Hey Dramamind, have you got a thread or some pics to look at, I`d be pleased if I can help anyone avoid some of the issues I`ve had. Feel free to PM me or post a couple of pics up here. Its very hard to predict things without a lot of the facts and figures and decent images to view.
Hey Killer thanks man, hopefully I`m on top of things now, not sure how the Arma`s will do but I believe they`re looking a little better than the last run. All Gf`s next time though if four more come through, I haven`t checked today, if not I got the few hog`s to try.
Hey Gaius, always a pleasure to see you dropping in, thanks. Yeah I know what ya mean, a lot of the time its figuring out what you`ve done wrong fo sho. I do use little cups (bottoms of 2ltr water bottles) that fit under individual pots, I always rinse them out, as for the ec rise in the rez, I just dont know, but figure I fooked it up somewhere. They`ve been well and truly flushed now tho, after the flush and ec1.1 feed, I fed again yesterday evening and forgot to switch the pump off and as a result flushed another 70+ltrs of ec1.1 through them. I`m just filling the rez, gonna aim for ec1.4 including a 7ml per 10ltr of PK13/14.
When I did flush with plain ec0.0 RO water I kept checking the run off, for eg. I`d check the first bit of run off, then a quater of the way thru run off check again, then hal way thru and then 3/4 thru and then the last bits, and I can say for sure that it does take a lot of water, up to 10ltrs in 12/15ltr pots, to bring the run off ec down, in this case to about ec0.4/5.
Hey Gaius, what are your thoughts on the Air-pots? I`m thinking with a very different dial-in to normal pots they could be real winners. I`ve got a set of 4 in various sizes and going to try one plant in a recirculating single size nft tray. I`ve found some interesting reading here at IC, I know there`s a lot of talk about them drying out too quickly, but I think this is when using standard coco feeding regimes for normal pots. I`m thinking to flood my Air-pot with a recirc dripper set up as often as it needs to maintain the correct moisture content even if this requires half hour on/half hour off during lights on and a couple of times during lights off if required. I`m not confident enough to switch the whole grow, especially as I feel I`ve really got the current technique nailed now, well except for the human error, lol, but I like the idea of being able to flood solution over the roots more than is possible in conventional pots, getting somewhere between what I`m doing now and a hydroponic set-up. I used to love Hydro until I was plagued with pythium and made the switch to coco way back when, wow, over 10yrs ago!
Always a pleasure to share on this community we have going here mate, reminds me of Op Overgrow. I stopped using the internet forums after that went down until starting up again here at ICmag. Cant even remember my handle there now. . . . I think it was Bluesdude.
Right I`m off to mix a rez and check if any more of my lil GF`s have popped their roots out.
Cheers, Toke
Hey Killer thanks man, hopefully I`m on top of things now, not sure how the Arma`s will do but I believe they`re looking a little better than the last run. All Gf`s next time though if four more come through, I haven`t checked today, if not I got the few hog`s to try.
Hey Gaius, always a pleasure to see you dropping in, thanks. Yeah I know what ya mean, a lot of the time its figuring out what you`ve done wrong fo sho. I do use little cups (bottoms of 2ltr water bottles) that fit under individual pots, I always rinse them out, as for the ec rise in the rez, I just dont know, but figure I fooked it up somewhere. They`ve been well and truly flushed now tho, after the flush and ec1.1 feed, I fed again yesterday evening and forgot to switch the pump off and as a result flushed another 70+ltrs of ec1.1 through them. I`m just filling the rez, gonna aim for ec1.4 including a 7ml per 10ltr of PK13/14.
When I did flush with plain ec0.0 RO water I kept checking the run off, for eg. I`d check the first bit of run off, then a quater of the way thru run off check again, then hal way thru and then 3/4 thru and then the last bits, and I can say for sure that it does take a lot of water, up to 10ltrs in 12/15ltr pots, to bring the run off ec down, in this case to about ec0.4/5.
Hey Gaius, what are your thoughts on the Air-pots? I`m thinking with a very different dial-in to normal pots they could be real winners. I`ve got a set of 4 in various sizes and going to try one plant in a recirculating single size nft tray. I`ve found some interesting reading here at IC, I know there`s a lot of talk about them drying out too quickly, but I think this is when using standard coco feeding regimes for normal pots. I`m thinking to flood my Air-pot with a recirc dripper set up as often as it needs to maintain the correct moisture content even if this requires half hour on/half hour off during lights on and a couple of times during lights off if required. I`m not confident enough to switch the whole grow, especially as I feel I`ve really got the current technique nailed now, well except for the human error, lol, but I like the idea of being able to flood solution over the roots more than is possible in conventional pots, getting somewhere between what I`m doing now and a hydroponic set-up. I used to love Hydro until I was plagued with pythium and made the switch to coco way back when, wow, over 10yrs ago!
Always a pleasure to share on this community we have going here mate, reminds me of Op Overgrow. I stopped using the internet forums after that went down until starting up again here at ICmag. Cant even remember my handle there now. . . . I think it was Bluesdude.
Right I`m off to mix a rez and check if any more of my lil GF`s have popped their roots out.
Cheers, Toke