Diary explo and his new mate, Cultimate 🦫

[exploziv]

Hello brothers and sisters,
My pet beaver named Bobr was left without weed to eat, since beavers are semiaquatic creatures I thought I should try hydro!
So, here we go:
Germinating seeds (autoflower) in a paper towel:

Before starting asembly on the Terra Aquatica Cultimate 4 bucket (RDWC) system:

Washed hydroton:

The Cultimate system put together and waiting for hydroton and air lines to be installed:

Close-up after filling it with hydroton and water and letting it stabilise PH:

Roots of first plant going in:

After I was done with it:

All of them planted in the hydroton (the other 3 germinated a bit later so they are smaller):

After I placed the light above them (dimmed near minimum for now):

This is the Terra Aquatica nutrient table that I will follow, with the NovaMax Line and some of the additives:

Thank you for checking my thread, this is now open for everyone that has any questions, comments, advice or just wants to say hello!
Keep in mind this is my first hydro grow. I will try to add pics and details with every step.
For now we are on the NovaMax Grow @ EC 0.8 mS , PH 5.2 and everything seems stable. Temperature is 22 to 24.5 C. RH around 60%.
See you again soon!
Signed: explo and bobr

 

[exploziv]

EC 0.85 mS, PH 5.4, 23C, 65% RH
They all facing the light now:

 

[DARKSIDER]

Seat pulled up

 

[Cvh]

 

[tobedetermined]

I love the suspended air pump. I did exactly the same thing when I ran hydro . . .

 

[exploziv]

air pump? I'd called that a compressor since it was vibrating everything in the room before I hanged it..

You can see where it was starting to eat at the insulation on the floor to the left of the far away bucket..

Welcome to my thread, @DARKSIDER , @Cvh and @tobedetermined.

 

[tobedetermined]

air pump? I'd called that a compressor since it was vibrating everything in the room before I hanged it..

Oh yes it does . . .

 

[blazeoneup]

Looks like your off to the races, ec and ph are right where I'd kick off a run with those babies. I didn't see the strain mentioned just that it was autoflower. I'll grab a seat for the show.

 

[exploziv]

Hello @blazeoneup !
Don't tell anyone, but the beaver mixed up the seeds so I have no ideea about the strain, all I know is I had some leftover auto fem seeds from SeedsMafia.

 

[wh1p3dm34t]

someone said bobr here!?

 

[blazeoneup]

Beaver and cleaver rhyme...

 

[exploziv]

Nah, I love beavers!

 

[Uludag]

Germinating seeds (autoflower) in a paper towel:

What strain you are growing? Setup looking nice man im checking in, good luck for that run!

 

[tobedetermined]

I was harassed by a pissed off beaver early one morning when I was fishing from a canoe. The water was like glass with a slight mist hovering above it and I heard a loud splash very near me. Scared the crap out of me because it was so still. Then I saw him swimming around. I guess I was in his fishing spot.

 

[exploziv]

@Uludag , welcome to the thread.
Read above, you would have to ask the beaver to find out!

@tobedetermined Please, leave the beavers alone!

Btw, we are at EC 0.92 mS, PH 5.2, 23C, 58% RH.

 

[wh1p3dm34t]

I was harassed by a pissed off beaver early one morning when I was fishing from a canoe. The water was like glass with a slight mist hovering above it and I heard a loud splash very near me. Scared the crap out of me because it was so still. Then I saw him swimming around. I guess I was in his fishing spot.

thats the spirit of maximus boberus

 

[exploziv]

24C, 56% RH, EC 0.91 mS, PH 5.4
All going good, except I had to reduce the ventilation speed cause it was bringing more heat it.
Also I should mention yesterday I addded 2 x 120 mm fans for air movement at the level of the top of the buckets, plan is to add more soon as plants grow.

 

[what_can_there]

Hi explo! Nice setup, best luck with your auto grow.

 

[exploziv]

Today I gave them a foliar spray. Pro Roots + Silicate + NovaMax Grow @ EC 0.8 mS total.
Pro Roots and Silicate are both Terra Aquatica products that can be used as spray or put in the tank, but they recomend spraying them.

EC 0.93 mS, PH 5.5, 24.5C, 60% RH

 

[exploziv]

Today gonna up the EC to ~1.2 mS. And try to keep the PH around 5.8.
For now they are EC 0.95 mS, PH 5.6, 24.8 C, 63% RH.
I already added NovaMax grow 0.2 ml / L, waiting for it to blend with the solution, then gonna PH (if needed).
Thank you @what_can_there for joining in!
Adding this nutrient availability chart for hydro to have it as a reference for the future: