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 Post subject: Re: Rob's AP Adventure
PostPosted: Jul 5th, '14, 09:56 
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And how would I add an extra 1000L? Fill the growbed, aerate for a day, ph adjust before it goes to the tank?
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Filling up!!
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I filled it up, and let it sit for a few days before hooking it up to the system. Seems to have done the trick.
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Well!! Hooked it all up (minus media and filter) to make sure it all works as planned.

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Water will be pumped into the light blue barrel which will be filled with media, which will drain into the other barrel which will have some filter (shade cloth/filter pad) and that drains into the DWC bed.
All seems to work so I'll take the plumbing apart and glue it all together.
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super job !! I'm excited for you
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Thanks Jayendra. It's taken longer to finish than I had hoped. My son just had one of those annoying weeks where he wouldn't leave me alone. (He is 19 months old)

Will be up and running by next weekend I hope.

I can't wait to fill it up with seedlings :D
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Looks good Rob. Any reason you are going bf over rf?
Can you isolate your filters to clean them when required?
Drains for barrels?
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And how would I add an extra 1000L? Fill the growbed, aerate for a day, ph adjust before it goes to the tank?

I'd check pH and add daily in increments.
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Thanks guys.

If I understand bf and rf, basically so I can grow dragonfruit in the half barrel with media and am thinking of putting duckweed in the other as it always holds a level of water.
If this doesn't work as I hope, I can put a radial flow barrel in before the media barrel.
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Looks great Rob, nice work on the system :thumbright:
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Few current pics.
I got my polystyrene for the top. Just need to cut the holes in it and chuck it on top.
Got a couple bits of scrap to practice cutting on. Turned them into seedling trays.
How far apart is suggested for the holes for growing things like basil. I think I remember reading about 20cm for lettuce.
Has anyone tried strawberries in a raft?
Might add some chelated iron tomorrow. The new growth on some of the bok choi is a little yellow.
Apart from that, all is good. Still showing an ammonia level of between 0.5 and 1. No nitrites and nitrates are about 160.

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Red cabbage, pak choi, bok choi, peas area all motoring on. Broccolini was slow to start with but getting some good growth now.

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Done a bit more today on the upgrade.
Drilled all the holes and chucked some bamboo around the sides to make it look a bit nicer.
Have the ph close to the tanks. Tank is 6.3 and growbed is 6.6. Will drop it a bit more before I chuck it online.

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That bed looks really neat now with the bamboo. It will look even better when it's overflowing with greenery. The whole expansion is very schmick actually - nice work Rob :)


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Nice work Rob.

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