Wow, thanks for your really comprehensive answer! It looks to be quite a bit to get into. Am I right in saying it'd be impossible to feed from a tank + drippers with this setup or you'd bet blockages and the organic buildup would go bad after a while?
Are you talking about feeding straight from a fish tank? Cause if so i have already tried it with clones, so far so good
But those are just clones, what I have found because i tested a bigger plant under my 315cmh and it started becoming very light green.
The downside with fish tanks is that they dont provide enough nitrates for a continuously growing plant, especially ones that grow as fast as cannabis, they will deplete the nitrates faster then what can be replenished in the fish tank.
But if you are in the market to try using fish water to feed I would recommend what I do which is (and this method was taught to me by a professional aquaponics grower):
Get a 35-55gal fish tank and get a rez thats half or equal to the tank size.
For example i have a 55gal fish tank in my basement, and next to that i have a 55gal drum barrel, i have an over flow valve that go from my tank into the drum barrel and a 396gph water pump that goes back to the tank, anytime i need water i pull water from the drum barrel.
Once i get close to flower i feed 1gal to each plant everyday, and i run 24 plants. Which means i deplete the 55gal barrel in 2 days.
I take the 55gal barrel out of circulation, add all my nutrients to the drum barrel, feed my plants for 2 days, wash the barrel out, fill it back up with water, and add it back into the circulation system with my fish tank!
Been doing this for over a year now and the results are amazing!
Fish water has basically every microbial you could imagine, and mine even has fungus because i dont clean the tank, so their is sometimes a build up of fungus on the drift wood i have in it.
If you ever want to give it a try just shoot me a private msg and ill show you how my setup is and how it all works.
Good luck to you if you try organics though! I dont do it because i can claim my stuff as "organic". That term to me is just misleading.
I do it because i use to spend $1500-$2000 per harvest in nutrients, but now for $500 i can make enough 5gal buckets worth of nutrients to do 4-5 harvests!
Where i live that would be like saving 2lbs worth of product every year in nutrients!