Begining to think Hydroton REALLY SUCKS

[DreadedHermie]

There. Cost me a fortune, but it works like a charm. Doesn't mess with the pH., either!


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DreadedHermie Reviewed by DreadedHermie on 11-15-2009. Begining to think Hydroton REALLY SUCKS Here the deal have been soaking a batch of washed Hydrotron in Ph h2o this is the 4th day now that its back up to 6.5 after being dropped to 5.1 after 12 hrs. this last time. WTF how can there be such a diff. from one bag(batch) to the next?? this is why my garden is having problems I am sure. any thoughts or help would be great. Daddy Rating: 5

[Weezard]

"i think coco might retain to much water for a dwc "but ive never done it""

I have.
It doesn't.
Had to stop doing it.
It worked too well!:thumbsup:
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Now I just use Coco in 10" square pots.
That keeps my legal on amounts.

There's some more pics of the DWCoco setup in my albums.

Aloha,
Weezard

[DreadedHermie]

Now I just use Coco in 10" square pots.

I like your elevated bucket (the square pot) idea as opposed to a sunken netpot. Like a catamaran kine sing. More room for roots.

A standard 8" netpot lid only permits ~2.7 gal in the rez. How full you had dat one?

[u.g.u]

I think you guys are tripping on the hydroton I have been using it 10 years and would use nothing else. I rinse them off real good put all the plants in, and do a res change the next 2 days in a row to get the residual dust off. No problems at all. Ph creep is pretty normal I set mine at 5.8 check on them 2 days later its at 6.2. the only time ph creep is bad is if it goes the other way say from 5.8 down to 5.4 and so on. Normaly that means you have some bad bacteria in the res. a little h202 clears it up. I dont like anything that retains moisture or nutes ie coco, rockwool, dirt you have way more control with a nuetral medium.

[Veedubin]

I use rockwool cubes that are cut up on the bottom half my basket and then put hydroton on top of it. I guess it would be more like a 25% rock wool to about 75% hydroton. I like this because when my plants were young they had that rockwool to grow too. I know my way works, I have root balls like basketballs lol. Thats what i did this time so ill have to wait and see how it turns out when they get a little heavier with buds.

[cannamanibus]

I always thought hydroton was fine also. Although their is a particular article where the guy gets 1.5 G/W and he used CoCo slabs in a Drain To Waste system, with like i forgot 10-15 clones per sq/ft. Which was about 400 power plant clones in a small area. I forgot what nutes he used, Im talking about the one out of the bible. The baddest G/W ive seen and only dream about getting. i mean 1.5. DAMN!!