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DonDix Hydroponics Growlog...

Hi pepperlovers... :welcome:

Inspired by all your growlogs I decided to start one my self... I have only started my second season and this is the first attempt to grow hydroponics... I have read alot and think that I am well suited to start, but I don't expect it to not cause any trouble...

I bought a WaterFarm and drilled larger and more holes into the topbucket and throw an airstone into the reservoir... I read somewhere that it could improve the system a little... Beside that I throw together some parts and got myself a bubblerbucket...

I bought the 3 part nutrients from General Hydroponics (Flora), PH-down and a PH-testkit as well... I have an EC-meter on the way home from somewhere in asia...

Untill I get the EC-meter I have to just to cross my fingers and hope that what I calculated is somewhere near reality... I was told the PPM of the tapwater somewhere near and it should be somewhere around 300 ppm and I made a solution just under 400 ppm by using the calculater from General Hydroponics website... I guess that those two numbers should be added to each other and I will be somewhere around 700 ppm... I will find out when the EC-meter arrives...

The PH was ajusted to somewhere around 6... - I think its a little difficult to compare the colour of the clear solution with a printed colour om the label of the indicator-fluid... I better get used to that part as I'm going to do it a few times a week...

I had a few sedlings to choise from... All where started in jiffys before I got the plans of growing hydroponically... But I carefully rinsed the roots and transplanted them into soaked rockwool-tubes...

The ones I choise where 7 Pod Yellow and Bhut Orange Copenhagen (BOC)...

Thanks for reading...

Pictures from 10. dec 2012 - Both just transplanted...

BOC
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Yellow 7 Pod
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Picture from 20. dec 2012

BOC is getting a little pale and setting a pair of deform leaves...

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The drip system did leave a lot of mineral-spots on the leaves and i just sprayed the leaves with clear tapwater and attepted to wash of the minerals carefully...

Later I will post two more pictures when I get home...
 
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Hydrogen Peroxide... Are you supposed to put 1 tsp pr gallon pure hydrogen peroxide into the water or is it 1 tps of the diluted from the pharmacy for rinsing wounds? Is this for killing bacteria or?

Well - time for a little update... I've been busy for a while, so havent been posting new pictures... I have started new BOC-seeds - the one I have been posting pictures of is not really something to keep posting pictures of - it's alive, but grows very slow... But the Yellow 7 Pot have soon catched up with the plants in dirt that where way ahead when put into the hydrobucket...

Yellow 7 Pod
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Roots of The Yellow 7 Pod
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That yellow 7 looks way healthier than the pic from a few weeks ago. Did you make any changes or did it just grow out of that wilted look?
 
Well I got an EC-meter since last update and I could measure that the ppm has been way too high... So I have lowered it from over 1000 to about 600 ppm... Thats about it... :-)
 
What nutrients are you using. Also measure the ppm of the water you are using before you mix your nutes. I would follow the direction on the nutes and then measure the ppm of that solution to let you know what the ppm should be. I run 900-1300ppm in my hydros. Yours seems very weak and somewhat like what I would run with seedlings. Also you really should measure ph as Only some nutes ph buffer. You can stretch nutes to 2 weeks but it is advisable to change it as soon as you see any notable change in ppm either up or down which means the plant is absorbing what it needs out of the solution. Also always top up your water but again measure the tds of the water you add as that can raise your ppm. It is just a delicate balancing act!!
 
A little update as there where nice sunny ind the window and I got the time off to take a few shots...

Yellow 7 Pod here...
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And here the BOC - it have been growing since last...

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Hi...

It's been a while, but now I just had the time to post a few pictures... There a week old now - this is the BOC - now the one that performs best... Thanx god I didn't give up on this one... I have been pruning and pruning alot to keep it from getting to big for my living room...

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Hi Cool...

I do have some new pictures at home, but there is not that much difference... I keep on cutting it so that it isnt going to be to big - I dont have room for it if I just let it grow... Its impossible to count the pods - they are everywhere...

I am convinced - hydroponics is really effective... You should give it a try... All my other plants have minor sundamage, nuteburning or something else - but those two hydroplants - nothing at all...

And it is pretty easy to maintain... :-)

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Well did find a few from the phone... Both pictures of the BOC in the WaterFarm...
 
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