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  1. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Wrong thread, buddy. You're in over your head in here. I suggest you find someplace else to spread your propaganda. :-P
  2. Mike Young

    Building a HP Aeroponic Setup

    Holy shit, TF is back. Not sure if ya actually left, but cool to see ya around again man. I've been pretty involved in other stuff lately, but my pepper plant has finally started to develop some consistant fuzzy roots. I will get out there with a macro pic sometime soon to show em off.
  3. Mike Young

    Building a HP Aeroponic Setup

    Cool to have yet another jumping aboard the HP train. First, I'd ask how many plants are you looking to grow, and how big you want em? Both your PRV & regulator are brass. I'd try to find them in stainless, or plastic. A check valve before the PRV would be ok, but I'm not sure about the reg. The...
  4. Mike Young

    Reverse Osmosis

    Wow. 3 pages before someone brought that up? He's right. I have a well with a ton of iron in it, and use R/O because I have to. If I had city water, I'd let the chlorine evaporate after a couple of days & use it. Unless you're really trying to get a precise nute regiment down, then by all means...
  5. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    Yeah, that's what I figured. I made some changes yesterday, and appear to be on the right track. I didn't lose any of my fuzz, and no droplets hangin out on the roots, but as TB pointed out, the small bucket is proving to be difficult to get adequate coverage.
  6. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    The root mass is pretty small. I'm trying to conserve water, as I have to fill 5 gallon bottles at the store. Not my favorite thing to do, but I have so much iron in my well that I'd have to prefilter the shit out of it before even thinking about an R/O system.
  7. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    I'm starting jto get root hairs on my pepper plant, but not all over. Just a few patches here & there. There are large droplets on the roots. Are those supposed to be there? Is the idea to not have any large droplets form anywhere on the root system? It's been 1 week since I put the plant in...
  8. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    The tips don't thread on, exactly. Not being an engineer, it's hard for me to explain how they assemble, but they are consistant. When you get your system going, you should give one a try for the hell of it. See what ya think. What would the world do without math geniouses like atomizer? I'm...
  9. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    You missed the single mister in the bucket, vs the two in the bins:) One nozzle produced 180ml in 24 hrs at .5 on, 5 min off. Give or take a little as I was screwing with the mist time for 20 min or so. You're right about the mist not spreading the same as in the larger space. I decided on...
  10. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    I popped a tomato stem in some water this morning. I will ditch the bowl & use a 5 gallon bucket for the test. It's close to a 1/10 of the size of my big chamber, and a .5 sec in there would put me at about 2 secs in the big chambers, a figure I'm happy with. I timed how long it took my pump...
  11. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    That's pretty cool, indeed. Just the other day, I killed off an entire jar of salsa that a couple days prior was hot as shit to me. The 6 beers must've slowed my receptors:)
  12. Mike Young

    The Quest for a Better Aero!

    While I wait, I thought I'd take atomizer`s advice & get some practice in on a pepper plant. If anything, see if I'm capable of fuzzies. I tried with some unrooted cuttings a few days ago, just because I'm hardheaded & wanted to see if they'd root. They probably would've, but I was forced to run...
  13. Mike Young

    Found a Good Site for Aero Cycle Timers

    Lol. What ever happened to masonite? He use to drop those drip clean plugs in just about everywhere.
  14. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Ya know, that sounds like a good plan. See, we don't disagree on everything:)
  15. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Nice lookin fuzzies!
  16. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Since we're on the subject of nutes. What are y'all planning to use? I have some aquaflakes leftover, so I'll probably just use it again. I worked well last time. Other than that I only plan on using silica & cal/mag, but I've been considering leaving them out. I ran almost the entire grow...
  17. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    There is no need for reinforcing my tops. They are plenty strong. The styrofoam is dense, and the biscuit fits tight. I thought I covered this on the HP aero board on that stagnant R3 site??? Scrog net will be holding up most of the weight, but I think it would be fine even without the net. I...
  18. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Yes! This would be an fantastic way to go about it. Maybe have 2 55 gallon drums, one slightly higher concentrate than the other. Or better yet... When I was askin about nute controller earlier, I meant something that you could fill with concentrated nutes, and have it delivered electronically...
  19. Mike Young

    True HP Aero For 2011

    Do you have info on the PRV? I wasn't able to find a plastic one, and therefore am not using one. For now I plan to manually fill the tank every couple of days or so.
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