I have to leave town for 4 days....

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Markshomegrown

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bk78 said:
2 day old seedlings in solo cups won’t need water for the time you’ll be gone, stop fretting. Even if you’re leaving in a week from now you’ll be fine soaking the cups before you leave.
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Some more great advice by bk78 to the OP but if the humidity is low, the plants will die but what do I know.
my advice is to buy a large propagator, fill the tray with coco make one or two small holes in the base, and soak the coco, you could even do this with a clear 3-4ltr plastic sandwich box, you need to keep the humidity high, this will stop the coco drying out, tilt the lid so the lid only lets a small amount of humidity out, when you get back you can sort the plants out.
 
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bk78

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Markshomegrown said:
Some more great advice by bk78 to the OP but if the humidity is low, the plants will die but what do I know.
my advice is to buy a large propagator, fill the tray with coco make one or two small holes in the base, and soak the coco, you could even do this with a clear 3-4ltr plastic sandwich box, you need to keep the humidity high, this will stop the coco drying out, tilt the lid so the lid only lets a small amount of humidity out, when you get back you can sort the plants out.
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You grow in soil and always have. Not sure why you are even in here giving your awful advice as you always do
 
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Markshomegrown

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bk78 said:
Woke up to messages from this loser today asking what’s on my head from this picture I posted months ago? Not sure if he’s smart enough to explain how reflections work from a convex dryer knob?

Not sure if he thinks I’m the elephant man or something?

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The only thing out of line is your ears, you ugly git :p
the top edge of the bowl looks very level and so do your shoulders
maybe the reflection somehow removes the hair at the sides of your head or its a hat and you have less hair than me lol
 
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Markshomegrown

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bk78 said:
Second person added to ignore along with the king bullshiter Sammy.

I just can’t handle the annoying yappy little chihuahua anymore.
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its banter, its all good fun.
bk78 said:
You grow in soil and always have. Not sure why you are even in here giving your awful advice as you always do
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I have grown in coco and dwc, a few times, soil just works out more cost-effectively and I don't like watering every day.
 
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ComputerSaysNo

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I think with regards to growing in coco or not:
  • It's not more difficult than soil, IF you are methodical enough to properly pH the water and measure the nutrients correctly.
  • Watering is actually easier, because overwatering is barely an issue, but of course it has to be done more often, unless some kind of automatic watering is in place.
  • It's definitely not more expensive than soil. Coco can even be reused multiple times.
  • Pests are much less of an issue.
Reading questions around here I don't get the impression that soil makes it easy, at all. Certainly not easier than coco.

If setting up a simple gravity-fed drip irrigation or a wick system is too hard, then probably so will be pH-balancing the water. Maybe get a different hobby?

In my experience learning how to grow is not more difficult than learning how to bake a cake or follow some non-trivial cooking recipe. All of which require some discipline; you need to water plants, and you cannot let the cake burn by setting the oven too high and then forget about it for several hours.
 
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Markshomegrown

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ComputerSaysNo said:
I think with regards to growing in coco or not:
  • It's not more difficult than soil, IF you are methodical enough to properly pH the water and measure the nutrients correctly.
  • Watering is actually easier, because overwatering is barely an issue, but of course it has to be done more often, unless some kind of automatic watering is in place.
  • It's definitely not more expensive than soil. Coco can even be reused multiple times.
  • Pests are much less of an issue.
Reading questions around here I don't get the impression that soil makes it easy, at all. Certainly not easier than coco.

If setting up a simple gravity-fed drip irrigation or a wick system is too hard, then probably so will be pH-balancing the water. Maybe get a different hobby?

In my experience learning how to grow is not more difficult than learning how to bake a cake or follow some non-trivial cooking recipe. All of which require some discipline; you need to water plants, and you cannot let the cake burn by setting the oven too high and then forget about it for several hours.
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I mix up some soil, pot up and flower the plants off, water every 3-4 days (4ltrs each) may top dress once or twice in flower.
I don't use PH up/down and I don't check the water EC level, also I don't have to water every day.
With a large tank of water and a pump, I could set the pump up to water every 3 days, check on the room every two weeks, top the tank up.

my plant food is nearly free, might be £1 for the dry plant food mixed (for each 29ltr pot) in the soil and I reuse 70% of the soil, bags of compost is 2 for £10 (50ltrs) sharp sand cost £2 a bag and I use some perlite (50ltr bags on eBay are really cheap).

what's the complete setup cost for coco including ec/ph meters?
 
Boatguy

Boatguy

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ComputerSaysNo said:
Reading questions around here I don't get the impression that soil makes it easy, at all. Certainly not easier than coco.

If setting up a simple gravity-fed drip irrigation or a wick system is too hard, then probably so will be pH-balancing the water. Maybe get a different hobby?
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Considering soil gardening doesnt require those things, it is in fact easier. I water every 3 or 4 days when the plant is established.
Pretty easy, and gives me time to do things that matter.
 
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