Gelato - Hydro First Grow

7-23: I don't know how much I'm losing to evaporation. A week or so ago been adding about 1/2 gallon of water a day to the reservoir and here last few days been adding a couple gallons a day. Makes me think these girls are thirsty! Gave them Great White this time, in others to come I'll probably only give this twice in their life; at the beginning of week 2 and week 6. Being we are not growing in a tent, yet rather a grow room we are restricted more on width than height. Originally we set this room up to grow 12 girls... At that time we were growing in soil and seemed very reasonable. Changing our autoflowers from soil to hydro made fast and important changes. Now looking at the size of these 4 gelatos... hard to imagine 12 plants in this room that size. Either in the future we will need consider how many we are growing in what stage or expand. 7-26: Noticed earlier this week, I have roots growing into the sight tube (which is why I don't lift them very high to look at the roots). Think in the near future I'll probably change some of my lines to colored tubing, especially the feed lines to slow any algae growth and also the first 6 inches of drain line where I can see roots. My little boy found a Praying Mantis outside and he got relocated to our indoor garden. Learned earlier this week General Hydroponics makes a Flora Micro for hard water, I seriously need to research that. In these parts well water is extremely hard. I don't know if there is any hydroponic growers out there that have to deal with hard water... if so please send a comment about it. 7-28 Ran in an interesting problem today, G1 overflowed 😟. Roots have grown so massively there's no where else for them to go other than into the drain tube. Upon checking all were similar. So had to clear the drain tubes, split the system into 2, to where there's just 2 buckets per reservoir. Shorten drain tubes for less restriction and slowed the flow a bit. Gently try to make a hole in the root cylinder by the drain. The first picture of the roots above is on the 22nd and the next is 6 days later on the 28th. Fortunately they don't have long to go. G1 n G2 measures 25.5" , G3 is 15" and G4 is 29".