Organic Hydroponics

[KineBoisin420]

So, a while back I ran across an old article, written in 2000, from CC about Organic Hydroponics, in a dual zone system, with a top soil-based organic-fed zone, and a lower hydro system, giving clean water to the lower 2/3 of the roots.

Link to article: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1534.html

Anyone ever done this before?

Since then, I've built a 12L bucket-based ebb & flow system, for two buckets, with the lower 1/2 of the bucket fed with fresh water, using a hydroton medium, and I used a 2-3" layer of coco coir fibres as a zone/medium separator, and the top of the bucket is filled with a soil/soilless mix of: greenhouse "pro-mix", perlite, EWC, guano.

I've got the timer on the ebb & flow set to run for 15min every 6 hours. It floods to the top of the hydroton, and the coco coir brings the moisture up to the soil level thru capillary action. I can hand feed the organic zone with molasses or any bennies, and will change up the bottom water res every 2 weeks.

Just put a couple of TGA Plushberry clippings that have vegged a few weeks already under T5 in the system yesterday, after a few days of testing everything. Pictures will follow in the next day or so.

 

[polyarcturus]

I've done things with hydro organic. Not the same idea. but ebb and flow and nft in trays. A complicated dance and mixed results but when it was on point shit grew crazy.

 

[KineBoisin420]

Fingers crossed I'll have a decent maiden voyage. I'll definitely learn something new doing this process. Glad to hear things can grow like crazy when everything comes together.

 

[ringlead3r]

Sounds like a lot of not needed complications

 

[KineBoisin420]

Sounds like a lot of not needed complications

Only time will tell. So far, other than building the system, it hasn't been complicated at all...actually, its been super simple. Its all stuff I have lying around the house already, other than the pump and a few plumbing ends...have less than $50 invested in the entire setup.