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Crown feed and definitely in homeopathic doses about 1-2 oz. per gallon.I make a gallon of tea for every 50-55 gallons with the tea I run. So, that's pretty close. Fyi, I do not put tea in my top off. Only in my initial mix. Maybe Capulator will chime in...
Huh? Yes I do crown feed bennies when I run sterile here and there but no I don't fear my roots swimming in a live stew. So I do run a live mix in my UC. Oh and it works great too.Crown feed and definitely in homeopathic doses about 1-2 oz. per gallon.
I brew a tea[still working on honing my skills here too, don't have a microscope so it's pretty hard to say] and hand water with a small 1/2 gallon pump sprayer. I try to moisten the net cups pretty evenly and give the base a good rinsing. I recently added a drip top feed [waiting on 1/4" soaker hose in the mail to make halos] on a cycle timer so the amounts rinsed through when I hand watered get cycled around or the amounts that I hand watered are getting rinsed out, still pretty early to tell. But I can see marked improvement of mycorrhiza activity on my roots. I can say definitely on a personal level I'm finding the homeopathic doses giving the best results. I made the mistake of using about double what I'm currently running and ended up with what I'm guessing was a biofilm starting to form.
I was able to turn off the top feed and clean this up pretty good with 3ml/gal 29% h2o2. The roots that were submerged had this film beginning to collect on them. Most of the root mass I was able rinse free and it was still healthy, but there was a smaller portion that had already died off. A few stressed a little but nice new white fuzzies have come in to help fill the spaces. I just wish I never rocked the boat with all my zeal for the tea. Slow and steady.
I've been told by water culture masters to steep ancient forest or just a quality worm castings for 24 hours with very little sugars. Maybe 10-15 ml per 5 gallons while using 1-2 handfuls in a nylon stocking. Well aerated no longer than 24 hrs and its that simple. Using 1 cup per 5 gallons if having root issues if not 1 cup to 10 gallons. Always add some fresh every couple days and then change out red weekly. Or you can just use cultured solutions roots but I found I needed 3-4 ml. Per gl every 3 days tops to keep the pearly whites.Yeah I have some home made 8 gallon[veg] and 13 gallon[flower] buckets with 3" plumbing. First round in the UC went well. Cloned in a home made aero and tranplanted into 8" net pots, set the water level about 1" below the baskets and hand watered until roots hit the water. I vegged and flowered with out any hang-ups. Fast forward work has me away from home more often and I started having issues on my transition from the cloner to 8" baskets.
After looking around I decided to try the top-feed drip emitter. When I first transfer clones to veg I set the timer for the drip pump to 15 sec. on and 1 min. off and after things start to push out I dial back. I have currently been running 15 sec. on 1 hr. off. Really it's just enough to keep my hydroton lightly moist and not dried out. I do drop my water levels as flowering progresses. The kit I bought was plain jane and the emitters where just hitting a portion of the baskets and it seemed that the most abundant and healthiest root growth, this was encouraging that the emitters where continuing to be beneficial. So I figured why not try the top-feed with a soaker hose halo and hope for more even growth and I should specify lateral growth is what I've been looking to promote. My tea is basically heisenberg black strap, ancient forest, vermiblend, aquashield, Endo Maxx.
What problems did you encounter?
P.S. I'm always looking to learn more. I see you have some nice trunks there. I started out in aeroflo tubes and could get about 2" trunks, but the root mats would get so thick that the bottoms would rot and they were always clogging the tube drains, among other issues prompted me to make a switch, like some of these awesome grows I see around here.
I've been told by water culture masters to steep ancient forest or just a quality worm castings for 24 hours with very little sugars. Maybe 10-15 ml per 5 gallons while using 1-2 handfuls in a nylon stocking. Well aerated no longer than 24 hrs and its that simple. Using 1 cup per 5 gallons if having root issues if not 1 cup to 10 gallons. Always add some fresh every couple days and then change out red weekly. Or you can just use cultured solutions roots but I found I needed 3-4 ml. Per gl every 3 days tops to keep the pearly whites.
If you are making teas less is more on any beneficial products. I've found very little ZHO & aquashield w/castings to work great but becareful of the amount of sugar used. Not much aerate for 24 hrs strain or use water off the top Id add directly to epi center. Sometimes crown feed depending on their age. Personally I'd use a simple tea to start veg & then flower once root system is massive I go sterile. Love it. Good luck
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