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That's pretty nifty... But the main airation happens when the water falls onto itself out the spout... The constant agitation and movement of the water is where the magic is... Remember, you need the bubbles to rise quickly, acting as a push mechanism... Bigger bubbles do this easier and you may just be restricting your flow inadvertently.

When I first built mine, I started with 25mm, but my issue was also pumps, I had a few aquarium pumps laying around... And found that 1 doesnt do shit lol... I needed to connect up 4 aquarium pumps to get a decent flow rate

Excellent! Finally someone we can trust

That would just limit the flow really. There is no real pressure... It really is as the name implies, air lifting. So the rising bubbles push water up, which creates a negative pressure at the bottom of the air lift which sucks in the water... And so the sucked in water gets lifted by the rising air bubbles again. Having a wider pipe would just mean you need more air to counteract the weight if the water to be able to push it out the spout. Therefore needing a larger air pump(which is never a bad thing) but you can get similar volumes with a smaller pump and smaller pipe. Tips to improve flow are, inject the air as low as you can, the lower the better. Means you have more air in the pipe lifting water. Make sure your water level in the brewer is as close to the top of the spout as possible. This means more water in the pipe for the air to push up. Equaling greater output.

I need to upgrade my vortex brewer soon... Im using 25mm piping and with max air pressure it feels like there's a jet of tea coming out the top at the exit haha. Definitely a smaller tube would do this... And a larger tube would potentially be able to push higher volumes, at lower pressure if you could even call it pressure.. Not sure I would personally go 40mm. Might find a happy meduim at 32mm IMHO.

Speak with @Master_G, I know he has some major fire LED lights. If you have the 500 now, and more after payday, I'm sure he will be able to sort something out. You have the goods for a successful grow, good soil, some testing equipment, good size pot. The plants have everything they need, except light. So if you can, channel your funds into a quality light, and the rest will be history

Sounds really strange. Normally they would be one or the other. They might feel a bit denser once they have sucked up some water and are 'full' as apposed to a slightly more limp plant during the heat of the day due to excessive respiratory actions. Take some pics for us? Also, stop squeezing your buds lol

Yea man nice! If you can get a bag of freedom farms you will be happy. What other goodies you thinking of of getting? What size is the tent you bought? That 85w CFL only has one singular use... And that's to light up someone's lounge lol. I don't want to frighten you. But you are going to need better lighting. I would even say, scrap the tent for now and put that money towards a better light. I have a few lights I would recommend... But they are just to get you going and will not suffice for flower. Definitely not that 85cfl...you will be very disappointed in the final product. Check out the lighting section in the forum and see what the guys are using. Mostly high powered LED lights, but also HID lighting. What is your rough budget and what are you aiming to achieve at the end of your grow?

What's up man, welcome. What wattage is the MH bulb? And is it complete? Meduim looks fine and so is the nitrisol for feeding. Your germination method is standard practice and should work fine for you. Plant into the meduim when the taproot is about 1cm long at a depth of just a few mm. Water once with a cup or less of water and you should see leaves in a few days... Repeat... Do not water again for like a week

I'm following. Flowering ladies need the highest quality light source they can get to grow dank nugs... As well as the right amount of light. Where the sun checks both those boxes... Indoor lights often don't. As we spoke about the Acdc cool white being strictly for veg... I feel it's important to add that it's not just the colour of the light... It's the quality of the diodes. So as much as I love the lights for veg, the diodes are just not top quality or Horticultural spectrum to be able to meet your plants needs in flower. I don't think they will make that much of a difference tbh... But it would make a better night light over the cool white.. But again. Rather save that money and put it towards a proper light. And then you should notice a sweet difference in yeilds.

I feel it's pretty much a loaded question here... Basically 2 questions. Is the Acdc 2700k warm white floodlight good for flowering, or better for flowering than the cool white floodlights? And is the Acdc warm white better for flowering AF or PF. 1)yes, the warm white will be a better flowering type light than the cool white. But you must remember that these lights are designed as floodlights, and likely do not have an improved colour rendering index for Horticulture use. Is this a problem? I mean, the light colour is similar right? Well right and wrong. Yes in the sense that it is a similar colour, but wrong in the sense that you might need 300w of acdc light to provide a similar amount of photons as a 150w Horticulture quantam board or Horticulture diode array. 2)And because you are extending the hours for a flowering AF, I would agree that the warm white flood light would be a better source of red light than the 6000k veg light. 3) what difference can you expect at the end of the day? The cool white will promote shorter stretch than the warm white will. But the warm white should produce marginally better nugs. I'm not sure the difference is worth splitting ends over though. And my reason for this is your AF is getting great sunlight. Full spectrum and high intensity... The 10 hours in the sun will do more good for your plant than 20 hours under your light

That looks delicious! I see you roll a great cigarette shape joint! I must admit I like a cone shape more because a uniform joint takes too long haha Nice decor and hash trim touch man! Don't often see a treat like that!!

