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I shoot for low 60's for the nutes and low 80's for canopy temps. Here's how I do it. :toker1:
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I work naked if the rooms warm so is the water and if I am happy so is the plant. ;)

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Being reasonable ignorant of hydro I’m curious what we’re looking at in yer pic Mud Boy.

The middle bucket looks like a cooling coil, but the end bucket looks like muddy water and the box looks like it is filled with pomegranate jelly. :mrgreen:

How do you keep the canopy at the 80’s temp, with an air heater? I use oil-filled radiator style heater in my room to raise the air temps.

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I often get a nice man to pop round and calibrate my truncheon though.......

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What you're looking at is a recirculating system for my waterfarms. Here's the setup.
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The rez is 5" off the floor, the waterfarms are 3 1/2" off the floor and the bucket with the pump is flat on the floor, creating gravity flow. I also changed the 1/2" lines to 3/4". I pump the solution from the bucket to the rez at one gallon per minute and the rez drains at about the same rate, so it's a balanced system.
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I run that for 20 minutes every 4 hours. I added the cooling coil recently and with that I can either cool with ice, frozen water bottles etc., or I can heat using an aquarium heater. Plus, the rez is outside the tent, making it easier to control temps. The red color is from the nutes.

As for canopy temps, the lights provide the heat, I just bought a fan speed controller and use different fan speeds to control temps.

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Where are they now? How has Japan Freak held up, considering his fondness for crystal meth?

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