So can either of you tell me, at what point do you allow the roots to grow into the water?
I'm guessing the advice you were given on water levels was related to the bottom of the netcups, not the roots. The roots will grow out of the netcups and reach the water on their own.So can either of you tell me, at what point do you allow the roots to grow into the water?
Also, how many plants might be prefered at 600watts? I have 9 in my soilless and I think it's too many. I'm only pulling about 6 ounces or so off the 9
holy cow. thats a lot of grass. my first 2 soil grows had a lot of ph and lockout issues. so thats probably what most of it was. along with my inexperience. my current soilless grow seems to be going much better. i'll know more about the numbers in about 3 weeks.
Use coco in hempy buckets and it's full-on hydroponic. It is also dead simple and effective. I used general hydroponics aeroflo18 for over a year and ditched it for hempy buckets.
from what I found googling, (which wasn't much) hempy buckets are just a slightly modified container with coco. Isn't that just growing soilless. I dont quite understand.
Hydro is basically "just growing soilless".
I gotcha. I was looking into the direction of a DWC. using buckets of bubbling water to allow constant access to a recirculating feeding solution. From what I understand these systems have the fastest growth.
I agree. I'm working on getting everything all set up. Next thing I need to narrow down would be how many plants should I have. Thinking somewhere between 4-6 but its a tough call because 6 would cost a fair amount more than 4. and I dont want overcrowding issues because im only running a 600 watt and im currently growing 9 plants in my peat. (definitely think im currently overcrowded)
What size tent/room you growing in?
my room size is about 10x10ish. but my growing area is about 4x4 to 5x5 depending how much i space them out.
Optimally you'd want to stick to 4x4 with the 600w
I do plan to do a bit of topping. I was thinkign 5 gallon coolers for res'
You could fill the 4x4 pretty easily with just 2. Lots of res' may become a pain. Really depends on what your lookin for though, could do rdwc to ease the work load if you really want a variety of strains.
with just 2?! really??? I'd prefer to do recirculating, but everything I read makes it sound very complicated, i suppose I just dont understand it. So i was just going to go with standalones. are you sure about 2? are we talking huge veg times here? I can get a little impatient sometimes :/ I thought 4 might not be enough o.o
Yeah, you'd have to train it right but you could just grow two big plants that would fill the footprint and get atleast a gram per watt. Nah only like a month veg, just stick one of these(https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-dwc-5-gallon-scrog.510210/)on there nice n low and grow horizontally to fill your space. Of course it depends on the grower, I think you'll just have to do some growing and find the right method for yourself. I think with all the questions you have you might be in for a real treat jumping into 4-6 dwc buckets. That's why I'd suggest less for now until you've at least grown in dwc, but if you got the time and will then run 6 and see how things go. Experience is your best learning tool.
how do you suggest training for a 4-6 week veg? Is topping too stressful for the short period?