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Update of Doom
Update of Doom
Couple of issues, 1 Major 1 Minor.
Noticed yesterday water under both reserviors on the tent floor. Got seriously stressed thinking my tanks were cracked and leaking ever so slightly. Thought it was game over.
I swapped to a digital timer for the pumps and it arrived in the mail yestersay morning and had it set up in the early evening. Woke up today thinking not once have I seen the light on the timer plug come on for a flood and realised the timer switched was set to off.
This mistake proved valuable for sourcing the culprit for the wet floor. When I checked the tent, after spending a whole night barely sleeping incase of water+electricity issues, the floor was only went under the tanks, not the entire floor which was my expectation after topping of both tanks yesterday evening.
Put the pumps on today and decided to watch for leaks. Bingo!
The roots have completly blocked the overflow for 1 reservior and the water would completely fill the tank and end up all over the floor. No wonder I would use about 5 L of water a day. I thought I had mighty thirsty plants to deal with.
Cleared out some Hydroton and had to twist the top overflow compoent in both directions until it was free. Then ripped what was nesting out my reservior.
Run the pump only to find it was still blocked, after doing a litte digging I found this to be wrapped around and going down the overflow pipe.
Running the pump as I speak with no more issues. Big big hopefully that it causes a small shock and not a sex change stress messing with the roots.
The Minor issue I have is the tops are growing taller than the light. If anyone has any solutions for my dilema please let me know.
Update of Doom
Couple of issues, 1 Major 1 Minor.
Noticed yesterday water under both reserviors on the tent floor. Got seriously stressed thinking my tanks were cracked and leaking ever so slightly. Thought it was game over.
I swapped to a digital timer for the pumps and it arrived in the mail yestersay morning and had it set up in the early evening. Woke up today thinking not once have I seen the light on the timer plug come on for a flood and realised the timer switched was set to off.
This mistake proved valuable for sourcing the culprit for the wet floor. When I checked the tent, after spending a whole night barely sleeping incase of water+electricity issues, the floor was only went under the tanks, not the entire floor which was my expectation after topping of both tanks yesterday evening.
Put the pumps on today and decided to watch for leaks. Bingo!
The roots have completly blocked the overflow for 1 reservior and the water would completely fill the tank and end up all over the floor. No wonder I would use about 5 L of water a day. I thought I had mighty thirsty plants to deal with.
Cleared out some Hydroton and had to twist the top overflow compoent in both directions until it was free. Then ripped what was nesting out my reservior.
Run the pump only to find it was still blocked, after doing a litte digging I found this to be wrapped around and going down the overflow pipe.
Running the pump as I speak with no more issues. Big big hopefully that it causes a small shock and not a sex change stress messing with the roots.
The Minor issue I have is the tops are growing taller than the light. If anyone has any solutions for my dilema please let me know.
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