First aeroponic grow - Aeroflo60 - 7 Strains - Grow Journal

Xan4ng3l

Member
Greetings everyone! I'm starting this journal a little late, on the 3rd day of flowering cycle to be precise. Anyway, I would love all of your input on my op and any advice/criticism is completely welcome! These are my following strains, (all from seed.)

Ak47- Joey Seed
White Widow Max- Joey seed
Blueberry - Joey seed
ICE- Sensi seeds
NY Diesel- Soma's Sacred Seeds
Island Super Skunk- Bagseed from Dispensary
Frisian Dew- Dutch Passion
Random Seeds- Random Bagseed, I think its Skunk #1


I prepared all these seeds by germinating them in papertowels before planting them in Rockwool cubes. Once the roots penetrated the cubes multiple times I transplanted them into my AeroFlo 60. Here they are



I ran them in the 18/6 veg cycle for about 9 days under 2 blue spec MH 600w lights on the outsides and 1 red spec Hortilux HPS in the center. Here they are after about 6 days since they were transplanted.




After 9 days I decided it was about time to throw them into 12/12 flowering. I changed out the MH lights with HPS and changed out the HPS with a MH so am now running 2 600w hps on the outsides and 1 600w MH in the center.

Here they are after about 3 days of flowering.






Everything seems to be going pretty smoothly, all of my 40 plants seem to be doing well except for 3.

2 of my plants grew these brown spots on some of the bottom leaves and arent growing nearly as fast as the others, I may just have to toss them. I pruned off the leaves that seemed to be doing poorly however they seem to keep getting these dang spots, both plants have had this problem since I put them in the system and none of my other 37 plants have this issue. I'll probably just toss them since I don't know whats wrong, the other plants seem to love their home.


On another note, I am primarily concerned about one of my plants in particular. This plant seems to be growing pretty well except for that all the leaves on it are curling into themselves like crazy! I don't get what's goin on, maybe after looking at this picture below, one of you may be able to tell me whats wrong.



On another note, I will be keeping this journal fairly updated as things progress, and I would love to get some input from you all. Anywho, I will conclude this post with my following nutrients and such.

Flora Gro - 1.5ml per litre
Flora Micro - 1ml per litre
Flora Bloom - .5ml per litre
Hygrozyme - 2ml per litre
Sweet Berry - 2.5ml per litre

PH level - Constantly 5.8

2 Circulating fans

C02 Regulator pumpin' out every half hour for 15 min.

OH yeah, I forgot to mention that I am a licensed caregiver in Boulder Colorado and that everything I am doing here is completely legal. In fact I have all my patients posted up on my wall right next to my babies
:bigjoint:

 

sscr250

Active Member
bump..... can you give more details on your rooms conditions such as humidity, temp, water temp, and ppm,ect... i mite be able to help but need ALL the details btw looking great and those empty spots in your troths need to be coverd and light proof or your going to grow nasty crap in your water dont let light reach your rez water at all good luck
 

Xan4ng3l

Member
bump..... can you give more details on your rooms conditions such as humidity, temp, water temp, and ppm,ect... i mite be able to help but need ALL the details btw looking great and those empty spots in your troths need to be coverd and light proof or your going to grow nasty crap in your water dont let light reach your rez water at all good luck
Sweet man, I actually haven't gotten a temp/humidity gauge yet but I will probably be getting that tomorrow so I'll let you know. I actually have a couple questions about what you're asking for though, again this is my first all-out grow and I honestly don't know what you mean by PPM, I know it means part per million but I don't exactly understand what you mean in terms of my set up.

I keep all the empty holes covered with saran wrap to keep gunk from falling into the reservoir but that's a good point about the light reaching the res water,, I'm definitely going to have to fix that pretty soon here.

On another note, today i was able to spot out a couple of my first female preflowers! woo! but on the other hand I also was able to spot out my first male plant.

I decided to make an example of this plant to the rest of my 'to be decided' plants and well....




Pretty damn good salad I must say, the peppercorn ranch dressing definitely went well nicely.. however I think next time a vinaigrette will be in order.

Anyway, thanks for the input, I will definitely let you know more about my environment as soon as possible. And if you could tell me what ppm means and what i should be doing with it that would be awesome! thanks!
 

sscr250

Active Member
ppm is parts per million it a way of measuring the strenght of your nutreient soultion most hydro systems tolorate a high ppm like sometimes in the 1000s but i have found that my strain will only tolorate about 700 ppm in the areoflo using gh 3 part nutes same as you .. so you need to monitor your nutreiant soulutions strength as much as you do ph they are equaly important to your plants and for your empty spots use round plastic dixi cups and put a lil hydroton in them to weigh them down and also prevents light from getting in and it is cheep...IF LIGHT IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOUR WATER YOU WILL GROW PITHIUM YOU MUST COVER THAT PITHIUM IS A BITCH BTW I LOVE HOW YA DELT WITH THE MALE ... you are doing a great job keep it up....and do you run your water pump 24/7 or have it on a timer???
keep it up,
rip it,
ss
 

naturalhigh

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haa thats funny..did you really eat it..what you could do is i would talke a clone or two from each plant...so oyou can have a mother in the future..then flower off one of the clones to see if its male or female then save the other one for more clones in the future..have some great beans..would be a waste to let them go like that..
 

