myinvisiblecomplication
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Hey guys thanks for the replies.
By the sounds of it it's not a true no till type system as you're not able to amend with top dress of amendments. Trenching in amendments will disturb the soil food web and fungi as would dumping and mixing each round but you could do a super soil then I guess, but I like the no fuss of no till and how the soil improves every grow.
An earthbox or growbox dimensions are to big for my space and an octopot is too expensive to buy and ship to where I am. I have fabric pots thats why I was thingking of the octopot. would be pretty easy to buy a small net pot used for growing lettuce and cutting out some of the fabric pot base. I read on their website that soils need to be super lite and I'm not sure a no till is the right medium but what do I know I've never tried it.
I suppose I could folier spray my coconut and aloe waterings or add it to the resevior I'm not sure
From the ocotpot website
Again I've never grown in this type of system before and from what I see in the thread the results a re great I'm just trying to take advavtage of better systems but at the same time don't want to waste to much time mucking about with it as I don't have to space to grow multiple plants just a nice single each time.
Will look at the innertub more closely
By the sounds of it it's not a true no till type system as you're not able to amend with top dress of amendments. Trenching in amendments will disturb the soil food web and fungi as would dumping and mixing each round but you could do a super soil then I guess, but I like the no fuss of no till and how the soil improves every grow.
An earthbox or growbox dimensions are to big for my space and an octopot is too expensive to buy and ship to where I am. I have fabric pots thats why I was thingking of the octopot. would be pretty easy to buy a small net pot used for growing lettuce and cutting out some of the fabric pot base. I read on their website that soils need to be super lite and I'm not sure a no till is the right medium but what do I know I've never tried it.
I suppose I could folier spray my coconut and aloe waterings or add it to the resevior I'm not sure
I prefer not to use bottled nutes and try to avoid chemicals wherever I can. I don't do teas I just top dress dry amendments and water it into the soil nice and simple really.Some people have used teas, but it's easy to over saturate the sip , some people have added nutes to the res, I think octopot talks about this , captain used to ad nutes to his sip res
From the ocotpot website
SOIL - Always follow the 60/40 Rule! Specifically, use 60% high quality soilless mix with 40% perlite in Octopot Grow Systems. Perlite should be mixed throughout the growing media. Never create layers of perlite inside the Gro Sleeve®.
SUPER SOILS - Super soils can be too heavy and hold too much moisture, limiting air exchange which damages plants causing root rot. Also, nutrients in super soils tend to be used up too early and run out too soon in the growth cycle which starves plants. Super soil may work with Octopots if it has the correct ratio of perlite (40%) and controlled release nutrients.
Again I've never grown in this type of system before and from what I see in the thread the results a re great I'm just trying to take advavtage of better systems but at the same time don't want to waste to much time mucking about with it as I don't have to space to grow multiple plants just a nice single each time.
Will look at the innertub more closely