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Weed is a demanding on nutes is all... you just need a big enough system to support it. That in itself is enough to justify not doing it imo... when things are well established tanks are easy af they look after themselves... that does not happen in a week or a month and most consider an established system probably closer to a year.A good friend here runs an Aquaponics farm. The setup is the difficult part. you have to balance the chemistry before adding any critters. I've worked with his system enough to know something about it. 90% of the things you just mentioned are all self-adjusting once the system is properly running. Aquaponics is really the Organic version of Hydro. I've spent at least 4 years looking at his system and discussing how to get the best results.
The reason I bring it up is because I keep hearing it does not work well for weed. That seems totally backwards to me because no matter what he planted, it sprouted and grew to maturity in record time. He never planted weed (that I know of) so that's my issue. There are more nutrients in his system than the plants can take advantage of. What makes weed so different?
We are thinking about getting back into Hydro. We had a nightmare with it a couple of years ago when we first started growing inside.
We now have a stable tent giving us some sweet organics so, what's the easiest way to do it hydro style?
He adds about 1000 gallons a day. This is a 2 acre farm. (Edited number)Weed is a demanding on nutes is all... you just need a big enough system to support it. That in itself is enough to justify not doing it imo... when things are well established tanks are easy af they look after themselves... that does not happen in a week or a month and most consider an established system probably closer to a year.
Trust me when I say you are likely going to have issues for a month and maybe a few.
So he must do water changes if his plants don't keep up?
I hear you. It's his farm not mine. I want some simpler experience with it first, hence my post. But I'm always looking toward the perfect AP system.I mean I'm not trying to discourage you by any means and I'm sure you will get it going. I just kinda feel you thinks it's easier than it will be and definitelydoesn't fit the goal of your post. But that's just my opinion. You may just absolutely nail it.
You said this was going into a 4x4 tent? How many plants were you thinking about? Have you done research on 70/30 Coco/perlite. Seems to be all the hype the last year or so. You could use an elevated ebb & flow table and water till runoff and collect it from a single drain.Fixed the number in my other post.
@freezeland2 , We were looking at a constant ebb and flow system.
We had a 6 plant system in mind.You said this was going into a 4x4 tent? How many plants were you thinking about? Have you done research on 70/30 Coco/perlite. Seems to be all the hype the last year or so. You could use an elevated ebb & flow table and water till runoff and collect it from a single drain.
Sent you a pm but I happened to find the videos I thought were deleted. Turns out they were on a different account.I'm familiar with Aquaponics and that's actually what we want, but we keep hearing that you can't grow good weed in Aquaponics.
I used to run ebb n flow. no bubbles needed. if the pump goes out you can always hand water. Just need an easy way to access/ change res.We are thinking about getting back into Hydro. We had a nightmare with it a couple of years ago when we first started growing inside.
We now have a stable tent giving us some sweet organics so, what's the easiest way to do it hydro style?
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