Finger in the air guesstimate suggests maybe 15% gain for 250% more cost if I'd bought it new and just run 1 plant in it.
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Finger in the air guesstimate suggests maybe 15% gain for 250% more cost if I'd bought it new and just run 1 plant in it.
Finger in the air guesstimate suggests maybe 15% gain for 250% more cost if I'd bought it new and just run 1 plant in it.
Would pay off eventually then! :smoking:
How about ease of use? Noise etc?
I reckon even the £500 twin system would pay for itself very quickly...mine cost a quarter though lol. A mate bought the other one off whoever couldn't work them, and got all the AN nutes they couldn't work either and is getting his best grow so far.
It's less noisy than running the air hose on a nft pump but more noisy than without it. A lot of the noise to start with was the droplets hitting the side but once it was filled with roots it was fine.
Biggest problems were roots clogging drain holes, the pump was starting to get clogged with roots and one of the net pots fell through the hole into the chamber.
Right place at the right time then! Jammy! That was an impressive root mass.
I think I will stick with NFT for now, still got to get this system dialed in before trying to learn another! That's the problem with this site, its like an all you can eat buffet, but the plate I've got is tiny!!! (but getting bigger!)
NFT or aero I'm still seeing gains from getting better at basic res maintenance and getting greater nutrient uptake for longer so I think you are right to stick with what you have for now.
It's active res hydro either way. Some might say they are both just glorified DWC when you run pumps without a timer and the real benefits of NFT or aero over DWC come from being able to let the roots dry out enough to encourage growth and maximise nutrient intake. Still scratching my head on how I go about experimenting with that one......think I need a twin pot of some description so I have 2 plants with their own pump and root zone but sharing a res. All in good time hopefully
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Eventually got a dry weight for the Dr Feelgood I took out of aeroponics and put it in soil......
93.75g
Was quite surprised by that so I have another 3 plants from a different breeder getting the same treatment.....it's about 3x better than I've done with soil before so I think I can call that experiment successful. Still not very good at watering just the right amount once they are in soil but lighting a fire under seedlings in a huge aeroponics system seems to be pretty easy......between setup and res changes there is very little to do...maybe adjust pH by 0.1 once or twice a week.
93.75g
Was quite surprised by that so I have another 3 plants from a different breeder getting the same treatment.....it's about 3x better than I've done with soil before so I think I can call that experiment successful. Still not very good at watering just the right amount once they are in soil but lighting a fire under seedlings in a huge aeroponics system seems to be pretty easy......between setup and res changes there is very little to do...maybe adjust pH by 0.1 once or twice a week.
Auto Big Gun got the chop too as she was falling over and the leaves going yellow....
(bigger version https://www.autoflower.org/media/abg1504-1.12378/full )
I expect she would have got bigger with more light in veg but can't complain at the size of the buds
(bigger version https://www.autoflower.org/media/abg1504-1.12378/full )
I expect she would have got bigger with more light in veg but can't complain at the size of the buds
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is that the soil plants you fed on the smeg from the nft? not a bad result like. 
is that the soil plants you fed on the smeg from the nft? not a bad result like.
Aye, that's the ones. They haven't had any nutes since the aeroponics came down though... The Auto Big Gun only got nutes for about the first half of flower and the rest of the time it was just tap water and rely on the plant magic soil for nutrition.
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hmm thats making me a bit more optimistic about my tomato feed experiments. totally thought theyd just curl up and die with no nutes. and to still get 3 oz is a cracking effort mate. more than many can get with nutes. probably more than ill get from my a/u this time aswell. dick hahaAye, that's the ones. They haven't had any nutes since the aeroponics came down though... The Auto Big Gun only got nutes for about the first half of flower and the rest of the time it was just tap water and rely on the plant magic soil for nutrition.
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