Hot Diggity Sog
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My biggest thing is I don't want a container that is too wide...I can't have any wasted space so the closest the plants can be next to one another is the maximum pot width I can go.
The clay, the artificial root that is, needs to soaked and enclosed tightly by a medium that attempts to suck water through the clay. That causes the pressure inside, which on my blumat tensiometer results in a digital reading but the blumat tropf (name is drip in german) uses that same system to pulls open a membrane to allow water through the drip line above it.I know they work for soil but I wonder would they work for a medium like perlite?
That's my issue too, with the added variable that I remove males and possibly some females. So I want to start with 36 plants, something similar but without perlite/medium (e.g. a sprayer or two in each container, mini low pressure aero chambers), would keep the roots from plants apart so I can move them around and remove plants without ripping roots apart. All easy enough BUT, once I'm back to like 9-12 plants or so, I don't want to waste the root space of the remaining 25 or so plants. In soil I obviously just pot up. I may at some point just settle for creating a 6x6 system and a separate 3x4 that can be scaled back to 3x3 if needed.My biggest thing is I don't want a container that is too wide...I can't have any wasted space so the closest the plants can be next to one another is the maximum pot width I can go.
That's some wound up roots! Yeah...in Chapter 1 I took apart some of the containers and they did not really look to be root bound. They actually had fewer roots than I expected....so I kind of think any option will be OK in regard to roots. I do have some interesting containers I'm looking at. I only have the clear ones but they make white and they are cheap.That's my issue too, with the added variable that I remove males and possibly some females. So I want to start with 36 plants, something similar but without perlite/medium (e.g. a sprayer or two in each container, mini low pressure aero chambers), would keep the roots from plants apart so I can move them around and remove plants without ripping roots apart. All easy enough BUT, once I'm back to like 9-12 plants or so, I don't want to waste the root space of the remaining 25 or so plants. In soil I obviously just pot up. I may at some point just settle for creating a 6x6 system and a separate 3x4 that can be scaled back to 3x3 if needed.
Anyway, I get the dilemma. So what is the grow space + light you will have available for the individual container grow? My main issue is that I rather not create and connect and maintain 36 or more individual hydro containers. If you have no problem doing that for example for a 4x4 space with a 750watter then my second point is less of an issue. Actually, doh... you're doing 12/12 from seed so you can ignore that part on getting root bound etc.
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Was looking for another pic but I ended up placing 1 liter bottles, after cutting off the bottom like in the pic, on top of 2 liter bottles.
No, not aero. NFT in the big octagon-ish thing and just fiddling around different ideas for the others. Want to get another batch started in early August so I've got a month to figure out which direction to go with.you running aero diggity?!? set up looks good. like akhiym said give them a bit.
Damn. Thought I was on to somethingNaw bro those are bubble bags for making hash pot sox are similar but hold medium in the pot to dispose of once finished. It allows the soilless medium to be drained easily with any medium coming through your lines
Here they are bro. Can only get them in Australia and UK but I haven't found a supplier that ships them cheap well maybe if I just ordered pot sox it wouldn't be bad but I want 4 of those 50L/15gal pots for my hydro system.Damn. Thought I was on to something
Hey Hot Diggity, I have an idea for this setup. If you Google 'capn style' you can see the hydro setup I was running before. You see more of it on 420mag and icmag than here. Basically, the hydro containers sit on the lid of a tote bin with relatively small pump in the bin that goes to top feed lines. You use pots that drain well (I used airpots) and put an empty net basket in a hole in the lid to let everything drain back down. Its a really simple but effective hydro system, and the multiple reservoirs let you adjust your nute mix for different strains.I just popped 8 blue dream seeds into a cup of water. I'm going to prepare 8 more of these pvc containers.
2 with hydroton and air stone.
2 with hydroton and no air stone
2 with growstone and air stone
2 with growstone and no airstone
Growstone link if you're not familiar: I have some bags arriving this week to try em out...1st time.
http://www.growstone.com/hydroponic-substrate/
I really want to try perlite too but it clogs my drain line so I have to come up with a different idea...maybe I'll pop 2 more blue dreams and do these other buckets I have.
I'll go find it and get reading...thanks!Hey Hot Diggity, I have an idea for this setup. If you Google 'capn style' you can see the hydro setup I was running before. You see more of it on 420mag and icmag than here. Basically, the hydro containers sit on the lid of a tote bin with relatively small pump in the bin that goes to top feed lines. You use pots that drain well (I used airpots) and put an empty net basket in a hole in the lid to let everything drain back down. Its a really simple but effective hydro system, and the multiple reservoirs let you adjust your nute mix for different strains.
Is this the series: http://dudegrows.com/lets-captain-style-baby-part-1/Hey Hot Diggity, I have an idea for this setup. If you Google 'capn style' you can see the hydro setup I was running before. You see more of it on 420mag and icmag than here. Basically, the hydro containers sit on the lid of a tote bin with relatively small pump in the bin that goes to top feed lines. You use pots that drain well (I used airpots) and put an empty net basket in a hole in the lid to let everything drain back down. Its a really simple but effective hydro system, and the multiple reservoirs let you adjust your nute mix for different strains.