Hello

Hello, just joined the forum. I have been gardening five years and look forward to leaning new things and chatting with other growers. My current gardening style is coco in a 1 gal container, general hydroponics 3 part system, humic acid, fulvic acid, cal-mag and bloombastic. Great reults and easy to apply. I use a pump and a long hose taped to a stick to water daily. Cheap, easy, and fun! Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

Welcome to riu, sounds like you've got it down good, what you got growing?

Thanks! I am growing a sativa dominant strain called chernobyl by tga subcool. It is a hybrid strain, trainwreck x jack the ripper x trinity. I have been working with that strain for the last 4 years, exclusively for the last 2 and a half years. It finishes between 54 and 60 days with the "short" phenotype. Good flavor, smell, and trichomes. The local dispensaries will always take the excess medicine off my hands too so thats a plus. My current setup is 2 1000k solis tek lamps in magnum hoods, sentinel chh4 controller, active air AC, Co2 and various fans in the main bloom area. Adjacent to that is another magnum/600w nextgen for blooming, nothing fancy just a lamp and a fan. Next to that is a veg area with a super sun 2 hood/solis tek ballast and a wing/400w galaxy. With this current setup I can harvest each bloom area every two months, and I try my best to have the harvest staggered a month apart or so. How about you? Any good strains or fun setups?

I'm just a small personal grower, right now I've got some WW beans waiting to pop, I'm limited to small space, retired and have to watch my budget, I use a 2ft 4 bulb T5, and have decent grows, would love to have a set up like yours but alas as I said the wife and I are on fixed income, but at least I can grow enough for my needs, I am in hydro growing in 6" pots with rockwool grow cubes, use GH flora series with good reults.

Nice! yeah I love the flora series, its great stuff. I tried some dwc a couple years ago but didnt do very well. The water temp was too high and it was a pain to keep it cool. I have always wanted to try a rockwool flood and drain or top feed system. After the summer I may try a method a couple of the guys at the hydro shop use. Its a top feed or hand water system. A container is filled 60-80 percent with hydroton and the rest is rockwool crutons mixed in. They say its amazing results and easy to do. Ill probably look around here for some threads on that... my main concern is the relationship between root zone temp and ambient air temp.

By rockwool crutons I'm assuming it's grow cubes they're abt the size of crutons, been using them for years and swear by them, need to watch your ph and adjust but well worth it, never mixed it with hydrotons not sure it's worth it, hydroton can be a pain in the ass, I've tried it once and to me not worth the trouble, I manually feed so no pumps, just fans and gallons of nutes, once thought of trying DWC but I've heard too many problems with them, especially I believe you have to maintain the res temp as you said, which means running a cooler or heater, whichever is necessary, not interested in soil eather seems to be too much trouble, but that's just my opinion.

yup those are the ones. the idea is the hydroton will keep keep a perfect air to water ratio in the root zone, and the small amount of cubes will help keep the moisture level up in between waterings. I would be way down to try crutons only tho. Do you just fill up a bag with em and go? how often do you have to water? thanks

I feed my plants twice a day and it seems to be efficient, 'course it being summer I may have to go 3 times, tho the cubes hold a good amt of nutes, good point abt mixing the hydroton, I've got some stil, maybe I'll give it a try this time, the problem with hydroton is having to clean them which is a pain in the A.., I never reuse the pebbles, that's more of a pain.

welcome to RUI