I'll be around to watch it all happen brother

I hope you are making as much use of the sun in the mean time? CFLs are the concentration camps of lighting

LOL as true as this is... That is actually cannabits new logo

He likes his pollen fresh out of the sac booooooi

Ay! Sick cap man! Iv always been one for caps. I'll support a brother! Guessing tees and hoodies in the line up too?

If you were in the right season... You would veg your outdoor from September to January ish... You can start any time in between that window and you will have epic success... But... Because your Lil lady had just broken surface... It's a bit late for planning hehe. All good though, you can also just let her start and finish as is... No veg period. The yeild will be small, but it will be good. And you will avoid getting close to harvest, only to have her start reveging... And that could suck for your yeild. So this round... No veg period would be your best bet for success... But in 2 months time... Best you be planting again man

well, once you have completed a grow and you have dried and jarred your bud, got it at the right RH, and finally weighed it, you will get how many grams your harvest produced. now you can use that info with the info of how many watts your light is, and what size your grow area is in feet or m2... eg. if you had one plant, and it yeilded 50g for you, but you had it under a 150w light. your Grams per watt value will be 0.333 not exactly a steller result but 50g is still good for one plant right? but now, you only had space for 1 plant (60x60), and only had the 150 as your option, you can use the grams per sqm to better gage how well your space does. 60x60 is roughly 4sqft, so 50/4 is 12.5 - again not a great result for the space. but say thats what you got the first run. you can take the figure of 0.333 gpw and 12.5gpsqft and compare it to what other growers are getting per sqft and per wat of light. noting that a grower worth his salt would be able to squeeze 1gpw from the 150w light, and in that same space the good grower would have trippled the 12.5 to 37.5gpsqft much more respectable figures

yo guys! how do you all like to rate yourselves against the best and greenest out there? let me know what you think and why?

Subbed... Guaranteed you gonna find some fire in that line up!!

