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Hydro courses?

Hydro course? :shocked:
Google is your best friend, mate. now what I really wanna try is Aquaculture studying.. although nothing beats pure experience.
 
You could do the trial and error method, or TAFE. I found google was very helpful, but was then told by a hydro shop guy that a lot of what is out there is crap. The best, and most helpful people, are the weed growers. They are usually more than happy to share their knowledge, and most of them are self taught, which is always nice.
 
Omri said:
Hydro course? :shocked:
Google is your best friend, mate. now what I really wanna try is Aquaculture studying.. although nothing beats pure experience.
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I took an introductory aquaculture course years back in college, and it was quite interesting stuff. They also had an impressive aquaponics setup, but it really only got going after I finished school. I'd like to go back and see what they have going on now
 
TAFE has occasional courses and look up some community campus's do private too,, Hydroponics :D awwwwwwwwww doing aquaponic seeds and clones atm,to see how works, Dunno Make up as go along (thats the fun part) but just had a look, shit it worked as not looked at for a week , but got a seed up Whooo Hoooo

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a Plastic container, holes in lid for the rockwool cubes, 10 mls per ltr worm concentrate in water, superthrive (couple drops) and an air pump/stone.. air causes bubbles, they break when hit surface causing minute water particals to slowly wet the cubes..

winters coming, doing Bioponics pots/soil / lights in tents and my friends the Worms are providing all the feed, doing a hydro setup but its an Experiment, solar powered selfcontained tent using fluros to grow vege's /herbs hydroponically and as well using permaculture on the floor to grow potato's and others, via a drip from the Hydro setup to minimise waste and maximise space..

ya can study and do courses for Yrs but nothing beats just getting into it and trying shit, need to make mistakes to learn
 
One thing neil is you might wanna look in to lightproofing your reservoir. Clear plastic will let algae grow which can cause you lots of grief. Best bet is to use dark blue, green or black if you can find it.

Other than that, you're on the right track with that bubble cloner. Good that you note the part about not submerging them but letting the popping bubbles "water" the cubes. This is what will give you those nice hairy "air roots" on your clones vs the big thick "water roots" you'd get if they were submerged.
 
Txclosetgrower said:
I have the e-book version of this if anyone wants to take a look. Great book.
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TX,

I too would like to read it, just to see what I am doing wrong. Not that I believe or even follow all the advice. I have some fantastic looking lettuce, a green bean, pea and tomato plant in a hydro chamber at the office (they've all been growing since early February) and last week was the first time I checked the pH or ppm. Use whatever cheap ferts I can find at the store.

But TBO, I did the same things upstairs this winter and it was pretty much a complete failure. I think the difference is due to the lighting. Switched from LEDs and CFL bulbs to sunlight. It's really hard to beat those 65-100K lumens in a perfect light spectrum, though I still have to see the tom set and mature fruit.

Mike
 
From someone I know who has had a lot more dealings with growing hydro vegetables than me (this is my first season growing hydro) is that he thinks the taste (especially chilli) is better in soil than in hydro, but if you are growing for seed stock then hydro is the way to go.

Three popular types,

Deep Water Culture (DWC), basically a bucket full of water with an airpump.

Aeroponic, spray water from a reservoir into the roots which hang in air.

Flood and Drain, pumps water to flood a second chamber and then fall back down via gravity.

Listed in order of complexity and initial start up costs, with DWC being the cheapest and easiest, and F&D the hardest and most expensive. But ironically, from the Pot growing forums (Which are your greatest resource when it comes to Hydroponics - google "marijuana forum"), it is also the same list as in terms of productivity, ie, F&D is the most successful.

I have two of those hydro types, F&D and DWC setup, but I am having a few problems with the F&D due to it leaking a good 50 litres out of a loose hose fitting which I am not happy about, but serves me right for not building it right to begin with (using the wrong glue) ... I will fix it sometime this week.

The internet is the best place to get knowledge, or I can build your systems for you. But really, the Pot forums are great, you can also google "Overgrow FAQ" and read that taken from the old overgrow forums (which were the best place ever before they got raided) and contains so much knowledge about everything, from lights, pumps, hydro to cutting clones etc.

Btw, if you like before you buy anything I can take a look at it. I don't trust many hydrostores in Perth as they gave me some bad advice and cost me a few quid.
 
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