I found a couple of extra seeds and decided to play around with my old little air pump from fish tank… germinated in shot glass then transferred to this vase and now we have cotyledons. When it gets bigger going to move to my old 5 gallon dwc bucket setup.
Hey Headies12green!
It is a random seed, or do you know the Strain? What lights are you gonna use?
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Hey it’s a seed from my recent Mosca lava creme harvest and that’s just a little 12 watt LED bar until the plant gets a little bigger then will move to grow tent under more power.
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Never tried hydro good luck. Im sure youll figure it out. Need to ride up there and check ot out when it gets going good. Ive always been very interested in that style of growing bc roots always look amazing for hydro guys
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I have an old 5 gallon dwc bucket but need to upgrade the air stone and pump if it makes it that far. The previous one wasn’t strong enough and most of the time I’ve given up due to maintenance. Would be nice to actually run it through run it through
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Okay cool sounds like a good plan. Ill be watching to learn a little bit
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The hydroponic setup I have used for 16 years is a foot deep reservoir, with the roots in grow rock (expanded clay) in net pots over the reservoir. In the reservoir is a good pump with a drip spinner on top to keep the roots wet. Simple and very effective. The grow reservoir is fed from another via a float valve. I try to drain the reservoir every couple weeks.
The gray thing is an Ice Probe chiller, normally used for aquariums.
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keep your roots dark. that glass vase will not work. the roots will rot and die back.
look up pawfly on amazon. their white airstones produce nano bubbles, delivering a much higher rate of dissolved o2 to the rootzone than standard ones with the same pump. i find i actually have to reduce the flow slightly to get the bubble size just right. but the idea is large bubbles don’t have as much surface area as smaller ones, which equates directly into more o2 in the solution for root development.
i spent a long time reworking and rebuilding my system over and over until i got it just right. and what i found was without a remote reservoir, 10 gallons is the optimal size for single tub all in one DWC. most of my plants drink roughly one gallon of solution per day. if i change the res once per week, with a mid-week top up that leaves enough solution each time it gets low that the roots won’t ever dry out. with a 5 gallon res a full size plant in week 6 of flower will almost definitely run dry before it’s time to change the res for the week.
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Yeah man sorry no updates I actually gave up a couple months ago. Temps fluctuating too much and just a soil sometimes coco grower