stu914 Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 Afternoon all, This is how I keep a single mum in hydro. Here's a Glookie Bomb after 14 cuttings were taken. She's fed from the reservoir below via the black halo with two spouts every couple of hours 24/7 Suspended beneath the lid is an empty pot for the roots, preventing them from entering the res cancelling the need for a chiller, I've clocked res temps of 28c this year with no issues. Rootball trimmed off once the pot is filled has little or no effect on the plant. By trimming top and bottom at the same time the plant can be kept going indefinitely. She'll be ready to give up more clones in a couple of weeks. Now that's a fecking juicy ball.... 'til next time 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnesialocal Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 I love your fridge, I love your Mish mash, I love hydro, love DWC..... You are inspirational Stu! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted August 4 Author Share Posted August 4 @Amnesialocal Awww...you'll make me blush.... I just love fiddling around with hydro to see what works best, this one's exceeded all my hopes, chuffed to bits with it... Cheers bud 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbillybob Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 looks good mate, those roots are healthy as a healthy thing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted August 4 Author Share Posted August 4 10 minutes ago, badbillybob said: looks good mate, those roots are healthy as a healthy thing. Could be caused by the massive gap bud... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbillybob Posted August 4 Share Posted August 4 i doubt it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigsby Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Looking good @stu914. Am pleased you mentioned the temp as mine was getting to 24.5c and I was putting ice cubes in. I will be setting a mother away as I don't normally bother. But peeps are wanting £20 a cutting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilgePump Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 8 hours ago, Rigsby said: peeps are wanting £20 a cutting. Yer hanging around with the wrong people bro. Not once have i had to pay for cuts and I've had some absolute fire over the years. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnesialocal Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 (edited) 21 hours ago, stu914 said: Could be caused by the massive gap bud... Sorry just to clarify...the dark pots which are keeping the root of the green pots have I assume holes below . Do you trim the roots to avoid to enter in contact with water ? Also you mentioned that the secret of not chiller here is exactly because the roots are not touching the water...now Does this means that the temperature in the "roots area" is below water temperature? Or the water + temperature are the problem? Sorry again. But If I am watering soil plants with water at 25-26c plants are happy, correct? So why in hydro 25-26c are dangerous temperatures? I put hest mat at 25c for the roots to stay in the range of 21-25c in soil. Is high temperature in DWC bubblers the issue ( roots touching water)?, water temperature ( Ebb and flow. Flood and drain) ? Or what? @stu914your Mish mash is a thermal fringe + you separated roots from water ....it's a NFT or ebb and flow more than DWC isn't? A hybrid definitely... Sorry again anf again, but the other plants you have in the propagators are also hydro? Edited August 5 by Amnesialocal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted August 5 Author Share Posted August 5 @Amnesialocal Hi bud, The brown pot underneath is just an ordinary pot with drain holes, any roots that come through I just nip off, it doesn't affect the plant. Roots need to take up water and nutes but they also need large amounts of oxygen which is dissolved in the water. Higher water temps reduces the oxygen content and put simply, suffocates the roots. This is why people in DWC use a chiller. The surface of the water is the only place oxygen can enter so it needs to be kept moving with airstones or a pump. It's what people use in DWC and why it's important to leave an air gap between the bottom of the pot and surface of the water. One way to get round the problem is by having a large % of the roots exposed to the air allowing maximum oxygen uptake and keeping the roots inside the pot does that. NFT and Flood & Drain have the same idea, good systems that work but they also have their drawbacks. The propagators contain cuttings from the main plant, they're in rootit cubes and once rooted will be potted up to be flowered. When watering in soil pots need to be allowed to dry to some degree which allows roots to take up oxygen, so temps aren't as critical as hydro. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnesialocal Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Thanks @stu914 everything very clear! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 Evening all, The flower room won't be available for another two or three weeks so these babies are vegging nicely 'til then. Another modification in the fridge gives me room for 11 clones, (best nine will be flowered) and a few more still in the small propagator a couple of which will become mothers. 'til next time 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbillybob Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 which strains are you running next mate? out of inmterest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 @badbillybob Funny you should ask...having 11 Glookie Bomb clones vegging, what do you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbillybob Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 ive never tried them mate so cant really say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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