Hello my dear friends and this time I’m goin’ hydro 
In my last run, I have been getting back into indoor growing after a quite break by testing my new LED equipment, and it showed itself pretty well. However, I did have a lot of issues with my soil again, which I already experienced a lot in the past. So, I would like to learn more about hydroponics growing. Together with that, I am preparing for next outdoor season, I’m going to try out breeding and making my own seeds for summer (in the best case scenario).
This run I am going to test hydroponic growing with both Coco & DWC, and learn again from all mistakes and choose the growing method that suits best for me.
Recently I got some seeds from @MissinBissin , which will be the first candidate I’ll try to collect pollen from.
GOAL
Learn and practice growing in hydro with maintaining proper nutrients levels
Collect pollen or breed for my outdoor research project
GENETICS
Reg Crippy B4 Xmas (OriginalDankMaster) - strong outdoor strain
Reg Early Maroc (Philosopher seeds) - Maroccan landrace with early flowering characteristics
GEAR
Tent 120cm x 60cm
5 gal Reverse Drip System
5 gal DWC Pot
Aquarium Chiller
Fan Out TD-Silent 350
Kingbrite Bridgelux 350 watt (LM301h)
E-mode pH controller
E-mode EC controller (ordered)
And whole lotta different pumps and spare parts to keep this system going! 
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I have already started it, just haven’t gotten my hands to start a topic yet, there was a lot of work though on acquiring and setting up the hardware and equipment. I learnt a lot while building it, and I think it finally runs all fine
Crippy B4 was placed in the automatic drip system, which doesn’t not seem to have any problems, the pH is stable, and I don’t do much about it, just filling it up again once the water level goes down again
Early Maroc was placed in the RDWC system, it had several slowdowns in the beginning before I tuned up all my hardware and provided stable temperature and pH levels in the solution. I had issues with water temp before my chiller has arrived. E-mode ph Controller control the pH level and carefully adjust the solution through peristaltic pumps dosing my 1ml. Very soon, an EC controller should arrive that should help me with preparing nutes
I’m keeping Crippy B4 with 0.6-0.8 EC and Early Marco with 0.4-0.5 EC rn
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Great to hear You’ve got some of the seeds in action!!! Thanks for that!!
Best Wishes as you try something new @blazefortwunty
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Just received EC controller with a sampler for a better chemical mixing and taking probes, so I quickly hooked it up 
The system works so great and I can finally not pay attention to ph level twice a day anymore, as it automatically gets adjusted, and EC controller should take care of keeping nutes in the system at the necessary level.
The controllers pretty easy to use, you just set min and max level for your pH, and a proportions of your nutrients that it should add in case EC level goes too much down.
Water temp is controller by the aquarium chiller, and keeps it around 70F, and it looks fine for now. Cooling further can be achieved by adding more insulation onto rez and pot. So much better without changing ice bottles.
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I’m feeling so happy with all of this automations, because it cuts off all the manual work I had to do. Basically it allows me to just dump the water, fill it up with fresh tap water, and automation will do all the rest
Plants are doing just fine, with no problems at all, all them going just great, I have increased the target EC to 0.8 that looks fine for the Early Maroc (right)
Crippy B4 (left) is just blowing off, its going so fast, and I’m even defoliate the bottom levels from the stems to make it grow taller, but its still going pretty quickly (coco). The leaf color looks lighter than on the right one, I think more higher nutes just needed. I will try to increase it on the next feed
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Wait wait wait, customgrow, is that you!?
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Nice setup!
Are you using any environmental automatiion?
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@sllimnave
haha, nah, rather fan. used to watch him a lot back in the days 
@JOHN1234
Thanks!
Not now, but I’m going towards that. Right now I’m just warming up the lung room with the oil radiator to increase overall temp in the room together with tent, but thats all.
I would like to control the humidity as the next step, because we have very dry environment (like 20-30% rh constantly, even when rains), and I thats probably not good for plants. However I don’t know if I can make it the same way (bumping humidity in the room), I’m looking towards automation of tent’s microclimate by reducing outtake fan and hooking humidifier / warmers / dehumidifiers straight into the tent.
After stabilisation of the setup and all environment params, I’m thinking about adding a CO2 controller as well, but its in the last priority
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I installed the water level controller today, and now I don’t even need to bother about it as well!
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Damn! Hello all the same lol
I highly suggest the kief gauntlet video
(I also stole my profile pic from one of his vids)
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Having an emergency today, my chiller’s leaking. The pump that was moving water through the chiller accidentally got off the hose over night, leading to water block overheat. That actually happened to me couple times, but it seems chiller did not survive this time.
I disassembled it, and found the reason. I don’t know why, but there are 2 holes that are sticked with a cap plug, probably that part is just common and also used for something else, and in my case holes was just clogged, and overheating squeezed them off. I tried to stick them once again, but that does not work unfortunately.
Luckily, I found the exactly matching replacement part that I need on the internet out here, without two stupid holes, but it will take approximately 4 days, so I guess I’m backing off to ice bottles for some time.
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Fixed my cooler, however replacement part came with the shorter plugs, so I had to put hose inside the box
And we’re going pretty well now!
Was going on 0.8 EC for a while, but now trying to raise to 1.2 - 1.4 EC,
lets see how plants will react on that
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IDK why, but my DWC plant looks way slower than a coco choir, and i’m not sure why is that.
Everything runs without any problems at
Water temp 68-70F
EC 1.0-1.1
pH 5.8-6.2
Like there are no issues, no nutrient blocks, no root rot, and visually everything looks good without any dead or corrupted leaves. But it just way slower and I’m not sure currently why. Should it be like that? It’s currently about 2 month vegetation already. Maybe root development is reduced?
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Out of 2 Regulars we’ve got two girls 
I’m going to germinate some of my outdoor strains, if it happens I’ll get the pollen from them, I’ll do it.
I have an LSD pollen, kindly gifted to me by @MissinBissin
It seems I am going to use it, if Im not manage to get mine one.
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Nice looking plants; Congrats on the 2/2 @blazefortwunty. Have Fun with that Pollen Chucking !!
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Going pretty good with no issues at all,
Morrocan landrace (right) nutrients uptake stabilized around ~1.2 EC, the Crippy b4 (left) is eating a bit less, but not much
I have taken the clones from both of the plants, and keeping them in the separate veg tent, just in case I’ll be satisfied with the phenos
My feelings is that crippy should be pretty strong, while on morrocan landrace I expect to see a low thc profile, judging by the amount of trichomes compared at this point 
I’m germinating more seeds right now as outdoor season is slowly approaching. I’m going to collect pollen from the seeds I’ve been working with for a while, and a couple of new ones, that was kindly sent to me by an OG community.
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Today, I applied BOG LSD pollen on both plants and this is my first pollinating experience ever
The plants are on like 3-4 weeks, that should be a good time to do that. Can’t wait to see them results 
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YEAYAAAA!, WHAT UP YOUTUBE? YOUTUBE WHAT UP? ALRIGHT… IN THIS ONE…
Dude was a trip back in the day. Wonder if he’s still doing YouTube.
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