don't put yourself down bro, your not a duncetbh
I don't know what that means....
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The pots will work like a charm...don't put yourself down bro, your not a dunce
anyway... i can get some 13x13x13cm square net pots. so i could go 3 deep and 4 wide. woot 12 plants.
if you was unsure what i meant by ancillaries, i meant the flood/drain components.
You already have the totes...
just empty/change bag/fill....Cool Steve...
Wark, it's been done...
tbh - to be honest.The pots will work like a charm...
Along with "tbh" I also don't know what "ancillaries" are... can you explain?
no i haven't bought them yet.You already have the totes...
The larger one is the res...
The smaller one is the tray, and it will be cut to the same height as the pots...
Fill the res as full as you are capable... you can even line it with a plastic bag and eliminate res clean up...
i did see the ani yes. did you make it? i understand now, from what you wrote, re how the flood/drain works. how does the water flow back through the pump tho?Cool Steve...
did you notice that this is an animation?
here is a pic of the store bought fill/drain fitting (little green guy)
and the overflow pipe (tall gray and black dude)
You can have just a piece of hose, fit in a hole almost too small for it... and it will work.. but if you can find fittings like that...
They are not expensive... $15 dollars here... and work great... you can even customize the height by cutting some of the pipe off...
also great for keeping the hydroton from falling in the res and pump...
So just to recap... the tray floods when the pump is on... and drains when the pump is off...
Most people flood 3 or 4 times for 5 minutes during lights on... 0 times lights off
I am flooding 12x a day for 15 minutes...
rockwool starter plugs for rooting the clones and probably rockwool cubes and hydroton in the net pots. i got a heated propagator today
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See.. I am a dummy.. that is so obvious now...
I use 185 gallon per hour pump for my 4x4 tray...
But you know where they are, and that is what counts...
Yup.. nifty... huh?!?! pretyy simple how it all works...
Nope.. Al B. Fuct did.. I am too lazy for that..
Literally floods.. and drains...lol...
Gravity...
I use the same cubes as AL...
no need for more Rockwool... you only need it for the rooting part...
nana ni na NO!
Nice.. now you need to make sure you will not cook the clones...i got a heated propagator today
the starter cubes come in small or large, with large being 1".See.. I am a dummy.. that is so obvious now...
I use 185 gallon per hour pump for my 4x4 tray...
I would go with something small... maybe just a little bit bigger than the AG water pump...
you want the pump to fill the tray and start overflowing in less than 5 minutes...
Small pump...
But you know where they are, and that is what counts...
Yup.. nifty... huh?!?! pretyy simple how it all works...
Nope.. Al B. Fuct did.. I am too lazy for that..
I still haven't gotten you the drawing.. though I think we are past proving it can be done...lol...
Literally floods.. and drains...lol...
Gravity...
there is no valve or anything... water flow is unrestricted both ways...
and the pump offers a way through when it is off...
so the water pretty much goes back the same way it came...
I use the same cubes as AL...
They weigh dry at 4 grams each... and you dampen them to 25g ~ 30g..
Mine are 1.75" cubes i think...
no need for more Rockwool... you only need it for the rooting part...
Al fills the whole pot with RW, but he can only flood once a day... so hydroton is more productive...
Al's RW potful will hold water for a day or so if the pump fails... but we keep an eye on things..
I rather have bigger buds...
nana ni na NO!
No netpots allowed...
Solid pots with holes on the bottom...
Trust me on this one...
There are pages and pages of reference as to why...
No netpots ... you hear...????
Nice.. now you need to make sure you will not cook the clones...
let me know when it's time to move on and start talking about cloning...
I think you have this part down yeah?
Take a digital scale with you and buy the cube that weighs 4g... or the closes to it...
That should work, you just need to make sure the over flow can drain more than the pump can flood....
#1 the roots may be air pruned... meaning that as they escape the pot, they will dry and die...
Keeps the algae growth down on the pots... but is not necessary... few people do it like this...
I fucked up on the pots too... I got round 6"dia and 7" tall pots when everyone else is using 5.5" square pots... I could fit 25% more plants on my tray...cheers gypsy. your a star, as ever. the pots i was looking at, aren't infact net pots after double checking. i just assumed they were
cheers bro. i think i will go with the 4" pots to start and see how i go. if all goes well i could fit 24 lollipops.
24 would be sweet...
you could harvest 3 a week...
