Organic Hydroponics

So, a while back I ran across an old article, written in 2000, from CC about Organic Hydroponics, in a dual zone system, with a top soil-based organic-fed zone, and a lower hydro system, giving clean water to the lower 2/3 of the roots.

Link to article: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1534.html

Anyone ever done this before?

Since then, I've built a 12L bucket-based ebb & flow system, for two buckets, with the lower 1/2 of the bucket fed with fresh water, using a hydroton medium, and I used a 2-3" layer of coco coir fibres as a zone/medium separator, and the top of the bucket is filled with a soil/soilless mix of: greenhouse "pro-mix", perlite, EWC, guano.

I've got the timer on the ebb & flow set to run for 15min every 6 hours. It floods to the top of the hydroton, and the coco coir brings the moisture up to the soil level thru capillary action. I can hand feed the organic zone with molasses or any bennies, and will change up the bottom water res every 2 weeks.

Just put a couple of TGA Plushberry clippings that have vegged a few weeks already under T5 in the system yesterday, after a few days of testing everything. Pictures will follow in the next day or so.

I've done things with hydro organic. Not the same idea. but ebb and flow and nft in trays. A complicated dance and mixed results but when it was on point shit grew crazy.

Fingers crossed I'll have a decent maiden voyage. I'll definitely learn something new doing this process. Glad to hear things can grow like crazy when everything comes together.

Sounds like a lot of not needed complications

ringlead3r said:

Sounds like a lot of not needed complications

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Only time will tell. So far, other than building the system, it hasn't been complicated at all...actually, its been super simple. Its all stuff I have lying around the house already, other than the pump and a few plumbing ends...have less than $50 invested in the entire setup.