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Originally Posted by Dewave
They have been thru 4 grows like that so far,lol. I do plan to replace the medium as soon as the plants tell me to do so,  . Or use a screen and separate the roots. |
I guess sticky icky missed this part of a previous post, BTW, I have several coco bricks on standby.... geez my first flamer, I feel so honored. However I make much worse mistakes then that. Oh my yield is a consistent 14 - 16 ounces.
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Originally Posted by mordgrow
well by now i'd bet that he would notice a difference between grows, i bet his op is pretty regular for production..
dwave, do you just veg for a good root set and toss em into 12 12 right away? half and half?
since this is basicaly just an ebb and flow system, it should be possible to rig up those float valves in bigger, more space efficent trays?
do you get salt build ups on your smart valves? or not really.
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Mord, my friend, sorry it took so long to respond but I went on a mini vacation.
And your right my OP is pretty regular to the point of boring and I am getting to where I hate harvesting and really hate popcorn buds. For now I put them in a large rubbermaid for future hash.
Vegging, I plant and harvest each month, give or take a week. So I clone for an entire month preparing for the next month. When I put the clones in they are 1 inch tall, when they come out they are 6-8 inches tall and have roots anywhere from 6 inches to 4 feet
That all the veg time they get, then straight to autopots and flower
I have been experimenting with superthrive in my cloner and will make a post in advanced techniques when I am finished. The results with my particular strain, AK-47/48 is amazing.
Ebb and Flow vs Autopots.... Autopots are not ebb and flow, which would be my second choice. Autopots are more like self watering pots that require the medium to be able to wick up water and nutes, where as ebb and flow fills to a certain area. The smart valves only fill up to 1 inch of water/nutes and do not allow flow again until all of that is used up.
As far as space is concerned I could do an ebb/flow or DWC which I wanted to do, but when I saw your thread and the time you spent in there. I was against it becuz of the time required. I spoke with Mr Postman on a few occasions where he spoke of his problems with them. Mind you, Mr Postman liked to do Teas which easily clogged the smartvalve.
So I went with GH and the lucas formula on a 400 watt grow that turned out really nice and simply expanded.
Salt Buildup.... every new grow I put my smartvalves in the dishwasher. I do have some build up but that has never effected the function of the valve.