Transplanting from coco to hydroton...

NebulousPLM

NebulousPLM

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Just wondering, has anyone ever transplanted coco clones and kept the whole clone and just stuck it in the new medium?
What I did was cut the bottom of the solo cup off, then pull the plant through, cut the bottom roots, and stuck it in hydration... This is my first hydro run, so during my research I just found that if you get soil in your hydroton you can get root rot... I know coco is a little bit different.

Suggestions? Dig em up, and wash em?
Or leave em be?

I just transplanted yesterday, so I have probably until today to decide.
 
NebulousPLM

NebulousPLM

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I stuck this entire thing into the hydroton... I thought rinsing would potentially ruin the roots... I'm guessing not?
 
NebulousPLM

NebulousPLM

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gand3r said:
It should be fine.

What are you running in the system, sterile or benifical bacteria.
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I'm not really sure what this means when people say beneficial bacteria?

I use advanced right now. Is voodoo considered beneficial bacteria?
 
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EJ255

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NebulousPLM said:
I'm not really sure what this means when people say beneficial bacteria?

I use advanced right now. Is voodoo considered beneficial bacteria?
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From what I understand, the difference between sterile and beneficial bacteria is if you're using organic nutrients. Sterile means your running non-organic nutes and organic means the obvious....
 
NebulousPLM

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EJ255 said:
From what I understand, the difference between sterile and beneficial bacteria is if you're using organic nutrients. Sterile means your running non-organic nutes and organic means the obvious....
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I was thinking about going and buying Piranha - I'll need to look into it a little more. Is having bacterias an essential to working with hydroponics?
 
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EJ255

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NebulousPLM said:
I was thinking about going and buying Piranha - I'll need to look into it a little more. Is having bacterias an essential to working with hydroponics?
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I haven't added anything to my 20g DWC resevoir. Just Flora Micro and Bloom. I run a chiller and keep it at 65*.
 
NebulousPLM

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EJ255 said:
I haven't added anything to my 20g DWC resevoir. Just Flora Micro and Bloom. I run a chiller and keep it at 65*.
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I actually got these dudes to bounce back on sunday. I top fed them with REVIVE, added B52 to the rez, and raised the levels the system fills to.
 
NebulousPLM

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Not in optimal health, but after losing a lot of vibrance, and being stunted for so long... It's just nice to see any new growth. I'm contemplating on throwing the nutes out on sunday. that would mark two weeks. it sucks because I didn't realize how much nutes these systems take so it's literally me throwing away a little more than 1/2 L of both A+B. Shit's crazy...
 
blackforest

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EJ255 said:
From what I understand, the difference between sterile and beneficial bacteria is if you're using organic nutrients. Sterile means your running non-organic nutes and organic means the obvious....
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Just to clear this up, that is not what sterile vs. beneficial means. If you are running dwc, you need to either run a sterile system, (h2o2, bleach, zone, sm90, uc roots) which kills any living bacteria in the system, or use a beneficial bacterial (great white, hydroguard, ewc tea) which is a 'good' bacteria that consumes the food source for the bad bacteria (pythium). If you are not using one or the other, you are almost guaranteed to get root rot. It does not have anything to do with your nutes. Also, you should not run organic nutes in a dwc system, It will grow all kinds of crap in there.

Also, I have transplanted from soil (solo cups) into a rdwc system. I took the root ball in a 5 gal bucket of water and gently removed all of the soil before putting into hydroton, so it was basically just roots, no medium. Worked well. I have not tried it any other way though.
 
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EJ255

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blackforest said:
Just to clear this up, that is not what sterile vs. beneficial means. If you are running dwc, you need to either run a sterile system, (h2o2, bleach, zone, sm90, uc roots) which kills any living bacteria in the system, or use a beneficial bacterial (great white, hydroguard, ewc tea) which is a 'good' bacteria that consumes the food source for the bad bacteria (pythium). If you are not using one or the other, you are almost guaranteed to get root rot. It does not have anything to do with your nutes. Also, you should not run organic nutes in a dwc system, It will grow all kinds of crap in there.

Also, I have transplanted from soil (solo cups) into a rdwc system. I took the root ball in a 5 gal bucket of water and gently removed all of the soil before putting into hydroton, so it was basically just roots, no medium. Worked well. I have not tried it any other way though.
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Thanks for clearing that up.

I guess I'm lucky, because I've got a crop days away from chop. Only thing I used the entire time was RO water, micro, and bloom.
 
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