Three seedlings in one DWC pot?

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LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #1

I have these three seedlings in pic. I have one DWC bucket with big net pot. Any ideas? Also, when I place whatever in net pot, should I put new rock wool cube under seedling cube or just fill with ceramic balls?

 

The Gram Reaper

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #2

Take the best one and give it the pot?

 

L

LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #3

 

L

LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #4

The Gram Reaper said:

Take the best one and give it the pot?

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im a little nervous I might kill it. Managed to kill some germs on transplant. Would rather triple my chances I think... Grew once in college with dirt. Really have no clue. Thinking I’ll spread them out on edges of pot. I have one pot in a 24”x24”x48” tent. Hoping I can prune for bushy. Maybe throw some rock wool cubes in bottom of net pot, then my three guys and fill the middle with ceramic beads. Not sure on more rock wool vs more beads.

 

OldMedUser

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #5

Those f'n pails totally suck for stand-alone DWC ! You only get 3 gal of nutes in there and have to constantly be messing with pH and PPMs.

Fine for a RDWC system but I've used RubberMaid tubs since 2001 to grow up to 16 plants in one tub and only have to top up and check things every 3 days. I've done 50 grows like that and go the whole grow and never change nutes using RO water and AN pH Perfect nutes.



Never having to worry about pH is a huge save.

 

myke

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #6

1-2 inches of balls then your seedling then back fill with balls.No dont add another cube of rockwol.

 

myke

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #7

As said get a large tote,make your holes for net pots 1/8 less.

 

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LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #8

Thank you all. Roots are 2+ “ out of cubes, no tub handy. Will transplant to what I have. No more rock wool, thanks for that. Will post progress.

 

myke

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #9

So the problems that you will face down the road. A lot of roots in that small bucket. If by chance one of your seeds is male it will mess everything up as you can’t just remove it and all it’s roots. PH will be impossible to balance as you’ll have more roots then water in that small pail. Spend the $20 on a tote and more net pots. The pH stability alone is worth the extra$.
Good luck.

 

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LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #10

Some bad things happened, including lifting the rock wool cube....almost off the top of the plant. And I didn’t have the tub, water, air setup yet. If they survive this ordeal, they are blessed plants indeed.

However, Operation Threes Company is underway!!

 

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L

LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #11

Thank you for the tub suggestions. More water volume makes great sense, better to buffer my next bonehead moves!

I’m not sure how I feel about separating them by the time the tub comes.. Maybe I’ll make one hole in the middle for the net pot holding the triplets.

 

L

LedCOB

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• Sep 27, 2020

• #12

For now.. water level until the roots get out of net pot?

 

L

LedCOB

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• Sep 29, 2020

• #13

Wow! They survived and look bigger already. I think the light green highlights on the edges of the leaves are because the lights are too close. Low power lights for now, switching to LED/COB soon. Don’t want to shock them more than I already have.

 

L

LedCOB

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• Sep 29, 2020

• #14

T5’s are 3” away

 

L

LedCOB

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• Oct 13, 2020

• #15

Two weeks later, progressing nicely. Just switched from T5 to LED/COB. Nutes PPM keeps dropping so I guess I’m not adding enough??

 

L

LedCOB

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• Nov 27, 2020

• #16

myke said:

So the problems that you will face down the road. A lot of roots in that small bucket. If by chance one of your seeds is male it will mess everything up as you can’t just remove it and all it’s roots. PH will be impossible to balance as you’ll have more roots then water in that small pail. Spend the $20 on a tote and more net pots. The pH stability alone is worth the extra$.
Good luck.

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This is exactly what happened. Switched to tub and things got much more stable.

 

L

LedCOB

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• Nov 27, 2020

• #17

Six weeks after transplant: