Jimmy Luffnan
Well-Known Member
Looking for advice on a flooded tube grow and nutrient strength.
Imagine a 20ft pvc pipe with net pots from one end to the other and water flowing from one end to the other like a flooded tube.
Divide the pipe into 4 sections where you put a 8 week strain in as a perpetual harvest, so every 2 weeks you fill 1 of the 4 sections with rooted clones.
So the nutrient that flows from one end to the other is the same strength for freshly rooted clones as it is for the final week of flowering plants.
Ive seen examples of people using the same EC the entire flowering period with good results. Low enough EC for new clones, but high enough EC for full flowering period. Keeping the EC around 1.0 also would eliminate flushing with low salts.
Most people hammer their plants to max EC, but in my experience it's not necessary.
Heath Robinson also spoke of this in his flooded tube grows.
Using just 1 large reservoir has many advantages with both plumbing and stability.
Anybody have any experience or science for this to be viable?
Cheers Jimmy!
Imagine a 20ft pvc pipe with net pots from one end to the other and water flowing from one end to the other like a flooded tube.
Divide the pipe into 4 sections where you put a 8 week strain in as a perpetual harvest, so every 2 weeks you fill 1 of the 4 sections with rooted clones.
So the nutrient that flows from one end to the other is the same strength for freshly rooted clones as it is for the final week of flowering plants.
Ive seen examples of people using the same EC the entire flowering period with good results. Low enough EC for new clones, but high enough EC for full flowering period. Keeping the EC around 1.0 also would eliminate flushing with low salts.
Most people hammer their plants to max EC, but in my experience it's not necessary.
Heath Robinson also spoke of this in his flooded tube grows.
Using just 1 large reservoir has many advantages with both plumbing and stability.
Anybody have any experience or science for this to be viable?
Cheers Jimmy!