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You know what they say... if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.Looks good!
And to think, I was going to go from coco to hydro :)
No bro, this does not work unless you live in colder climate maybe. My very first plant was using this Kratky method and my baby made it to a point then got rotted because the water ended up getting too hot one day and lost all the dissolved oxygen in the res. I have a post on a couple of my attempts after that. The very last one should have worked but I ran into a brown sludge issue and at that point I was tired of the abuse of hydro I tried to save her but she just wouldn’t turn around and it ended up being that I was so tired I didn’t clean all the brown sludge near the roots.Here is the video that interested me. He didn't change the rez during the grow, just top it off.
It really sucks you had a hard time.No bro, this does not work unless you live in colder climate maybe. My very first plant was using this Kratky method and my baby made it to a point then got rotted because the water ended up getting too hot one day and lost all the dissolved oxygen in the res. I have a post on a couple of my attempts after that. The very last one should have worked but I ran into a brown sludge issue and at that point I was tired of the abuse of hydro I tried to save her but she just wouldn’t turn around and it ended up being that I was so tired I didn’t clean all the brown sludge near the roots.
Here are pics from the Kratky attempt. It was nice until she got bigger and I fimmed her. Issues I ran into were I exposed the water to too much light(noob) because I put up Mylar and my res tub was white and allowed too much of the light into the res. There was hope but you have to be experienced to be able to experiment with this method. I was a noob and if I knew what I know now, I may have been able to get away with it. Then I got all the equipment for DWC and that was promising until I got fatigued with having to diagnose issues that I’ve never ran into before.
here are pics from the Kratky attempt. I was so lucky and got herfarther than any other hydro attempt for sure.
Yassssssssss bottom fed and drain to waste team all the way. I’m convinced and currently successful. I can’t rave enough about it. The baby doesn’t lie. Lol. She is my first success attempt so I have an IDEA that she’s going to be all right. I feel like SoG is meant for a bigger space. I have random patience so I can tolerate waiting a little longer using some stress training for more bud sites.It really sucks you had a hard time.
My first hydro was just pots sitting in a tray of nutes about 1/3 deep under water, with air stones all over.
Roots filled the tray, and plants grew like mad.
All I did was kept the PH right, and kept an eye on the EC, and changed res once a week.
I've grown in rocks, Plastic, and glass beads, pillow stuffing, basically any thing inert for the roots to grow in.
Using GH 3 part series. I never add anything extra unless it's for PH, and have grown a lot of different strains.
well, I take that back, I bought some Green Crack seeds, and those were the most finicky, poorly growing plants ever. That's back when Snoop Dog made it famous :)
It's funny tho, cause what you are doing now, can't be beat, because you can grow different strains, at different ages, and raise each plant where it needs to be with the cannopy.
You cant give individual plants the attention they deserve growing in a bed or tray where many plants live, like a SOG. They have to all be the same height.
After all my playing with Hydro, I ended back at the basics :) Bottom fed, or drain to waste Baby !!! :)
Octopots are life! I’ve built my own self-wicking systems. Although they are cheaper and easy to do, this premade system is just so convenient and aesthetically pleasing. To each their own of course. But I’m just so content with this system lol. It will be hard to convince me to try another system lol.I'm thinking about setting up the Rain gutter grow sytem, but then again, I just realized, they all have to be the same height, Jeez. Decisions, decisions, LOL.
I love those octopots, but I can't bring myself to pay $50 a piece. I am going to build something similar with grobags, tho. I have 20, 5 gallon fabric pots to work with, and a bunch of net pots. I just need to make some reses, like buckets painted black, or something. When I come up with something, I'll make a post.
Maybe a hybrid rain gutter grow system.
I'm also currently growing some Stawberry Cough.
If I hadn’t found coco, this would have been my next addition. The Hydroguard is good but I feel the bacteria you are using is a big deal in hydro.hydro, liquid orca only reason i still run hydro, almost gave up.
We are about 20 inches away but we can definitely up to light intensity for this baby. I’m in a bottom feed coco so I haven’t checked to see if my roots are in the res yet. I will next feeding. This is my first successful grow so from this point on everything is still new to me. Everything I know about the future of this plant is from research.Looking great! I think I'm going to get the old system out and give it another whirl just to prove I can still do a hydro grow, maybe. You do look close, remember your going to double or triple in size after the flip. What's your distance from the plant to the light source look like? (how far)
I would consider taking some good pictures (in normal light) of your root ball for comparison after the flip, especially trying to capture the color.
Everything looks great, the internode is a bit on the far end, I suspect, you might consider bumping that light down closer and see if that helps some, but otherwise, everything looks great.
Plant looks awesome great job!!!We are about 20 inches away but we can definitely up to light intensity for this baby. I’m in a bottom feed coco so I haven’t checked to see if my roots are in the res yet. I will next feeding. This is my first successful grow so from this point on everything is still new to me. Everything I know about the future of this plant is from research.
Thanks for the feedback. Very much appreciated. Also I’m sure the success in hydro doesn’t leave you. It definitely kept me busy... and stressed because I was learning
Plant looks awesome great job!!!
Just out of curiosity where did you get the genetics?
I only ask because I bought strawberryseeds from ilgm.com and it looks nothing like that. I think they’re just giving me seeds out of a bag and charging 100$ for them . The plant I have is very heavily sativa oriented. I’ll include a pic of a cutting I took off it
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