Super Cali Haze grow diary (journal) week1 by Jay_Gardener

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@Jay_Gardener, Ah, thanks for getting back at all. Those are the same brand nozzles I have, FYI they work better than the Drip Depot variety (a little large on the droplet size). Good to know about the pH perfect, the pH drift has been my biggest issue with GHE Flora series. As for the run-off, I have very little of it once good size roots are established. I made the opposite decision though, running a ~15 gal reservoir I figured it wouldn't impact it much to recirculate the small amount. I use my waste reservoir to collect dehumidifier water now, it reads <20 PPM so I use it for topping off and building nutes. Agreed on the adjustment game, just wish I could make adjustments on the fly. The Arduino has to be physically connected to my desktop to change timing-- it's a mild inconvenience.

Psilocubensiscommentedweek 15 years ago

Great diary! I do believe in self learning without any major learning process beside internet reading! I wish you a great grow!! I just didn't understood a thing, what is the role of the solenoid? It will close the water passage and keep the line pressurized? The water that you spray is going to where? I would love to see more pictures of the grow! Have a Shroom !1!!11!!!111 🙌

Jay_Gardenercommented5 years ago

@Psilocubensis, trying my best to minimize waste, hopefully there wont be much runoff. it might get used to feed the photos.

Psilocubensiscommented5 years ago

@Jay_Gardener, Such a perfectionism, nice! I mean, at the totes, after the water irrigate the roots and go to the bottom, to where it goes? It's clean water with nutes, will you use it again? "Waste" is a term that seem so wrong nowadays...

Jay_Gardenercommented5 years ago

@Psilocubensis, Thanks for checking out my grow. The Solenoid is normally closed, when the pump turn on, it opens, and when the pump turns off it closes. There will still be a slight delay in hitting full pressure for the misting (90psi), but once the pump cycles off the solenoid shuts and only the pressure between the solenoid and nozzle will have to drain. This has reduced low pressure/dripping from about 5-7 seconds to 1-2 seconds. The Water is misted into the 64L tote where the two plants will have their roots supported in net cups. the fine mist should deliver nutrients effectively and allow for maximum oxygen.

DeadwebsiteBoringcommunitycommentedweek 95 years ago

MadeInGermany has a love affair with EC.. I don't care about it at all unless I see problems and I avoid going "thick" or high EC. I'd love to pick your brain a little and get an idea of your system. My rigs are all hand made so I'm 4 mist outlets and timer away from an Aeroponic system and gonna follow along and she how she grows for you.

DeadwebsiteBoringcommunitycommented5 years ago

@Jay_Gardener,I started with Diy that had 3-4 different plants in them and it's almost impossible to balance them all. That's why you see five gallon buckets in big tent now. Seemed to be the easiest/cheapest way to make em all self contained. Just cheap aquarium water pumps to recirculate and a heavy duty air pump running 24 hours. Then I started to add supplements from Advanced Nutrients and let me tell you dude do not use their supplements it's terrible how are you suppose to balance feed with all the stuff they pump into it... Anyway I'm learning every day as well, there is a lot of information out there and many different approaches. Hoping it all turns out great for you.

Jay_Gardenercommented5 years ago

@DeadwebsiteBoringcommunity, Mine is all home made too. Trying to piece together information from a lot of different sources. The Super Cali Haze has seemed to be pretty sensitive to nutrients (particularly nitrogen) which sin't ideal seeing as she's sharing a tote with two younger, and hungrier AK47 x Critical Mass autos... makes threading the needle difficult. That said, I feel like I'm starting to learn more every day.

ThatsMyPursecommentedweek 15 years ago

Week 1 looks great! Curious about a couple things: What nozzles are those? How is that pH Perfect working? Is it completely dissolved and smooth? Looking at trying diff nutrients next grow. In my aero, I decided to recirculate halfway through my first grow. I felt I was wasting a lot of my reservoir because the the small roots of newly veg'ing plants did not catch and absorb much. I reasoned that the runoff was largely untouched nutrient solution and started to recirculate in early veg. In later veg to flower, my root systems were much larger, and I had very little runoff.. I decided to just recirculate that and re-purposed the container for dehumidifier runoff. This is my experience and decisions, just sharing with you. Always excited to see more aeroponics!

ThatsMyPursecommented5 years ago

Jay_Gardenercommented5 years ago

@ThatsMyPurse, Hey there, sorry I didn't see this before. I'm running TEFEN nozzles. They seem to be working for me now. I had lots of struggles figuring out the nutrient mix and cycle timing, but finally seem to have gotten it figured out. The pH perfect seems to work nicely, there's very little drift once you get your target pH reached. I was actually recirculating early on, but had some issues with a combination of burning an deficiencies (weird, I know) which encouraged me to switch to DTW. I've done that and haven't looked back. plus now that I've got the timing pretty well dialed in there's actually very little run off. right now I'm getting about 1L every 36-48 hours. When it starts getting much lower than that I basically just reduce the off interval to make sure my girls have plenty to drink. It's certainly an interesting game!

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MadeInGermanycommentedweek 95 years ago

Is your ec really at 0.5 all the time? 😳

Jay_Gardenercommented5 years ago

@MadeInGermany, My EC levels have ranged from 0.5 to 0.9 depending on when in the grow you're talking. My PPM's have been a low of 200, and a high of 460. I know EC depends on how it's calculated, but i don't think that ppm does. So I kind of prefer to use that. What levels do you run?

1st Aeroponics (HPA) Super Cali Haze