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Iws flood and drain has trumped any nft I have ever used maybe worth a little look top tip though make sure your surface is even and stick a little ata clean in your res from time to time to clean the switches in the brain pot :)
Lol @NFT smashes it like no other I've seen with nft. His plants are 95% bud
agreed, genetics are the most important ingredient. Ya cant polish a turd.Thanks pal, i would always say the system makes little difference in comparison to the genetics
while some systems may give a slight advantage in yield speed etc its minuscule overall
the genetics are always the star of the show
if your interested lots of pics of plants here grown in NFT
www.tinyurl.com/NFTBUDS
the lovely chris shortreed maintains a picture thread for me at trollitup
peace
Lol I'm keeping that saying :)agreed, genetics are the most important ingredient. Ya cant polish a turd.
Genetics are most important, but methods really matter a lot too. Sour Diesel was my heavy hitter before, but in current build absolutely sucked. Larf only, tiny branches everywhere.
Pruning is underrated IMO. The better I prone the better the colas to larf ratio, among other factors too.
Still convinced 1g coco cloth beats larger, and running tests this round again. Bigger cloth pots (3g) for biggest plants, and they get most bulbs. Curious, but last time 1g was winning before I had a disaster and had to cut down in week 5.
Great thread. Nice work, @NFT .... I followed your links, checked your techniques and gear. Great work. If I wasnt massively invested in time/learning in small pot cloth coco drain to waste, I might try your method... but Id rather watch for now and fine tune my methods til I get it better. But your work is stellar.
Didnt say you're a salesman, bro. I had asked you your specifics and you linked for me. All good man. I know you're not shilling.I am not selling anything pal, i post my grows to help with my short term memory problems
if you are happy with the results from your system why change it?
i have used various hydro systems not much difference imo, i use NFT because its simple and cheap and the pumps are quiet
i do not think NFT is much better than DWC, if i were growing DWC my plants would look just as healthy
i think people are chasing something that is not real, trying to find a system that is so much better than other systems
thinking they can find an edge
this is why i stick with the NFT and keep changing the genetics, folk are underestimating how much better some plants are
for vigor yield taste potency etc, the most genetically superior plant will be vastly ahead of the regulars
more so than anything you could add or grow differently to the regular plants to make them catch up with the genetically superior
Didnt say you're a salesman, bro. I had asked you your specifics and you linked for me. All good man. I know you're not shilling.
Your results are outstanding, and I looked into your technique and considered following your lead, before I checked myself.
xD
All good. The nutes you run look intriguing. Old buddy of mine has done NFT a long time. Ive seen it work. Different layout from yours, though. Your plants are bigger by far.
Do you defoliate in bloom?
Genetics are most important, but methods really matter a lot too. Sour Diesel was my heavy hitter before, but in current build absolutely sucked. Larf only, tiny branches everywhere.
Pruning is underrated IMO. The better I prone the better the colas to larf ratio, among other factors too.
Still convinced 1g coco cloth beats larger, and running tests this round again. Bigger cloth pots (3g) for biggest plants, and they get most bulbs. Curious, but last time 1g was winning before I had a disaster and had to cut down in week 5.
Great thread. Nice work, @NFT .... I followed your links, checked your techniques and gear. Great work. If I wasnt massively invested in time/learning in small pot cloth coco drain to waste, I might try your method... but Id rather watch for now and fine tune my methods til I get it better. But your work is stellar.
Outstanding~! I've observed the same, and the 1g in the corner with least light and air had the thickest stem, was 5' when I had to cut down.I've been experimenting with 1 gal pots ever since I saw a 1 gal plant in veg grow larger than one (same age) that I had flipped in a 2 gal pot in the same amount of time.
What I've noticed so far is the margin of error gets waaaay smaller when using the smaller pots. I went and got root rot from fungus gnats and poor irrigation management and it took them longer to bounce back, and they're still not 100% but they're halfway thru flower now so ain't shit to do but keep up on antagonistic microbe inoculations.
The next round is already vegging and I'm using a tensiometer to make irrigation decisions with them (I started a thread about this specifically) and the growth is spectacular. I'm quite confident I can match/beat the yields I've been getting from two gal pots with 5.5inch ones. I suppose I'll put up some pics at some point to document this.
So I guess a loose conclusion would be the smaller the pots, the closer to true hydro, and the quicker the consequences of mismanagement that come with it.
But used disaster to make a large number of very overdue improvements and really solve issues that vexed me many grows. When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.
That sucks. Reinforces your point, and why I dont do DWC, UC, any hydro, aeroponics. Too unforgiving of mistakes. Sure, yields can be massive. But Ive read reports of a lot of guys trying all that, experienced and spending good on gear, and mostly going back away from those methods. Seems no one really remembers the big yield rounds that bang, just the disasters, slime, mistakes, failed expensive worthless rounds is the only thing that they remember, and its bitter.I had some similar disasters last year. Went on vacation, came home to a house full of dead plants, guy watching em just decided to not even look at them for 6 days...
Then broad mites for the better part of 6 months until I figured out what to do.
But goddamn I learned a lot from starting over all those times in such a short span, made a great deal of improvements as well.
Who's the guy on ig you're referring to? Id like to check that out.
That sucks. Reinforces your point, and why I dont do DWC, UC, any hydro, aeroponics. Too unforgiving of mistakes. Sure, yields can be massive. But Ive read reports of a lot of guys trying all that, experienced and spending good on gear, and mostly going back away from those methods. Seems no one really remembers the big yield rounds that bang, just the disasters, slime, mistakes, failed expensive worthless rounds is the only thing that they remember, and its bitter.
Coco small pot seems like the best of all worlds. Short cycle timer irrigation drip collars with a light nute ppm feed barrel for regular, small waterings (I also add probiotics to barrel - Veg+Bloom +Life, Great White, Caps, enzymes, Mammoth, etc) so they never dry out and get that big growth from the numerous multifeeds.
Now Im supplementing with hand watering Nectar for the Gods, will get back to Advanced schedule as I get the rest of the bottles. Calcium based, pre-digested/chelated, wide range of best accesible ingredients (seriously, everything good you can imagine), organic, Im confident will lock down coco pH and completely prevent and cal mag issues, feeds beneficials, etc etc.
AND the beauty of small pot coco is very little is needed so the mixing and burning through massive jugs constantly doesnt happen. Wont cost a fortune, used as a weekly strong organic very rich but NEVER HOT feed line. So far, so good.
Closely monitoring to prevent high transpiration salt lockout. Not happening again. I bet this yields quite well.
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