My total disgust and complete could not be bothered replying was initiated by your man
and the ever so common across any forum topic the self proclaimed omnipotence often accompanied by a few sheep to fully allow the omnipotence entity to fully bask in his or her own brilliance.
Often this also causes the most common reason for people leaving a forum.
(oh and you can upload a picture of a marijuana plant well fkn done son)
It is not what you say tractor man but how you said it.
No 1 - did not realise it would be so noob central so did not see the reason to explain that drying out is not letting your plant go on some sort of hunger strike until their leaves shrivel with dehydration death; or as hunter wellies man like to put it "enforced drought" what a lovely bit of poetic licence that was.
A far more productive and useful way to answer would have been to simply say. "we only had this debate / discussion the other XYZ - there were different opinions here is the thread link and you can take from it what you wish.
But no the self proclaimed omnipotence prick has to reply with contempt, ignorance and a general demure of ridicule. Of course anyone with basic people skills will know this is not the way to answer questions in a forum or anywhere else for that matter.
Furthermore he lists a bunch of irrelevant food crops that could not be further removed from hydro style growing, but failed to think of maybe crops such as strawberries that are grown on mass with varied techniques again the only reason for such answers is to further beat his chest, to show his superiority to the following sheep and allow a bit more basking in self importance.
Just so the definition can be added - drying out for dwc or retic would be - allowing the plant to use all liquid in the bin and allowing 24 or so hours before refilling rather than the top up method.
Some more switched on people sought of understood this and mentioned it.
well tbh, we discussed this a couple of days ago, and there was no agreement on whether you should or shouldn't, but what was agreed that you can do it this way and still grow perfectly healthy plants and is not by any means a practice to be avoided at all costs. And it is clearly an accepted manner of growing, hence the succes people have with ebb n flow systems.
are people possbily getting all angry at each other over a simple misunderstanding? (I could be wrong and there is reason for the slander
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But when these folk are saying drying out, are they meaning dry out as in bone dry (stupid) or dry out in the normal growers meaning that is to say let it dry out (enough) so as to minimize risk of overwatering? I would always let my plants "dry out", as in making sure i'm not gonna be overwatering them, and there was never any issues. This being with soil.
You say it should be avoided at all cost, yet i managed just fine doing it that way.
And i have seen a number of ebb n flow designed to do exactly that, flood to a set point and then drain off all water, and with hydroton, ther's going to be little to no water retention.
as was discussed yesterday or whenever with lemon king, sure it might be better to keep it topped up at all times, but you can VERY happily just let it drink it's water, then re-fill once at a few inches from the bottom. Might not be the recommended method, but it still works none the less.