What medium do you use in your pots in your ebbflow system

I just bought a 3' x 3' ebbflow hydro system and was wanting to see what most people use as their medium in the pots. I am going to put my clones in rapid rooters and have like 20 or 25 pots in the system.

pimpnitjc said:

I just bought a 3' x 3' ebbflow hydro system and was wanting to see what most people use as their medium in the pots. I am going to put my clones in rapid rooters and have like 20 or 25 pots in the system.

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I'm using coco and hydroton. Not a normal set up, but it has been working for me. My grow journal has pics if you're interested.

Good luck with your grow!

I was wanting to do hydrotron or the coconut. I was not wanting to do the hydrotron in the whole tray though, just in the pots. I have heard that coco stuff works good.

pimpnitjc said:

I was wanting to do hydrotron or the coconut. I was not wanting to do the hydrotron in the whole tray though, just in the pots. I have heard that coco stuff works good.

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I picked both mediums because I read it is very difficult to overwater coco or hydroton. I had read quite a few good reviews on the coco, and as I wasn't going to fill the tray with plants, I put the hydroton in between the pots. I did this for two reasons. First, it takes up empty space in the flood tray to allow quicker floods with less total reservoir requirements. Second, I knew that if the roots grew outside the containers onto the tray, the light would kill them. Being my first grow, I didn't really know how big of a container I would need for good root develoment, so I figured I'd hedge my bet. The only downside to my system in non-portability of the pots.

Good luck with your decision.