Xan4ng3l

Member
Word, thanks for the tips! Ok so my ppm is runnin at around 600 and I I'm cutting my babies supply of Nitrogen cause I'm starting to believe thats the reason for the darkening and curling of the leaves.

Yeah I'm running my water pump 24/7 at the moment, do you think I should get some airstones or a water chiller for the rez?

And yeah, I really did eat it.. I didn't wanna just throw it away! :P But anyway I'll throw you guys some pics this weekened they're lookin really nice.

Out of 40 plants so far I got 22 Females 7 males and 11 to be decided, so hopefully I'll reach my goal of 30 total!

Oh and I didn't prune my plants at all... Will this come back to kick me in the ass?

Plus I just started adding 1ml per gal of humboldts own Bushmaster to see how my plants like it.

 

Xan4ng3l

Member
Oh yeah! Thanks for the advise about the light hitting the rez water, I didn't even think about that being a problem but defs. Luckfully my local hydro store FINALLY got some 3" caps for it but only 20 so ill probably try that dixie cup idea for the other 10
 

sscr250

Active Member
if your water temp is over 74-75f you should run a chiller in my aero i have to run a chiller because if not the water will get over 80f and pruning is nice but it will not fuck you if you didnt... i have run the areo pump 24/7 with no problems however i now run a sentinal drt-1 recycleing timer at 1 min on and 5 off for mature plants and 1 on 10 off for babys or clones with exelent results deff noticeable healthyer roots and faser growth not sure if it will effect my yeaild or not.... btw where do you have your drain tubes at or how much water is in each troth?... i run mine at about 2 inches of water per troth for the first week or untill they start to take off then droping the levels down as far as they will go you should do this esp. if running the pump const. cant wait for pics man
RIP IT,
SS
 

sscr250

Active Member
and you dont need airstones in the rez just drop your drain tubes all the way down and if i may suggest you should use h2o2 peroxide 35 percent and follow directions
 

naturalhigh

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boulder? hm.. didnt even catch up on that..im actually thinking of moving out there in the next 6 months or soo...a good buddy of mine just opened a dispenserary in denver.. but with only 8 patients arent you only able to grow 3 plants in flowering in 3 plants vegging...soo that about 24 plants or soo...do they really catch up on or keep track of legal cargivers? can they come and inspect your grow?
 

BizarroOH!

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hey xan,
I also use the aeroflo system and have had great success. If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them. And I live in colorado too!! what I do if i am not using one of the sites, i put a empty net pot full of hydroton, and a sunleaf on top. general hydroponics makes 3'' site plugs that are black, and perfect for plugging up unused sites. boulder hydro, and way to grow dont sell them so you may have to order them online. I think GH sells them on their site.. Subscribed!!
 

BizarroOH!

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dont use sweet with this kind of system, your spray lines will be clogged in no time at all.. it happened to me and I would like to save you the frustration..
 

OIO

Member
dont use sweet with this kind of system, your spray lines will be clogged in no time at all.. it happened to me and I would like to save you the frustration..
Thanks for this little tidbit! I do use sweet in my ebb & flo and did not think it would be a problem, in the AeroFlo2 60.
 

LionHeart

Member
and you dont need airstones in the rez just drop your drain tubes all the way down and if i may suggest you should use h2o2 peroxide 35 percent and follow directions

Hey I am using this system too can you explain the peroxide and when we should use this?
 

aerodoit

Member
i have an aero60 and i messes up trying to go without a chiller, then I had algae. I took it completly apart and cleaned and got a chiller. The beeing a dumbass I had a airstone in my res and just had the hose ran through the inspection port which made my lid not close all the way and algae again from the light. This time I was about 3 weeks into flower and could not take everything apart like the first time. Flush, h202, flus,h h202, flush, h202 and I think I almost have it under control again. So anyways I second and third the light issue, It almost cost me all 60 of my babies. Does anyone else with an aeroflo 60 use DM nutes? I am curious about your PPM, it seems the formula on thier site is too strong. And also has anyone else had a problem with Zone making froth in the res?
 

growinman

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What ever happend to Xan4ng3l?? I hope all is well and it would be cool if you come back with an update.......should have harvested by now, eh.....

gman
 
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