ACSCorp
Well-Known Member
I'm doing a soil grow right now (first grow) but I'm playing with a basil plant in a very simple DWC to get my feet wet. So far, so good, especially considering the cutting was half dead when I put it in the DWC (I had it in a vial of water rooting and kind of neglected it).
I have a ph meter and an EC stick so I can control my environment and am using Fox Farm nutes. My DWC is the most basic of setups. Just a plastic container (solid color so no light can get in), an air pump with an airstone at the bottom (bubbling 24 hours a day) and the container filled with expanded clay pellets (all the way top to bottom, no net basket). I just moved the clay pellets around and put the clipping in which was rooted in the hole and covered it up. I keep the water level just below the pellets and top it off daily watching my ppm and ph and adjust accordingly with just water when the counts start to rise (keeping it at 1200 ppm and a ph of 6.3 to 6.7)
Am I lucky the plant is even growing or is this OK for a basic simple newbie setup? It looks really good, nice and deep green but not as fast as I thought it would grow in a hydro setup.
I know I can do flow and ebb, NFT and more but just want to start simple and may try using this for my first hydro clone (I'll clone in soil too until I get this down). Just want to know if I am doing anything wrong and that this is just not dumb luck I am succeeding (I always thought the damn thing would drown submerged in all that water but I guess the air bubbles really do prevent it huh)?
Thanks
I have a ph meter and an EC stick so I can control my environment and am using Fox Farm nutes. My DWC is the most basic of setups. Just a plastic container (solid color so no light can get in), an air pump with an airstone at the bottom (bubbling 24 hours a day) and the container filled with expanded clay pellets (all the way top to bottom, no net basket). I just moved the clay pellets around and put the clipping in which was rooted in the hole and covered it up. I keep the water level just below the pellets and top it off daily watching my ppm and ph and adjust accordingly with just water when the counts start to rise (keeping it at 1200 ppm and a ph of 6.3 to 6.7)
Am I lucky the plant is even growing or is this OK for a basic simple newbie setup? It looks really good, nice and deep green but not as fast as I thought it would grow in a hydro setup.
I know I can do flow and ebb, NFT and more but just want to start simple and may try using this for my first hydro clone (I'll clone in soil too until I get this down). Just want to know if I am doing anything wrong and that this is just not dumb luck I am succeeding (I always thought the damn thing would drown submerged in all that water but I guess the air bubbles really do prevent it huh)?
Thanks