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jdmcwestevo

jdmcwestevo

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hellraizer30 said:
K well all thing have flaws are you saying you have never had any sort of issue with these?
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no sir. only issue was forgetting to set the flood level lol once and it overflowed haha but that is user error not design flaw. other than that i have probably 8 or so of these systems with 48 buckets going right now with no issues
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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Sweet jdm. Im sold bro and il take your word on it!

Im out for the the night il hit you back up tomorrow we chat more about it, thank and peace
 
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I saw that ya'll were talking about using coco as a medium. Specifically with the ebb n grow....

We use coco chips in both tables and ebb n grow buckets. It is reusable and retains a very good amount of moisture inside the chips that the roots can get at but drains very fast. You can't overwater with this stuff. We haven't run into any cal/mag issues while using it. It is also extremely inexpensive.

For cleaning between cycles we run some enzyme through it.

It comes dry and compressed. A small package, which is about a cubic foot and will expand out into about 8 cubic feet. The cubic foot package costs about 10 bucks.

Preparation is similar to hydroton in that it needs to be rinsed. We fill a bathtub about halfway with water @ 5.8. Add about 150 ml of cal/mag and a bit of thrive alive for the pre/soak rinse. Your first week of use the res is gonna get dark in color with little particles but it's np for plants or pumps. After that you don't get much in the way of particles and much less than you have using hydroton.

My favorite part of this medium is the fact you don't ever have to adjust your ph... even with AN my PH sits perfect for nearly the entire grow. Only time PH needs to be adjusted is during aggressive veg. growth due to release of n3.

It's a great medium and imo superior to just about anything out there except maybe Mapito which you can't get in the states anyway.

Anyway, nice grow m8 and here's linky to some coco chips.

http://www.sensivcocopeat.com/coco-chips.html
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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Grewdat said:
I saw that ya'll were talking about using coco as a medium. Specifically with the ebb n grow....

We use coco chips in both tables and ebb n grow buckets. It is reusable and retains a very good amount of moisture inside the chips that the roots can get at but drains very fast. You can't overwater with this stuff. We haven't run into any cal/mag issues while using it. It is also extremely inexpensive.

For cleaning between cycles we run some enzyme through it.

It comes dry and compressed. A small package, which is about a cubic foot and will expand out into about 8 cubic feet. The cubic foot package costs about 10 bucks.

Preparation is similar to hydroton in that it needs to be rinsed. We fill a bathtub about halfway with water @ 5.8. Add about 150 ml of cal/mag and a bit of thrive alive for the pre/soak rinse. Your first week of use the res is gonna get dark in color with little particles but it's np for plants or pumps. After that you don't get much in the way of particles and much less than you have using hydroton.

My favorite part of this medium is the fact you don't ever have to adjust your ph... even with AN my PH sits perfect for nearly the entire grow. Only time PH needs to be adjusted is during aggressive veg. growth due to release of n3.

It's a great medium and imo superior to just about anything out there except maybe Mapito which you can't get in the states anyway.

Anyway, nice grow m8 and here's linky to some coco chips.

http://www.sensivcocopeat.com/coco-chips.html
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Nice bit of info grew thanks bro
 
stillgamble

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does the greentrees iner bucket have holes on the sides or just the bottom? i think one thing the titan has an advantage is the 360 mesh iner bucket. i think this helps with co2 get into the roots. and u can also check to see how wet the rocks or coco is to see if ur watering to much or to little. and ive heard the square buckets dont tip as easy as the round ones do. but im sure both r great systems.
 
jdmcwestevo

jdmcwestevo

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stillgamble said:
does the greentrees iner bucket have holes on the sides or just the bottom? i think one thing the titan has an advantage is the 360 mesh iner bucket. i think this helps with co2 get into the roots. and u can also check to see how wet the rocks or coco is to see if ur watering to much or to little. and ive heard the square buckets dont tip as easy as the round ones do. but im sure both r great systems.
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holes are in bottom. also roots need o2 not co2 lol
 
hellraizer30

hellraizer30

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Well i did a close inspection of the girls that were next to the herme hashberrys! Well my worst thoughts
Were true there was some seed pods :( not bad but im doing a crash course flush then chop yah its early
But im looking at the bigger picture.
 
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