Been growing in coco and want to step it up with flood and drain table. Bought one from local hydroponic store that they were using as display. How many times daily should I be flooding table? Starting clones in a 6x6 rock wool cube? Using jacks 321.
Would love to hear experienced advice please
Peace!
I seen rockwool systems that start in 2inch systems and they simply stack the block on top of each other and the roots just keep diving like a pyramid shape… when there young you might need to top water till you see roots at bottom your not gonna wanna soak untill they have a decent amount of roots and your gonna need to be feeding a hydro sceduel right away … but frequency depends on your plants performance and your enviornment… hotter rooms and dry air can cause the bricks to dry faster take a general census of your blocks as a whole if most are dry and 1 or 2 aren’t then flood …its based on the dryness of the cubes not frequency can be 10 to 15 times a day sounds like alot of watching
I have the clones rooted in small cubes.
Ok great … what nutes you using
Oops see your using jacks… have u used Jack’s before
Been using jacks in coco.
I’m not a fan of Jack’s I really cant speak on it I see some do well and i see alot struggle with it in coco… I have had this convo with quite a few ppl and I dont feel Jack’s has cal and mag
Insufficently available to coco coco and calcium is a notorious deficency …coco leaches calcium… the calcium in Jack’s is calcium nitrate which one of the lower availability calcium compounds there are alot of calcium sources that are much more available but that’s whole another ball game … you can run it no problem but I see when ppl are pushing limits with Jack’s it falls just a bit short … but i dont use so I cant say for sure this is what I’ve seen ppl have issues with it might work better in ebb and flow but @nicky uses Jack’s with auto pots witch is more or less an ebb and flow system of a sort and hes having calcium issues as we speak in coco… so all I can say is try it and see if it works
I reread and forgot I was talking about your ebb and flow with rockwool … might work better then coco
Are your cubes just sitting in the table( just curious) mine table has clay pebbles. I’m doing my first indoor grow and it’s ebb and flow
@Nicky opinion on whether or not I should try jacks in an ebb and flow?
He uses Jack in auto pots and coco so I think it would work just fine as it’s pretty similar in style
Well I’m using Jack’s in an ebb and flow table and frankly amazed at the growth of these. DT/C99 clones under 18/6 lighting for two weeks then flipped to flower. Currently running Jack’s plus MKP at 1,100 ppm/5.8 PH. Had to deploy my last two blurples to cover these. Sorry for the color lol.
They are some of the prettiest plants I’ve ever had. The mother is in an autopot and while she’s going to produce well, she is much more scruffy looking than I’d like.
I run 30 minutes on, 2 hours off.
As @Myfriendis410 said I don’t see why not it’s hydroponic nutrients lol.
Looks like it’s working to me eh @Myfriendis410?
My wife came downstairs to admire the girls yesterday and got to squeeze some flower for aroma. Still haven’t bought a carbon filter but I’d better right quick: getting very stinky downstairs lol.
It’s nice living in the sticks, no neighbors to bother with the aroma. Although I’m going to start some gorilla glue and i read it smells like cat spray so may have to get a filter. I did see that some of the schools where I service the hvac had ozone machines that remove odors really well. I may try one to see if it works. Not sure if they output anything harmful for plants. I will do some research before trying.
FYI ozone is not something that you want to breathe.
Yep, after I worth the comment above I researched and found bad for people plants and pets. Though on the exhaust to outside maybe useful for odor control. Not sure the cost vs carbon filters.
Thanks for pointing out that ozone not healthy.
My best friend works for FEMA and is going through a $h!+ show right now as they are using ozone generators to disinfect working areas. Which is fine if the guy doing had a clue what he was doing. They had to evacuate the building haha.
I used one in my house when I bought it and my travel trailer when I bought it. Great if used properly!
Yes cubes sitting in tray or will be rather
Isn’t ozone created within electrical current …we had done an experiment in chemistry and we had this thing called an ozone machine…which was essentially a lil taser that created a steady arc and the reaction of the electric with the oxygen in the air …it takes naturally occurring oxygen which is double atom occurance O² is the naturally occurring oxygen vapor and with the electric it would split the bond of 1 (O² atom compound) and make it bond to 2 separate O²s making 2 O³atoms which is ozone O³ so is an ozone sanitizer the same principle and what about the ozone is sanitizing like what’s the action… or is the electric current the sanitizing aspect and the ozone is a byproduct?
It’s funny because have you ever used a cheap drill and over torked it to where it was getting hot and about to burn out…m you know that “electrical fire smell” like …I dunno I cant explain it but that smell of electical fire it’s the smell of ozone… which I’d much rather smell weed then ozone that stuff stank …not a good stank
Is this kind of like an air ionizer?
