• Here is a link to the full explanation: https://rollitup.org/t/welcome-back-did-you-try-turning-it-off-and-on-again.1104810/

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Heisengrow

Heisengrow

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Chunky Stool said:
I've ran coco a few times but certainly wouldn't say I'm an expert.
Right now I've got an experimental tomato outside in coco and it's kicking butt in a 5 gallon cloth pot.

The number of times you have to water depends on what you mix with your coco as well as the pot/plant ratio.

I ignored the advice of several other growers and ran a plant in straight coco -- and it did fine.

Gotta use more cal-mag and less K, but other than that, it's not much different than promix.

But again, I'm no expert... :dunce::eyesmoke::dunce:
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I have been looking at the blumats.It would just be nice to light up the whole room and have a floor full of plants i can walk around in at different stages of flower.i have 2 big rooms,My flower room is 260 SF with 10 foot ceilings but im only using 80 SF for plants.big scrogs have to be walked around to get to everything.Would be nice to just move the plants around to get to where i need and can also grow them upright and bigger
 
mistermagoo

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Heisengrow said:
little off topic and aimed at you guys that run coco do you have any suggestions for a hydro type of system to auto feed coco.i know there are some growers on this thread.I love RDWC and any other medium less setups but have been interested in trying coco for a while to be able to get more plants into an area.Hard to do in DWC cause the buckets cant really be moved around.I like the idea of spacing plants out on the floor in an open room with overhead lighting to have freedom to move around and have plants in different stages of flowering.Ive seen the pots with the cages around them and think those are pretty cool.
I know coco has the be fed 3 times a day and treated like hydro to make it right using smaller pots and kinda letting everything run through.I just dont have time to babysit a garden 3 times a day.Any one can point me in the right direction or a link to setting something like this up would be awesome.
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I grow hempy buckets and have been solely hempy for the past five years. I really enjoy growing this way, it’s very K.I.S.S. You have the same potential yields as DWC , but the easy ability to space plants out in different size buckets or however you see fit.

Many growers do very well with coco hempy hop over to the world of hempy thread great info from a bunch of good growers.

I manually feed 2 gallon buckets every other day, it’s simple enough for me , but I suppose you can set up some kind of blumats or auto feed system at the top of the bucket

Edit: https://www.rollitup.org/t/world-of-hempy.546006/
 
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Heisengrow

Heisengrow

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mistermagoo said:
I grow hempy buckets and have been solely hempy for the past five years. I really enjoy growing this way, it’s very K.I.S.S. You have the same potential yields as DWC , but the easy ability to space plants out in different size buckets or however you see fit.

Many growers do very well with coco hempy hop over to the world of hempy thread great info from a bunch of good growers.

I manually feed 2 gallons every other day, it’s simple enough for me , but I suppose you can set up some kind of blumats or auto feed system at the top of the bucket
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Thanks im gonna check it out
 
mistermagoo

mistermagoo

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Heisengrow said:
I have been looking at the blumats.It would just be nice to light up the whole room and have a floor full of plants i can walk around in at different stages of flower.i have 2 big rooms,My flower room is 260 SF with 10 foot ceilings but im only using 80 SF for plants.big scrogs have to be walked around to get to everything.Would be nice to just move the plants around to get to where i need and can also grow them upright and bigger
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I do this with my plants different stages in the tents , and just use a bucket under the shorter ones to reach at the canopy height as they grow

Bubbler clones straight to hempy bucket very simple
 
genuity

genuity

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Heisengrow said:
little off topic and aimed at you guys that run coco do you have any suggestions for a hydro type of system to auto feed coco.i know there are some growers on this thread.I love RDWC and any other medium less setups but have been interested in trying coco for a while to be able to get more plants into an area.Hard to do in DWC cause the buckets cant really be moved around.I like the idea of spacing plants out on the floor in an open room with overhead lighting to have freedom to move around and have plants in different stages of flowering.Ive seen the pots with the cages around them and think those are pretty cool.
I know coco has the be fed 3 times a day and treated like hydro to make it right using smaller pots and kinda letting everything run through.I just dont have time to babysit a garden 3 times a day.Any one can point me in the right direction or a link to setting something like this up would be awesome.
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https://floraflex.com
 
thenotsoesoteric

thenotsoesoteric

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Rivendell said:
There are only so many ways to ship things, I can't imagine a interested party would have a hard time discovering a new shipping method if they were so inclined. Not saying keeping it on the down low is a bad idea, but the reality is that it probably will not change anything in the grand scheme of things.
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100%

Even when I was living in Illinois I never understood the paranoia of "not discussing" shipping method, blah blah blah.

Like law enforcement officials are mentally retarded. If they wanted to investigate a seed company or someone growing the last place they're going to go is a pot forum, lol. And if they do it's already too late.

If they want to bust GPS all they have to do is make a few controlled purchases of seeds.

If they want to bust someone for growing they'll call up the electric company or pull someone over as they leave your house.

I'd be willing to bet at least $5 that zero people in the US have been busted by an official going on a pot forum and seeing the shipping method of a seedbank.
 
whytewidow

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Heisengrow said:
this definitly looks like what im looking for,
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So they are just on n off. Very manual working. Getting the valve adjusted right to get the right amount water would be horrible if you're running different strains. That take different nutrient amounts n whatnot. If you're running clones of the samething they do well. Why not just buy the top drop kit rings from general hydroponics. And use them overtop either soil or coco. They are cheap and work good. My buddy running coco in fabric pots. In trays. Top drop system to a tray that drains to waste. Or even use rockwood cubes. Or the Rico coco bags.

