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Hello all,
First off thank you for such an awesome web site. I was totally inspired by this tutorial:
I made my first DWC and am growing my first plant ever, from a clone that came in rockwool. I made one major adjustment to the above tutorial, I'm using a 3.5 gallon bucket because it was cheap and completely opaque black so I didn't have to use any aluminum tape on it. Also I am using a black bucket lid with a built-in 6" netpot.
So I'm a little foggy on where the water level should be at on the netpot. I buried the rockwool about halfway down into the hydroton and had the h2o level one inch above the bottom of the netpot but it didn't seem to be getting water from the bucket to the plant so I freaked out and added water until about half of the netpot was submerged. Any advice on this?
Also, I don't understand the nutrients very well. I have a solid grasp of ratios so mixing the right ppm's is fine, but how often do I add nutrients? I change the water in the bucket once a week and refill fill with nutrient solution, but is this the only time I add nutrients to the DWC? I'm using General Hydroponics Keep It Simple Flora series. Here is their feeding chart:
Another thing I am doing differently from the tutorial is using "filler" in the bucket. Since it holds more water than the tutorial's 2 gal bucket, and I don't want to waste nutrient solution, I have 3 soda bottles filled with water and rocks to take up space so I only need about 2 gallons of solution to get the water level around the netpot. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? The water bottle idea also helps me keep the solution in the bucket <70 F because I freeze one overnight and drop it back into the bucket in the morning.
All help is appreciated, thanks.
Mr_uP
First off thank you for such an awesome web site. I was totally inspired by this tutorial:
I made my first DWC and am growing my first plant ever, from a clone that came in rockwool. I made one major adjustment to the above tutorial, I'm using a 3.5 gallon bucket because it was cheap and completely opaque black so I didn't have to use any aluminum tape on it. Also I am using a black bucket lid with a built-in 6" netpot.
So I'm a little foggy on where the water level should be at on the netpot. I buried the rockwool about halfway down into the hydroton and had the h2o level one inch above the bottom of the netpot but it didn't seem to be getting water from the bucket to the plant so I freaked out and added water until about half of the netpot was submerged. Any advice on this?
Also, I don't understand the nutrients very well. I have a solid grasp of ratios so mixing the right ppm's is fine, but how often do I add nutrients? I change the water in the bucket once a week and refill fill with nutrient solution, but is this the only time I add nutrients to the DWC? I'm using General Hydroponics Keep It Simple Flora series. Here is their feeding chart:
Another thing I am doing differently from the tutorial is using "filler" in the bucket. Since it holds more water than the tutorial's 2 gal bucket, and I don't want to waste nutrient solution, I have 3 soda bottles filled with water and rocks to take up space so I only need about 2 gallons of solution to get the water level around the netpot. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? The water bottle idea also helps me keep the solution in the bucket <70 F because I freeze one overnight and drop it back into the bucket in the morning.
All help is appreciated, thanks.
Mr_uP