Hydro vs Soil test

[ounevinsmoke]

Organic soil?Then watering with synthetic nutes?You'd be better off using coco or if organic true organic is just plain water.
My guess is the hydro will be easier and have less problems.
edit,,,,,,, providing you dont over feed and have a good understanding of how hydro works.

If you dont create your own soil or have it amended, you are not doing a true soil grow.

 

[sean8049]

Quick update with these girls. The hydro is performing fantastically! The soil, not so much as a comparison. I have a feeling it's the shit MG organic soil I'm using this round but it's enough to switch to 100% hydro after this grow. The green crack soil plant is canoeing for some reason tried a bunch of different corrections but oh well. Check the pics

 

[Failmore]

Anyone have an opinion on using mega crop all in one feed in the Wilma system?, with it being a dry powder and maybe clogging pipes and parts of the system.

You get some powder debris in the bottom of the res. Clean the res once a week. Worked great for me in veg so far. I dont use small jets or dripper tho. I use those rings and they spray a lot of water. The debris is not big enough to clog for me.

 

[Thebigyin]

You get some powder debris in the bottom of the res. Clean the res once a week. Worked great for me in veg so far. I dont use small jets or dripper tho. I use those rings and they spray a lot of water. The debris is not big enough to clog for me.

Hi, thanks for the reply, I'm contemplating making my own rings out of silicon vacuum hose, do you know what size drill bit would be ideal for drilling holes in the hose pipe?

 

[Failmore]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I'm contemplating making my own rings out of silicon vacuum hose, do you know what size drill bit would be ideal for drilling holes in the hose pipe?

They are 12$ each the ones i got. I did the make your own thing for my seedling set up and it was a mess.

But if I had to give an answer just make it small. Use the smallest bit you got...try it out...you can always go bigger.

Amazon.com : HYDROFLOW HGC748086 Irrigation Fitting Rain Ring Drip Emitter, Use With All Growing Media, Strategically Placed Distribution Holes Position At Ideal Plant Height, 6" Diameter, 1/2" Inlet, Blue : Garden & Outdoor

Amazon.com : HYDROFLOW HGC748086 Irrigation Fitting Rain Ring Drip Emitter, Use With All Growing Media, Strategically Placed Distribution Holes Position At Ideal Plant Height, 6" Diameter, 1/2" Inlet, Blue : Garden & Outdoor

www.amazon.com

 

[Failmore]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I'm contemplating making my own rings out of silicon vacuum hose, do you know what size drill bit would be ideal for drilling holes in the hose pipe?

This was me seedling set up.

 

[Thebigyin]

This was me seedling set up. View attachment 4686881View attachment 4686882

Thanks for the link, il going to look into them they look real neat and way better for watering evenly, I'm going to be using the wilma 18 XL, I have modified the 70ltr Res slightly with an mj1000 pumping nutes from bottom to the top creating a water fall effect for more DO.