For All Cap Ebb and Grow Users

Optimum nutrient uptake with 70 degree sausa water. They like their warm bath first thing in the morning Minimizes stress. My garage floor keeps my res at 60 and I use the heater to keep it at 70. I haven't heard any complaints!

I've got a heater as well though I'm not too sure how I'm going to fill up the tank I was thinking mabey a hose out of the sink then I could fill it my self? I checked my water out of the tap and it's at 200 pmm. Is that bad?

200 ppm is what I meant

200 is not bad at all. I would probably use it. Mine comes out at 450ppm. If you use tap water you should let it stand for 24 hrs before watering. The Clorine will evaporate by then.

for the guy who wants to try dyno-gro, i have never flowered with but, but to me it is the best chem fert i have tried hands down, very cheap and a little goes a long way, not as salty like GH and BC stuff, very easy and perfectly balanced stuff, also if you want to get extra micro's in your mix you guys can try botanicares hydroplex, its a bloom booster 0-6-10 with all the micros that PBP doesnt have, i believe it a must with the PBP line, but i use PBP/calmag/fox farms powders for micros

I LOVE THIS THREAD! i'm a E&G user as well and I'm 19 days into flower.
GreenThumbSucker your journal inspired me and has been a great guide for me! most of my friends are on another site so my journal is over there

Xceptional's #5's Grow Journal

• i'm running 12 buckets
• 1k in a magnum xxxl hood, one more 1k in a magnum is on order and adding next week.
• 10 x 10 room
• Lucas Flora formula kinda (1 - 2 ratio Micro to Bloom added daily to reach the desired ppm)
• 35% food grade h2o2 was added every day at 1 ts per day through veg but i haven't been adding it as much in flower every 3-4 days.

no real issues besides a power outage for 10 hours because i pushed my circuit to the limit with a 400w mh in my mom/veg tent.

i would NOT raise my buckets. i think that bottom 1-2" in the buckets is a life saver in a power outage and i don't see what it could hurt. most of the roots are out of the water anywyas so they are getting more then enough air.

i do NOT run a bubbler in my res or buckets. i'm adding a 305gph pump to my res that i'll just be dropping in there and leaving on to circulate the res. i would add a bubbler but House Garden says to not airaite the res and i plan on running Aqua Flakes the next cycle.

two weeks before the flush i'm adding 1 sachet of shooting powder to my res to see what it does!

a tip a $4 paint mixer attachment on a power drill works wonders for mixing the res to check the ph or ppm afer adding nutes/ph adjustment.

a aquarium floating thermometer is a great addition to the res. just let it float in the res and grab it out to check the temp. just don't be a retard and forget to remove the glass thermometer from the rest before using the paint mixer and shatter it in your res like i did once lol.

here is some porn from the last week.....

anyone found a affordable hose that doesn't kink to replace this hose with? when growing 40"+ plants it's hard to see the hoses on some of them lol. i'm medical so i only run a limited number of plants which is why i grow them so big.

The hydro store sold me 100ft of hose for $30. I'm 9 days into flower (no bud porn just yet). Welcome to RIU.

I just bought a paint mixer friday and I haven't used it yet. Good tip.

smokingrubber said:

The hydro store sold me 100ft of hose for $30. I'm 9 days into flower (no bud porn just yet). Welcome to RIU.

I just bought a paint mixer friday and I haven't used it yet. Good tip.

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Thanks Smokingrubber. i've had a account for a while and lurked for a very long time but hey I'll start hanging out here some more from now on!

i was able to get more hose from the hydro store as well but I'm looking for the kind of hose that has reinforcement designed into the hose that prevents it from kinking. kind of like those white plastic things CAP throws in with the system but infused into the hose and on all of it not just for the res lines.

Oh, well it's just 1/2" hose available at any hardware store. They have the white ribbed kind in the back on rolls. Probably not $30 for 100ft though. If it's kinking, cut it and install a 90 right there.

smokingrubber said:

The hydro store sold me 100ft of hose for $30. I'm 9 days into flower (no bud porn just yet). Welcome to RIU.

I just bought a paint mixer friday and I haven't used it yet. Good tip.

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I currently mix my nutrients in a 32 gallon trash barrel. I throw a small water pump in the bottom which mixes it up pretty fast and I leave it running for the time the solution is in there, sometimes a couple of days. I can easily pump it out into buckets for watering too (irrelevant in ebb and grow, I know )

smokingrubber said:

Oh, well it's just 1/2" hose available at any hardware store. They have the white ribbed kind in the back on rolls. Probably not $30 for 100ft though. If it's kinking, cut it and install a 90 right there.

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nice i didn't know they had kink free hose in the hardware store. I'm going to stop by and take a look at it i think i may upgrade to it at some point because i really like the idea of moving my pots around all the time fitting my plants together like a puzzle.

While you are at the hardware store, grab a few hand-fulls of 1/2" end plugs while you are there. They come in real handy for capping ends of lines when moving things around.

do you guys ever have problems with leaks at the point where the connector enters the bucket? It seems i have 2 maybe 3 pots that leak just a few drops a minute every time it floods. after a couple weeks it stops due to sediment buildup, but then when i flush and run threw some floraclean it will start dripping again. anyone use hose clamps on all the fitting?

I hope didn't miss this answer earlier in the thread, but what have you all been doing in the E&G system when starting from seeds? I am about to start some Northern Lights and White Rhino from seeds. Any tips for me? Thanks!

i just hooked up my ebb and grow for the first time and i cant seem to get the buckets to drain back into the resivor, the pump sounds like it is running fine i even switched the pump from the resivor to the control bucket to see if it was the pump but that still would not work, any suggestions or thoughts, please help

i had the same problem. The first time that you run it, you have to prime the pump. I did it by sucking some water through the return hose with my mouth. Once i did that it, got some water in the line and turned on the pump, it worked just fine.

rileythereputics said:

i had the same problem. The first time that you run it, you have to prime the pump. I did it by sucking some water through the return hose with my mouth. Once i did that it, got some water in the line and turned on the pump, it worked just fine.

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i actually tried to pull water through by sucking on it to, i got a mouth full but the pump wouldnt do anything after, any other ideas?

please help! i can not get my CAP ebband grow to drain back into the resivor, any ideas

Is there a kink in the hose? Is the pump suctioned to the wall and face down in the water? I assume your sure it's plugged into the correct socket and all of the float valves work. You can test the pumps by fiddling with the floats.

You're sure the pump works? Try it in your kitchen sink and test it's height limits. Make sure it has enough oomph to get water up a hose 4ft high.