Why pay for more media if you don't have to? Its all auto watering and drain so I just set a timer and it feeds them. If hand watering i definitely would not be doing this. There are many reasons but don't wanna derail this.
Really don't have any automation experience but definitely tried to have this run and will have next run waterfalls on my dwc system being a new
thats the one major lesson I've learned this grow is automated feeding is the way .... Being new to dwc i never really understood that even once after the plants where in the solution you need or I needed top feed regaurdless of the dwc buckets to get them to take off on their own. The original design I did was with rdwc with waterfalls the seals I planned failed so currently waiting on them but definitely next run will be set up to top feed. Even if i decide in the end the hydro is dookie tasting compared to the soil I'll also be running at least a drip feed on soil or coco from here on out. Definitely helps I'd imagine in all mediums
but I don't know when those where mainstream grow wise so he could have also just been following the same logic as long as fed and happy it will grow
The sad truth I'm already facing from one large scale mix to most likely under these situations never doing it again is the ratios of small scale feeding in actual qaulity control in the end is greater so if the end result and qaulity really really matter drip feed is gonna outproduce a large reservoir. To even consider keeping my nutes mixed in my current 12 gallon dwc if I'm not running 2 large stones I'm waisting my time if actually trying to control the qaulity of food mixture in the water when i run all soil I run small hand mixes 1/2 gallon a time all the way through flower its extremely annoying in smaller pots but its less controlled once I spread it across my larger pots. So in the end It really comes down to those type conversations beyond just different grow styles I'd say im even to the point of mixing 1 gallon of nute at a time for my dwc its annoying but I havent had any problems that I honestly expected from what I've watched many first time hydro or soil growers go through 1 gallon is easy peasy even 5 gallons but to do a full swap out was 50 to ph that for myself currently was a nightmare. But thats another reason I'm going to a single reservoir sytem on my next grow.
You dont have to... it just ensures your nutrient ratio stays in a good place. You can push it back and see how it works for you. That method is just to ensure you don't have issues but does not mean you may not be able to go longer.
Really no effort to setup... you do it once and thats it and its not very expensive. Personally if I add up my wages and the time saved its not even close so I guess its how much you value your time. There are other benefits to smaller pots like air exchange etc. Its all preferences but no way would I want more media to lug around and hand water. Imo its a lot more work.
Don't think it had anything to do with flexing and it wasn't to show root pruning is of any benefit... it was to try and see if there may be a correlation between root volume and fruit volume.
System takes like an hr and never have to do it again. I mix my res and thats it. After mixing nutes for hand watering more frequently you still need to water and get rid of runoff for every pot of every grow. I could not use 1 gal pots if I was hand watering because I would spend all day mixing and watering. Idk how anyone can think its more work? In veg with a 20 gal res I was doing 20 plants and mixing nutes once a week that took me a while 10 min. I cant see how hand watering can take less time
ok u caught me having a stoner moment lol. ur right hands down. which is why i want to figure out a blaumat drip system eventually. i'll just blame it on this ice cream cake lol. but seriously it's because now days i often process really slow and make mistakes in focus t be perfectl yhonest. i can't really blame weed frfr. lol
Nothing wrong with asking or debating. Was a fair question. Especially if you have never used autofeed.
