I'm not a patron or anything but I occasionally watch the podcasts. Sometimes the easy way isn't the best way but one huge enormous advantage I can see with this is the potential benefit for people who use automated irrigation or systems like the AutoPots. Plain water won't clog lines or salt up!
Good call. I wasn't thinking about PH. You could run tap into a res with a floater valve and use a ph dosatron. Those things are expensive though.
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Grow dots is similar to oc+ in that they are both dry ferts. That’s it.
I'm going to need to give these a try I just recall them being as expensive as growing in m3 mix soil...
I'm actually building a system similar to octopots. I'm still getting pieces so still going to be a minute. I've heard of others using Blumats in just afraid of flooding my back bedroom
I just transplanted a couple coco plants on AC infinity self watering with grow dots. I Watered from the top once and and filled the watering system im just leave it at that. Roots obviously haven't reached the bottom but I'm sure it won't take more than a couple days for them to reach. We'll see how it goes.
Possible, but not all of us have the room, time, knowledge, or inclination to mix a ton of soil. I personally don't know enough other growers to disperse large amounts of soil. Is it going to give you the best possible expression of the plant, probably not. What it will do is take the chemistry out of feeding coco grown cannabis.
Also, it's not for everybody. Some love the measuring, and mixing, and storing. Grow Dots are for the lazy grower.
I was talking about mixing nutes flnd making your own. I just get raw materials from my local farm supply. I could buy it by the tonne if I wanted. But 50 pound bags are far more than enough. Just mix by weight and use a low salt index blend.
I'm trying them out to see if I can save the time it takes to mix, ph and feed coco. If this method works well I'll switch my whole room to it. Plain water in coco once every 3-4 days sounds amazing.
Have you had a complete grow with the dots? I haven't heard too many success stories yet.
