Hello every1 n thnx in advance 4 n e help u can offer me. I am very new to growing. I am on my 3rd grow now all of which have been done in soil. I am getting ready 2 start my 4th n this 1 I want 2 try hydro.
So here is what I have: 1, a single general hydroponics water farm drip system. 2, clay pellets. 3, a white widow seedling grown in a rockwool plug.
My questions are as follow. What should my water ph be at? At what point do I start 2 add nutes? & most importantly what should my watering schedule b, how long does the drip need 2 b on n how long of an off cycle?

Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics Tutorial - Marijuana Growing Post # 13 is all about pH.

You want to average 5.8 to 6.2 but 5.6 to 6.4 is OK too.

Add nutes, 1/4 dose, AFTER you see 4 leaves, not counting those first two round ones.

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awsome, ty 4 that info. Can you please tell me what the drip on/off cycle should b?

I 've never done a drip, if no one else ansers you, i'll look it up in a book.

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Unless your drip is a sophisticated one that can control flow precisely, you sort of have to calibrate it yourself. Load one of your netpots with hydroton and rockwool (or whatever, but no seed and start a drip on it. You want it damp but not wet and you have to develop a feel for that so you can tell - it's a little wetter or or it's dried since the last check. Then monitor it over a day or so. How wet is it right after being watered? How dry does it get in between? I would do this lights on to simulate actual grow conditions.

Now you know whether it is too wet. If you can control the drip, slow it up. Increase the intervals between watering, shorten the water flow times. You may get the cube overwatered and have to replace it rather than wait for it to dry to continue the test. But eventually you will get it dialed in so the cube is wet enough and not to wet. I'd suggest starting with about 2 min of drip every 6 hrs and go from there.

Much better you are doing this before there is a germed seed to worry about!

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Hey Roseman n illegal smile, I sure do thank you 4 ur help. U guys make it alot easier on us newbs.

I have no experince with a DRIP, never used it and I thought the Ostrich was opposed to tubes, and pumps and had no exopericne with DRIP either. I've been told he will offer a lot of advise on what he has had NO experience with, like doing a GROW.. I have him on IGNORE so I don't have to read his mis-information.

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I always grow with a ph of 5.5/6.0 and have never had any problems with any of my grows i generaly go with what ever greenhouse do.No one on this site can say that greenhouse don't know how to produce massive yeilds.But i just do the same but scale the grow down and flower alot smaller round about a ft in height.Growing hydro is def the way forward in the cannabis growing world but i still like to mix it up a little.I get all my seedlings going in the normal manner on papper towel.But once the seeds crack i put them into a wet cube i don't have the system running till the first leaves appear.Once the first leaves appear i put them into a nft system this gets the seedlings going alot faster than soil.But once the plants reach a ft i put them into large tubs in soil.The reason is personal choice i think soil grown weed taste better but that is just me.And i grow to smoke if i was growing to sell it would be hydro all the way.My plants are not where i live so less can go wrong in soil i just water once a week and leave the plants to do there own thing.

i also have a water farm and you made agreat choice, transfered one from soil to hydrofarm and know this bitch is in flowering gonna hope fully get a LB off just this one what you think.???dont forget to +REP this is what your in for ....and let it drip 24/7 ...thats what i do,, you need ot to keep the air moving under the clay rock s provides some type of airiationg when dropping back to resivoir ,,,eventually some roots will make it to the botttom of resicoir but you neeed to continnue to constantly feed roots in clay, okay be checking resivoir as once they get bigger they can sometimes dink 3/4 to a 1 gallon a day...hope you like!!and they are as follows, just transferred from soil 1st pic, over month growign in waterfarm2nd just before flowering 3rd and current flowering 4th pic enjoy..

Hate to argue with you Roseman, but that's too high for hydro. you need the water to be PH'ed to 5.5-5.8. You'll get nute lock any higher or lower.

and not 1/4 dose in hydro, you set your res up accoding to the schedual on your nutes. use 1/4 strength that it calls to start your plants, and I would wait at least 3-4 weeks before nuting at all.

I feel weird correcting you Roseman.. but you may have meant in soil?

I water 3 times a day for 15 minutes. (6am, 2pm and 10pm) I usually ph my water right before watering if I can. I wouldn't suggest running a constant drip. I have no experience with it, so I may be entirely off on that, but I would assume it would make for a weaker root structure as the roots don't have to develope to search for sustanance.