Still a novice grower. Have been having difficulties in soil recently, so I decided to set up a kratky and experiment. I am doing it on the cheap.
Container is a kitty litter bucket I painted to keep light out. No net cup, stones, or rockwool cubes. I popped the seed in a peat puck. The expanded puck was later placed in a hole in the lid, and a couple of bamboo skewers to secure it.
Strain is gorilla berries (feminized).
So far this has been my easiest and best looking plant.
Love It,Do you monitor the water temps?I would like to go hydro kratky with Little pots,like 1-2 liters,but have thought how difficult It would be in spite of easier Coco growing.Monitoring temps and water pH closely and very very often Is a problem to me
Neat, but dirt I inherently easier than Hydro. I would find out what I’m doing that’s not working is soil first before stepping up to the more difficult Hydro. Your plants seem to like it though!
I haven’t yet. Just topped it off with fresh (no nutes), as I was seeing signs of nitrogen toxicity. I may still change it out soon, but I like to let my tap water breathe to get the chlorine out of it, and I did not have enough. My watering containers are refilled, so I’ll probably change it tomorrow once the water has sat.
I will play with soil more. I have to plants (acupulco gold) in soil now that I am struggling with. So far though, the hydro has actually been easier for me. Right now though I am out of space until I am done with these 3 ladies.
So, I am still a beginner. I am in a FB group (private) run by the grower I got my beans from. I shared grow pics and he spotted nitrogen toxicity before I did.
Two days later it was obvious. Last night I did not have my phone in the basement and cut the worst branch and a couple leaves out.
Here it is today. I topped off the rez to dilute the nutes, and will most likely change the water tomorrow. If anyone else has advice, I am all ears.
its worth the thirty or so bucks to get an air pump and an air stone in my opinion.
my DWC runs have been up and down, but the potential is great. my best run was one of my earliest, QP of primo bud from an autoflower with a cheap light in like 90 days all in.
hardest thing for me is getting the nutrients correct, I always wanna over nute.
I haven’t been monitoring water temps. Air temps are steady high 60s to low 70s.
For this I’m not watching pH too much either.
I’m using CES nutes which are supposed to pH balance already.
, how often do you change water? 
