if you have it so the water nutes flow back in the res you can leave it on all the time as long as the feeder tube is 1/4 inch because these not to much water and therse enough air to make them grow
i dont hate it i you it all the time i wish alot of other people would use it and they would probaly stop haveing so much problems that this other soils are giving them but if they used it they would add a bunch of nutes at first and still fuck there shit up there all in a big hurry to get the...
i made a drip system the buckets with plants were up higher then res and water/nutes flowed back to res and got air rated again and pumped never stoped running it worked great exept the drip emitters pluged alot so i took them off and ran the 1/4 inch tubeing only the clay seem to stay wet and...
yes mylar on top of cubes put slot in from edge to middle so the stem is in middle of mylar piece and lay it down flat on cube to stop light penetrating and hitting cube r/o water is good distilled water and also rain water if you get a lot of rain where you are ,and is not bad do to pollutines...
sorry i do like the drip buket system one water pump one air pump one res that can be kept out of grow room so water doesnot get warm and can add easy to the system and when proply ,one or both pumps can go down and not harm your plants because the plants roots are in little water and some...
both are good ,about the same as care/work, yield too same personly i would go with the second one if electric fails the plants wont dry out because there in water compaird to the other which drains riteaway you can also keep the res out of grow room if want helps with water not getting to warm...
check res ph and temps ppms should be around 300 ppms for first two weeks then up it 100 a week ph around 5.5-5.8 water temp 67 air temp76 and put foil ,mylar around sream but over cube to keep light from it (nutes,water,light=algae) and they do sell product to kill algae in hydro shop and your...
water temp to high cause the problem and also tap water will do the same if its a drip system try moving the res out of grow room to cooler place .make and exsperment get another bucket fill it the same as the other in grow room put in cooler place for 24 hours check phs in both see what happens...
i woulld use the hps and mh together iin same room for flowering some under one light some under the other and switch them up daily plus its good to move plants so all sides get enough light and use the other lights for vegging
do you have in and out air flow what is temp in the fridge what soil are you useing also put plants in a bigger container not that damn coco plant container