yeah i like i wash the coco first with some water... all that shit comes off. damn i hope that seed sprouts i already potted it
no i would just make sure the cube stays lightly moist . rock wool is really designed for drip feeds, flood and drains.... even DWC all that matters is the rock wool stay moist and the water thats moisting it is ph balanced because it will balance the rock wool to the water ph.. until it drys or starts to dry then its back to 8.0
interesting, now going back to nutes.... im using jacks classic bloom. its 10-30-20 i believe. do i mix 1/4 the recommended dose at the first watering? or do i give it a week or so? sorry for all the questions this coco stuff is new to me
Is that 100% true that the rockwool reverts back to 8.0?
my goal is to get them in a dwc system. i have it already i only have a 6 inch pot tho. i was told not to drop the germ. seed into that right away. what do you suggest i start a germ. seed in to eventually make it to dwc. i feel like starting it in soil is a mission to transplant into dwc. like having to clean all the roots, sounds fishy to me. so i figured i would start it in a pot using that medium that came with the dwc system. i BELIEVE its coco but idk.. its these pebbles almost like rocks. i could be COMPLETELY wrong hahahaha. help a brother out lol
im super lost at all this you know. i been growing in soil for a while and i like trying new things. the dwc was just screaming my name. i see amazing results with it and i want those same results. so i just got a system that was already made off amazon, i swapped the air pump for one that can work with multiple buckets and all that. it came with rockwool as well so i figured i drop it in that. i germ the seed like almost everyone does. once it popped i put it in a napkin and once it formed a nice root i placed it in rockwool that i soaked in water. i gave it a good two or third good shakes before placing the seed. but i did not leave it over night
... its very disappointing because its a northern lights X big bud seed that i got for free. im really looking forward to hopefully growing it.
hmm if they are little pellets like rocks its hydroton.. that makes sense.. thats why i would use/recoomend... but your right i wouldn't start in a soil to transplant to hydro .. vise versa can be done simply but like you said the dirt on the roots alone will cause a mess..
yeah i don't think its a issue either i would just use something else next time you should be fine...
sorry guys im a fool hahahha this is not coco its those clay stones
no worries i thought using coco was a bit odd... but i didn't wanna say anything cause everyones so different... the minute you described them i knew it was hydroton.. but thats a good thing its what you want in the system your running.. trust me if it was coco you would have had issues with DWC and the runoff from coco...
yeah i googled "what is a coco grow medium" and i was like waaaaaaait a minute, this isnt what i have lol... i believe its leca clay that i have. i woke up this morning and my seedling had popped its head out from under the clay
so things are going good. hopefully they stay the same.