nfhu88
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i flush and refill the tank every week due to the water level being low in the waterfarm. the plant seems to drink a lot of water at this point. so i kinda have to flush and rewater everyweek.
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nfhu88
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im lovin ur set up! that how i pictured mine to be. im still workin on it!
HydroChron
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when you flush and change the res nfhu88, do you just pour the solution right into the medium to fill the bottom?
nfhu88
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when the water level gets low on the water farm, i dump the remaining water. the water farm has two seperate reservoirs, one for water and the other for the medium/plant. so when i refill the res i take the top res off, leaving me an open water reservoir, and refill and mix my nutes that way.
i wonder if it would make a difference if i just poured the water through the medium.
nfhu88
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nice! better than i though it would be
bongrippinbob
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It would be much better to put your nutes through the medium when changing them. Also, letting it run with a product like Flora Kleen for an hour or two every other week would help with all that build up.
If you add fresh water to your res as the plant uses it, add it through the medium as well. Doing this will also help with the build up.
You say you dump the water when it gets low? Don't you end up having to change the nutes like every day? That would seem like a hassle. I use the add back rule. I put 2 1/2 gal worth of nutes in my water farm, and once I have added 2 1/2 gallons to bucket of plain water, I change my nutes. Usually about every week or 10 days.
If you add fresh water to your res as the plant uses it, add it through the medium as well. Doing this will also help with the build up.
You say you dump the water when it gets low? Don't you end up having to change the nutes like every day? That would seem like a hassle. I use the add back rule. I put 2 1/2 gal worth of nutes in my water farm, and once I have added 2 1/2 gallons to bucket of plain water, I change my nutes. Usually about every week or 10 days.
bongrippinbob
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I bet the plant grown under the MH will be stonier and taste better, but the HPS will yeild more.
HydroChron
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you should get another bucket and cut a drain hole in the bottom and run a hose to your water farm hose and just lift it about the water level and let it drain from one bcket to the other. When you get into you 11th week or so the roots are gonna become to large to pull the medium res out to check and add water. If you continue to do it this way you are going to damage your root system. making a seperate res is so easy and can be done for less then $10 at hardware store. I would still flush with flora clean through the medium just not everytime that you add or change nutes because eventually when the roots get large it will take longer and longer from the water to drain down through the holes in the bottom of the medium res because the roots are gonna black them.
zeke907
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Thanks bruh! Those are the ones I just harvested about 3 wks ago. Those pics were probably somewhere between 5-7 wks flower. I cant remember exactly, I have so many pics of my babies. lol. I had my light about the same distance as you did, also have fan constantly blowing between canopy, and light.
zeke907
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HydroChron is all the way right, and correct on this one. I can't quite remember who did it, but someone on this site has done the same thing with his water farm. From what I got it was kinda like an overflow to make changin his water very easy in his cramped space. He did it just as Hydro has stated. Had to come back and edit the post, the user who modified his water farm goes by the name d0z3r, he made some sick mods to his waterfarm to perfect it. Go check it out. Peace.
mane2008
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u already know i said ya shit hard.. but i gotta say it again, looks like it's snowing bra.
MisterMicro
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yeah zeke, thats nuts, what strain??
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MisterMicro
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oh. For reall? no one will have a fucking clue..???
HydroChron
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Another thing tht should be done to the waterfarm it there should be something wrapped around it to block 100% of light because if you look closly at the basic top feed waterfarm system you can see light prenetrating the plastic on the indside
nfhu88
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thanks zeke for the info and thank you hydrochron. i might have to mod mine up now.