New grow is underway - Day 4!
New grow is underway - Day 4!
Got (5) Majestic Thai and (5) Strawberry Milk and Qookies Remixed, both from Night Owl Seeds! Majestic Thai is Daz's first released photoperiod that have only been sent out to 100 people.
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Is it a flood and drain/bottom feed setup? Or is just the container you use to hold and water to runoff?
Flood and drain baby! It's a 2x2 flood table in a 3x3 tent. I did a little DIY and built something to keep my 40gal res under the tent. Pumps into the tent on a schedule and drains back into the res. Keeping the SMQR here until it's time to transplant into autopots for the 2x4.
I need something like that for my aeroponics so I can change and clean the reservoir easier. I just didn’t like the options as most I was coming up with needed an additional pump to pump the water back. Or a potential leak/flood point.
Maybe when I get it out to the garage instead of the carpet basement.
I have two pumps. One that stays in the res which handles pumping water to the table, and another that I only drop in when it's time to dump and refill the water.
Res pump: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003WRIWJO
Drian/fill pump: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09ZV2364K
The res pump uses 1/2" tubing. I did have to buy an additional adapter from the hardware store that threaded onto the pump and had the barbed end to push the tubing onto it. I spiced in two inline taps so I can cut access to the flood table and instead have it rerouted back into the res for easy mixing. The drain uses 3/4" tubing to ensure it drains more than it can fill. All tubes are zip tied to their connectors to prevent leaks.
The drain/fill pump has a garden hose permanently attached to it. I bought one of those ball valve hose attachments so I can turn the flow of water on and off, even with the pump running. It's a 50' garden hose so I can snake it outside and water the grass with my old nutes to get every last bit of use out of it. To fill the res, I'm using plain old tap water for this grow. The new nute line I'm trying out, Cropsalt, recommended tap over RO if your tap water was up to par. I have a 5gal bucket that I keep the pump in. Place that sucker under the bathtub and the res fills up in a few minutes.