After years of fun with hydroponics, I finally got my hands laid on this promising piece from General Hydroponics - the RainForest… Single vortex sprayer is practically maintenance free and allows balanced irrigation to all plants… Lid is divided into 6 compoments. There are three possible versions: single plant per component, 3 sites per component and 6 sites per component. For my setup 3 sites per component were used, totaling to 18 plants.
I’ve got some clones preselected from Mandala Seeds. Two strains - Hashberry and White Satin, both luckily indica dominant (though not single-cola dominant), which will fit Sea of Green style nicely… In RF hexagonal form there is inner circle - 6 plants of White Satin and outer circle - 12 Hashberry plants.
It only took 5 days to let their roots reach bottom of RF and after that I’ve switched to 12/12.
My favourite nutrients were used - Hydrogarden Vitalink dilluted to 1/3 of recommended dose. pH kept under 5.5. Temps: 24 celsius during day, 21 celsius at night.
Vortex sprayer is pretty robust and because of its smart construction I’ve never had any problems with it… It rotates and drains water through the tubing up to the disc which by oscillating sprays it around.
Reservoir holds about 70 litres of nutrient… Unfortunatelly Vortex sprayer is only so short, so once your nutrient level is below 35 litres vortex sprayer stops working… Luckily roots can drain the water directly although it is not oxygenated so well…
This is an old thread but I wanted to ask, do you run the vortex constantly during lights on or do you cycle it on and off? I have two Rainforests and I’m thinking of digging them out and give them a try.
I’m running the six plant version of the rainforest with four different strains. I have a bad habit of starting too many strains all at once haha… I need to learn to use restraint. I have the other two versions of the rainforest lids and might try your 18 plant version with some female seeds I’m in the process of making. So many seeds, so little space…
