weed-whacker
Well-Known Member
Hey what's up diggs99. Glad to see someone trying LPA. I have been growing with LPA for the last six years and will never go back to anything else. As per my user name ASSOG. AreoSystemSeaOfGreen. I grow in the sea of green. When I first started i tried every tub or toot (whatever) out there. Except the black and yellow ones from H.D. And they all leaked. I tried everything and nothing would stop it. So i finally tried the black and yellow ones and they worked great. No leaks. But I painted the outside of the lid white. As for how tall, it doesn't matter. No matter what the roots are going to go to the bottom. You just have to make sure the roots don't block your drain hole, cause they will . Now for your net pots. I use 3 inch net pots with 3 inch neosprene incerts. Everything else will get meldew and mold or leak. With your manifold use 1/2 inch and set it about 3-4 inches from the bottom. This helps with leaks and it still covers the roots good. I use only 9 sprayers. You have to remember this is LPA not HPA. our droplet size is to big, so less is better. So this brings up pump run times. I started with 1 minute on every 5 minutes. I am now at 20 seconds on every hour. Remember this is LPA. less is better. What happens with longer run times is due to the droplet size being so big the weight of the solution ( droplets) weights down all the little root hairs into one big glob. Which im sure you know is not good. Also like some people were saying res. and solution temps. are very important. You can get away with 70 but 65 is better. Just make sure you use hydrogaurd or something. In 6 years i have never had root rot ( knock on wood). I'll tell you something this is the easiest and fastest way to grow. And once you get everything tuned in yeild is comparable with every other way you can grow ( per s/ ft) if not better ( per s/ ft). This is how i set mine up. Each areo has 23 grow sites,two areos 46 grow sites in a 3x3 area under one light. With one res. You may want to cut your four areos to one res. down, do to how many different strains you want to grow. Cause you know that they all won't finish at the same time. And it's a big pain in the butt, if you want to flush. Like i stated i grow in the SOG. I take 46 clones, in 5-7 days i have roots. In areo cloners. I wait 17 days then straight to 12/12. No veg. Depending on the strain I'm pulling anywhere from 17 gs to 35 gs per plant. Do the math, in 9 s/ ft that's pretty damn good. There's not to many people pulling that per s/ ft. Anyway sorry this took so long. And good luck. You won't be sorry for trying LPA. Later ASSOG...............
Hold the phone
So u are saying ur getting over 100g per sq foot?!?!?
(46x(17+35/2)= 1196/9= 132.8 grams per sq ft
Hate to call bullshit but...BULLSHIT
