Bree's first Aero grow... with Yeast CO2

[superpedro]

Hey.

Co2 bubbles in to the reservoir, and is then released in to the room. I can store some 40 liters of co2 from my production over night. The magnetic valve is turned on with the light.

cheers

 

[-VT-]

The plants look good

 

[Δ9-THC]

those plants are sure lookin' purdy!

 

[Pod Racer]

Let's here it for carbon loading. Woohhooo. lol

 

[Guest]

Hello Everyone thanks for stopping by.......

Hello Everyone thanks for stopping by.......

Thank you all for the rep. points you have given me. I really appreciate it.

Well for the update. I took picks before bending the tops on many of he taller branches and meristems. They are filling the room up with tops, I think I will wait one more day before flowering. I want to make sure and get some good clones for my Aero cloner and work on my technique. The plants are going to take lots of bondage and sadistic bending to keep under control. Well here are the update pics. The first one is from the same angle I have been doing the last few days. The difference is obvious.
I will load the last ones too from oldest to newest to see the difference:













Here is a pic of the canopy:




I was getting tired of adding ice jugs to my reservoir so I found this mini cooler at Wallys...... here is the link
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3875020
It is a Hamilton Beach mini cooler. It was really easy to separate the heater part from the cooling part. I was not sure I would be successful so I didn't take step pictures but I just clipped and capped the wires that went to the heating part. Left the on and off switch in place. It has two silent fans blowing on fins that surround a 1/2 gal water tank. I uses a little pump I had and put it in the reservoir and ran it out to the "In" line to the tank, I then added a hose that went to the reservoir from the "out" line of the tank. I set the pump on a 15min timer and we will see how it works. It is very small but I am not sure how the cooling capacity is. I put ice jugs in before I put it together so will have to wait until tomorrow to see how it holds down the temps. The plants are really blocking out the light and absorbing the energy so the lower parts of the room are starting to run much cooler any way like always. Well I will let you know. How it turns out. Pic of the mini cooler part--


Peace

You can see by the size compared to the surge protector outlet how small it is.

 

[MTF-Sandman]

Nice water cooler mod! Does it say what HP it's rated for?

 

[Pod Racer]

What a Brill idea Bree! You da man!

 

[Guest]

Well the cooler idea only partially worked.....

Well the cooler idea only partially worked.....

It dropped the reservoir degrees on average of about 3-4 degrees. Running low 70s now. Better than the high 70s. My roots look great. Will give ya a peek under their dresses tonight when I take the pics. Little root porn never hurt anyone.

I put four each of AK and Sour Diesel in peat pellets last night. Nothing up yet. I am so about immediate gratification. They all had nice little tails from sitting in some distilled water for 24hrs, except one of the diesel, it had not popped yet. Will include them from neonates if all goes well. Just finished a mother room and will keep a few varieties at cloneing height in there for the taking...... always wanted a little harem of my own. Variety the spice of life.

Thanks for stopping by Pod Racer and Sandman.

Oh, Pod Racer.... I have some of that liq. carbon on the way. Seem like a very scientifically bound concept. Had to research first. I know you understand.

Peace

 

[Pod Racer]

Absolutely, question everything Twice~! But I did a carbon bubbler in my res for my first ever DWC grow with Bubblisious and Ionic and they were toxic green and healthier than any plant I've ever grown since. Huge lush hand size fan leaves on 18" plants, not a single sign of def. all the way through. I think the added carbon and anything ionic is a great mix. I'll have to get some of that shit too.

I'm just relying on Botanicare right now, as power plant has always done my clones well. I use DM for the flowering as they are the leaders in Cal chelation and Aero nutrients. They understand the chemical needs during heavy aero flower, where as most nutes lack the sustaining ability. But, that doesn't mean one shoudn't experiment and explore no?

And Root Porn, always a good thing.

