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MikeGanja
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chopNcrop, the external tube shows the water level like you said but could also be used for draining the water from the bucket.
chopNcrop
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Even when starting from seed?? Or should the bubbles hit the coco to reach the roots? How would you suggest I do going from seed? Do I grow in a cup with coco until it's nice and established, then transplant?
Sukid
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well im gone give my personal advise i never did coco or soil so i dont know anything about that i have grown hydro from my first grow till today what i do i germ the seeds first than i use jiffypellets put the seeds in and put 2 inch of hydroton pebbels in the netpot and put the jiffyplug with seed on top and than fill the rest of the netpot with hydro pebbels till the top of the jiffyplug
and than the first 2-3 days i hand feed them like 2-3 times a day i just mist spray the jiffy plug till its nice & wet after the 2-3 days the roots are maybe not out of the netpot but from the bubbles that your airstone create it will moist the hydro pebbels and your roots will take water from there and eventualy go into the reservoir below its all patience but thats how i do it
hope it helps
sorry for my not to good english its my 4e language
and than the first 2-3 days i hand feed them like 2-3 times a day i just mist spray the jiffy plug till its nice & wet after the 2-3 days the roots are maybe not out of the netpot but from the bubbles that your airstone create it will moist the hydro pebbels and your roots will take water from there and eventualy go into the reservoir below its all patience but thats how i do it
hope it helps
sorry for my not to good english its my 4e language
chopNcrop
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Good stuff brother... you're English is great man I understood everything
chopNcrop
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no pictures yet!! thanks for asking tho.... im just waiting on my seeds to get here, i dont like to clone. plus i just got some "money maker" seeds that ive been dying to get so im waiting on that. as soon as i do get it started i will upload some pics. very excited for this grow, got a new HPS bulb and my hydroguard just got here so im ready to go.
chopNcrop
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yes i know... i just created a threat asking if i could use an MH bulb on my ballast. i dont know if you can help me with this??? i have a Yield Lab 400W digital dimmable electronic ballast, its 110v-240v. is this enough info to determine an answer?
chopNcrop
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just confirmed that i can with the maker... thanks tho!!
chopNcrop
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Dual spectrum! That's brilliant! I'd love to know how that ends up... was really into spectrums and different color led lamps and shit about a year ago but I don't know I just stopped caring for it... I got great results using blue all the way through. I know what you're thinking but I actually got reeeally tight compressed nugs Compared to the same strain in a differect room grown under normal spectrum... I never did it again tho hahaha... I like the fluffy stuff.
DWC1000wHPS4x4x8
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Your going to have bad PH swings using coco with hydro.
No biological media for DWC
Use vermiculite
Pearlite
Engineered polyethylene
Or expanded clay
No biological media for DWC
Use vermiculite
Pearlite
Engineered polyethylene
Or expanded clay
chopNcrop
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yeah sorry im a super newbie at this dwc stuff... what i have are those clay stone things lol sorry for the bad terminology
DWC1000wHPS4x4x8
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Sweet that's my favorite for DWC and flood and drain systems
WeedFreak78
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Some companies make coco specific nutes that help counteract the issues with coco.From what I've read, if you prewash and soak the coco in a ph set water it helps immensely. I've been thinking about trying some coco and read into it..Honestly, i think I'd run 100% perlite before coco. Expanded clay really seems to be the best..it's cheap and you can reuse it. Just buy quality pellets..i have some cheap ones that came with a dwc kit and they suck compared to the Hydroton branded ones. the cheap ones break and crumble..my res always has grit and clay in it turning it brownish red, which sucked..I though i had rot root..nope..clay dust..
DWC1000wHPS4x4x8
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Hydroton (expanded clay) retains slightly more fluid than pearlite and that helps me use slightly smaller net pot filled media but still retain the minimum safety buffer from "drought" conditions if the power goes out.
Tho in DWC running out of water isn't the biggest threat to rapid plant death. Running out of dissolved oxygen is.
To give myself a safety net against air pump failure i plug my air pump into a battery backup made for a PC it will run for about half an hour in the event of a power outage. Also bigger reservoirs lower temperature helps.
If an extreme case of 12 hours or greater power or pump failure I would recommend dumping the full nutrient solution completely and leaving bare roots exposed to air rather than leaving them in oxogen depleted water.
Then minimally top water through the pot every 4 hours.
Tho in DWC running out of water isn't the biggest threat to rapid plant death. Running out of dissolved oxygen is.
To give myself a safety net against air pump failure i plug my air pump into a battery backup made for a PC it will run for about half an hour in the event of a power outage. Also bigger reservoirs lower temperature helps.
If an extreme case of 12 hours or greater power or pump failure I would recommend dumping the full nutrient solution completely and leaving bare roots exposed to air rather than leaving them in oxogen depleted water.
Then minimally top water through the pot every 4 hours.