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2009 Grow Log

Nice man, let me know how that coir works for you, im straight leca and they love it when they establish, but they seem to take a while to get comfortable in it.
 
The leca wasn't really wetting well and on the bag it even said to mix it with something that has better capillary action for a drip system. The coir gets wet throughout the whole pot now even though the drippers are right in the middle.

And I'm glad I found a way to use coco in this cause I love the shit :)
 
Good idea on the mix. I'll have to give that a try, the capillary action makes sense.

And that sign is classic, pretty funny. A good bilingual disclaimer.
 
I just set up 6 pots x 250mm wide layered with 50mm of leca then 175mm of a cocopeat/leca mix, 60/30 and the top layer 20mm leca in a recycling drip system. just testing it out for now, drip on for 10 mins every 3 hrs, feeding about 1 litre each pot, its just been going for 2 days now, the medium seems to be just damp, not too wet I think, its all under a 400w hps, the temp seems steady at 27c. How much and how often are you feeding yours Tcg?
 
JungleRain said:
I just set up 6 pots x 250mm wide layered with 50mm of leca then 175mm of a cocopeat/leca mix, 60/30 and the top layer 20mm leca in a recycling drip system. just testing it out for now, drip on for 10 mins every 3 hrs, feeding about 1 litre each pot, its just been going for 2 days now, the medium seems to be just damp, not too wet I think, its all under a 400w hps, the temp seems steady at 27c. How much and how often are you feeding yours Tcg?
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The pump runs for 15 min once every 6hrs so far so good
 
Scorpion is coming right along:

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2 new lemon drop sprouts:
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Pepper-Guru said:
Whats the point of mixing the stones with coir?
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I was going to use straight LECA but it wasn't wetting all the way through. Like it would wet near the drippers but stay dry in the corner.

I noticed on the bag of LECA that it said for top-feed drip systems to mix it with something that has better capillary action (which i was already thinking about doing) so I did it and it works lol. Now the whole pot gets wet, even though the drippers are right in the center :)


You can see how i tried it first:
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Still growing. I guess kinda hard to see progress in these shitty pics, but i can tell each day when i get home :)

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so far so good TX...

how maintenance free is your system ?

can you leave for a couple of weeks and not worry about it ?
 
Haven't had to top off yet and ph is holding within a good range so no need to adjust that either. Since I have a huge res and small plants still not much has changed since I filled it up.

But yeah,so far my only interaction is to watch the plants grow
 
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