Cold$moke's Frost heave

I see cbd strains listed just havent personally bought or tried them other then buying some once from a dispensarie just to try it

Cold$moke said:

@Michael Huntherz Im going to base my tables off of this but with my own tweaks and possibly totally different i got like 3 ideas i want to try out this is one of them

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Nifty! I've found that the oxygenation with airstones and pump and circulation pump aren't necessary; the NFT system itself provides all the oxygen needed.

Im trying to figure out a way to do nft so it will bd media less but also have a way to pull early finishing strains out without disturbing the rest

Some way of container the root but keeping them happy and mobile lol

I have my gears turning on a few nifty ideas

Cold$moke said:

Im trying to figure out a way to do nft so it will bd media less but also have a way to pull early finishing strains out without disturbing the rest

Some way of container the root but keeping them happy and mobile lol

I have my gears turning on a few nifty ideas

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Just cut the stem and haul out the early finishers.

ttystikk said:

Just cut the stem and haul out the early finishers.

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I dont want root ball left in the system though

When i pull it out i want a new one to take its place

Cold$moke said:

I dont want root ball left in the system though

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I’ve had to pull early ones out of the tray and I keep some of the lower portion (larf) just to keep the root ball alive. Not the perfect solution but it works.

Michael Huntherz said:

Nice thread, glad to be here. I wish I had that much room to work with, I will someday. Looking good man, love the setup. The more I think about it the more likely it is I will switch to rockwool and blumat drippers before anything else.

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I just read of an issue using blue mats in that the slow steady feed rate, with no run off, has a tendency to build up salts in the media. A periodic flush of the media by hand would be solution, I would think though.

Budley Doright said:

I’ve had to pull early ones out of the tray and I keep some of the lower portion (larf) just to keep the root ball alive. Not the perfect solution but it works.

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Ive done that in my nfts and dwcs not ideal but it works but i hate doing it cause when you cut off so much plant the roots tend to die back some


With this system im wanting it to be like semi self contained but it will run off of one res for now

Im imagining somthing with 3 gallon buckets
Stacked in a tray so when im ready i just out the bucket out give it a scrub and throw a new plant in there pop the bucket back in and not muss a beat
The hard part is figuring out how to run it media less


At least it sounds good in my head lol

Budley Doright said:

I just read of an issue using blue mats in that the slow steady feed rate, with no run off, has a tendency to build up salts in the media. A periodic flush of the media by hand would be solution, I would think though.

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I drain the reservoirs, I use two in a loop, a couple times per run and run RO for a week. Salt buildup is definitely a problem, both in the dripper lines and the media, if one does not manage it actively. I also water individual plants by hand, when I see any sign of it.

Budley Doright said:

I just read of an issue using blue mats in that the slow steady feed rate, with no run off, has a tendency to build up salts in the media. A periodic flush of the media by hand would be solution, I would think though.

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I could see that happening, i water extra once a week, to check the runoff to avoid this. Let’s you catch problems before they are problems.
Just noticed a tester crop wasn’t using as much as I was giving them. But they looked like they where not getting enough.

This stuff could help your line troubles

BigHornBuds said:

I could see that happening, i water extra once a week, to check the runoff to avoid this. Let’s you catch problems before they are problems.
Just noticed a tester crop wasn’t using as much as I was giving them. But they looked like they where not getting enough.

This stuff could help your line troubles
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I don’t have any problems, myself, but that’s because I keep an eye on it. I had a couple floods early on, and now everything is in overflow trays, but I havent had any problems in over a year.
It is a very small amount of maintenance.

Cold$moke said:

When i pull it out i want a new one to take its place

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RDWC is the way to go, then. Roots come out of water like no other medium.

Im already doing rdwc

But im trying to minimize op costs and simplify
Sort of lol

Cold$moke said:

Im already doing rdwc

But im trying to minimize op costs and simplify
Sort of lol

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I've been doing the same thing for years.

Hydroton is reusable.

Mindscape week 8 day2

Nice friggin grow!

Amnesia haze

Zero_OS said:

Nice friggin grow!

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Thanks bud