Looks cool. If u run into nutrient deficiencies and/or lack of water problems mid to later flower it may be because of the fabric grow bags. The landscape cloth can get clogged over time. If it does, use a razor knife and cut the bag down low under your fill line. Might be best to dump your medium into the bucket after adding a rez fill tube. Good luck either way!
I was going to cut a donut out of the bottom of the fabric pot and blow a hole in the center of the pot lifter and pack the bottom 5 l pot full of peat, vermiculite and soil for an unobstructed column of soil from the bottom of the tub right up into the fabric pot. I think with the larger vertical distance of 7.5 inch and fabric pots I am asking too much for capillary action, its the reason i am going with vermiculite so it absorbs readily.....i have to test it. I'm not using a rez fill tube, going with nothing but a flashlight to look down the side, it gives me enough clearance to see down the sides. Hope to top it off with black plastic to keep light out.
I don’t know.. I think as long as u cover your sip with black trash bag snuggly and not just the grow bag, any evaporation should “rain forest“ back down. I try and follow #greenthumbs256 As close as possible and he had issues with the fabric as a filter between Rez and medium. Or maybe it was someone else lol.
I don’t think you will
That would make sense, as it evaporates at the surface it would leave salts.
#3 sounds like a f&d sip. Blowing my mind lolol. Start a grow journal please!
this system should not have salt build up problems. That is one reason sips rock. Hydro and top feed will have that problem U r right!
Especially if u stay away from coco.
At 18" x 44" x 4.1" deep for two plants total water capacity of 14 gallons, enough for two plants for 7 days at a gallon a day. With anti friction or furniture moving pads this could keep the overall height down to 6" or so and then pot on top of that, definitely work well for those who have height restrictions.
Yes Grow journal please!
Glad you chimed in, I did read in the first 20 pages or so that one member did have better success with air stones but I am glad you put that to rest. I was on the fence with em-1, so good to hear you put that to bed too.
Dont worry about a little soil in the rez. Just make sure your wick(s) is compressed.
Nice, I saw Tim's GrowBox setup a few pages back, definitely dig the super straightforward approach.
I hear people doing it two or three times a run, some do it more. Some use LABS instead. And of coarse tim flow doesn’t do it at all. I would think a few times at soil cook/beginning to get the bactira/microbes/probiotics working and then they should grow on there own. Maybe hit it a couple times in flower just to make sure things are healthy down under. I don’t think u can over do it, it just would be expensive. Eventually the fungus would eat the bacteria if it went nuts! That is why Kashi on top, bacteria down low.
Great to know, thanks!