It was more to do with dealing with higher temps in the summer here. I unplug the shed around june 1 and head outdoors then back in in hopefully a week or 2 when temps drop below 80 lol. Was thinking coco I could shorten that up a bit. Going to hook up a deep water circ system instead into the lake, just need to get the trench dug lol.
I have no clue about coco lol. I run lps setup and start at .2 using just aqua flakes and microblift pl, and calmag if needed, I never add anything but that for the whole grow. I raise EC slowly to appr .6 and monitor res to see how EC changes and adjust. I was thinking of switching to coco dtw but now may just stick with this as over the last two years I've dialled it in to be pretty maintenance and trouble free.
That looks fine to me.... is that a scrog underneath your plants?
Its just a shelf unit like in Ikea with a t5 lightwave at the top and fan, my flowering tent is 4 times the size 600w hps all air cooled.
Its low pressure spray nozzles, just one of many variations using totes and trays. I dont think i actually have a pic of the setup. I'll have a look on the laptop tomorrow. I've growen (or tried growing lol) in pretty much every way. Started in dirt about 40 years ago but just moved in side seriously 5 years ago, so still learning lol. Coco and true high pressure aero are the only ones I haven't tried. My seedling stage is pretty straight forward. Germ in paper towel. Throw them in RW cubes which have been in the netpots and running for a couple of days. I only spray 3 times a day and sometimes just twice till roots are established then turn the switch to full time spray. I have found the biggest issue I have with seedlings is to much water before they have a good root structure. But yes I have had issues with seedlings as well lol. .2 ec and 5.8 ph is what I start them in. And bennies right from the start as well in the rock wool.
no i never heard that LOL
Only recently they found most of our beef products had horse meat in, a couple had traces of dog and stuff.
Yeh we got the horse too lol, not so sure about dog though
How the fuck can a big juicy steak have dog in it! Cow eat the dog? Lol
I never run a scrog but ask others, it seems pretty popular. I normally top after 3/4 weeks veg and flower, this keeps them short and even but i always go for shortish strains to start with.
Beef products, sausage, lasange, mince beef, burgers anything processed. The worst part is they had meat they couldnt even identify. The horse meat was in everything and the rest was just isolated cases.
I always keep things on the light side when feeding at every stage and just watch the fluctuation in the res., with hydro I find it easy but soil was always very confusing for me lol. its way easier to up the EC if needed, the tips of the leaves also tell me when things are getting a tad hot.
The only difference is years ago the weed wasnt nearlly as potent as some of the strains today, but i totally agree with what your saying, sometimes getting to technical can complicate things, up until now i never used any ppm ph, etc etc.. and still did ok but i see room for improvement and feel the ph especially is important..
I think a scrog and topping is the way foward for me.. im just debating wether or not to start my babys in rockwoll or just small pots of coco?? Any suggestions? Ive always just started in coco
I would not recomend rockwool or over complicate things, do what you did last time just monitor the ph for this grow and see if it brings improvement.