Hairy's 1st AeroGarden grow!

try goin to your local petstore and ask them if they have any? a pet store shurly should have ph meters and the most acurate,but expensive meters,bc they need them for the fish and tropic fish and salt water,that shit has to be perfect to keep the fish alive

wackymack said:

try goin to your local petstore and ask them if they have any? a pet store shurly should have ph meters and the most acurate,but expensive meters,bc they need them for the fish and tropic fish and salt water,that shit has to be perfect to keep the fish alive

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I got both test kits at a fish store. The 2 liquid pH test kits I have one is for fresh water fish and the other is for both.

The pH meter i got is supposed to be a good one.....Purpdaddy said he had one like it. Maybe it's batteries but i just got it and I dont know. Directions didnt mention this problem.
Thanks for helping. I'm at the end of my fucking rope on this one.

the water drip ones are the most acurate,its using your senses and forcing your eyes to determine and acurrate color and its already figured out to what color is what ph. its easy acurate and no batteries. it will require you to wait alittle and to get your reading but it really is the most acurate.

plus electronic meters are often in acurate and you have to adjust and calibrate them.

stick to the basics. keep it easy and simple and you will have the most acurate measurement that you can believe is correct.

boom babey,win freakin win,u can rest now,i just gave you the real answer.

my ph in my AG is about 6.5 is that good and if thats to high how do i lower it i dont have any Ph up solution ?????

wackymack said:

the water drip ones are the most acurate,its using your senses and forcing your eyes to determine and acurrate color and its already figured out to what color is what ph. its easy acurate and no batteries. it will require you to wait alittle and to get your reading but it really is the most acurate.

plus electronic meters are often in acurate and you have to adjust and calibrate them.

stick to the basics. keep it easy and simple and you will have the most acurate measurement that you can believe is correct.

boom babey,win freakin win,u can rest now,i just gave you the real answer.

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I'm pretty good at matching colours. I'm just frustrated my new pH tester is faulty. I'm gonna get one that works.....eventually.

gottagrow69 said:

my ph in my AG is about 6.5 is that good and if thats to high how do i lower it i dont have any Ph up solution ?????

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Get it under 6.... 5.8 is perfect for hydro.
5.2-5.8 is what I want. A lower ph keeps down all sorts of bad things. DONT GO UNDER 5.2 or you'll start locking out nutes.

I just use the adjuster drops. Any pet store has it for $5-$5 a bottle. Do it gradually...let it mix in a couple hours before you retest

wackymack said:

the water drip ones are the most acurate,its using your senses and forcing your eyes to determine and acurrate color and its already figured out to what color is what ph. its easy acurate and no batteries. it will require you to wait alittle and to get your reading but it really is the most acurate.

plus electronic meters are often in acurate and you have to adjust and calibrate them.

stick to the basics. keep it easy and simple and you will have the most acurate measurement that you can believe is correct.

boom babey,win freakin win,u can rest now,i just gave you the real answer.

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What's a "water drip" tester? I dont know what that looks like or how you use it.

I'm going to flush tomorrow and add new nutes. Anybody know if adding CLEAREX to the tank and running it for 30 minutes before I drain it would help clean out salts.

HomeGrownHairy said:

What's a "water drip" tester? I dont know what that looks like or how you use it.

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you take a sample of the water and add x amount of drops and then u can adjust the ph accordingly.

u can get one at walmart btw,about 10bones

so it is safe to use the PH up and down from a pet store didnt know for sure heard they have different chemicals well if any would look at a thread call " some difficulties" i would appreciate it i had some wierd burns on some leafs

wackymack said:

you take a sample of the water and add x amount of drops and then u can adjust the ph accordingly.

u can get one at walmart btw,about 10bones

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That's what I've been using thats not acurate and 2 diff kits give me 2 different readings. I posted pix of the kits and the color vials on PAGE 21. tAKE A LOOK AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU.

Roots from my 6 girls

View from the AG surface showing trimed plants to improve air flow

just 14"-15" tall and they have spread out using some LST techniques.

Colas starting to fill in and tighten up

Getting yummy!



7th week in flower
72 days from seed germed in paper towels
3 White Widows & 3 Big Bud

Aside from problems finding a pH kit that's acurate, no problems. I just flushed it and rinsed the roots under my faucet. I refilled it with new Fox Farm Nutes Week 10 feeding schedule. I have continued topping off with Ph'd r/o bottled water daily and adding nutes when ppm drops below 1000ppm.
I'm getting a few amber hairs but trichs are still clear.
Tons of nice sticky buds and colas are filling in. Smaller leaves around buds are getting more sugar.
I have LST'd some and moved some fan leaves around to allow more light to hit the developing colas. No more trimmimg of fan leaves. All the stuff I have read in the past week had changed my mind.


01/11: MY GROW SETTINGS FOR 7th WEEK OF FLOWERING & TEN WEEKS OLD FROM SEED:

Lighting - 150 w hps, 4-100 w cfl, 1-150 w cfl and the AG 3 light hood all set on 12/12 timers.(Added 2 more cfl's on splitters -4 total)
AG Pro200 - set now on Tomatoes.
4" airstone running 24/7
6" fan ON. Pointed at bottom of Ag to cool water.
10" oscillating fan blowing on leaves 24/7
Air temp range- 69-77 (Okay)
Humity range - 32-40 (Good)
Water temp - 71 -72
Ph - 5.2-5.5 Keeping water acidic. I hear lots of AG grows get root root so I'm keeping it in the lowest range possible without locking out nutes.