 

[NiteTiger]

You know, I heard about the Doc's stuff about a year ago, and have been meaning to try it out, just never had the cash on hand, and then forgot about it. may have to take a trip to the hydro store soon...

 

[Guest]

Hello Pod Racer and Nite Tiger......

Hello Pod Racer and Nite Tiger......

Nothing major so far. I didn't get to take clones today, was too busy with the new mother room. I will do it tomorrow. They are growing like crazy, I had a couple go up 5 in. Had to raise my humidistat and temp gauge that dangle at canopy top. I am bending them all over but am running out of spots so that is my signal I better get my ass moving. Will go to 12/12 tomorrow which is just actually later today. Don't sleep much just a couple hours hear and there and then when it hits me..... 24hrs straight.

Any way here is the usual shot with all the others from the same angle and all:



Here is a shot across the canopy. If you look close in the wire that suspends my temp and humidistat you can see how much I had to raise it to get it out of the green.....



I changed the cooler settings and just put it at 45min cooling and then purge. See if I can get cooler res temps. Will be hard to tell though due to the plants are really absorbing all the energy and the whole room temps are dropping.

Sandman I don't think it has a HP rating.... it is passive cooling with air drawn across fins. I should have bought a full size with the little motor. I saw one at home depot today that has a small motor and a regular cooling coil. I may buy that and tear it apart. Think wally will take that other back? Just tell them the passive thing didn't cool my reservoir enough.....lol

Well sorry so boring. When the flowering starts it will be more interesting. I will add in my new AK-47 and Sour Diesel IBL that should pop their little heads out any day.

I am going to have enough clones from the popcorn making bottom branches on the Blueberry so am going to do a bubble and aeroclone to compare. Will put that on here to........... or should I do another thread for that one?

Peace

 

[rule35sub1]

nice garden bro, looking good.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rule.......

Thanks Rule.......

I need to start the flower this morning because I will run out of room. I think I have the area full enough to have a nice thick canopy.

Had a major leak last night. Lost 20 gal on the floor. Pipe came apart at the junction. Next time I will put them together with PVC goop instead of silicon. I figured they would be easier to take apart and clean......... damn I hate when I am right.... but didn't figure on cleaning them that way.

Root Porn--Sorry tried to get some last night but the roots are so huge, I can't even pull them out of the tubes. I don't know what I will do to break them down. Shit I could see another flood with the roots plugging up the 5 in posts that act as root chambers. I don't know about all this pump and pipes. I did maybe 10% slower with DWC and bubblers. I don't think all this is worth the 10%.

Now if I knew how Pod Racer set his up it might be worth it. ;0)

Peace

 

[Pod Racer]

Now is when you see why its all about 'space' in aero the bitches just freak out and get huge. Its fairly overwhelming at first, then you get addicted.

I was going to say, 'boring' ??? Not! Holy shit that is a huge ass canopy and you haven't even started your stretch? LOL I can't even imagine what that room is going to look like in another 2 months. Probably something like this but twice as tall.

You are gonna be Over Grown for sure.

Looking at your roots I think you have a better idea what I was talking about now. Those tubes just aren't large enough for the volume of healthy pom poms you develop in aero and leaks....yikes...I can't tell you how many times I have flooded my grow room, it was starting to become a running joke with my old posse. Every grow I had some shit happen that ended up with 20 gallons of water in my carpets and me cusing up a storm. Even with PVC glue.

But yeah...build it to last a lifetime as the worst thing about hydro is they are prone to flood. That was always my concern with tubes and fence posts as knowing the root systems as I do I just can't see how you can fit them and still water them. That is why Pods rule for aero. No restriction to the flow of water, out on down and out again, no obstacles to back up, rot, or overflow. You just have to keep on the plumbing and pump that nothing comes loose and hoses your HIDs.

Can't tell you how many times I got shot in the eye or up the nose with 50 psi nutrient solution. Probably is what is wrong with me.

