I see what your saying. In the past, and the clones that you've been looking at, the rockwool is getting fully submerged every watering. I can always put more clay balls under the rockwool cube to get it above the flood level, but then my question would be, on my seedlings I'm about to transplant...the roots are comming out the bottom of my rockwool cubes but are kind of compacted up against the rockwool. Now, when I first transplant the rockwool seedlings in with the gallon bags and the clay balls, if I keep the rockwool above the flood level, won't my seedlings roots that are compact against the rockwool cube not be getting any water from the flood table since it will be above the flooding?

It seems that the person who showed me how to grow may have really sabotoged me on this one because they told me to get the rockwool cube as close to the bottom as possible and to flood as high as possible. Now, one thing is that I can in fact flood high so I could position the rockwool cube much higher in the bag and still be able to sufficiently flood the roots if they were to grow down in the bag....I get the picture your trying to paint LOC but I'm not seeing how I should go about watering my plants in the first week or so until the roots can grow down to the level that I would be flooding. Thanks again for your help LOC. I'm not ready to give up yet but I've been going at for over six months now and haven't had any luck at all, it does get very frustrating...However, I feel that I'm on the right track, but I want to try everything to make sure these seedlings have a fighting chance and I plan on transplanting them tommorow night, going to a night schedule because its starting to get warm outside.
bertoxxulous Reviewed by bertoxxulous on . 300PPM Tap, what to do... I know most of you are going to probably say RO, but I just went out and bought a PPM pen and a large bottle of CalMag to try fixing some issues in my e&f setup. I've normally been filtering my water with brita but after purchasing the pen today I've noticed that the brita filtered water doesn't really make a dent in PPM. So now I'm stuck with 300PPM tap and not enouph money to afford a RO filter atm, any suggestions on what I can do? Or am I over-reacting...is this a problem or no? Rating: 5