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if we oxygenate our water, can we flood with straight coco more often?
Hey Dizzle.
With your new watering schedule how much water would you say you are giving per gallon of coco per day?
If I am in 2 gallon coco containers what would you give?
what about 5 gallon coco containers?
btw I am 70-30 coco to perilite
Flushing?
how often and with what flushing agent do you flush your Coco during your grows?
Nutrients?
what ppm are you running when you feed?
Thanks a ton!!!!
if we oxygenate our water, can we flood with straight coco more often?
DO is related to temperature...you can't 'supercharge' water. the best way to assure that the water in your medium has max oxygen at all times is to maximise the medium's wetted surface area.
tommy: that's such a vague question. it will depend on your plant's transpiration rate, and how long you want to go between waterings. the only way to know is to do it. i haven't seen much correlation between watering frequency and yield; watering 24/7 doesn't yield significantly better than watering every 3 days.
mrdizzle: what benefits, if any, do you see in drier media and more frequent watering?
I have to disagree with the watering 24/7 doesnt improve yeild, if your medium does not hold water such as perlite, it will blow away a soil garden watered every three days or a coco garden.
the benefits are quite clear, I used to run 5gal hempys, with 50/50 coco to perlite. it would take a 3week veg would give me 1/4lb plants. I would run 20 plants and get 5-5.5lbs
Now after a 3 week veg in 75%perlite to coco with frequent waterings, I have 12oz plus plants. without a doubt in my mind they grow almost twice as fast
That more frequent feedings leads to faster growth is a matter of fact. I'm just not convinced that it's clear cut on yield. Plants use up Nitrogen super fast - they can deplete it in 12 hr. More frequent feedings keeps N in the root zone - hence the faster growth. Perhaps your hempys just needed more N? A longer veg will get bigger plants.
What was your best run? (MKxBK run 9 was super impressive) What factors made it your best run?
well thats good because Im not here to convince you of anything. More N is not what you need for bigger nugs or higher yeild, and yes a longer veg will lead to bigger plants? not sure what your question/comment is
a plant that is too large may outgrow the coverage of the light its getting effecting its overall yeild/quality
if i understand you correctly, you're saying that the plants in perlite/coco were 2x bigger and yielded 3x more. I'm suggesting that vegging in hempys longer until they were the same size as the plants in perlite/coco would have yielded similarly. in your opinion is that fair to say?
growmaster yields well over 1 gpw in soil beds (and many other examples), which tells me that you don't have to water 3x per day for huge yield. a drier medium needs more waterings to not stress the plant. I'm just trying to make sense of this.
I'm saying frequent feeding IS giving your plants more N, and made them grow faster.
peace
Hi Crysmatic maybe I can answer what your asking. It is not N. If that was the case we would all just add more N into our fertilizers when we are growing in soil. The reason is air. When you water soilless mix to a lesser extent rockwool, coco you get a lot of water and not a lot of oxygen. This takes time before the oxygen and water are ideally balanced. Then medium starts to become to dry. With any techinque you want to try and stay in this sweet spot. DWC and various take-off do this by keeping the solution (as long as they are within proper temperatures) constantly aireted. With meduims you don't get this constant ideal condition. One way to tell a really experienced grower is how well they water. This is key. I have seen growers veg twice as long to get the same size plant in the same room, same nuterients, same environment, etc... Just one had a great eye for when to water. I think that is why there is so many questions about how often to water. Really a key point. With 100% perlite, or hydroton you can get away with watering 24/7 because they only have a surface film of water and roots can get tons of oxygen. However as with DWC if something goes wrong everything can die quickly. Hempies try to work off built in safety (the leaving water in the bottom of the pot) and having the perlite and other components (vermiculite, coco) wick up this water up through capilary action, which provides a lot of aeration and with constant water
Peace
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