Hydroton - How to properly pre soak

cwillis11b said:

Hello members,

This will be my 1st dwc attempt using hydroton. My question is, what’s your all expert options and or methods of preparing the hydroton? I have already washed the shit dust off of them. Now, do I soak them in ph water? R/O water? Do I add nutes to the water so that the hydroton absorbs it? If so how much. How long do I soak them for? Before I put them into the PH water, can I clean them with a little bleach water? And help on this would be greatly appreciated and if there are other suggestions, please feel free to give me your feed back. Thanks!

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xtsho said:

When I was doing hydro with hydroton as the medium I had a five gallon bucket with holes drilled around the sides and bottom. I'd fill it up and run the hose through it until the water was clear. I then soaked them overnight in Ph'd 1/8 - 1/4 strength nutrient solution. I'd put my clones in and run my reservoir at 1/4 strength nutes and build up strength as the plants got larger. It's been awhile but I never had any issues. I got tired of cleaning them for reuse and I didn't want to put them in the garden so I switched to coco. If you reuse them I'd soak them in a solution of 35% food grade H202. You'll never get all the crap out of them though.


Good luck.

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