peat pellets question?????

can i use peat pellets instead of rockwoll in my bubbleponic system???

I tried this once. The peat tends to grow mold and fungus after a bit. Not a good plan unless you are growing mushrooms.

....oops i already did it...

Don't let one persons bad experience influence you that much. I used peat pellets and transfered them to my hydro system, no problem. VV

Good luck.. Maybe it was just me.......

peat pellets do tend to mold more then rockwool thats a prove fact

if it has been proven then it is a fact. I agree that peet pots have more of a tendendacy to mold. I agree that peet pellets have more of a tendancy to mold than rockwool does. I don't agree that if you use peet pellets you will get mold.

Rockwool is made from basalt rock, melted and spun out like cotton candy. It cannot be eaten by anything and won't support mould growth by itself, even if wetted with plain water. However, if you add nutes to the water and algae spores are in the air, like any good plant, algae will grow on rockwool. Rockwool stays intact when wet, even for long periods of time.

Peat is an organic material. It can be broken down and eaten by fungi and moulds. It will also tend to physically break into little bits and generally create muck in a hydroponic system.

well see what happens, where can i buy rockwoll anywaya?

Rockwool is available in various shapes, from cubes to slabs, or even as bales of loose material for pot stuffing, at your friendly neighbourhood hydro shop.

I agree with all of that Al, he didn't ask if I advised using the peet pellets and then puting them in his system. He already had them planted and was asking if he could put them in his system. Since I had done this with my first two grows I said he could. Of course I'm they guy that put rockwool seedlings in coco so what do I know.
I have almost all the parts to your system set up now. One table that has been flowering for 4 weeks, one for two weeks and 17 seedlings ready to go into flowering by this weekend. The WW clones I took on 4/12 have been transplanted to pots and will follow those seedling into flowering two weeks later. At that point I intend to take clones from each of those plants, and pick a couple that will be mothers for a while. Sorry man didn't mean to jump your thread.