Quote Originally Posted by crazywill
Hey home.grower They look great !! I have been following your grow and it looks like you study up alot before you started.Good growing man. PEACE
Thanks for looking in crazywill. I have attempted NFT many years ago when I began growing. I was unsucessful to say the least. Over the course of time I conversed with people knowledgeable about cultivating herb, read books, surfed the net, and utilised Cannabis.Com to develop my, then, soil/coco skills. I am a confident soil/coco grower.

Waste is a big problem with soil/coco type mediums. It is also costly buying half a tonne of it every time a new set of strains are put to flower, then having to dispose of it! I've put my mind to hydro as a cost effective means of reaping the same, if not better, rewards with less waste (not quite carbon neutral, but tending towards)...

As the pix show, the plants are very small and started off even tinier. This will be an example of what I can expect as a minimun yeild per 600W-HPS. I will then be able to calulate my saving in waste material and compare my average soil/coco results with my new mininum hydro expectations (bearing in mind I didn't veg these clones when I put em on the hydro system).

Example of a saving...

32 plants would normally start in half litre pots [32 * 0.5 = 16L of soil]
Then repotted to 6.5L pots with clay [32 * 5 = 160L of soil (+ 20L clay)]

Then they take up shit-loads of space after purchasing around 200L of grow medium.

Hydro, this time round, Less than 50L of clay for the same amount of plants, and if I were to fill the garden with 5 hydro systems (one under each 600W-HPS) then I'd have 32 * 5 = 160 plants that I'd veg for a week instead of flowering straight away that should produce much more than a room rammed with soil/coco grown plants.

This is all an experiment to see if its worth becoming a converted grower. ATM I'm not looking back! I'd so love to do this again, but patching up where I went wrong this time and having a much better result next time. Cheers for tuning in crazywill.