Could be, I find that cannabis is a phosphorus loving and potassium loving plant compared to nitrogen even in veg. I tried vegging with GH floranova grow since it's one part and kept getting phosphorus def. After I read about the lucas method I've been vegging with the bloom. It's 4-8-7 and the veg plant love it.
yeah I am starting to appreciate that now. Never had the confidence to go lucus for a soil grow. Guess its b/c I don't know enough about it.
The cookbook I started with had me using a 20-20-20 for veg and a 9-58-8 for flower. (Yeah, 58 ) It worked but I didn't need that much P. Since then I switched to the 20-10-20 for veg, reducing the P when I started using MyKo Extreme. Mychorrhizae is not effective with P over 80ppm. This was where I also discovered that my plants needs were pretty minimal. I feed 1/2tsp per gl. every water. When I switch to flower nutes post stretch I bump up the P but bump up the K even more. I continue with Epson also that I start a couple weeks before the flip, but for the sulphur not the chlorophyll enhancement.
Ty. It is a sheet metal ducting reducer. It a 12 inch to 10 inch reducer. I trimmed it down a little on the 10 in end, then I zip tied a piece of smart pot material to the bottom and filled it with perlite to the12 in. diameter portion so the #5 smart pot sits in it.
I used some smart pot material around the top of it as a gasket to prevent light getting into res from small gap between tote lid and basket. I used double stick tape to fasten it to basket. The basket rotates in the tote so I can spin plant for trimming pruning spraying etc.
No. For the kit Res. Pot . Flood tray. And auqua valve. Each pot an tray when bought without the res range from £15 -25 depending on which gallon pot u go with Look at this on eBay AUTOPOT XL 25L 1,2,4,6,8,10 Pot Modules | eBay
So, you have me completely sold on this. I'm off to Home Depot. I'll always give credit to you for this design if it ever comes up. It's funny, I don't think SIP is even mentioned in Jorge Cervantes' encyclopedia book, which is a "gold standard" of sorts. And I don't know why this version of SIP isn't more widely used. I think this has the potential to get really, really popular. Wish me luck, and thanks again for sharing. Very cool stuff.
So from the pics. My turn to be dumb. The one that looks like an ice pick is your cork, water level indicator? Why does it seem the red and green marking on it seems backwards...assuming the pic end is what sticks up and out? And the other ammendment to the lid is where I assume you add water. I am not understanding its design...is that a ping pong ball or something...how is it constructed?
Red indicates you are getting close to overfilling Yep that is where I add water Yes that is a ping pong ball as a float