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Quality control manager Kitty Powers has doubts about the efficacy of hydro. (Too much water/not allowed to eat leaves)
I haven't tried DWC yet, but I've had insane results with drip hydro... How much water do you go through weekly?
This is actually an ebb and flow bucket system with a black 55-gallon plastic drum as a reservoir. I haven't been keeping up with water usage lately, but it's a few gallons/week once the plants are really going.
You dont flush resevoir? How do you deal with nutrient spikes?
I drain the water weekly with a good sized Harbor freight pump, rinse/wipe it down, then refill and add nutes.
Your nutrient costs have got to be insane. You've got be running $300-400 per grow if not more, yeah? If your up for making a change in your next grow or two, try swapping over to drip. You go through about 5-10 gallons over like 2 weeks, and your nutrients don't get recycled, meaning you get a consistent nutrient load per feeding. You drip what you need to wet the plant and then flush with water 2-3 times a day. I've only gotta dump a bucket of water once every few days so you don't have to worry about dealing with a full drum of water.
I only fill the res to 30 gallons. This is my second run with this setup. The first yielded a pound dried and trimmed from 4 plants in the 3x3 tent. Used about $80 of nutrients.
Alrighty then. Carry on. Lol
$80 ain't bad.
Yall are conspiring to get me to try growing hydro aren't you
I'm glad I switched from soil. No more hand watering is what convinced me. Just get a good pH/ec/ppm meter and you're golden.
Thats encouraging to hear! Was there anything that surprised you/that you weren't prepared for when you switched?