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The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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imcjayt said:
yer I mite give the coco in there ago instead of pebbles ect.....we will see anyways im shure u guys will correct me anyways wen comes to it if im doing something wrong or if ive missed sommert....
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More air = bigger yield with pebbles.

You can hose em down in the bath and reuse them indefinitely.
 
imcjayt

imcjayt

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yer pic wld be good....then can ask in my local if he got any.....
The Yorkshireman said:
Ah Ha!!!!!

Don't use airstones! They break up and disintegrate after a while and the cheap ball ones don't even last 1 grow.

My local has started to stock porous rubber hose for about £3 per metre as an alternative (he's growing hydro herbs in the shop with it) and he said it doesn't degrade, doesn't get blocked as easy and lets out more and bigger bubbles.
It's not on their website to show you but I'll get a picture from the shop in the next few days.
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Hydrogrow123

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imcjayt said:
that's what I was thinking.......
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When I was just runnin the 4 pot that's what I done, I got some coriboard, u know like plastic sheetin, cut it the size of the top tray and cut the pots out of it so it blocked light from the roots and let them grow into the tank, had no airstones in ther tho
 
imcjayt

imcjayt

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hmmmm good idea...did u see it improve much?
Hydrogrow123 said:
When I was just runnin the 4 pot that's what I done, I got some coriboard, u know like plastic sheetin, cut it the size of the top tray and cut the pots out of it so it blocked light from the roots and let them grow into the tank, had no airstones in ther tho
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Hydrogrow123

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imcjayt said:
hmmmm good idea...did u see it improve much?
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i dunno m8 cos that's the way I started, I had no choice but too cover the roots cos it was a small 4 pot and the roots just kept growin outta the pot, must be cos the pots wer close together and the roots never got much light down ther. Don't have that problem now cos they seem to get air pruned now I have them spread out more. You'll just have to get urs and play with it and see for urself m8
 
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Hydrogrow123

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Turbanator said:
no, its a wilma NOT dwc,

just do what you normally do, all the iwlma does is add a timer to feed, use watever medium u want, coco and get the drippers set your timer and leave it to go,

so no u dont make holes in pots

but id advice put a airstoen in teh res, most dont but it always helps, nowt wrong with c02 in ya water
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how things anyway ye bellend, u still balls deep in gta
 
The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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Hydrogrow123 said:
My ever washed many, it's a fuckin ballache, u gotta run ur hands all thru them to get the roots off, the roots sticks to ur hands......I use them maybe 2-3 times them usually fuck em out
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Plenty.
I get a hose pipe hooked up to the bath and a rake from the garden, rake the pebbles as I'm hosing them down and the roots fall to the bottom.
You're right, still a ball ache non the less though, lol.


I've even decided that reusing coco and treating it with Cannazym before hand is a waste of money, Cannazyme costs around £15 per litre and to treat 50L of coco to be reused again you'll need to use around 3L of Cannazyme to degrade all the left over root fibres that you can't get out yourself.

50L of primo coco is around £15 so go figure......

I won't be doing it again, back to fresh all round.
 
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Hydrogrow123

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The Yorkshireman said:
Plenty.
I get a hose pipe hooked up to the bath and a rake from the garden, rake the pebbles as I'm hosing them down and the roots fall to the bottom.
You're right, still a ball ache non the less though, lol.


I've even decided that reusing coco and treating it with Cannazym before hand is a waste of money, Cannazyme costs around £15 per litre and to treat 50L of coco to be reused again you'll need to use around 3L of Cannazyme to degrade all the left over root fibres that you can't get out yourself.

50L of primo coco is around £15 so go figure......

I won't be doing it again, back to fresh all round.
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the thing when I was doin 18 plants is its a while lot of pebbles to have to dump somewhere, that was why I just washed them. With only doin 8 now ill probly dump them and buy more but u still have to wash new pebbles too but it's only a quick rinse to get the dust off
 
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