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Hey billy, thanks for chiming in. How's your grow going? I recall reading about your one 600 watt grow.
There are quite a few things that could have contributed to the root cloggage. Too small of holes, not enough holes, too fast of top feed, too small of netpot, root bound in the coco pots, and explosive growth after using roots excel are a few possibilities. I'm gonna try to eliminate as much as I can on the next run.
I recall reading about Heath's mods in his threads...he uses pretty large top buckets. I really like the wide 4 gallon top buckets he's using now and have actually been looking for something similar. Lots of space for roots to come out.
I'm a huge fan of Heath's and have always valued everything he has said and done. His experience is unparalleled and if there's one person I look up to the most, it would be Heath. I wish he could post more often but I totally understand why he'd want to stay off the boards. He's been doing this for a long ass time. It's such a shame so much good info was lost when the other sites went down.
I'll switch to whatever works best for me. But I have to try them all first to get a feel for them. I'm trying to find a good balance between getting good yields with less veg time and the least risk of failure. so far i'm liking the chow mix :)
I have been adding the bleach at every res change and then I add a tsp every other day.
I love h202 but there is now way to tell if your PPMs are high enough to kill root rot, cholorine its 2ppm, most all the tomatoes and lettuce we eat grew in hydro have a constant 2ppm of chlorine at all times on a doser, kinda to stop the problem before it starts
its really a low level of bleach but its enough to kill root rot, its not even the as much as the reccomended dose to treat emergency drinking water.
the system has many more things that can go wrong so experience plays a huge role, which none of use really have yet, I mean shit Im only on 6th and 7th grow, and my first 4 went perfectly, 5th flopped because I foolishly cut the topfeed and returned it on so that was human error. this run is fine but I did freak for about 2days because I noticed a brown slim on the roots but Im starting to think it was the roots excel, sucks because I really dont know
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