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sorry TF. I just re read and understand that the fulvic and tea solution is 400 ppm, so yeah thats about as good as plain water and acting like the flush.
Im on like 6th gen with my coco ...no chiller in res.IMO coco doesnt need a chiller, you could have your res at a simmer and it wouldnt hurt coco
I have been reusing coco, pulling out the main root, flushing, and transplanting, plants thrive. I could probably take a dump in my res and nothing but dank would come out the other end
donkdbz said it with the carbs thou, you can make some serious yeast with carbs, and air stone, and some luke warm nutes
seems to indicate that its more benifical for life to be warmerI use no chiller for my coco. If res temps stay 70-75 I can get up to a week on a tank. If I run more like 80 things start to get funky with sediment in 2 days. The canna nutes more so than the cns17 nutes. At this point, I see no need to use a chiller for coco in my setup. I'll just make sure that any tanks that I want to last for a week won't have any carbs to add to the mix.
-TF
Werd to that TF. Hand water or not, Im in there more than I can help myself anyway. I am sure you are as well.
I just like basking in the artificial sun with my lady friends.
Im on like 6th gen with my coco ...no chiller in res.
seems to indicate that its more benifical for life to be warmer
didnt like lightning strike some water with organic compounds in it and
bam life
like jurasic park .......life will find a way lol
good for c02 but good god man ...lol
why is the guy in the pic smiling ...thats shits gonna hurt lol
The correct way to measure pH, in coco substrate, is to take samples of the media from around the root zone. These samples are then added to distilled water at a 5:1 ratio (5 parts distilled water to 1 part media), then vigorously shaken or blended and tested with a pH meter. This method will provide you with the correct pH within the coir media (rhizosphere) environment.
Donk, Are you using any type of pump in the res to circulate water (no airstone). In my pond experience, stagnant water will get to smelling much faster. Also, with an airstone in the res maybe you are brewing it. Is the res in the dark? Perhaps you could mix the carbs separately and add them to just the coco.
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no..........no I dont use them
the coco I use is supose to be innoculated
I just feed them with moleasses
the rapitest is what I use
I have NPK test also did 2 test 3 samples per test
one test with co co flushed to 40 ppm
the other not flushed
now this was coco from my last run I dont flush persay I just water the last 5 days to 30% run off that is like 3 waterings
my results were thus
test 1 not flushed ppm 1100
PH 6.5
N n0 depleted
p p4 surplus
K k3 sufficient
test 2 flushed to 40 ppm
PH 6.5
N N0 depleted
p P2 adequate
K K3 sufficient
notice how the K stays the same this demonstrates the holding effect you are talking about. now this dosent show micros like cal. or mag.
but coco is supose to hold cal. alot . but can roots or bennies access these stores of nutes ? cap do you know?
No airstones.Res is sitting in the dark. 185gph water pump..1/2 tube...chiller. ...1/2 tube... water fall back into res.
100gph water pump lying on bottom to stir.
I use sweet raw for carbs.
I hand feed my bene's, mykos and earth worm/hum tea. once a week.
If you know the PH and PPM of your nutes and you have a lil runoff every time you water dtw theres no point to checking your medium or the runoff.
Depends on your situation, setup, seasonal temps, etc....I have ran automated coco, and the reservoirs were outside of the room, un-air conditioned, with ambient temps in the 90s mid-summer. I was getting some über-stinky smells coming out of those reservoirs w/o a chiller, especially when I was adding organics, compost teas, etc. My water temps were 85+ degrees...no bueno. Added a chiller and it made a difference in how the plants looked and eliminated the stink from the res.
I would think that the best way to deal with this is to add the organics/teas separately in to the coco. Of course, if you are automated this may not be an option. However, I believe you could add the organics once weekly and get away with it.
Thank you for the input regardless GM.
I'm not a fan of top dressing coco really, or amending EWC to the coco, as it makes it retain too much water. However, going in once or twice per week to feed a straight compost tea instead of synthetics makes sense. Kind of your weekly innoculant. That way you could mix and brew the compost tea separately and use it fresh, rather than blending it into your reservoir. Makes sense to me, good discussion!
So you are recirculating the solution yes?
I agree about feeding bennies separate and not keeping them in the res.
Have you looked at hibrix for a sweetener as opposed to raw?
No I run drain to waste I just circulate the water through my res to keep it cool and the waterfall is all thats needed to keep my nutes fresh.
My ewc/hum tea is made with hibrix. Putiing hibrix in my res would destroy my chiller. I use denali gold humus supposedly has 40,000 species of bateria