gwheels
Hobby Farmer
I am going to do a conversion. I am tired of this crawling around stuff so its time to shift to floraflex. In about 2 weeks there will only be 4 plants in the bloom room. Everything is chopping and its time for a proper cleanup and correction.
My plan is to start with a single 8 port head and 8 pots and go from there. The size of the thing is the question.
My bloom room is 5 foot 8 inches wide by 10 feet long. I am going to do it right the first time and get a big flood and drain tray to hold it. What do you think makes more sense?
all in feet
3 x 6 tray. Use the almost 3 x 6 beside it to run other strains in bubblers and pots (in the easier to access part of the garden).
a 4 x 8 tray. This will be in the centre of the bloom room. It would be the only system used. All plants would have to be fed the same amount.
I will go to organic soil in the pots, probably blue sky organic with some perlite.
I want to use as much height as possible so the tray will be on very short legs. There will be a pump drain back into the rez with recirculating nutes. I want the flexibility here of hooking a return pump up to discharge into a tote or something or drain if i want to go drain to waste later.
I was contemplating using oddjob totes under the table but that is going to rob me of my limited height.
With either the 3 x 6 or 4 x 8 i will build a tubular trellis system like tinkertoys to support the buds and LST required to make it fit.
Do you think the 4 x 8 tray would be the most useful ?
Or the 3 x 6 with additional coco pots.
After over a year of the hand watering and slugging water bottles and totes around (Full of water)...its time to evolve.
I am watching heisen videos on tv...i forgot it could do that...I am going to really wrap my head around the system he made and take notes...graph paper it up..make sure.
Then i am doing it one time. And it will be floraflex.
After doing coco for a long while...and coco in flood and drains...bubblers...hydrton in both.
The problem with coco is that salt buildup. Flood and drains invariably get stung by it with coco in fabric pots. I worked around by pouring the top up water through the coco in the pot...but holy work batman.
4 x 8 tray would probably fill that 5 x 10 room ?
Eventually i would use 2 X 8 heads for a total of 16 bigger plants max in that 4 x 8 if that is how i run it.
My plan is to start with a single 8 port head and 8 pots and go from there. The size of the thing is the question.
My bloom room is 5 foot 8 inches wide by 10 feet long. I am going to do it right the first time and get a big flood and drain tray to hold it. What do you think makes more sense?
all in feet
3 x 6 tray. Use the almost 3 x 6 beside it to run other strains in bubblers and pots (in the easier to access part of the garden).
a 4 x 8 tray. This will be in the centre of the bloom room. It would be the only system used. All plants would have to be fed the same amount.
I will go to organic soil in the pots, probably blue sky organic with some perlite.
I want to use as much height as possible so the tray will be on very short legs. There will be a pump drain back into the rez with recirculating nutes. I want the flexibility here of hooking a return pump up to discharge into a tote or something or drain if i want to go drain to waste later.
I was contemplating using oddjob totes under the table but that is going to rob me of my limited height.
With either the 3 x 6 or 4 x 8 i will build a tubular trellis system like tinkertoys to support the buds and LST required to make it fit.
Do you think the 4 x 8 tray would be the most useful ?
Or the 3 x 6 with additional coco pots.
After over a year of the hand watering and slugging water bottles and totes around (Full of water)...its time to evolve.
I am watching heisen videos on tv...i forgot it could do that...I am going to really wrap my head around the system he made and take notes...graph paper it up..make sure.
Then i am doing it one time. And it will be floraflex.
After doing coco for a long while...and coco in flood and drains...bubblers...hydrton in both.
The problem with coco is that salt buildup. Flood and drains invariably get stung by it with coco in fabric pots. I worked around by pouring the top up water through the coco in the pot...but holy work batman.
4 x 8 tray would probably fill that 5 x 10 room ?
Eventually i would use 2 X 8 heads for a total of 16 bigger plants max in that 4 x 8 if that is how i run it.
