hydro to dirt

warfare

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hey guys i have 2 tents goin... 1 veg 1 flowering.. i also have a ebb&flow micro garden with fits perfect in veg chamber.... it is to small for big tent!!! i can only have 1 full grown plant in it and it takes up alot of room in big tent..... in other words when my hydro is in my big tent it cuts the amount of plants from 13 to 9 because of space issues!!!. so heres what im thinkin... i take my clones.. clone them in rockwool... put the clones in ebb&flow system in small veg tent.. this way the ebb&flow can hold alot more plants in sence they wont be big.... but here the thing... when i go to put this girls in my flowing tent i would have to take out of ebb&flow and transfer into dirt pots... would this work???? or could someone enlightin me on what the problems that would be caused by this....
 
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shenagen

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I can speek from experience...it will work. I use hydroton though in my ebb n flow. I just transplanted 6 into soil a while back. 2 at first to make sure there would be no issues, and then the rest. I used some Thrive Alive b1 in a tote PH was above 6...ppm I didn't even bother checking, I just followed the dose chart on the bottle(at first I used the green bottle and it worked fine, but I tried the red label bottle with the rest and they had new growth sooner) So, I soaked them for 15-20 minutes in the Thrive Alive...had my containers ready and transplanted them. I had to hold onto the stalks real well as I dumped out the excess hydroton. But all in all it was easier than i thought it would be. Oh yeah, forgot to say that I used fox farm ocean forest soil. HTH
 

warfare

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THANKS!!!!! how did you controll the roots in hydro system.... i was thinkin and these roots are going to start running together any ideas on how to sepertate.. No pot please i dont use pots in hydro they get to root bound
 

shenagen

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I didn't have to worry about it for the couple of months I have them in hydro from seed and they were in containers. Its worse to have them all together like that because you can never rotate them or pull out one that gets sick without harming the others. And for the rest of the ebb n flow opp. I go from clones so by the time they're ready they wont get root bound
 
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