building a better bato

muleface

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I need some suggestions.

I have 11 liter bato buckets, I ran them with 2 to 3 inches of clay pebbles in the bottom and the rest filled with coco.

I decided to give running 6x6x6 rockwool cubes a try, i am going to stick them in the bato buckets. I will probably keep the 2 to 3 inches of clay pebbles on the bottom because it helps keep the other medium from clogging the drain.

So i need to fill out the rest of the bucket. I am considering coco, vermiculite, perlite, potting soil, more clay pebbles or some combo of any of the above.

The 6x6x6 cubes will fill out a good bit of the bucket, but there will be space around it and below it that needs another type of growth medium.

Also, am i suppose to remove the wrapper on these, or cut slashes in them or just leave them be?
 

Cold$moke

Well-Known Member
No experience with this.

But just my small teeny tiny bit of exp in rockwool (im a hydro guy) the rock wool really holds that water so i would mix a good wicking mix mabey mostly coco with a bit of perlite.

So you dont drown roots

As to whether or not you cut the wrapper off.
I would leave it on till your plant gets established

Then when you got a nice ball of roota in the cube then you can cut the wrapperif you plan on planting to the top of the cube.

Hope this helps as i have 0 exp with batos
 
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