ponythegringo
Active Member
hi there
i am first of all a complete newbie and it's mistakes i'm learning from primarily.
i have been growing in soil for 2 grows and this 3rd effort i thought i would experiment a bit... well.. a lot.
anyway to cut a long story short i put the pots in a tray of water with some airstones but the light made the water start to stink.now i know that the water must be in the dark.
so i flushed all the plants outside and washed everything and set the pots sitting back on my 1m tray .
the growth slowed considerably so in a flash of action ( while blitzed) i went out and bought enough stuff to setup a rudimentary hydro system with the tray sitting on 4 x 30 litre tanks of which one is the resovoir. using maxi jet 500 and 9 x 20lph drippers.
so now i have a few questions.
the 9 plants are still in pots of soil so how often should i water them?
i am letting the pump run from 9 in the morning till 7pm and the lights go off at 8 to keep the water moving till i get some advice.
will the water go stagnant if i water them just twice day for 15 mins? i leave the airstones on the same 12 hour period as the lights ..is this sufficient?
what nutes should i use?
when this grow is over i will of course go out and buy clay pebbles and hydro nutes but for now any advice on how to avoid complete disaster would be greatly appreciated.
cheers y'all
i am first of all a complete newbie and it's mistakes i'm learning from primarily.
i have been growing in soil for 2 grows and this 3rd effort i thought i would experiment a bit... well.. a lot.
anyway to cut a long story short i put the pots in a tray of water with some airstones but the light made the water start to stink.now i know that the water must be in the dark.
so i flushed all the plants outside and washed everything and set the pots sitting back on my 1m tray .
the growth slowed considerably so in a flash of action ( while blitzed) i went out and bought enough stuff to setup a rudimentary hydro system with the tray sitting on 4 x 30 litre tanks of which one is the resovoir. using maxi jet 500 and 9 x 20lph drippers.
so now i have a few questions.
the 9 plants are still in pots of soil so how often should i water them?
i am letting the pump run from 9 in the morning till 7pm and the lights go off at 8 to keep the water moving till i get some advice.
will the water go stagnant if i water them just twice day for 15 mins? i leave the airstones on the same 12 hour period as the lights ..is this sufficient?
what nutes should i use?
when this grow is over i will of course go out and buy clay pebbles and hydro nutes but for now any advice on how to avoid complete disaster would be greatly appreciated.
cheers y'all
