Lets try again-----process running with clones-----no medium, no net cups from cuttings all the way till harvest.
yes i understand what you do in your system (which is very impressive btw) but my original question was about flowering in the flood & drain botanicare tables with 5" netcups in the table covers so the netcups are suspended in the air and the roots can just grow freely in the table (no medium in the table, just in the net cups)... the question is... if i wanted to clone/veg in the aerocloner for 2 weeks total, when would you add hydroton to the net pots in the aerocloner? would you just keep hydroton in the netcup from the start of the clone or is it bad to start a clone in hydroton?... would it be too much shock to add hydroton to the netcup a week before flower (only plan on rooting/veg for 2weeks total) or should i just not add any hydroton when rooting/veg in the aerocloner and just add hydroton to the plants when i put them in the flowering table/netcups? but idk if you have the answers because you have a different set up, although alpha helped me out id be curious to your advice if you have any? thanks!
No problem bro. You could also not use a medium if you'd like, like Alaric does. Just cut the bottoms of the net pots off like I do I'm my cloner, use the pucks for support and not have to worry about planting into hydroton before flower. Just pop them in the flood table for flower and be done. Something to think about, I've not done this but it would work just as well imo
thats what i would like to do but I'm just afraid the plants would dry out to fast, although the moisture caught in the root mat and the moisture caught on the cover would probably be enough... id also like a medium for plant support but i guess the root mat could fix that problem too... idk it would just make me feel better to have some sort of medium for almost like a back-up, ya know? I'm kind of in the middle of trting to decide between some sort of lava rock or hydroton for this particular system, any thoughts?
actually I'm pretty sure the moderator pinhead that i originally stole the idea (suspended netcups) from used to use hydro rock but now just uses pieces of sponges in the netcups to hold the plant up, what do you think about that?
Hydroton will anchor the plant better I think, but both will work
The easiest way is to just throw it out into your vegetable garden and buy new shit.
strong 5yr bump...
Hahaha seriously who has time to clean the roots out of red rock.. maybe a few 50 liter bags but not a dozen or more 50 liter bags..I got better things to do.