Bummin pretty hard.....

So.....just lost 3 plants out of 4 in my bubble buckets Im posting this to just vent my frustrations as this is my first DWC grow and I have FAILED!!

Heres the story behind what I think happened, and I'm pretty sure they died due to heat. They looked fantastic for the first 3 weeks of flowering using GH flora series with Microbe Life Fruit and Vegetable yield enhancer. Im pretty sure it was the Microbe life was keeping my plants alive. My reasoning behind this is the temp outside started hitting the high 90's, I don't have A/C, and I couldn't keep the water temp below 80 but the plants were doing just fine. I have been using just an OZ of the Microbe life per bucket and I think the bacteria in the ML was acting as a buffer for the heat. So everything was going great until I ran low on the ML. I went down to my local hydro shop to order more, but after a week of waiting I called to complain and found out it was on back order.

Then I ran out of the Microbe Life.....so I had to watch them slowly die over the last week trying to figure out what to do....I have tried everything I could with my budget (im a broke ass). So over the last week I have been trying everything to lower the water temp down, frozen water bottles every hour on the hour, switched the lights to run at night so its cooler and i even put my air pump for the buckets in the freezer of my mini fridge with the lines running to the buckets. The microbe life just showed up this morning from my order but its way to late.....

I am planning on switching to a Rdwc next go around, do any of you who took time to read recommend any water chillers? maybe one that will do the job for a 4 bucket system and not cost an arm and a leg because I will have to start saving some cash... I would ask my local guys at the hydro shop, but they have been ripping people off lately and its the only shop in town....any commets, thoughts, or suggestions are welcome...

Pop bottles of ice in the water help. Can't help with the rest.

Best of luck next time.

A chiller is in my opinion a must have for doing this right. A chiller will put off heat, so you want to locate it outside your room or have really good ventilation and/or AC. Also the bigger the chiller, the more efficiently it will cool your water. However if you can keep your room temps around 72 you probably don't need a chiller.

Next time you are in a situation like that get some pond-zyme from petco or petsmart.

I was using hygrozyme (or how ever you spell it) but the temps of the water hit 88F and plants started falling over....I finnaly got the microbe life in the last plant that i have alive and it is doing GREAT now. I will invest in a chiller.

My suggestion, Don't grow indoors in the summer. I never do, that is my time off and enjoy the summer and smoke. You can't battle heat, too hard, very easy to combat the cold.

you can battle heat.igloo coolers will give you the edge..