip!
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    Humidity - How important is it really?

    budders, thanks for the heat heads up. heat has always been a big problem for me since i'm in a tiny space. i found some dehumidifiers that say they have no moving parts so i hope that will keep the heat issue at bay. pcduck- you're right about the electric costs. i remember i did some...
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    Humidity - How important is it really?

    i've got a small closet grow and i'm getting humidity levels up to 70 percent. it feels really dry in there but that what's the gauge says. i can't afford 200 bucks for a dehumidifier, especially when i might have to spring for an air conditioner if i can't keep my temps down (using co2 hoping...
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    Scrog trim job

    how do you go about doing this? do you just cut off the top of the branch below the flower? can i cut every small bud and just leave a few main ones, or is there a limit to the amount i can trim off? at what point should this be done? all at once or just as they grow in? thanks. mG2
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    flushing trays at res. changes

    oh, was i supposed to be using the flush chemicals instead of just plain water? i have flora kleen but i thought that was just for the final flush. my raison d'etre was to flush any salt build-up and excess nutes so that my new solution wouldn't be thrown off by old nutes and salts stuck to the...
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    flushing trays at res. changes

    i have a flood and drain set up and i'm currently flushing the same way i deliver nutes. that seems to take a lot of water (3 gallons X two flushes) so i was thinking if i could flush from above, that would just flush out the extra nutes from the top down and they wouldn't be able to resettle as...
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    flushing trays at res. changes

    i flush my trays with neutral water each res. change and currently i'm setting up a 5 gallon bucket of neutral water under the tray and pumping it through the tray. i'm doing this twice and i use 3 gallons each time - total of 6 - to do the entire flush. i need to cut back water usage so i was...
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    Drying Racks - your experience

    I'm considering converting an old grow box into an enclosed drying rack with screen shelves. it would have a carbon filter attached to a computer fan drawing air out. Air intakes are at the bottom of the cabinet. are there any drawbacks to the screen method? i don't have a lot of space but i'm...
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    ppms shooting through the roof

    i have an ebb and flow system with a tray containing 4 small plants. i had a ppm level of 1100, flushed the tray with 6.0/4ppm water for an hour and replaced the nutrient tank with fresh 957ppm solution. now i just checked the ppm after a week (been lazy) and the ppm level is 1758. how is this...
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    Rinsing off hydroton

    i just rinse what i need when i need it and i've been dumping my hydrotron into a five gallon bucket of RO water, mixing up the clay for a few minutes, and then using a pasta strainer to get them out. it seems to work well for my needs, but if anyone else has a trick for washing please share it...
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    Topping Off Resevoir while maintaining constant ppm level

    I've got small plants, so my reservoirs can be small. i'm doing a small scrog in a perpetual system. i'm going to be using 5 gallon buckets now for two reasons. one, the big res. tanks are heavy but, most importantly, i got a call from the water department yesterday and they wanted to know why i...
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    Topping Off Resevoir while maintaining constant ppm level

    I'm doing my first hydro grow and i set up my system with large reservoirs so that i could leave town and be assured my plants would be okay for two to three weeks max. while i was out of town. It's a pain to move around these big tanks (10 to 12 gallons so it may be relative) and this morning...
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    Nitrogen Deficiency in Flower

    here are a few picks. hard to see the browning leaves because my lights are so yellow but in the back against the wall there are a few of the darker ones. the buds are all small and spindly though. otherwise they seem okay. just seem a little light in the fruit department. these are from last...
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    10 Gallon DWC

    another vote for staying away from plastic spray paint. it doesn't stick to bins. as soon as they flex, the paint comes right off. Real78 is right, use tape and save yourself some money and hassle or you'll have flecks of paint everywhere, including in your nutes. i've got a ebb and flow set up...
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