Hydroponics

Since they are in peat pellets, just go with those. That's what we used to use before we had rockwool.

HTH

gvega187 said:

you can get rockwool and starter plugs only at hydro stores. ebay has hydro stores with competitive prices.

since you already have them in peat pellets maybe you would have better luck transferring them to soil...although i won't condone such a use of cannabis rofl.

If you can, get some more seeds and a bag of rockwool/plugs ($15), just sprout the seeds in those and apply them to your setup.

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Ill have to look around ebay for em then, thanks! I would put the rest in soil but I sprouted 4 seeds and used my last 2 pots for the 2 that didnt make it into my setup soo....

potroast said:

Since they are in peat pellets, just go with those. That's what we used to use before we had rockwool.

HTH

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...Ill still try it out, whats to loose huh? Yeah I was just reading a history of hydroponics or something and it said something about how they used peat, but it was prone to bits floating away and it would break down over time.

Anyway, my question now is, should I keep a 3x a day 20 minute watering cycle for peat? It seems to hold the water very well and I dont want to have to worry about my seedlings getting root rot or whatever... And after that is done off the drip, should I just throw the whole peat pellet in with a bunch of small rocks or something?

thanks for the help!!

lol 1st- is that really your slightly blurred pictures as your avatar?


2nd-Where is this history of hydro article you speak of? I would like to see it as well.

3rd- potroast, check out zaq's journal dude. This one kid is dominating his thread with all this 12 yr old shit. I tried to tell skunkkush about it, but hes not accepting pm's.

I have a question about the H2o2 add back rule. I use the 35% stuff and usually add back a full dosage 3ml/gal every other day. Is this to quick?

zaq1234 said:

Anyway, my question now is, should I keep a 3x a day 20 minute watering cycle for peat? It seems to hold the water very well and I dont want to have to worry about my seedlings getting root rot or whatever... And after that is done off the drip, should I just throw the whole peat pellet in with a bunch of small rocks or something?
thanks for the help!!

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Yeah, the starter cube is put into a pot of growrocks AKA hydroton, large-particle aggregate, those clay balls, or even perlite or coir, and then dripped into, or flooded several times a day. Root rot is not caused by being too wet, it's caused by res temps too high and the fungus grows.

hAEROin said:

I have a question about the H2o2 add back rule. I use the 35% stuff and usually add back a full dosage 3ml/gal every other day. Is this to quick?

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Nope, as I understand it, the stuff dissipates in 2 days, especially in a recirculating res.


HTH

gvega187 said:

lol 1st- is that really your slightly blurred pictures as your avatar?


2nd-Where is this history of hydro article you speak of? I would like to see it as well.

3rd- potroast, check out zaq's journal dude. This one kid is dominating his thread with all this 12 yr old shit. I tried to tell skunkkush about it, but hes not accepting pm's.

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1) yep thats me last year, my second year experimenting with growing, we threw some seeds in my friends dads planter in the front yard and once they got half a foot tall we transplanted em to a pot and moved em out back. unfortunately that plant (halfway thru the summer and soon after the pic was taken) was infested by an ant colony and we had to kill it

2) Im looking thru my history for the article, I cant really find anything thru the junk thats there but it might have been Hydroponic Systems
or Alternative Hydroponic Substrates ... looking at it again they have some sweet stuff anyway! sorry I cant tell you what exactly i was talking bout, I have the worst memory!!!
...hmm no it want this but ill try to find it,, sorry again!!

3) haha Im glad you like it, but its more like my 23 yr old mcguiverness!! (also related, see pic, its our 2007 hometowns annual jack-o-bong contest winner, my personal creation!! made in 25 minutes out of a pumpkin, gourd, corncob and apple cider; and steak-knife and chopstick for tools! Quote form the judges: "10/10 for smokability, that was the tastiest thing Ive smoked in a while!")

potroast said:

Yeah, the starter cube is put into a pot of growrocks AKA hydroton, large-particle aggregate, those clay balls, or even perlite or coir, and then dripped into, or flooded several times a day. Root rot is not caused by being too wet, it's caused by res temps too high and the fungus grows.

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sweet, thanks!!!!

lol i was referring to the guy on the previous page who was hating on people for 12 yr old stuff.

nice bong...wish my town had a bogathon every year

how often do u flush.

can i transfer 5" net pots from dwc to a modified waterfarm?I have a vegg room and a seperate flower room.do i have to wait for them to adjust to the water farm before changing nute solution to bloom?hydroton medium,GH Flora series....i am allowed to have 3 vegging and 3 flowering--medical grower,I want to always have plants growing, the 5" pots have lots of room in the waterfarm top bucket....this is my first hydro any advice will help

its your call do your plants look helthly,its time baby push.what kind of set up u got and how big is your plant?

no plant yet just sprouts in rockwool, I'm trying to stay ahead of the game....I am just wondering if I CAN transfer the plant from dwc(mesh pot and all)to the waterfarm, or should I vegg AND flower in the waterfarm? ideally i would like to utilize both dwc and waterfarm units to keep a somewhat perpetual harvest started the journal....thank youhttp://https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/88194-crimea-blue-trainwreck-violator-kush.html

tick tock well what are you waiting 4 christmas

Well po, I guess he is waiting for some actually helpful answers.

caddyluck said:

can i transfer 5" net pots from dwc to a modified waterfarm?I have a vegg room and a seperate flower room.do i have to wait for them to adjust to the water farm before changing nute solution to bloom?hydroton medium,GH Flora series....i am allowed to have 3 vegging and 3 flowering--medical grower,I want to always have plants growing, the 5" pots have lots of room in the waterfarm top bucket....this is my first hydro any advice will help

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I've never done that but I would think that it would be easy to transfer any established plant, with clean roots, into a bucket of rocks. Just put it in some rocks, and pile rocks all around. If the rocks are flooded or dripped into immediately, the plants will adapt quickly and really take off.

That said, it's definitely best on the plant if she's allowed to fill out her container, and stay undisturbed there throughout her days. You know, just like all of the other things that we have to do to keep women happy.

HTH

i might wait if i had to cut any roots

thanx potroast for the hepful answer. I am going to give it a try, I have drilled bigger holes in the waterfarm for the roots so i'm feeling pretty good about this, but I sure as hell won't be cutting any roots

Hi Guys, I have a question for u...how do you feel about feeding seedling as soon as the sucker pops up from the medium?
I ask because i've used the small rockwool cubes, jiffy pelets/ hydroton as medium in an ebb and flo. And as soon as seeds sprout from the medium, i feed em with flora nova grow at about 400 ppm,
No signs of nute burns, but the leafs turn to this lime green fat celery type thing. And I read in other forums that they dont feed till about 2 weeks from seed. does this apply to hydro aswell? ive been in play since the begining of the yr, started with GH 3 part and always fed right after they pop up... ur thoughts please

Low dose nutrients work fine for me, and especially if you use something like FloraNova, which is mostly organic. I pretreat my rockwool with nutes too, so the plants always have nutes available. I don't see how a plant could live without any nutes.

HTH

i would just use a ph meter and ec meter and dip it into a pot .....when its fully flooded to make shore there isent any salt build up once a week .. to make shore its the same ex readin and ph level as the main water resivoir

how often do i add plain water to my tank?