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Dude, we are spinning on our swiffeling chairs through the iles, its a riot!
I really like the idea of staying with the same organic material but what are your thoughts on Hydroton?
Personnaly a bit paranoid about creating more humidity in there as the temps would also go up and less airflow and it would be more water based and more prone to root diseases etc? What are your thoughts on that?
Hey bro, I was thinking that if you sealed your concrete with some kind of elastomeric white paint on the walls and maybee grey on the floors it would help you with your humidity. It would force that concrete to stop sucking it out of the air. I used to have the same prob in an 11k room and the paint helped out allot.
interesting you use coco/soil for the beds instead of perlite, i don't get any roots poking throuh the top of my system, and i use 100% perlite, after week 2 veg, the plant covers most of the base, hope you don't get any extra issues with bugs using more soil is all, good luck man
looooove this setup, glad to be watching!! Flo
If you're having problem with Thrips and are in the Lower Mainland, go to Jons Plant Factory and ask any of the store workers for Lorsban 4e.
One application and the thrips will be gone forever.
Funny, I read this. I am about to spark up coco 36 lighter.
I'll make a log her on THC about it.
What's happening this end?? been a while ;) miss those rows and rows of heaven!
coco mulch! works wondersIf I were in your shoes- I'd be dancing a jig- seriously, I don't know that I'd go with perlite. You want to keep those roots in the dark and perlite is white. Also, reflecting light up from the bottom does the plants no good, as all the chloroplasts are on the tops of the leaves.
Since you're doing the orgasmic thing anyway, maybe find some kind of material that keeps the light out but allows you to pour ACT (aerated compost tea) and such right through. Heck, maybe just more of the same stuff that already forms the bottom!
As a related thought, if you hung a strip of that black material- or just black plastic- along both sides of each trough, the roots would be in the dark, get more humidity and might not airprune so quickly, leading to more root mass down in the trough itself. This would give them a second bite at the water/nutes apple as it runs to waste, without any risk of them drowning.
Dude: beautiful setup!
I'm trying to put together a system to easily lift/lower my lights. Can you shed some light on what you've done? Pics would be helpful too...
Cheers brother.
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