Hahaha aaah you guys stories made me amped to tell mine. So I'm gonna start wish a short back story.... I grew up in a very religious household, and was quite a religious brewskie for most of my youth... So drugs of any kind were just never mentioned, and when they were... It was always depicted as life ending and pretty much a one way ticket to non salvation.... Anyways, i was eventually kicked out of the place because I liked girls... I found out my ex had a moment of clarity and confessed her sins lol... So I lost all my 'friends' and people who I thought had my back... And was like fuckit.... Screw you guys... And I started making a new life for myself... I took up ice hockey and thoroughly enjoyed it and made quite a few friends from that time that I still talk to and keep in touch with... But they were quite a bit younger than I was, mostly still in school. I seemed to gravitate towards the rebels and the misfits and the bad apples... Because hey... Am I not a bad apple?? I figured these guys I could relate to... So I started joining them in the car park when we had shift breaks for ice rink marshaling duties, where they would smoke cigarettes... And one day Gage whips out this nasty looking joint... And says.. Who wants to give this a go... They were 16/17, and I was 19/20, and not everyone was keen to participate... Maybe only 4 out of the 8 or so peeps that were there... Being the newborn rebel that was me... I decided to give this shit a go... It tasted horrible... Burnt like shit... But man... I was wowed... You just gotta smoke alil and you feel like this!!? I got high... But... That stupid goofed high you get from smoking jut lol haha hahaha... I loved it. I wanted more... So I asked Gage where can I get some more, and he showed me a little sweets stand that sells bankies of weed or prerolls... This is in 2009ish guys... I was buying R2 bankies, yes twee Ronds.... For a gram bankie of crushed leaf powder... I was again blown away... My first illigal purchase of this salvation ruining DRUG... Hard drugs man... I remember thinking this is it... I cannot be any more condemned than I currently am... So I took it home and smoked it... And then went back for more... 2 bankies now... 4 bucks of my hard earned money... Going home getting blasted with Gage and Chez lol blowing smoke rings with the hubbly and laughing our asses off for no good reason haha, good memories... And while I stayed in Durban... That is pretty much the quality I knew... I had never even seen a weed plant alive until I moved to jhb a few years later. Moved to Jozi with my dad and he also smoked, and he laughed at me when I told him what I smoke hahaha, and he graciously showed me where to get more weed... This time I'm now paying 20 bucks for a banky... But my oh my... It had formation!! It was real weed!! And for 20 bucks... It was gooooood... Way better than the shit trim leaves I was used to... But still wet behind the ears when it came to weed... Made some friends through my dad's work, and so I entered the punk rock party scene... I liked it... More people who I thought I could relate to... Social outcasts, misfits...black sheep... And it was fun... I was going to plenty gigs and this is where things start getting good.. I met so many stoners!! Like... Literally everyone smoked... Or was super chilled with smoking, and more importantly, had contacts for some A grade Cron... all the good stuff, greenhouse, indoor, medical, which to my knowledge back then was like a step up from indoor... And it was delicious... Eye opening... Magical... Beautiful... Emotional... Compelling... Glorious lol... .... Fucking expensive I got contacts for a guy in the south of jhb that sold only indoor... I used to spoil myself like once every 3 months to a gram of his delectable delights... Im talking about 'cheese' that smelt like cheese, tasted like cheese, aftertaste of cheese, fucking cheese my guys... 'Blueberry' that was literally more delicious and flavourful than a mugg&bean blueberry muffin with all the blueberry nuances... 'bubblegum' that left me thinking that there is just no fucken way it can be real... But I smoked it... It happened... Trust me, I was there lol And at this stage I had still never seen a cannabis plant and figured you needed to be a chemical scientist to cultivate such a plant lol. I didn't have much access to the internet growing up or after, so I only knew what I saw and what I read in the limited books I had access to.. Years went by and my knowledge grew and so did my salary, but so did my rent and petrol and everything fucken else... So I was eventually caught between a rock and a hard place where I could either smoke at home and not go out... Or go out and not smoke... I decided to just bite the bullet with a mate and buy a light. I bought a 400w HPS with interchangeable MH bulb for 1200 bucks and started my journey. My very first plant was pure beginners luck if ever I ever saw beginners luck lol... It was a mystery bagseed plant... But guys when I tell you it was a pheno of a lifetime... It was literally, and still is, the best smoke I have ever had.... 72g off her and I thought my fuck... This would have cost me thousands of monies!!! I was ecstatic, I bought more stuff... I did my research and decided that I am gonna do hydro... And I realized how little I knew when all the wheels started falling off and my grows were dying and problem after problem after problem... I was even on the verge of giving up... Throwing in the towel... When I stumbled across forums online.... I was like what is this? Answers to so many questions I have had! Fixes! Methods on my madness! LO and behold my plants were growing again! I couldn't be happier... I decided to sell my ice hockey kit and invest in a decent light... The way of the future, LED lighting! Using the power of HPS and Blurple tech, I managed to start growing some decent dank on the regular, enough to cover the needs of me and my GF and the occasional friend who came over hehe. And that pretty much brings us to the legalization of the cultivation of this wonderful plant we lovingly grow and admire on the daily, I wanted to become part of something larger than myself, share my knowledge with people and help as many people as possible cut out a few years of struggle that I had to endure. And so I joined this fine establishment... I get to hone my skills against some of the best in the country, get tips give tips... Share my knowledge and experience and really just give back so that everyone can fully enjoy the fruitage of their hard work and effort by growing the best they can. PS - here's a potato for the long post

Lol yea @Popcoen, you should really check out the organic growing scene. Tons of info And all of the explanations are generally not too far from here either I make use of the search function to browse the site and to find specific information I'm looking for using keywords. As much as we are here to help and guide the members of the forum, we do encourage a hands on approach, so in saying that, what ideas do you have and what amendments were you thinking of using? Show us what you have so far and give us your understanding on the products you are wanting to use and then we can guide you on ratios and stuff. The forum has members who are readily able to rattle off a decent soil mix off the top of your head, but that won't make you a better grower if you don't understand what you are putting in the soil and why. If you want to better your grows, better your knowledge first before you try better your tools. To mix your own soil, you need a place to let it cook... And I feel 100l might be a bit little to actually get this right. I would aim for 300l+ if you can

Why not try a scrog? Less stress on the plant, but you end up with a perfectly flat canopy