Hey guys, new to the forum. Starting my first hydro grow (first grow too), ive already read over 300 pages between this site and some others. My buddy has had some good luck outdoors with jacks classic and the bloom. At first we were sold on AN for the ph perfect. I took a few horticulture classes in college and remembered how cheap the fert was that our class mixed up and then decided to google search for some cheaper alternatives.
b4 i read anything about nutes my brother and i had settled on this as our grow systems. 5 gallow DWC buckets with 3.75" net pots, with expanded clay pellets as the medium. we are running 4 buckets with air stones in each bucket 8 liters a minute of air, under 400 mh for veg and 600 hps for flower (we havent started yet). after reading alot of these jacks thread i noticed most of you are using coco, chow mix (rockwool and coco mix?) or rockwool in DTW (drip to waste) or ebb and flow. has anyone used straight DWC? is this a bad setup, should i modify to a drip feed or drain to waste? or change my grow medium?
I read the 40 page thread cheaper alternatives to expensive nutes, thank you all who contributed to that wealth of knowledge. we have decided to use jacks hydro 15-12-26 and cal nit and espom.
has anyone used the 1 part veg mix and the new 1 part bloom mix from jacks? might order that too and run side by side
Cap i have read all of your threads, i also just purchased your beenies. and will make a tea. I have some questions about the actual nute pack and the tea. ive read most of your threads regarding ur bennies and i noticed ur site specifically uses the foliar and the root pack in the tea but not the NUTE pack which doesnt have instructions on the website. was this ment to be used differently. i know people are including it in the tea but i just want to make sure im going to use ur product right.
since im not using RDWC and each bucket is isolated do i have to run tea every week? i see mention of people going every other week or every other 2 weeks. id run the tea every week in veg for explosive root growth and plant growth, should i do the same for flower? has anyone experimented with this?
I was also thinking of not changing my buckets every week if im gonna run the bennies since they seem to protect against bad things, bugs, root, mold mildew ect. is this okay? or should i change water once a week? I will be checking buckets everyday and adding water and nutes according to uptake.
Cap i was gonna use your nute profile on page one, but noticed u said you are now using the 3-2-1. just wanted to clarify. that is 3g jacks, 2 cal nit, 1 Epsom and NOT an NPK correct?
each bucket will be able to hold about 4 gal water and be just under the net cup. so i will need roughly 16 gal for all 4 buckets. if i want to run the mix at 80% and i run the 3g hydro, 2g cal nit, 1 g epsom salt i would multiply each fert by gallons needed then multiply each by .80 to get an 80% solution or am i missing something
example 3g hydro x 16 = 48
48 x 80% = 38.4g of jacks hydro
id repeat these same steps for every nutrient.
sorry for all the question, and my scatter brain post. i have answered many question just by readin these threads and have pages of notes but i still cant find some of the answers im looking for.
Thanks ahead of time for the help!
