budnet aeroponics

#10/20 Beginning of 2nd week and looking good overall. Left side is a regrow experiment and the smaller plant is a clone from ak47 last grow / right side is new green crack seedlings with 7 days from original propagation. 1 plant from each strain will be going into new tent and become perpetual "mothers" and kept in vegetative for future cloning and growing using a standard low pressure aerponics setup. This will allow a SOG or Srog grow in future by pulling clones from the mother plants. Roots are looking perfect; the aeroponics creates a fuzzy root with lots of tendrils when compared to low pressure or standard hydro. -Dropped TDS down to 400ppm, nutrient burn on tips and dark leaves solved. Will keep at 400 for week. Water is at 70ppm from tap; so technically 330ppm of added nutes. -PH dropped to 6.0 instead of 6.5 with PHdown; gives a bit more buffer on upper limit. -Cycle time dropped to 5s-on/5m-off; roots had larger droplets due to over-spraying. -Added a pro-co2 bucket to the tent. Made a minor difference on co2 levels, from 400 to 500-600 average. In week 3; will be adding a second LED light. Supposedly they are 3000watt/2000watt from FAMURS; I would say they are closer to 800w equivalents. They pull about 500-600w from outlet and are super sensitive to height / distance from plant. Bright side is the heat generation is extremely low; only about 10-15 degree difference in air temperature 2 inches down from light. Notes on setup: FAMURS 3000W LED, has built in time controls for light cycle mistking pump, mistking repeat cycle timer 50 micron nozzles; 1 tank using mistking super expensive nozzles / 2nd tank using 50 micron "cheapies" from amazon. Hydronix ISF-10 Inline sediment filter; keep the nozzles from clogging from root droppings. #Update 10/23###################################################################### PH 6.1 PPM 445 CO2 600 Temp 72F Root production is looking great, plants are very healthy (updated pics). Amazing how a couple days and you can see a notable difference with aeroponics. Seeing ppm levels go up slightly as water shrinks in res; 445ppm from 400. Will keep at 400ppm on next fill up unless i see this number start to trend in negative. 2nd LED added to tent; slight temperature spike to 72 degrees from 65; will monitor. This actually might work perfect for flowering; as when the LEDs are off i get a 10 degree swing back to 65. Tried sugar and yeast to get CO2 level to spike; raised by a whole 50ppm. Might just give in and buy a CO2 bottle or propane burner setup.