Well I have been growing for decades, so when areogardens came out and promised huge results I gave it a try
I have several Areo 60s, in a large grow operation, i have been using them for one year now, but think im done
the Aero does veg amazingly fast, I took several of the same clones, some in areo, some in top feed, some in quality soil, and the Areos vegged 2x as fast, however the buds were 2x as small. i use all GH nutes, and have played with the PPM from 800-2000, doesnt seem to matter, the stalks on the areo system are huge, too big, they could support a house, so no tying off is needed. If you grow the plants over 2' (at harvest) you have so many roots clogging up you system, you always need to cut them out of the resevoir. I can never get the leaves to yellow at the end no matter how hot i make the solution (i can get them to burn, not just the normal yellowing towards the end), there is no way you can grow 60 plants that actually produce good buds, more like 20-30, and you still run out of room/light, and too much roots.
the pre-made areo 60 system has the pots way to close to eachother, Im growing PK, which is short and stubby, i tried OG and it was out of control, way too tall/big for this system. I have various veg times from 0 to 3 weeks, still small buds.
this is my experience, i have heared of others with great success, but never seen it. the soil and top feed produced 2x as much good bud, it just took a little longer, the system is high maintance.
I would be happy to hear from anyone of what i may be doing wrong, but the plants in the other system are getting the same love/light/nutes/temp and produce larger buds, If i could get the buds to grow like the stalks, then it would be impressive
I have several Areo 60s, in a large grow operation, i have been using them for one year now, but think im done
the Aero does veg amazingly fast, I took several of the same clones, some in areo, some in top feed, some in quality soil, and the Areos vegged 2x as fast, however the buds were 2x as small. i use all GH nutes, and have played with the PPM from 800-2000, doesnt seem to matter, the stalks on the areo system are huge, too big, they could support a house, so no tying off is needed. If you grow the plants over 2' (at harvest) you have so many roots clogging up you system, you always need to cut them out of the resevoir. I can never get the leaves to yellow at the end no matter how hot i make the solution (i can get them to burn, not just the normal yellowing towards the end), there is no way you can grow 60 plants that actually produce good buds, more like 20-30, and you still run out of room/light, and too much roots.
the pre-made areo 60 system has the pots way to close to eachother, Im growing PK, which is short and stubby, i tried OG and it was out of control, way too tall/big for this system. I have various veg times from 0 to 3 weeks, still small buds.
this is my experience, i have heared of others with great success, but never seen it. the soil and top feed produced 2x as much good bud, it just took a little longer, the system is high maintance.
I would be happy to hear from anyone of what i may be doing wrong, but the plants in the other system are getting the same love/light/nutes/temp and produce larger buds, If i could get the buds to grow like the stalks, then it would be impressive
