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thanks used it on my autos they ok, might try my fav tomatoe feed or phostrogen used them before in dwc, ring culture, soil etc they never let me down.but dont know how they will do on coco, trouble is a few plants flowering with coco so will try a couple on tomatoe feed. ring culture by the way...

first time growing in coco coir, auto plants fruiting well but other plants terrible, large root mass but very low yield, i would say a quarter what i would expect of my soil grows, same pots as always used, canna nutes for coco used, during veg brilliant growth thought great but flowering very...

are air pots with coco better than hempy with coco

just trying a 50/50 compost hempy with clay balls in res, growing ok, anyone done it, also got one in coco same ratio and one just hydroton and small rockwell cubes, no difference so far, roots all in res in a 2litre plastic clear bottle.

done big bang before but not auto, shall just leave it and see what happens

Hi. thanks got another grow 12/12 i will put it in, Thanks

growing big bang auto in coco, 7 litre pot plant is 3 ft tall and not flowering after 5 weeks, how long do they take as not done them before, 18 hours of light, thanks

making a hempy out of a oxypot useing clay balls all to the top and useing the oxypot indicator to show water level, high at first then lower as plant grows, anyone tried it

I did hempys a few years ago, perlite messy, to much watering and loads of run off everywhere, started to smell as well for some reason, got more off my soil grows, plus though it is cheap.

plants with mix of clay balls rockwell good, clayballs perlite ok. clayballs coco not so good, coco on own to wet, clayballs on own to dry, all sitting in res of canna nutes.Done for a week with 40 plants in veg, leave for a couple of weeks and see,

Hi, planted a couple of small plants from soil to coco, auto big bangs, 2 sets of leaves when do i started adding canna coco ferts to them please and quarter strengh like i do in soil or what, thanks

I am going to let the reservoir run out, leave a bit then top up again, useing clay pellets and small pieses of rockwell, plants looking good, one i tried in perlite/ clayballs in a pot and half a 2litr plastic bottle cut down as the res is doing better after a week than an identical one in...

yes , but i always water soil from top, just thought try something different, i thought of coco but a bit pricy, soil gets to soggy doing it that way thats why i thought of useing clay pellets or mix with something, simalar to a hempy grow i use to use but that smelt after a bit, I read a bit...

Hi, thats a wick system, this is a reservoir system, supposed to be easy, trying in clay pellets mixed with small rockwell, see if it works

The reservoir set-up is one of the easiest methods of growing plants hydroponically. Containers are filled with lava or clay pellets and placed in a tray. Water/nutrient solution is added to about one quarter the height of the container. For instance, a tray with 8-inch-tall containers would...