Ikhebeenvraag
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Hi there. I've been wanting to grow for some time now and I had the opportunity to recieve a tent with equipment from a friend. For the past few weeks I've been doing research and I have a pretty good idea about my set-up. Still there are a few things I couldn't find an answer to (maybe I overlooked something on this forum, but there are a lot of threads).
Set-up: 1x1x1,8 meter tent, 600watt lamp, etc.
I'll be using the ebb and flood system which I'm building myself. Just a recevoir and floodtray on a low table above. I still can't decide how big they should be, but i'm only growing a few plants max 5. Since it's a first try I'm going to stick to an autoflower trying to learn with the nutrients and such. Would a 60 liter recevoir and a 60x60x15 centimeters floodtray work?
As a medium I'm thinking of clay pebbles in the floodtray.
Now I'm starting from seeds and I have a small plastic propegator. I see many people using rockwool cubes, but it's not that easy to get around here. I've been growing other plantseeds in wet paper towel and a plastic bag and planting them in soil, but the clay pebbles make that impossible i think. Anyone a sollution?
I can get net pots, but I don't know if it's necessairy as the roots can grow everywhere.
If there's no other way I could get some 20 milimeter diameter, 2,5 milimeter high rockwool cubes in Ikea (which I dislike because you cannot just hop in and out). I would bring them down to the good PH, I put the seeds in there and put them in the propogater, would this work and any tips?
When I could see the roots I would move them to the floodtray. But here's something I can't figure out. Everywhere I read when the table is flooding the water shouldn't be too high. What is too high? Since the seedlings don't have big/long roots coming out of the rockwool yet, the water has to go up untill the rockwool cube. Maybe later in the process I can reduce the hight of the overflow, but then I have to clear out the floodtable...
Can I just let the water come that high (untill the rockwool) for the entire grow or is there another trick?
I also want some confermation about the flooding times. The lights will be on for 18h. I think I have to flood 4 times during light and 1 time during dark. The pump stays on for 15 minutes after the water reached it's max hight so the roots have +15min of water. Offcourse this can change (plants growing bigger, insufficient water intake, etc.), but to start with this should be a good schedule? I do have an PH and PPM meter and I understand how that works.
That's it for now. I hope you guys can help me get started.
Set-up: 1x1x1,8 meter tent, 600watt lamp, etc.
I'll be using the ebb and flood system which I'm building myself. Just a recevoir and floodtray on a low table above. I still can't decide how big they should be, but i'm only growing a few plants max 5. Since it's a first try I'm going to stick to an autoflower trying to learn with the nutrients and such. Would a 60 liter recevoir and a 60x60x15 centimeters floodtray work?
As a medium I'm thinking of clay pebbles in the floodtray.
Now I'm starting from seeds and I have a small plastic propegator. I see many people using rockwool cubes, but it's not that easy to get around here. I've been growing other plantseeds in wet paper towel and a plastic bag and planting them in soil, but the clay pebbles make that impossible i think. Anyone a sollution?
I can get net pots, but I don't know if it's necessairy as the roots can grow everywhere.
If there's no other way I could get some 20 milimeter diameter, 2,5 milimeter high rockwool cubes in Ikea (which I dislike because you cannot just hop in and out). I would bring them down to the good PH, I put the seeds in there and put them in the propogater, would this work and any tips?
When I could see the roots I would move them to the floodtray. But here's something I can't figure out. Everywhere I read when the table is flooding the water shouldn't be too high. What is too high? Since the seedlings don't have big/long roots coming out of the rockwool yet, the water has to go up untill the rockwool cube. Maybe later in the process I can reduce the hight of the overflow, but then I have to clear out the floodtable...
Can I just let the water come that high (untill the rockwool) for the entire grow or is there another trick?
I also want some confermation about the flooding times. The lights will be on for 18h. I think I have to flood 4 times during light and 1 time during dark. The pump stays on for 15 minutes after the water reached it's max hight so the roots have +15min of water. Offcourse this can change (plants growing bigger, insufficient water intake, etc.), but to start with this should be a good schedule? I do have an PH and PPM meter and I understand how that works.
That's it for now. I hope you guys can help me get started.
