purzurples
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Hello
Grow 1.0 ended abruptly last week when I paranoided out and ate the plant. Yes, it was ONE autoflowering plant that endured every possible form of stress only an experimenting noobie like myself couldve possibly dished out. She endured...and went into her first week of flowering right on schedule, at exactly the fifth week, and at 12 inches (30cm) tall.
Then...a couple of things happened around here, namely outside my house which caused me to seriously freak the fk out. So...I dismantled everything, and......insalata lowryder....not too tasty with the nutes still in it, but I'm proud to be a candidate for the "wierd and wonderful" stories Ive read since I started, lol.(the most interesting of which is the girl vertical aero grower who uses menstral blood as a nute additive).
ANYWAY, I'm hoping for some input on grow2.0.
I was obsessed for a while with building systems. I built a 2x4 ebb and flow table, a 6-site aero/dwc tote with pvc mist manifold etc, and have a bunch of ready-to-go dwc 5Gal buckets. I'm happiest with the idea of using the buckets for some reason it seems like the finest and simplest of systems to me.
So here goes...
I LOVE coir. but can't see how it could be used in an ebbFlow table. after flooding the table, like, ALL of the coir gets washed out of the containers. Even if the coir is inside a "stocking" it's still messy.
Tried aero, and now I know why it is considered so hard to maintain. IMO, if you're doing aero you NEED a tri-meter because that thing was all over the place with temps, ph and the plants were like: "dude, get me out of this fking thing."
After all that systems-building, the girl wound up in a store-bought 1 Gallon container of coir, and I felt that plant say "ahhh, man, thanks, its so comfy in here". She grew sweetly in it (until she became lunch of course).
I'm set on a 5Gallon DWC bucket with a commercial air pump and a micropore stone. in the net lid of the bucket: lava rocks at the bottom, and coir at the top. It'll be non-redirculating.
I imagine DWC is very efficient speedwise bec the roots will have constant access to all the food they need and will have huge supply of oxygen.
Best nutes for a DWC?
Got a favorite link of DWC pics?
How the heck does a recirc DWC do the recirc?
Thanks for reading my story
Psyched for 2.0
Grow 1.0 ended abruptly last week when I paranoided out and ate the plant. Yes, it was ONE autoflowering plant that endured every possible form of stress only an experimenting noobie like myself couldve possibly dished out. She endured...and went into her first week of flowering right on schedule, at exactly the fifth week, and at 12 inches (30cm) tall.
Then...a couple of things happened around here, namely outside my house which caused me to seriously freak the fk out. So...I dismantled everything, and......insalata lowryder....not too tasty with the nutes still in it, but I'm proud to be a candidate for the "wierd and wonderful" stories Ive read since I started, lol.(the most interesting of which is the girl vertical aero grower who uses menstral blood as a nute additive).
ANYWAY, I'm hoping for some input on grow2.0.
I was obsessed for a while with building systems. I built a 2x4 ebb and flow table, a 6-site aero/dwc tote with pvc mist manifold etc, and have a bunch of ready-to-go dwc 5Gal buckets. I'm happiest with the idea of using the buckets for some reason it seems like the finest and simplest of systems to me.
So here goes...
I LOVE coir. but can't see how it could be used in an ebbFlow table. after flooding the table, like, ALL of the coir gets washed out of the containers. Even if the coir is inside a "stocking" it's still messy.
Tried aero, and now I know why it is considered so hard to maintain. IMO, if you're doing aero you NEED a tri-meter because that thing was all over the place with temps, ph and the plants were like: "dude, get me out of this fking thing."
After all that systems-building, the girl wound up in a store-bought 1 Gallon container of coir, and I felt that plant say "ahhh, man, thanks, its so comfy in here". She grew sweetly in it (until she became lunch of course).
I'm set on a 5Gallon DWC bucket with a commercial air pump and a micropore stone. in the net lid of the bucket: lava rocks at the bottom, and coir at the top. It'll be non-redirculating.
I imagine DWC is very efficient speedwise bec the roots will have constant access to all the food they need and will have huge supply of oxygen.
Best nutes for a DWC?
Got a favorite link of DWC pics?
How the heck does a recirc DWC do the recirc?
Thanks for reading my story
Psyched for 2.0