Don't do this --1" cubes don't mix with rockton

Right, so here's the advice.

NEVER transplant 1" clones straight to hyrdoton. It's a bad idea. Every time I adjust my drip irrigation spike it kills roots and the plants lean all sorts of weird ways. You might save 50 cents a plant and it's just not worth it. My clones are really slacking in their development and I think this is the main reason.

And here is the pick of the poor result I'm gettting:


https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-pics/index.php?n=3048

I'll live on. But I'm not happy about that little piece of advice I got.

I edited this post to correctly identify the little pellets at Hydroton and not rockton.

yeah, i hear ur supposed to go from 1" to 4" cubes, then u transplant to rocks..sorry to hear ur luck

The thing that sucks is that I had already grown 2 generations that way. Then I got this wild idea, threw it up on the site, and someone agreed with me. Wish I had bookmarked the post.

oh damn me, i just ordered a pail of 1 3/4" Gordan cubes... hopefully that extra 3/4" will save me from the worst of your problem

Looks to me that there is abit of nutrient deposit on the rocks where they clean nutral ,and there is alot of algae bloom on the cube itself ,just a thought could be wrong .

I hope so green_nobody. This is advice that's really annoying me on a daily basis.

As for haxman, yeah, you're right about both. But that's not really the point I'm making. Or well, it sort of is.

Normally I would cover up a 3" cube with rocks. And for some reason algae doesn't like to grow on the rocks, just on rockwool. So if I had used the right cube size then there would be no algage.

This contantly shifting 1" cube is also causing my roots to be exposed to the light and also root death whenever I shift the plant and the drip irrigation spike has to be reinserted or adjusted.

God only knows what will happen when I move them to the flowering room and flood them.

420penguin said:

I hope so green_nobody. This is advice that's really annoying me on a daily basis.

As for haxman, yeah, you're right about both. But that's not really the point I'm making. Or well, it sort of is.

Normally I would cover up a 3" cube with rocks. And for some reason algae doesn't like to grow on the rocks, just on rockwool. So if I had used the right cube size then there would be no algage.

This contantly shifting 1" cube is also causing my roots to be exposed to the light and also root death whenever I shift the plant and the drip irrigation spike has to be reinserted or adjusted.

God only knows what will happen when I move them to the flowering room and flood them.

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wel therre goes my comment and the answer to myquestion.
so what about burying the 1 in cube deeper? still shifted too much?

420penguin said:

I hope so green_nobody. This is advice that's really annoying me on a daily basis.

As for haxman, yeah, you're right about both. But that's not really the point I'm making. Or well, it sort of is.

Normally I would cover up a 3" cube with rocks. And for some reason algae doesn't like to grow on the rocks, just on rockwool. So if I had used the right cube size then there would be no algage.

This contantly shifting 1" cube is also causing my roots to be exposed to the light and also root death whenever I shift the plant and the drip irrigation spike has to be reinserted or adjusted.

God only knows what will happen when I move them to the flowering room and flood them.

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i guess that algae grows on rockwool since that stuff has more O2 in between, wet all around and can be penetrated by light to some extent.
expanded clay again has a rock-like outer shell and keeps water locked insides, so the algae can't grow on the shell so easy since it gets hardly any water in the beginning of its grow... my guess, don't club me if i'm dead wrong

Well then it seems like the problem is the stake, they look nice but dont seem to be to functioning in hydroton use a large paper clip on the side of the net pot that will solve all problems of damaging the roots with the stake .

Oh and I forgot put the plant with the cube of wool in the pot first and then fill in around and on top of it , no more lite for the algae no more bacteria caused by the algae no more root rot cause by the algae.

@dank... sorry bro. I've been griping at this one for a while. I've thought it through and tried a few things(different spikes, burying deeper, etc) and nothing works. it just sucks and I'll move on and in a month I'll have some new clones in a medium I prefer.

@green your opinion makes sense to me.

@haxman I got your pm. you're not bugging me or pissing me off. I AM pissed at this problem but that will pass. The stakes would work if I had a cube or soil to jab it in. hydroton just keeps shifting.

actually the cubes were covered when I first placed them. that's how much havoc that the movement of the spikes has rendered.

I'd monkey with the paper clip, but in a month I'll be back to a setup I prefer. I'd hate to remove the stakes to fix this problem just to have to put them back in a month.