 

[ItsGrowTime]

Hi Bree! Things are looking very sweet
Dont worry about the roots. You should have known your plants would be locked in pretty quickly. They will be fine as long as you keep your bases covered (temps, DO, etc). After harvest is when the root fun starts hehe.

Sucks about the leak. Can you get a picture of where the leak was?

 

[Pod Racer]

Here is another Idea I forgot to mention until it was just sparked again watching a show on gardens of the world. Mushroom cultivation. I was going to experiment myself with getting a shroom kit (the innoculated bag type) and growing it in my veg room as mushrooms expire Co2 while consuming O2 out of the air as the counterpart to plants.
It should be an excellent symbotic relationship as the plants contiually pull the Co2 out of the air and replace with O2, the shrooms will be pulling the O2 and creating Co2. No need for even yeast! Other than if you wanted subaquatic carbon loading as well.

Just a thought, I had discussed this with a fellow grower some time ago, and completely forgot about it. And when the grow is over you can eat the shrooms too.

Win win!

 

[Pod Racer]

Bump Bree, There is a new thread by the way, for the truly insane. Is the new Æromatrix thread. Check it out, if you dare.

 

[NiteTiger]

Ya know, I have a tendency to lurk threads without doing much posting, hence the little popcorn guys. Just to let ya know I'm watching.

And I gotta say, silly as it seemed, I mixed up a batch of ghetto wine, and added an airhose from the cap to directly under the canopy of my flowering girl.

All because of this thread

And to make a total fool outta myself, I even think I see some promising signs

Oh shit Pod, LOOK OUT! That plant is killing off your coke man!

That's just fuckin' rude!

 

[Guest]

well done bree

well done bree

hello bree sorry i got here a little late,glad you got things up & running i will be watching this...later m8

 

[Guest]

Damn, Have some good friend showing up here.... Glad to see you all

Damn, Have some good friend showing up here.... Glad to see you all

Everything is going great. I fixed the hole. It was at an end cap site. You guessed it.... I used silicon to seal it so I could break it down. I had to lift that whole end with the steal cross member to change the ice jugs in the water. After awhile I think it worked loose. I applied some Gorilla glue around the outside edge and put bamboo props against the wall to seal it until the glue dried and it is on forever now but no leak.

I took out all the smaller popcorn producing branches and turned them into all clones. My technique is not too good with this so thought it was a great time to practice. Will keep the best one as a mother BB. I did a schematic and numbered them all. The problem was the water I was going to use Aero for the major part and run bubble for a comparison but the pump I thought would work wouldn't push the aero. So all went to bubble. The water I started out

with was pH 8.2 and EC 900.... added pH down until 5.8. Just a test to see how they will do. I have aquarium heaters at 78f. Will see what happens they look fine but only 2 days.
Here are some pics:





I put the BB flower room into 12/12 with starting off with 48 hrs darkness. They now are under HPS 1000w with electronic ballast. Bent all tops down 6-8 in. They are going to fill the room the rest of the way with no room to spare.
Here is the pic from the same angle and then one of the canopy: It is getting thicker if that is possible.





I just finished my new mother room, it turned out great. I just had 4-ak and 3-Sour Diesel IBL pop their heads up. Should I attach to this thread or start a new thread for them? Not sure. Let me know what you think. Here is a pic of the new room and a close up of the neonates. The left is Sour Diesel and the right is AK.






Well, any thought on anything. Thanks for stopping by. Nite Tiger it really does make a difference. Even a little steadily I think helps very much. Like Pod Racers says they down regulate their stomata when exposed to high doses. But nice steady dose right to them has to help. Well, I know it does. I ran 60 days last time and my room is 32 in x 59.5 in that equals 13.2 square ft. and I harvested 18oz of stem snapping dryness. It works. I will do better this time.

AlZA-- nice to see you here. Hadn't seen you in awhile..... thought you got lost in those opium dens in India......... ( now that will make them wonder) :0)

Peace