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!)

The system with light and stand

Banana Pepper

Marconi

Hab

Cubanelle

And another Banana with a root poppin through

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

 

[millworkman]

Thanks for documenting this for us. Is that a 4 bulb 2' light setup? Things are looking good so far.

 

[growgearspokane]

Thx mill yes it is a 2' 4 lamp setup, we actually manufacture this brand in house.

 

[growgearspokane]

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

Cubanelle

Marconi

continued in next post with limited pics per post rule

 

[growgearspokane]

Hab

the other 2 plants are another banana pepper and sweet basil

Overview of system

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!

 

[growgearspokane]

Week 7 update
After having a few issues I have switched to a Grow-Micro-Bloom mix with equal parts.

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

(Yellow things on top of media are sticky traps, with 150+ bags of dirt we have a few fungus gnats)

 

[RaelThomas]

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?

 

[growgearspokane]

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.

 

[RaelThomas]

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.

 

[growgearspokane]

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.

My first hydro pepper

Tiny banana pepper plant in soil and my mystery pepper going strong after I did some major pruning.

 

[RouteBound]

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.