HillTopGrowLabz
Member
Whattup Growheads,
Let me start out that though I have zero experience growing hydroponically, I am on my 4th year of successful outdoor medical growing. That being said, I've been scouring the forums collecting knowledge, preparing for the capability to grow year round. Though I am far from starting my ideal indoor grow setup, I stumbled upon something that might whet my appetite for the time being. A broken aerogarden.
One of my workmates was getting rid of his wife's broken aerogarden. She had grown countertop basil in it for a few months, then it mysteriously quit working. Not wanting to see the thing tossed, I volunteered to take it off their hands.
When I got it home, I examined it thoroughly to see what sort of damage it may have taken. Not seeing any visual damage, I plugged it in. The lights would flicker then that would be it. No pump, no option lights, nothing. After some research, it appeared that the pump may have shorted, causing a break in power to the rest of the components. The pump not working was no big deal, as I picked up an air stone and pump to remedy that. I had a figure 8 power cord in my misc. cord pile, so I plugged it in and BAM, I had lights.
So with the aero lights, an extra shop cfl, a fan, air stone and pump, the only thing left needed was nuts and seeds. My friend gave me a bunch of AG nutes. Yeah, yah I've heard their no good, but after all this was an experiment so I would start with them. Perhaps we'll switch up later.
I was pretty set on auto flowering seeds, but after a bit of suckering on my outdoor Purple Trainwrecks, I decided to attempt to clone them. Here is what I have so far
The one in the middle has been in the AG for 8 days on 24 hour light. Once again experimenting with 24/0 opposed to 18/6. It started with 2 small leaves and seems to be doing quite well. Also notice the clone was slightly in flower when it was cut. The other 2 clones I put in the AG 2 days ago. The older one is starting to root nicely as well.
Updates to come soon.
Let me start out that though I have zero experience growing hydroponically, I am on my 4th year of successful outdoor medical growing. That being said, I've been scouring the forums collecting knowledge, preparing for the capability to grow year round. Though I am far from starting my ideal indoor grow setup, I stumbled upon something that might whet my appetite for the time being. A broken aerogarden.
One of my workmates was getting rid of his wife's broken aerogarden. She had grown countertop basil in it for a few months, then it mysteriously quit working. Not wanting to see the thing tossed, I volunteered to take it off their hands.
When I got it home, I examined it thoroughly to see what sort of damage it may have taken. Not seeing any visual damage, I plugged it in. The lights would flicker then that would be it. No pump, no option lights, nothing. After some research, it appeared that the pump may have shorted, causing a break in power to the rest of the components. The pump not working was no big deal, as I picked up an air stone and pump to remedy that. I had a figure 8 power cord in my misc. cord pile, so I plugged it in and BAM, I had lights.
So with the aero lights, an extra shop cfl, a fan, air stone and pump, the only thing left needed was nuts and seeds. My friend gave me a bunch of AG nutes. Yeah, yah I've heard their no good, but after all this was an experiment so I would start with them. Perhaps we'll switch up later.
I was pretty set on auto flowering seeds, but after a bit of suckering on my outdoor Purple Trainwrecks, I decided to attempt to clone them. Here is what I have so far
The one in the middle has been in the AG for 8 days on 24 hour light. Once again experimenting with 24/0 opposed to 18/6. It started with 2 small leaves and seems to be doing quite well. Also notice the clone was slightly in flower when it was cut. The other 2 clones I put in the AG 2 days ago. The older one is starting to root nicely as well.
Updates to come soon.
