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Old 03-31-2007, 02:50 PM
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Al, so what works for you is putting the plants in pots (with hydroton as the medium?) and then the pots in ebb and flow trays? how tall, my tray is 5" deep.
All correct except that I use loose rockwool (aka 'floc,' sold in bale-sized bags) in the pots. My pots are common, 8" diameter x 8" tall black plastic pots (the black colour does block some light from roots, but high-intensity light will pass right through some plastics despite being coloured black), $1 each at Kmart.


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Rockwool holds a lot of water and need only be flooded 1x/day. If you fill the pots with expanded clay pellets, you'll need to flood perhaps 3-4x/day during lights on.

I'm not a fan of expanded clay; it's expensive, heavy and if you drop a handful of it, you will chase it all over the room. It might be re-usable, but not without cleaning and sterilising the stuff, a major pain in the ass all by itself.

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great stuff Al, just one more question though, how early do you start trimming the lower third of your plants?
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I do a couple of passes on branch trimming, once in wk 2 and again in wk 3.
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Yeah, Man, I snip the small lower branches about Day 15.
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cool cool, thanks again guys.
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Stick around fadrian- we'll have you swimming in buds before you know it.
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haha well see, my first crop should be due in a 3-4 weeks
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tomorrow the next set of clones will go in and the others will rotate and get new nutes, its amazing how nice they are growing, cant wait for the next two weeks!wow!
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Good to hear! Do keep us posted.
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they went in and fr about two hours they looked sick but then they perked back up and look real good now, with any luck i'll be seing the sea of green!
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