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Hello guys,
New user here but a grower for quite some time. I hope I can become a part of the family and help where I can. Up until now, I've always done Drain to Waste but I am going to try the UC system.
I've ordered one of the 16XXL13's to try it out. Space, cooling and everything else is already there.
I have 2 questions that I’m struggling with:
1:
I’m debating between either growing trees using 21 x 600W (12.6KW) bare Verticals or keep it simple and go with 8 x 1000W (8KW) horizontal Gavitas and SCROG as wide as I can.
I think the amount of maintenance for the SCROG setup is a little higher but it shouldn’t be that much different. I'm wondering if the yield with verticals is really that much higher compared to horizontals and SCROG. Is the extra Wattage for verticals justified? What's your preference?
2:
With DTW, maintaining the reservoir is easy because the plants always get what’s in the reservoir. However, with UC, I don’t understand how to keep thing balanced in the system. I can only measure the total ppm/ec but not each individual nutrient type. How do I know what nutrient type is depleted and what’s still plenty available? Without knowing that, how do you guys top off correctly?
I assume it's ideal to keep things constantly balanced out. Or do you hook up RO until the ppm's are down and then top off?
Thanks so much,
Marco
New user here but a grower for quite some time. I hope I can become a part of the family and help where I can. Up until now, I've always done Drain to Waste but I am going to try the UC system.
I've ordered one of the 16XXL13's to try it out. Space, cooling and everything else is already there.
I have 2 questions that I’m struggling with:
1:
I’m debating between either growing trees using 21 x 600W (12.6KW) bare Verticals or keep it simple and go with 8 x 1000W (8KW) horizontal Gavitas and SCROG as wide as I can.
I think the amount of maintenance for the SCROG setup is a little higher but it shouldn’t be that much different. I'm wondering if the yield with verticals is really that much higher compared to horizontals and SCROG. Is the extra Wattage for verticals justified? What's your preference?
2:
With DTW, maintaining the reservoir is easy because the plants always get what’s in the reservoir. However, with UC, I don’t understand how to keep thing balanced in the system. I can only measure the total ppm/ec but not each individual nutrient type. How do I know what nutrient type is depleted and what’s still plenty available? Without knowing that, how do you guys top off correctly?
I assume it's ideal to keep things constantly balanced out. Or do you hook up RO until the ppm's are down and then top off?
Thanks so much,
Marco