Them

I just discovered my pump is out.

I have only had it for a few months, it should still be going strong.

I will take it back to Lowes tomorrow and see if they will still exchang it.

I watered the plants from the top but I think I will put them back in the bubble cloner untill tomorrow.

scrub

Sorry to hear about the pump, Them. When my last submersible pump died, I filled my reservoir with water and called it DWC. I'm still thinking about a replacement pump.

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Them

Thats a good idea scrub, but thirty gallons is a lot of water.

It is 11:30 the next morning. The plands are still alive so I watered them from the top again. Now I'm off to Lowes to see if they will exchange with me, if not I will buy anouther pump.

It's time to do something about cooling the grow room. While at Lowes I will look at inside AC units.

When I return home I will flush the system and clean the tote. I have RO water standing by, I will add nutes and hope the plands I have will recover.

Them

Aprox.18 hrs no pump.......

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Them

I picked up an 8000 btu AC.

I will install it tonight.

Them

Its been about twenty four hours since I replaced the pump. The plants are still alive. We will see if they survive.

I'm still working on the AC. I am cutting a hole in the side of my house!

vpur

Wow dont you think it might have saved your house a hole if you looked into a central A/c just for your grow room?

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Them

Hey vpur, where have you been hanging out.

I checked into an inside AC the kind that doesn't wall mount but they were four to five hundred, I got the wall mount for two so Im happy, plus if I want to move it to another window someday the hole is easy to repair.

The plants are looking a little better.

I'll have pics soon.

Them

I flushed, washed and refilled the clone bubbler today. I had eight clones with roots. I took five more from the mother plant. This gives me fourteen counting mom.

PPM is 300

Ph ballanced at 5.5

Water temp 65f

All new clones are under humidity domes.

Them

The plants have been in the aerospring for two week and have shown little growth.

This is due to algie in the res. Why was there algie in the res you might ask? It's because the water temp was too high and too much light is getting into the res as well.

The fix for the water temp was to add an AC unit to cool the room and rotate frozen water bottles to pull the res temp down.

The fix for the light problem is to cover the top until the plants are big enough to shade the top. As for the sides I will drop the new tote which is a light color into the old tote which is a lot darker color.

I hop[ing the air space between the two totes will allow cool air from the fan to help keep the res cool.

Due to plumbing issues... I will place brick in the bottom of the first tote in order to hold the second tote up about six inches.