WattSaver
Well-Known Member
This afternoon I broke down 3 buckets, These were the first to run the new mix of coir, mulch, & perlite. Overall these were some of the biggest fattest roots I'd seen in a hempy bucket, and the roots really attached themselves to the coco pith (stringy longer fibers) and to a slightly lesser degree the chunks. The 3.5 gal bucket had a perlite rez and again virtually no roots in the rez. The other 2 were smart pot experiments, with the same medium but the 3 part mix filled the whole pot (no perlite rez) now the root density in the smart pots was less than 1/2 of the hard sided bucket, I'm beginning to think after a couple of runs with the smart pot in a passive hydro setup, that the fabric pot is a hindrance, to the science of hydro. The fabric prunes the roots when the reach the edge, where in the hard side the roots hit the wall then drop and burrow back into the medium.
I'm still going to try a side by side with clones (fabric vs. hard) for a definitive result, (it's been seeds so far). But until then I'm putting them away, so far they haven't stacked up the the hard side in a hempy application.
I'm still going to try a side by side with clones (fabric vs. hard) for a definitive result, (it's been seeds so far). But until then I'm putting them away, so far they haven't stacked up the the hard side in a hempy application.