New drip table, New to Hydro, Need advice.

mrgreen2015 said:

I would start the pH at 5.8 and let it drift to 6.4

I just found out some nutrients uptake at different pH levels. Remember that if anything. Also don't over-water you will get a lockout if you are using growing media. I am using rockwool and those cubes like to hold onto water. Hope that helps.

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UAmedicGrower said:

So I recently took a shot in the dark and bought a used resivoir/table combo thing with a drip tubing and 75gph pump. I filled it with hydroton as instructed by the guy I purchased it from.

I believe it hold about 10 gallons (maybe more because I filled 10 gallons up to the bottom of the trap so no water is going past the holes in the table from the bottom).

Im trying to maintain a ph of 6.0-6.3. Using the same nutes id be using in soil. The lighting at the momment is a 450 viparspectra led cluster. Air stone in the bottom to maintain circulation.

Honestly, outside of dialing in the P.H. and having my ppm at 632, I have no clue what to do afterwards for sucessfull growing in this type of setup. Dont know if I should maintain same light cycles as the soil and how long I should run the water pump or distance from the water to the growing media.

I currently have some clones that are in the spongy brown rapid rooter plugs and theyre pretty much croaking

The only thing that is thriving is a peat pellet basil seedling that is living it up and actually perked up since i put the guy on this table.

Thank you for your time and advice.

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