im experementing with hydro growing now and have built a grow method known as a "bubble bucket" . I was just wondering who else has used this and if it gives good results

here are the specs

5 gallon
brown gravel (cleaned)
42w warm CFL (150 incandecent equvil)
growin by seed (ungerminated on gravel)
air pump and 7" air stone

since i have no hydro shop around i have no hydro nutes
heres the nute mix (it is NOT a good mix, but this is all i have for about 2 weeks)

-5 gallon water
-1.5 teaspoons superthrive
-1 teaspoon of 10-52-10 premix (i know its too much P and not enough N)

heres where the water stands

PH 6.5
alkalinity 65 kh/ppm
hardness 22 gh/ppm
nitrite 0 mg/l
nitrate (no3) 35 mg/l


i just want to know if it will get me goin till i can change it in 2 weeks with hydro nutes/ferts

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ok...fisrt thing i will sa y is you want to lower your ph to 5.4-5.8

mine usually sits at 6.7

ther is a local shop around my part of town that is pretty quick on shipping and the prices are not bad either

www.mdhydro.com

i recomants you pick up some general hysroponics nutes, its by far the most forgiving imho

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thanks for the link, although the "chemical nutrients" part of the site isnt working...

im considering "fox farms" nutrients but i would like to read about them so ill google for it and if anyone has anything to add ......

please do

im open to new ideas so please type at will.....

thanks everyone

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that light might be ok ok for a few weeks, altho a few more would be better, but once the plant starts getting a little bigger look at getting a bigger/better light. ur plant will thank you

once u sort ur nutes and ph out u shuld be pretty much set.

good luck with the grow and keep us updated

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well i got to the hydro shop and picked up "general hydroponics" line of nutes and lowered the ph with alittle lemon juice and it is working very good

nitrite levels are like 0.01
ph is like 6.1

everything looks good,

ill keep yall posted

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looks good???? dude your plant is dying you need to figure out whats up quick

oh that pic was before it rooted and before i put it on the rocks

heres what it looks like now

im tryin to make this clone work becasue it is from a good mother that i grew outdoor from seed (pic 2)

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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'

Good effort so far, but that bubbler is going to stimulate so much growth for the plant that is going to really want to grow, but that light will not give enough photo synthesis IMO to give it a fare chance to do what it needs to do and what you are going to want it to. The plant is going to want allot of light to produce the root structure in that bubbler as well as allot of foliage. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but you know environment plays so much. Hope it works in spite of my observations, but someone else can maybe give their opinion.
Adieu

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well ive changed the lights....

i now have 2 42watt CFL bulbs (5400 lumens over 1 plant 1sq.ft.)

and yes i know HPS HPS HPS.....

but do to some recent shit in my life i will be putting that on hold for a while


if people can do full scrog grows on floro tubes, then im hoping 84watts of CFL power will work

thanks for the advice

and please

COMMENTS ARE WELCOME

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Good job! I am gonna start a hydro project soon, but using rubbermaid tubs with the same method. Ur using reg. cured tap, or just tap? I will be watching this thread and hopefully you have amazing results.

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thanks man.....

yeah thats tap water (5 gal @ 7.1ph.) with 30ml. of lemon juice to bring it to 5.8-6.3

and im using "general hydroponics" floraGro line of nutes and alittle superthrive (5ml.) every month

ill put more pics up soon

later

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im very interested, im watching a grow with the exact same set-up but with a 5" disc air stone. keep me posted on how it turns out. The ferts are also the same.

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hey pinky, this thread is 2 years old so you won't be getting any answers from these guys

do a search for DWC, you'll finds lots of threads, my own included (link below)

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bozo,
peace, love, dope

'it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice'
'man made alcohol, God made weed, who do you trust?'
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye could see."---Thomas Jefferson- 1781
bozo's mother cab, bozo's bubble cloner

The Complete guide to Sick Plants,pH, and Pest troubles! MynameStitch

That was the funniest thing I read all night. And I am stoned gooooooooooooood. And aparently so was he. I hope he wasn't standing in front of his computer for 2 years trying to type that message and just finished now.

maybe he got stuck when the PC said, 'to continue press any key' and he couldn't find the 'any' key, lol

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bozo,
peace, love, dope

'it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice'
'man made alcohol, God made weed, who do you trust?'
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye could see."---Thomas Jefferson- 1781
bozo's mother cab, bozo's bubble cloner

The Complete guide to Sick Plants,pH, and Pest troubles! MynameStitch