typical flooding is every 4 hours.....try spacing them out a bit more, itll make them want to eat and uptake more if you span out their need to be hungry(er)
I'll try 4 then, what should I look for as far as ill events? I just don't want to let things dry out. I've seen people say you don't even need to flood when lights aren't on, but I just can't see that becase I figured they would dry up
Ive always run my system with all the things ive read and learned about how USELESS and his feeding schedule works and fully functions...the dude got it down pat and yes im giving him a major BJ right now but proofs in the pudding damn near atleast 75% of the crap you read on growing is merely some stoned homemade scientist thinking he got it all figured out and is changing the game:roffl: im just following his lead like a ton of us here for me the building and creating of the enviorment was the ez part, figuring out how to work into a groove with the plant deciphering is what takes so much time,7+ years so far, 5 with the same 3 plants
Actually that's why I love it here, Ive said it before and I'll say it again. When you get advice here it's from real growers and what they did in their gardens....not just someone sayign shit. But I have been running lucas just out of easiness. They seem to be happy with it. I'm thinking next run I may do Useless to a T, but I always had issues with large ressys and PH, with Lucas it's 8-16 and 1ml of ph up and I'm good to go, no learning curve
I think I had a light leak....changed ressy out and it had some funk floating and things had some slime on them. Not a huge amount but more than last change. Also smelled a little Scrubbed it out, running h202 for a few days and doubled down on the covering for the ressy Girls look great post pix at the 4 week mark
I has that same stuff in my res til I started running it with h2o2 all the time until flush. Useless or Ras told me about it. Never caused an issue. Since you're in water and not soil you don't want all the biological stuff in your res. Fungi and bacteria are great in soil, but not so much in hydro. Just my two cents.
yea running the h2o2 right now with some airstones, I may stop but right now I'm more worried about something going wrong, I'm not going to risk root rot specially my first time using tables. They look great though, PH steady at 5.8 budding nicely
root rot doesn't rreally exist in tables, the roots arenet submerged in anything besides for 15-30mins every few hours, theres not enough time for things to ocurr. not enough time for whatever bacteria to eat the weaker root sections. another thing is, that crud in the res never gets uptaken by the pump as its much heavier than the water it rests in, crud always stays on the bottom of the res, the pump is naturally above the 3inch mark cuz of its design, crud is below that make sure that the area where the pump line and return line is, is very well light proofed.......and the crud typically comes on after the 3rd week and goes away after the 6-7th week. and the thing about bubbling the water is not a good idea IMO, fresh oxygen promotes the bacteria to feed and gives it strength....I had way more crud from aeration then without
The added air will make a biological bloom, but the peroxide will keep it inert. Its a personal choice. I pump a shit load of air into my res. It keeps the water oxygenated and keeps the minerals suspended. I believe an oxygen rich nutrient solution can be absorbed better by the root system. /monthly_2013_12/roots.jpg.4e374a2ecdc2270b6f7e408003f2b2a9.jpg
Thats an old pic but i use 3x2 flood table with six plants. Depending on the strain I veg until the roots are eight or so inches. I dont go by plant height. 15 gallon res, 600 watt hps. I used to run Useless's formula but niw when I do hydro I use maxi bloom plus a carb additive and moab.
Again, it depends on the strain. I got well over a pound with Skunk #1 and NYC Diesel. Master Kush and Mars were less than a pound. The res itself is bigger but i fill it with 15 gallons.
Is there a reason for a super large ressy? I have been putting 5 gallons back in mid week but it's fresh nutes and water, figured that was a good thing. Also my ph keeps creeping up, not bad and never over 6.0.... but since Im running lucas my water is 5.3 with nutes (no ph). Mid week I just add that to the ressy and it puts it right back to 5.7-5.8 and I don't have to touch anything Guess I will look at that anyways since I know koolbloom kicks up the ph a lot. Pix in a few hours
you dont need a huge res if you check it once in a while. I top it off with filtered water once mid week. I run plain water for the first day of the week and add nutes on day two. The right way is what works for you.
sorry didn't get a chance to post this last night day 28 Most every cola looks like this....almost all well over 1 foot long
I let you know in another 4.5 weeks or so....that will be the true test. But seriously easy and I love the less work aspect
