Spyroseye1978
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Im using a bubbleponics system with baskets and hydrostone and the roots are all coming through the baskets and hanging in the water solution is this safe or can they burn up ?
Roots In The Water Solution (bubbleponics)
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ViRedd
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Its safe and is what is intended. You need to follow the directions on the nute bottle for the proper PPM. You'll need a PPM meter AND a way to test PH.
If you get the nutrient solution too strong, you can surely burn up the plants. That's easy to fix in hydro though ... and is one of the benefits of growing hydro. You'll notice burn first in the very tips of the plants. If you see this, just add more plain water to dilute the solution, or dump everything out and start over with a lighter mix.
Vi
If you get the nutrient solution too strong, you can surely burn up the plants. That's easy to fix in hydro though ... and is one of the benefits of growing hydro. You'll notice burn first in the very tips of the plants. If you see this, just add more plain water to dilute the solution, or dump everything out and start over with a lighter mix.
Vi
Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
I have the Stealth Hydro Bubbleponics system, and my tank is full of roots when I grow. You ain't seem nothing yet. by the time the plants are 12 inches tall, your tank will be full of roots...but that is GOOD. time they get two feet tall, the roots will be two feet long.
I've learned how important Oxegen is and I added an extra air stone, and i suggest you do the same. most instructions say drain and replace every 7 to 10 to 14 days, but for very rapid growth, do it more often. even if you put the same solution back in, they will grow faster cause of the hour or so that there was nothing but air available to the roots. Try it, you['l be glad you did.
If you have the Stealth Bubbleponics system, let me know. I 've had some experience and I learned a lot too.
I've learned how important Oxegen is and I added an extra air stone, and i suggest you do the same. most instructions say drain and replace every 7 to 10 to 14 days, but for very rapid growth, do it more often. even if you put the same solution back in, they will grow faster cause of the hour or so that there was nothing but air available to the roots. Try it, you['l be glad you did.
If you have the Stealth Bubbleponics system, let me know. I 've had some experience and I learned a lot too.
redeyeun
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So RM, then if we follow that logic (xtra air stones), and I am not saying you are wrong, your SH thread has helped me very much, the the addition of a LARGER res (lets say 18 gallons) and run 10 or 11 gallons of water instead of 6 would be the equivalent (?) of large pots if one was using soil? Of course, using the bubblephonics system meathology.
Are ya buyin it? Bigger water, bigger root ball, more yield? Or am i over thinkin it?
Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
The extra airstones made a tremendous difference, I assure you, but bigger pots or bigger resourvoir tanks are not needed at all. I had a plant 4 and half feet tall in one of those little grow cups, and the base (the trunk of the plant) was bigger around than the rockwool cube. But it did not fall over, the roots, a mass the size of a very extra large mop held it up.
No, a bigger tank and more water doesn't help at all. I am certain!
redeyeun
Active Member
Thanks RM, I was thinking along the lines of : put a fis into 50 gallon tank it will gro to x, put a fish into 100 gallon tank, it will grow to xx.
I know! I'm not growing fish or get a fish tank then! HA. HA. HA. HA. HA!
Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
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