Roots of the month?

[Surfer Joe]

I noticed that they have a bud of the month contest here, and was wondering if there was a roots of the month contest?

These are from a photoperiod plant grown in a 30L bubble bucket in about 25L of nute solution with a big airstone.
I was careful to keep any light out of the bucket and the nute solution temp between 18-22C and the Ph between 5.3-6.1.
The EC varied during the grow but was as high as 1.8 for several weeks during heaviest growth.
I changed the bucket once a week with fresh nutes.
I just use the Canna aqua nute range and follow its guide and add some calmag, silicon and superthrive vitamins, plus some extra pk13/14 in mid flower.
The plant drinks about 5L/day and I just refill it with ph 5.6 water each day until the next bucket change.
I keep track of the Ph and EC between each bucket change, but I don't mess with it and it stays in a normal range.
The roots smell fresh and had pretty much reached the limits of the bucket in size by about the 7th week.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

You Win
Congrats LOL

 

[gmo]

From a previous grow.

 

[WeedHopper]

What were y'alls solution temperatures?

 

[boo]

a whole lot different than soil...this is one of the starter cups...

 

[gmo]

@WeedHopper judging by the frozen Gatorade bottle that I can see on my picture, and knowing I took the picture last May, I'd have to say that I was already struggling with reservoir temperature. It was likely in the 66-71f range. When I set up my chiller this year I'm going to program it to keep the solution at 65f, +/-1f.

 

[Surfer Joe]

What were y'alls solution temperatures?

The bucket ranged from 18-21C on a daily basis
I can only do a hydro grow during winter because the Rez temp would get too high the rest of the year.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

a whole lot different than soil...this is one of the starter cups...View attachment 288674

Is that a root riot plug? It’s similar to what I just dropped my new seeds in… I’m hoping the root riot plugs I’m using look like that in a bit…

 

[WeedHopper]

Yeah. When I was growing in Florida it was a real pain in the ass having to use frozen water bottles trying to keep my DWC temps down. The warmer the water the less white the roots would be. I finally switched to soil.