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Deep Water Culture T5 Grow Log

Had a bunch of these systems so figured I may as well grow some plants in one
Heres the nutes used below applied starting at 300ppm @ 5.9 ph (it drifts to about 6.4 after 4 days then I just give it new solution(always with R.O. water)Now we are on week 2 i have nutes at 600ppm per Willards advice in another thread (thx!)
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The system with light and stand
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Banana Pepper
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Marconi
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Hab
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Cubanelle
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And another Banana with a root poppin through
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I am learning all things peppers from this site so if anybody sees anything that I am going the wrong direction on please let me know comments/criticism welcome :)
 
Week 4 Update
so everything is growing well but my water temps are around 80 degrees I added a circulating pump to the system that is on 24/7 so I put that on a timer to see if it makes a difference.
I also cut out the sensizym as it was leaving "snot" on the roots. Anybody have any cheap solutions to chill the water? This is a display unit at my work so I can't really modify it too much.
anyways heres the pics.
Banana Pepper
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Cubanelle
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Marconi
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continued in next post with limited pics per post rule
 
Hab
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the other 2 plants are another banana pepper and sweet basil

Overview of system
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My plan is to limit use of added circulating pump and next res. change I will document the temperature rise. Hopefully it takes 3 or 4 days to rise in temp and more frequent res. changes will solve it, or I may have to move away from front window as it gets direct sun for 4 hours every morning.
Thanks for looking any suggestions are very appreciated Happy Growing!
 
Week 7 update
After having a few issues I have switched to a Grow-Micro-Bloom mix with equal parts.
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The plants seem to be liking it better, and also moving it away from the window keeps the res temps down
Anyways heres the pics
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(Yellow things on top of media are sticky traps, with 150+ bags of dirt we have a few fungus gnats)

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Lookin' good!
Jungle Juice is great stuff.
I think perhaps a bit more light wouldn't go astray, Whats the wattage over all 4 bulbs?
 
thanks for the kind words, what I was told is that Jungle juice is just like GH G-M-B but its half the price.
96 watts total I can up it to a 8 lamp model down the line and get 192 watts which is probably going to have to happen sooner than later, but not expecting too much from T5's just a fun little garden. Maybe I'll put a 600w hps over it when the weather cools down.
 
thanks for the kind words, what I was told is that Jungle juice is just like GH G-M-B but its half the price.
96 watts total I can up it to a 8 lamp model down the line and get 192 watts which is probably going to have to happen sooner than later, but not expecting too much from T5's just a fun little garden. Maybe I'll put a 600w hps over it when the weather cools down.

Great, they look happy anyways.
Yeah, I've used JJ before, but not GH GMB. I have heard much the same thing.
 
Great, they look happy anyways.
Yeah, I've used JJ before, but not GH GMB. I have heard much the same thing.
Here's a week 8 update, Couldn't stop thinking about what raelacea suggested so I went for it and doubled the light output. The plants really like more light and are still looking better each day since the nutrient change. Here are some pictures.

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My first hydro pepper
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Tiny banana pepper plant in soil and my mystery pepper going strong after I did some major pruning.
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Wow I would love that job.
Your peppers are looking good.
Im gonna have to check out that monkey juice i am itching to set my flood table back up.
 
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