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zep_lover

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Can you elaborate on ppk system?

I was gonna run two 600's stacked but decided to try the 1000 on a mover first. 1 lamp (cheaper at that), 1 ballast etc.

Ditto @ttystikk , bad ass vert grow you have there
the ppk system was started by a guy named delta9nxs on icmag.
it uses a perched water table.the top container holds your medium (the prefered medium is turface)and your plant.
there is a tail piece in the top container that goes into the bottom container.you set your level of nutrients in the bottom container to set your air gap.
the air gap is how you set the perched water table.the tailpiece is filled with your medium and allows your top fed nutrients to return to your main res.
the tailpiece also allows your plant to drink from the bottom container if your pump quits or your timer fails by wicking up the nutrients through the tail piece.
most people use jacks hydro mix 5-12-26 and calcium nitrate mixed to 1.2 ec or around 650 ppm.that is it.nothing else
no chillers for the nutes.
it is pretty easy and cheap.
 

OneHitDone

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the ppk system was started by a guy named delta9nxs on icmag.
it uses a perched water table.the top container holds your medium (the prefered medium is turface)and your plant.
there is a tail piece in the top container that goes into the bottom container.you set your level of nutrients in the bottom container to set your air gap.
the air gap is how you set the perched water table.the tailpiece is filled with your medium and allows your top fed nutrients to return to your main res.
the tailpiece also allows your plant to drink from the bottom container if your pump quits or your timer fails by wicking up the nutrients through the tail piece.
most people use jacks hydro mix 5-12-26 and calcium nitrate mixed to 1.2 ec or around 650 ppm.that is it.nothing else
no chillers for the nutes.
it is pretty easy and cheap.
Any links to a build of those plant sites?
 

ttystikk

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the ppk system was started by a guy named delta9nxs on icmag.
it uses a perched water table.the top container holds your medium (the prefered medium is turface)and your plant.
there is a tail piece in the top container that goes into the bottom container.you set your level of nutrients in the bottom container to set your air gap.
the air gap is how you set the perched water table.the tailpiece is filled with your medium and allows your top fed nutrients to return to your main res.
the tailpiece also allows your plant to drink from the bottom container if your pump quits or your timer fails by wicking up the nutrients through the tail piece.
most people use jacks hydro mix 5-12-26 and calcium nitrate mixed to 1.2 ec or around 650 ppm.that is it.nothing else
no chillers for the nutes.
it is pretty easy and cheap.
I've spoken with him, he's a great gut and the system is pretty solid. Size of tailpiece and composition of substrate are the most finicky parts. Once it's running, it's really pretty boring in its consistency, lol

Another way to think of it is as a hybrid SIPS, or sub irrigated pot system. The wick is there but the hydro nutes are periodically topfed.
 

ttystikk

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I use dry hydroponic nutrient salts, and I'm switching to this stuff called Tupur. It's coco, perlite and composted forest litter. So far I'm very happy with its performance.

I'm not running a PPK, however.
 
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zep_lover

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the thread name on icmagdot com is "a ppk for a 6 plant limit".googling ppk should show where. turface is used for baseball infields.
 

Evil-Mobo

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I use dry hydroponic nutrient salts, and I'm switching to this stuff called Tupur. It's coco, perlite and composted forest litter. So far I'm very happy with its performance.

I'm not running a PPK, however.
I'm going to mix perlite with the cocotek from GH for my first coco run we shall see how it goes :) I have been looking at the tupur though
 
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