I have started some seedlings in rockwool. Once they got into the system rockwool got too wet and the roots got damaged/drowned. I noticed they were not growing and saw what was happening so I removed them from rockwool and put two straight into hydroton and one into soil. Its day 11 now, and ones in dwc are showing a bit of progress (I'm seing some nice white roots form and second true leaf set is starting to show), but are growing very slowly compared to one I put into soil (it has 2 sets of nice fully developed leaves).
I'm runing 200 uS of nutes in RO water since 2 days ago (embrional leaves started yellowing so I figured it was time to give them some food) and it was just pH-ed water with some heisenberg tea before that. Ph is kept at 5.5 to 6.5, temp is about 66F. I have a 18W pump and 4 airstones that make a lot of bubbles, so botom of the 6 inch net pots are driping wet and rocks on top are always moist.
I'm now trying to figure out why are my dwc plants doing so bad compared to one in soil and what can I do to remedy that. Could it be that moist hydroton is not wet enough, or that they are not geting enough nutes? Would it perhaps be better if I raised the water level (its inch below the net pots now), so that the net pots and hydroton are submerged?
I'm runing 200 uS of nutes in RO water since 2 days ago (embrional leaves started yellowing so I figured it was time to give them some food) and it was just pH-ed water with some heisenberg tea before that. Ph is kept at 5.5 to 6.5, temp is about 66F. I have a 18W pump and 4 airstones that make a lot of bubbles, so botom of the 6 inch net pots are driping wet and rocks on top are always moist.
I'm now trying to figure out why are my dwc plants doing so bad compared to one in soil and what can I do to remedy that. Could it be that moist hydroton is not wet enough, or that they are not geting enough nutes? Would it perhaps be better if I raised the water level (its inch below the net pots now), so that the net pots and hydroton are submerged?