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just00jake posted an update in the group
3 months agoAsk a Grow Question I had a question regarding Grow Dots. I’m running sort of a hybrid set up. I am using Coco Coir 70% Perlite 25%0 and Earth work castings 5% in 5 gallon containers. It’s a flood/drain to reservoir and I use the water in the reservoir for a week and fill it back up with fresh R/O water. Trying to conserve water since the R/Os generally waste 2-5 gallons to make the 1 of finished R/O. I flood and drain 4 times a day. It only took 90 seconds for me to completely drain after flooding. I’m curious how I should expect the Grow Dots to work in this situation? Should I possibly use them in another way than described on the directions? An I feeding too much by recirculating the run off? I’m open to suggestions if anyone has advice. I just harvested my first run. I was getting over an inch a day in veg. I even took daily photos with the measuring tape but I had to go out of town for work for 6 weeks the day after I switched them to flower and left my cousin, who obviously ate paint chips as a kid baby sit my girls and when I came back they didn’t grow at all, in fact he decided to bring plants from outside in to my indoor grow and introduced Aphids and spider mites not noticing until the plants were infested. And to follow that up here made sure to spray neem oil with the lights on and just often enough to keep the plants poisoned but not often enough to stop the critters from reproducing. I’m trying not to be negative or use anyone for fertilizer. Moving forward I’d like to make improvements. The Grow Dots are awesome and the Recharge was helpful in keeping my girls alive despite the abuse. I appreciate the help.
surfdad_grows, wrath420 and 3 others3 Comments-
With Grow Dots you can bottom feed without issue. No need for constant irrigation as the pot only needs water and not the multiple nutrient feedings a day. You can flood/drain once a day, maybe twice if the pots are small and the plants are big. Grow Dots are time released nutrition that doesn’t allow for concentrations of minerals that could form salts like in a reservoir with minerals. Recirculating water is fine. All you’ll need to do is top it off.
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@jmystro thanks for the input, this is my first attempt at this and I think I’ve researched way too much so it’s like overload. Let me ask though… I’ve heard that the more you water the bigger they grow which is why hydro gets such big results, do you think there is any truth to that?
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@Just00Jake Yield comes from a combination of many things. Many things can also limot yield. Water is a carrier. The plant doesn’t actually use much. About 98% of the water it takes in it releases back into the air. Root vigor and mass are two of the biggest yield limiting factors. Root vigor is plant vigor. More water brings in more minerals. O2 levels for roots is important. Compact medias can’t provide enough O2 for high performance. The environment ultimately makes or breaks a grow.
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