Edit: the Rico coco bags are nice. They have a whole preferated in the top. Punch it out, plant. And go.
 
Heisengrow

Heisengrow

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whytewidow said:
So they are just on n off. Very manual working. Getting the valve adjusted right to get the right amount water would be horrible if you're running different strains. That take different nutrient amounts n whatnot. If you're running clones of the samething they do well. Why not just buy the top drop kit rings from general hydroponics. And use them overtop either soil or coco. They are cheap and work good. My buddy running coco in fabric pots. In trays. Top drop system to a tray that drains to waste. Or even use rockwood cubes. Or the Rico coco bags.

Edit: the Rico coco bags are nice. They have a whole preferated in the top. Punch it out, plant. And go.
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Yeah I'm gonna have to think it through.if I go with trays or tables I may as well just stay where the fuk I'm at in rdwc.
Setting up 3 different barrels with dif flowering nutes is not a big deal,would just have to keep the plants on whatever barrel they need.move them around.still a pain in ass.
I might just put my dwc setups on framing that can roll from side to side.keep em against the walls and pull them out when I need to get to the plants.
Just tired of having so much un used floor space.
 
whytewidow

whytewidow

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Pebble Pusher frosting up nicely. Shes starting some trich rails on her. Shes got a nice sweet chewy nose to her. And cookies n chem got stripped on the bottom. Another few days and I'll start some lst on her.

Pebble Pusher #2
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Cookies n Chem
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LVTK not GPS but got from them. Cant get the whole thing in the pic. I cant get far enough away from the tent. She has some extra space between nodes. But I account most of that from low lighting. We had horrible heat wave when I first put her in flower. And had to cut back 375 watts out bc of heat... but that's ok. I have several clones of her to run again when its cooler. But shes doing good. I had to bend her top over. Bc she stretch clear into the light. But she wouldn't stay over. So I had to bend her over and tie her down. They are kinda like pipe cleaners. Except stronger and stiffer. And have foam surrounding the central metal.
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whytewidow

whytewidow

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Heisengrow said:
Yeah I'm gonna have to think it through.if I go with trays or tables I may as well just stay where the fuk I'm at in rdwc.
Setting up 3 different barrels with dif flowering nutes is not a big deal,would just have to keep the plants on whatever barrel they need.move them around.still a pain in ass.
I might just put my dwc setups on framing that can roll from side to side.keep em against the walls and pull them out when I need to get to the plants.
Just tired of having so much un used floor space.
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If you use trays though. You can get like 4x4 trays and do each tray a different strain. Use rico bags. Top drip system. But not really a flood table. Jus install a valve in one corner for extra waste. Most of the nute mix will stay in the Rico bags. You can put like 40 Rico bags in a 4x4 tray
 
Goats22

Goats22

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Heisengrow said:
little off topic and aimed at you guys that run coco do you have any suggestions for a hydro type of system to auto feed coco.i know there are some growers on this thread.I love RDWC and any other medium less setups but have been interested in trying coco for a while to be able to get more plants into an area.Hard to do in DWC cause the buckets cant really be moved around.I like the idea of spacing plants out on the floor in an open room with overhead lighting to have freedom to move around and have plants in different stages of flowering.Ive seen the pots with the cages around them and think those are pretty cool.
I know coco has the be fed 3 times a day and treated like hydro to make it right using smaller pots and kinda letting everything run through.I just dont have time to babysit a garden 3 times a day.Any one can point me in the right direction or a link to setting something like this up would be awesome.
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i grow in flood and drain in pure coco with good results. it's super easy and automated. if you want to avoid f&d i would suggest blumats or another dripper system, but that is only based on crazy results i've seen from people growing that way. i think dtw coco is about as good as can be done in coco.

edit - check out this thread from ic. it's old, but towards the end are some great posts from people like dansbuds with good information
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=241341
 
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Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Heisengrow said:
little off topic and aimed at you guys that run coco do you have any suggestions for a hydro type of system to auto feed coco.i know there are some growers on this thread.I love RDWC and any other medium less setups but have been interested in trying coco for a while to be able to get more plants into an area.Hard to do in DWC cause the buckets cant really be moved around.I like the idea of spacing plants out on the floor in an open room with overhead lighting to have freedom to move around and have plants in different stages of flowering.Ive seen the pots with the cages around them and think those are pretty cool.
I know coco has the be fed 3 times a day and treated like hydro to make it right using smaller pots and kinda letting everything run through.I just dont have time to babysit a garden 3 times a day.Any one can point me in the right direction or a link to setting something like this up would be awesome.
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I love the Blumats, but the floraflex stuff might be worth the equally high prices. Seems like it might be the next generation but it is hard to pull the trigger when the Blumats are already in hand. Blumats put the control wih the plants, I really like how they respond to environmental changes as well as the plants’ needs, totally passively. I would be interested in any first hand accounts of the floraflex equipment, it looks nice but the prices seem a bit gougey, I don’t love vendor lock-in, but I am already Blumats’ bitch... The DIY alternative are so much cheaper than some of their stuff, it is not a fortune but I feel like...meh, a little.
 
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