Grow Mediums Help Needed: Intro to DWC Nutrients. Recommendations?

[redevil]

1. Is their enough moisture kept in the perlite to keep the upper roots from drying out ?

2. What about root rot, does the base reservoir not stagnate, or does the daily change sort this out ?

3. Could you improve on this by adding an air stone ana a bottom to top circulating drip feeding system ( err.. would this then become a cross between and oxypot and a dripper system )

 

[AutoToker]

1. Is their enough moisture kept in the perlite to keep the upper roots from drying out ? Perlite holds moisture extremely well, that's why we use it? LOL J/K bud. But ya, use the perlite, but what I do is fill the bottom up to top of the hole with hydroton and perlite on that. I feed twice a week, and flush once a week with PH'd R.O. When perlite evaporates, it evaporates upwards there for keeping all root equally moist.

2. What about root rot, does the base reservoir not stagnate, or does the daily change sort this out ? I have never seen a case of root rot using this method. The ressy gets completely flushed two days before feeding, to remove all the salt build up. Flushing is key when using this system. YOU MUST FLUSH ONCE A WEEK, IT'S A MUST!

3. Could you improve on this by adding an air stone ana a bottom to top circulating drip feeding system ( err.. would this then become a cross between and oxypot and a dripper system )

Ya. A few of my buddies actually have added an air pump and air stone under the hydroton, but their is no need since the perlite is so light, absorbant, and evaporates upwards. You can adjust this however you please and it will most likey work great! Hope that helps.

 

[AutoToker]

Not to jack your thread or anything but here are my hempy's. 4 Exodus Cheese and 1 Kandy Kush. Since I've been using hempy i've never had any plant problems. Leaves are nice and dark green, in the process of individual SCROGS ATM.



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[dman78]

This is a new grower. Keep him on something simple... Check out my tutorial on "Hempy Buckets", I'd advise that to any first time hydro grower. It's a passive hydro system and produces trees! Just do a search on the site for "Hempy Buckets". Trust me, my first go round was DWC, and I got such bad root rot, and mad other issues. Hempy Buckets are the way to go.

Dude Canna is very simple to use compared to most Nutes,from what I listed he'd be using five nutes at any one time,he asked for DWC not hempy buckets

 

[AutoToker]

Dude Canna is very simple to use compared to most Nutes,from what I listed he'd be using five nutes at any one time,he asked for DWC not hempy buckets

I'm speaking from experience, my first run of DWC, on my first grow went bad. So I'm just trying to let him learn from my mistakes. He hasn't even responded to this thread since we posted, so I don't think he cares anyway.

 

[loopy1973]

man check out " seemorebuds think different led dwc " its really to the best of my knowledge dwc for bad asses but easily correlates to knowledge for dummies... like me..... virgin grow.... but o fuck I'm a whore now........i studied that and a few other journals.... took notes... more research.... and i'm surprising myself..... i'm actually kinda stuck now... i got 5 gal dwc.........some la diva and budda purple kush in late bloom and am trying to figure out my nute and additive ratios.........the pk is slender but covered in early bud... and the la diva is pushing 2 ft and started budding a few weeks ago.....its bushy as hell and if you pick one bud you cant go 3 inches in any direction with out hitting at least one bud if not three.........currently i'm running.... gh flora nova bloom. gh kool bloom...cal mag....advanced liquid carbo laod.... then just picked some Humboldt crystal burst today.... i burnt them the other day i fucked up and was running 1.6 i should have known better.....so have been flushing them for two days..,.,.,,.first 24 straight ro ...ph 5.9 then added nute mix 2nd 24 to ec .3 ph 5.9 then tonight was gunna go to ec1.2-3 ph 5.9 ish........oooo yea im kinda not answering questions more asking aside from the seymore thing... i'm doin ok so far but an a little confused on how much of each nute to add ec wise in correlation with ratios. but just to refresh i got.... gh flora nova bloom....,. gh kool bloom...cal mag....advanced liquid carboload... then humbolt crsystal burst. temp 72... 1000w hps cooled 440 fan...and natural co2 from fermenting in 5 gallon buckets... and 2 exhale bags in a 3x5x8.....any help would be amazing.... im learning but anyone who knows more than me id love to hear what im doing right/ wrong or just tweaks.... i didnt mean to hijack anybodys thread i just think were kinda in thje same boat..........but luckly im not in a life raft... witch is where i expected to be at this point

 

[Man In The Jar]

@AutoToker
Thanks for the post(#10) great info.
Do you know what strain this is

Beautiful;;;;


MITJ

 

[alley_walker]

1/36 microns of Bluvarian soil extract organic.
.0001 microns of martian grey matter
1 1/3 tsp of compressed nippletit
1/3 pound of delusional grander
1/4 cup of recently collected monkey piss - still warm
3 and one Denar traded in the Klingon galaxy of taboo for a weird piece of space mold
500USD for a purple light-with fancy graphs showing the world your light is better than everybody else's.
$3.00 off of ebay for synthetic diaper smelling crap. (Helps hide the smell)
800 Vietnamese whatever for a pissed off landlord.

You get about 14 grams.

 

[JM]

https://www.autoflower.org/content/323-hempy-dwc.html :gthumb:

 

[SmashedByHashish]

I'm speaking from experience, my first run of DWC, on my first grow went bad. So I'm just trying to let him learn from my mistakes. He hasn't even responded to this thread since we posted, so I don't think he cares anyway.

my 1st dwc was awesome and everyone since...just sayin