Grow 1

Gotta be honest - I was starting to get worried. Thankfully everyone, including scragglers took off in the past 48 hours. Filling out leaves without adding tremendous height - that's great because they were stretching initially. Had some light burn on a single robust Magnum and moved one LED light which was slightly closer to that side and plant. Overall, just getting comfortable with monitors, controller, troubleshooting and tweaking as I find things. Equipment: Shout-out to Link4 iPonic 614 - This controller is incredible! What I didn't anticipate was just how beneficial the monitoring and data graphs would be. Allows you to see trends and adjust for the future by evaluating the past. Spendy but worth it. Kind LEDs are ridiculous and the preset phases kick it! I bought some additional cross poles, not to counter the vent fan but to have extra placed to hang stuff and prep for drying in the future (I'm an optimist!) Everything else is working perfectly and I can't imagine a hydroponic grow like this without it all. Bluelab Guardian for EC, water temp and pH is key for the reservoir. Finally received a replacement part for the Hydrologic Stelth RO system so that will be in use for a partial reservoir water change later in the week. Equipment I'm still waiting on are the inline Torus Perfect pH unit, and the final big toy purchase, a 12-Spider electrolysis O2 unit by O2Grow....can't wait and I'll include pics soon. Only problems are primarily with bubbleflow buckets - These things a a pain in the arse! Returns aren't flowing as well as they should so I had to grit my teeth and poked holes through the tent to better align and level the return tubes. Then the dripping coming from the lid edges have accumulated into a lake on the floor - I ended up closing the ball valve from the water pump tube just to slow the flow a little and give the returns time to empty and not over-flood the buckets. I even adjusted the air pump flow to the air-stones because the agitation was lending to the high bucket water volume and to the dripping from under the lid edges. On this note-I'm kinda pissed off at SuperCloset after trying to contact them multiple times and in various ways over the past 2-3 weeks with absolutely no reply until today when someone finally left me a message and asked me to call them back. I'll let you know what they say. So here we are. On our way into the grow and looking forward to the weeks to come