It absolutely does mean you’re more reliant on the pump. 4 times a day isn’t enough imo. Whilst you’re establishing roots in pots. Yes its acceptable. In bloom you want to at least double that. Even every hour for say 10-15 mins a time when lights on. (Even with sonoff basics I should only be able to do 8x floods a day. Which is tempting me to use an ordinary segment timer. And use the channels on the 4ch in conjunction with th16s to control temps/humidity instead.
I wouldn’t recommend using clay pebbles as a wicking media at any point. Needs to be full saturation.
LED can be an absolute PITA to get right. Especially early stages. I usually start on fully dimmed lights
Apparently i was on the right track since i flooded every hour with the light on in the end. Flooding that often is not desirable to me and it makes me wonder is dwc not more practical than? I guess the clay pebbles just aren’t for me. With rock wool flooding once or even every other day during bloom is fine. During veg flooding every two days is plenty.
I would say you was on the right track yeah mate. It may not be for you. I like the rapid growth you get though. I like to be able to go away for a few days and know everything is okay too. Which I suppose you could argue was the same in DWC.
Maybe try again knowing what you know now? Or better still. How do you fancy swapping methods for a run? We can decide beans between us and run the same? Start the same time. Make sure lights are dimmed to the same yadda yadda
It’s a nice idea to swap methods but i’ve just started two fresh rounds on rock wool and using clay pebbles means i will have to grow very low because i have a small water tank. With rock wool you also have quick growth, you just don’t have to water that often to keep it wet.
‘Clay pebbles? Are you nuts?’ The rock-wool underneath replied.
‘You might rock but you never roll!’
‘Think your pretty sharp but i beat scissors every time!’
So i say come on guys stop!!
The wool with rock beneath and the nuts stay on top!
I want to top the plants at a certain node so that they will all have the same amount of branches. Which node i have yet to decide, probably the third or the fourth. And i will thieve all the twigs that only use energy.
The three cuts i will probably have to treat differently, but they also have to provide me with new clones.
I wanted to start thieving but cannot decide where to start. So i removed some leafs in order to see better. But i still cannot see what to remove. Can anybody please advise me? And is it already time to top?
I normally remove the bottom 2 nodes
But i wait till the plant reaches 5 or 6 nodes before I top . I’ll top at the 3 node leaving me a solid trunk to build on
Its more of a mainline structure , then I’ll top the new growth when they get to 5 nodes and again I trim it down to the 3 node if you follow me
It takes a little longer to recover but I grow big plants with my Octopots and they seem to support the growth well
Hope this helps
I love your set up brother
Not sure if my method jives with yours
Ok I stopped my self from rambling on and on
I’m too hi for 7 am on my side of the pond lol
you need to be with growing that’s why your plants look so good your sharper then the scissors lol
