Hi,
It just seems like no matter how much you study and prepare, at some point you're gonna be caught off guard when doing something new. That's how I feel about my newest garden. Here's the details:
4x4x8 tent
1500, 1000 double chip, full spectrum LED lights
Advance Nutrients Perfect Sensi Coco pH Grow and Bloom
Advance Nutrients: Big Bud, Bud Candy, B-52, Cal-Mag Xtra
Canna Coco brick, Perlite, Hydroton
pH and PPM meters
RO water
3 gal earth pots
The "Girls" -Crop King Seeds, Candy Canes AF (4) + Afghani Regular (2 minus 1-discovered a male today)
7 weeks veg; 4th week flowering
Estimated Harvest: 01/22 - 29
Sorry about the details being so long. Everything has been going great. I've had a little tip burn here and there, and it's true what they say about Advance Nutrients being practically fool-proof. But I do have issues where watering is concerned. The schedule is demanding, and I don't have a normal setup for it. I'm RO'ing into 6 gal containers, making sure each one gets their regular nutrient watering twice a day. I wanted to do it 3x a day, but it's interfering with my job and other responsibilities, not to mention how expensive their products are compared to a few others.
Here's what I'm trying to work out:
I ordered the 4-5 gal DWC set up with all the fixins'. I can't transplant, because as forgiving as my girls have been, I fear how this kind of stress would affect them and don't want to to push it. I'm thinking of a variation on the Oxypot system, only using Coco coir instead of the hydroton. This would require placing the pot into the bucket (I don't know if the net pots will hold the 3 gal pots though both are 10in diameter). This could save a lot time and energy for me, but I'm trying to figure what the bad side of this could be, namely what will happen to the roots that are already 11 weeks in the making.
I'm thinking about letting the pots sit in the buckets for a few days, then figuring out some way to open up the bottom of the pots, allowing the roots to fall/grow down. The Coco-Perlite mixture is as porous as hydroton, with the added bonus of holding oxygen and would soak up pretty well, especially with the air halos (I don't think the stones would be strong enough).
So, that's where I'm at with all this. I wish I had chosen DWC in the first place, but hindsight and all that. I wish I could push through the next few weeks, but my schedule (work, school, family) is getting so bad right now, that I've got to do something.
If nothing else, thanks for letting me vent a bit about this. I know that there are probably who'd love to switch problems with me right now. :-P
It just seems like no matter how much you study and prepare, at some point you're gonna be caught off guard when doing something new. That's how I feel about my newest garden. Here's the details:
4x4x8 tent
1500, 1000 double chip, full spectrum LED lights
Advance Nutrients Perfect Sensi Coco pH Grow and Bloom
Advance Nutrients: Big Bud, Bud Candy, B-52, Cal-Mag Xtra
Canna Coco brick, Perlite, Hydroton
pH and PPM meters
RO water
3 gal earth pots
The "Girls" -Crop King Seeds, Candy Canes AF (4) + Afghani Regular (2 minus 1-discovered a male today)
7 weeks veg; 4th week flowering
Estimated Harvest: 01/22 - 29
Sorry about the details being so long. Everything has been going great. I've had a little tip burn here and there, and it's true what they say about Advance Nutrients being practically fool-proof. But I do have issues where watering is concerned. The schedule is demanding, and I don't have a normal setup for it. I'm RO'ing into 6 gal containers, making sure each one gets their regular nutrient watering twice a day. I wanted to do it 3x a day, but it's interfering with my job and other responsibilities, not to mention how expensive their products are compared to a few others.
Here's what I'm trying to work out:
I ordered the 4-5 gal DWC set up with all the fixins'. I can't transplant, because as forgiving as my girls have been, I fear how this kind of stress would affect them and don't want to to push it. I'm thinking of a variation on the Oxypot system, only using Coco coir instead of the hydroton. This would require placing the pot into the bucket (I don't know if the net pots will hold the 3 gal pots though both are 10in diameter). This could save a lot time and energy for me, but I'm trying to figure what the bad side of this could be, namely what will happen to the roots that are already 11 weeks in the making.
I'm thinking about letting the pots sit in the buckets for a few days, then figuring out some way to open up the bottom of the pots, allowing the roots to fall/grow down. The Coco-Perlite mixture is as porous as hydroton, with the added bonus of holding oxygen and would soak up pretty well, especially with the air halos (I don't think the stones would be strong enough).
So, that's where I'm at with all this. I wish I had chosen DWC in the first place, but hindsight and all that. I wish I could push through the next few weeks, but my schedule (work, school, family) is getting so bad right now, that I've got to do something.
If nothing else, thanks for letting me vent a bit about this. I know that there are probably who'd love to switch problems with me right now. :-P
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