Quote Originally Posted by paperchaser825
Hi there! :jointsmile:

Got into an intellectual fight with my bro the other day over when it is time to stop watering the rockwool cube in the DWC bucket. I was under the impression that you water the cube, avoiding the stem and thus root rot and other nasty thing, until the roots pop out the netpot....(rockwool is in net pot, surrounded by hydroton). He countered with the fact that if i wanted the roots to grow,...which I am trying to accomplish so I can get the roots to the bottom of the bucket for bubbleation (:rastasmoke: yea, i made that one up), then i should stop watering the babes, which are about, meh, 5 days old. This seems right to me, since roots stretch for water...but i thought i had read differently on here somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!!

:jointsmile::rasta::rastasmoke::hippy:
hey dude, it was you that was right, you should continue to top-feed until
you see roots protruding from the bottom of your pots, then stop.
when you top-feed, the liquid carries oxygen down through the rockwool and
hydroton and across the roots which helps with growth and the roots will
naturally reach down for the res.

btw, your res isn't supposed to be touching your pots so if it is, lower it.


put some pics up so we can see, we like pictures man, we need pics, lol