I think he means just using 5" netpots in the tray. If your using pots that small you should be going for a sea of green technique. I do Scrog (about 5-9 plants per 3x3) and use 2 or 3 gal pots. But I'm all about big roots and big plants. I would say half way is a good height with hydroton, but it's pretty forgiving on over watering. It's having the flood too low that could cause problems as hydroton doesn't wick water up very well.What are your net pots in?
yes a 600 will be fine over that. Square would match the light pattern better but the plants r pretty good at adapting to their space. I would have to agree with HR, if your doing SOG you need to zero veg, or a week at the most. A trellis setup is more Scrog style which uses bigger plants and a screen to spread them. With SOG you just try to get a single cola from each plant, hence why u need like 30 of them. But this pushes them to yield, so 1/2 oz off each plant means a big yield. That would be 16 oz harvest, which under a 600 would be very good. So pick a style and go with it, is it gonna be SOG or Scrog? Can't do both really...was gonna go with a trelis hey will a 600 okay to run over this size table i wanted a 3x3 but they were out
I would like to start off focusing on root rot and slime thats common in the ebb/grow systems!
Root rot! Its seems to take charge in week 3 of bloom with the exsposive amounts of root filling
The buckets, cap has x2 versoins of buckets one is a flat bottom and the other is a raised style
With a slight angle to help draining! Does either one work not really, water still remains in the
Bucket in between floods and sits with 0 air and under the heat of your lamp. No air = stagnent
Water = in root rot! And water siting under lights in black tubing is like a heater increasing temps
In one case i did a test where my chiller was keeping a good 62 to 63f in the res! And i installed
A water proof temp gauge in the main line that feeds the buckets. My floods are spaced 4 hours
Apart and half way through to the next flood my inline water temp was 78! I couldnt believe it lol
So high temps = brown slime or pythium! This all took place with a bad ass chiller in place. Everytime
It cycled a flood it would bring back bactiria to the res and thus causing a revolving cycle of shit!
To eliminate a good amount of this high temps i replaced my black lines with 3/4 white pvc and put
Foam on the lines, the kind you snap on to help with frozen water pipes. White pvc and no direct
Light on the line got it down to 65 to 66f from 78in doing so it almost elininated slime and made
My chiller run half as much. Back to root rot! Even though cap raised there buckets raising it a1in to
2inchs more is a win all to geting them to drain 100% and elininating rot. Keep in mind lots of air in
The res is key to replacing fresh clean water full of air to your plants roots! When you raisem up dont
Raise the controll box, i know by doing this you lower the flood level! Its ok your plant will love you
For it!
If you buy a tray the rest can be easily built. 2x4s for a stand and rubbermaid for a rez (30g or smaller).hey hellraizer i like that bloom recipe, was wondering what you use for veg?
i really want to do a ebb & flow system! ill send you a message some time to get some more info on building one and such!
also the tea, would that replace the AN nutrients or would you use it alongside the nutrients?
I to have used bleach to control bactiria! But that dont help or contribute to root growth and plant growth! Andim curently running hp aero and was considering trying hydro? i use bleach 6drops/gl of ro water in my 10 gl res and never have issues with slime or root rot! just my .02
nice but with hp aero i think id would prob clog my sprayers. but im subd here to learn about ebb n gro I have 2 4x8 tents one hp aero the other soil and was thinking about trying an ebb n grow? off of a 4x8 tent hwo much could i yeild and how often with an ebb n grow? thanks manI to have used bleach to control bactiria! But that dont help or contribute to root growth and plant growth! And
Thats something the tea will do on top of kill bad bactiria!