Nutes: 1000 ppm - 1100ppm Fox Farm (organic) nutes - Plannning to top off w/bottled RO water and adding nute to keep ppm level about 1000.
Drained and changed to FF Week 10 feeding schedule, modified and adjusted nute strength to 1000-1100ppm. Will maintain that range all week if no problems arise.

I'm hoping these will finish by Jan 31st. Both WW & BB take 8/10 weeks to flower and a couple weeks longer in the AG. In any event, I'm going to wait until trichs turn cloudy with a hint of Amber before I chop them.

Help me along here guys. How am I doing and what can I do to help out my grow?

Lookin really good Hairy! Some tasty lookin nug

how much longer untill they ready?

Hand Banana said:

I almost forgot this was an Aerogarden grow, your plants are huuuuge! You're gonna get some amazing yields!!! Might need to get a digital pH meter if you can't find the General Hydroponics kit, that's screwed up.

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Hey - I just posted a pix for you that you asked about. The one showing the AG surface where i trimed them to allow more light & air flow to the bottoms.

[quote="SICC";1900730]Lookin really good Hairy! Some tasty lookin nug

how much longer untill they ready?[/quote]

Not quite sure. Hoping for the end of Jan, but not til they tell me they are ready....I know I'm ready for them. Ladies always keep us guys guessing & waiting.

Lookin dam good hairy. The plants will be ready to harvest when between 60-75% of the white hairs turn reddish orange. My 2 gurls just started budding. New pics tonite. Keep up the good werk man

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Lookin dam good hairy. The plants will be ready to harvest when between 60-75% of the white hairs turn reddish orange. My 2 gurls just started budding. New pics tonite. Keep up the good werk man

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Thanks for that. I have a few that have just a very few red hairs and the tricks are still clear on the budz... I'm hoping they will all mature about the same time so I can flush them all before I chop...Just thinkin of it makes me hard..

I use FOX FARM nutes. They are great and completely organic. My plants eat them up. I mix it up really good, let it set overnite and shake it again before I add any to my tank. NOTE> I use ppm's. I use the FF feeding schedule starting the 2nd week, but I lowered the recommended strength: 1/4 strength and increase to 1/2 strength 2nd week, then 100% until I got an adjusted 400ppm-600 ppm for early veg. I use bottled water ONLY for best results and I top w/plain bottled water unless my ppm meter drops way below my target range. Then I add more nute solution to raise it back up. When they are getting bushy, I increase to 700-800 in heavy vegging until I flowered this batch at 25 days from germed seeds. Flowering is 1000ppm-1100ppm (no higher or you'll burn them) and late flowering is back down to 400-500ppm. I won't forget to flush with CLEAREX the last few 4-5 days for a chem free budd.

Most folks don't but:
NOW, I CHANGE MY RES EVERY WEEK WHEN THEY GO INTO MATURE VEGGING & ALL THRU FLOWERING UNTIL I CHOP THEM. I GET RID OF THE CRAP IN MY TANK AND CLEAN THE PUMP FILTER AND PULL OUT ANY ROOTS GROWING INTO THE PUMP HOUSING. IT KEEPS EVERYTHING RUNNING PROPERLY.

HomeGrownHairy said:

Thanks for that. I have a few that have just a very few red hairs and the tricks are still clear on the budz... I'm hoping they will all mature about the same time so I can flush them all before I chop...Just thinkin of it makes me hard..

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LoL.. I had the same problem man. I had 2 plants that were ready to harvest and the last was like a month behind. Its gonna be hard to get all of them to harvest at the same time. I flush for 3 weeks with just water no nutes at all. I read somewhere that the plants will be ready when betweem 60-80% of the hairs turn red or orange. If there are a few that are a lil behind just wait a week on the flush. I dont think it will hurt the plants with 1 extra week of flushing. But let me know how it goes its gonna be tough tryin to get all 6 of those hoes to be ready at the same time. Some are gonna be ready to harvest sooner than others. Just keep checking the hairs and the trics. When u chop 1 down make sure u remove as much of that plants roots as possible to prevent root rot from thedieing roots infecting living rooots. Ill have new pics tonite. Keep up the good werk man u got ur shit on point

HomeGrownHairy said:

I use FOX FARM nutes. They are great and completely organic. My plants eat them up. I mix it up really good, let it set overnite and shake it again before I add any to my tank. NOTE> I use ppm's. I use the FF feeding schedule starting the 2nd week, but I lowered the recommended strength: 1/4 strength and increase to 1/2 strength 2nd week, then 100% until I got an adjusted 400ppm-600 ppm for early veg. I use bottled water ONLY for best results and I top w/plain bottled water unless my ppm meter drops way below my target range. Then I add more nute solution to raise it back up. When they are getting bushy, I increase to 700-800 in heavy vegging until I flowered this batch at 25 days from germed seeds. Flowering is 1000ppm-1100ppm (no higher or you'll burn them) and late flowering is back down to 400-500ppm. I won't forget to flush with CLEAREX the last few 4-5 days for a chem free budd.

Most folks don't but:
NOW, I CHANGE MY RES EVERY WEEK WHEN THEY GO INTO MATURE VEGGING & ALL THRU FLOWERING UNTIL I CHOP THEM. I GET RID OF THE CRAP IN MY TANK AND CLEAN THE PUMP FILTER AND PULL OUT ANY ROOTS GROWING INTO THE PUMP HOUSING. IT KEEPS EVERYTHING RUNNING PROPERLY.

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Wish i woulda done that my first grow. Some of the roots grew into the pump and i cleaned it out but for some reason the far right hole the water doesnt pump to it. It just drips very slowly. Im gonna take my shit apart and clean it fully to see if i can get the back right 1 to werk again. U doin good hairy for ur first grow man, Looks like u have done ur homewerk pretty dam good