Can you use soil in netting pots instead of clay pellets?

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alvear1311

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What im trying to say is, like grow the plant in soil and move
it to a netting pot and fill it with more soil instead of rinsing the dirt and placing it in clay pellets.. I was thinking since its in a netting pot the roots will eventually grow long enough to reach the water in thereservoirand just feed off of the water there.. Will this work or not?
 
Yow420

Yow420

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the clay is used cuz it doesn't trap near as much water as soil. your liable to drown your plant.. your reservoir will be dirty as hell with soil falling through. i'm not gonna say its impossible.. but i would strongly recommend not using soil in a hydro grow
 
grannybonger

grannybonger

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A plant started in dirt grows completely different than hydro, espesially the roots, I have one going right now that is alive but not growing 1 mo later. It was a mo old when i moved her from dirt to clay, she's developed hydro roots but won't grow. But in another case I did what you want to do and she converted and grew a ton of skimpy shit and i just tossed it.
 
Hugo Phurst

Hugo Phurst

Well-Known Member
grannybonger said:
A plant started in dirt grows completely different than hydro, espesially the roots, I have one going right now that is alive but not growing 1 mo later. It was a mo old when i moved her from dirt to clay, she's developed hydro roots but won't grow. But in another case I did what you want to do and she converted and grew a ton of skimpy shit and i just tossed it.
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Took this one from soil to dwc.shock.jpg
Only grew to 18in, got less than 1/2oz (kickass shit), I'm trying to reveg to clone.
 
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alotapot

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grannybonger said:
A plant started in dirt grows completely different than hydro, espesially the roots, I have one going right now that is alive but not growing 1 mo later. It was a mo old when i moved her from dirt to clay, she's developed hydro roots but won't grow. But in another case I did what you want to do and she converted and grew a ton of skimpy shit and i just tossed it.
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Ya know.. thats kinda odd.. I've rinsed dirt from a lot of plants and put them into clay pellet with great success, tho now I'm growing in coco and still doing the same practice when necessary.

alp

ps: as for putting dirt into a hydro system? I would NOT do it!
 
grannybonger

grannybonger

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It's a miracle, one month plus and she's starting to grow, got bright green new, finally, this was a healthy 1mo old plant raised in dirt, unrinced I just knocked 3/4 of the dirt off, it's twin in dirt is doing great. A previous one I rinced the she died, I drowned her before she developed the hydro roots.

So yeah, it's possible if their young.
 
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