Is root rot and reservoir stank "a thing" in coco?

J232

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Tuda51 said:
I am not going to stay in Canada . The industry is bunk here. I am supposed to pay HC $1600 to get a security clearance which could take over a year to then be able to apply for a master grower or Director of ops role in BC and get paid less then what I could pull for myself out of a 2 car garage? Grow top shelf fire, hang dry, hand trim and cure to perfection to then whole sale it out to provincial distributors for 4 dollars a gram so that they can mark it up to 20. Very disappointed in the opportunities here.
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boo hoo, later..
 
mudballs

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Tuda51 said:
I am not going to stay in Canada . The industry is bunk here. I am supposed to pay HC $1600 to get a security clearance which could take over a year to then be able to apply for a master grower or Director of ops role in BC and get paid less then what I could pull for myself out of a 2 car garage? Grow top shelf fire, hang dry, hand trim and cure to perfection to then whole sale it out to provincial distributors for 4 dollars a gram so that they can mark it up to 20. Very disappointed in the opportunities here.
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Movie:Gone in 60 Seconds
Sway: I've got two jobs. I've discovered that you have to work twice as hard when it's honest...

you ain't gonna make it in this world son...best you just find an alpha male that is and ask him to let you ride along.
 
twentyeight.threefive

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Tuda51 said:
There are a few scheduling combinations that might work nice depending on your team and your space. You could run 3 rooms by monthly perpetual or 4 rooms bi weekly on 8 week strains and designate the other two for different finish length strains on their own separate schedule.
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Why not just run 6 week Indicas? You could save 2 whole weeks. Or use one of those saved weeks to actually dry it properly...
 
jondamon

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Forage said:
When I started growing, I had dreams of running DWC. After fighting root rot for a few crops, I switched to drain-to-waste coco and it's been mostly good times since.

I've got some interest in running recirculating coco so I can run smaller pots and water multiple times a day. And for other reasons. Will a recirculating reservoir make my plants vulnerable to root rot?

I've been running a mix of chemical and organic. A while ago I mixed up too much nutrient solution and and put a bubbler in it. After a week it got a little bit stank but that didn't seem to harm the plant, so I'm thinking it might be alright, so long as the plant has a proper drying cycle.
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I will be the one to answer your question as it’s just got full up of dick swinging lol.


Ideally you shouldn’t run coco recirculating unless you plan to constantly monitor the levels of every nutrient coming back to the reservoir.

the reason being is that coco can and does hold onto certain nutrient elements, binding of Ca and releasing back K for example.

So your recirculating return solution could be out of Ca and have too much K for the next feed.

My honest advice would be to run it DTW and make some adjustments for removal of the drain solution or use a DTW at lower EC and run it similar to a BLUMATS system where you don’t get very much of any runoff out of the bottom.

If you want to continue with the recirculating then rethink your medium choice.

you could recirculate using stone wool aka rockwool with hydro rocks aka clay pebbles aka hydroton balls.

Due to the way that coco’s CEC responds and how the coco (although dubbed as inert) can bind certain nutrients and release others it’s not going to be the best choice in this instance.

PA hydroponics on YouTube has some good videos about creating some fallponic systems utilising RDWC setups with a reservoir outside the system and pumps etc fitted inline to reduce heat inside the reservoir to keep temps cooler through the RDWC system overall.
 
bk78

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Tuda51 said:
Well I was just trying to give advice to some things I feel i know well at first until you guys started bashing me for the yield question. I don't have a grow team so I have no one to really bounce stuff off of.
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For someone who has 3 rooms to come down simultaneously you sure spend a lot of time on the internet wasting time?
 
Lordhooha

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Tuda51 said:
sure
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That's a cute drying room. my team? this will be me and one other person ill have helping me. it doesn't take that long to do this nor do I have to spend all day ill have 2 ppl to pull and hang and debud but I've got my schedule down this isn't my first building. Also if someone were to come to me about a "master grower" position I'd tell then to get fucked as there's no such thing. I have this building setup.so I can be in my room and turn my pumps on/off with my phone via Bluetooth. I run soil at that's simply flood my tables and let them ride. No drain to waste or anything. Didn't you say yall started everything from seed too? Dude I have two monster veg rooms and a clone room.and momma room to feed these. I don't grow on a particular schedule either I'm not like most commercial growers I take my time and let them finish. I also do clones all of my plants I've kept and picked over the years. None of them flower in 55 days though stoopidfruit is supposed to but the cut I got from Humboldt doesn't but stinks to high hell.
 
Lordhooha

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Tuda51 said:
Well I was just trying to give advice to some things I feel i know well at first until you guys started bashing me for the yield question. I don't have a grow team so I have no one to really bounce stuff off of.
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It's because of the questions you ask given your apparent capacity in life. You asked the ph of your cloner or water in one post but come in other post and act like you know something when you don't seem to have your bases covered.
 
bk78

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Tuda51 said:
As you know, they are small rooms. But you are right . been spending way too much time on here. I have been starving to communicate with other growers. System is well automated and so is that drying room. I had set up my own additional manual controls with fans dehumidifier and humidifiers to make sure i can keep it in range. I have not needed to use them at all. so there are pockets of a lot of work and no work at all. next room comes down Monday and this one is already hanging. already have that room filled. basically just going in to check ph in ez cloners at this point until Monday.
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So you grow tiny plants in a tent? I thought you had hundreds of 8 light rooms?

Tuda51 said:
These are small controlled rooms to lower variance. That doesn't mean we don't have hundreds of them and plans to scale it bigger than that.
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Lordhooha

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Tuda51 said:
As you know, they are small rooms. But you are right . been spending way too much time on here. I have been starving to communicate with other growers. System is well automated and so is that drying room. I had set up my own additional manual controls with fans dehumidifier and humidifiers to make sure i can keep it in range. I have not needed to use them at all. so there are pockets of a lot of work and no work at all. next room comes down Monday and this one is already hanging. already have that room filled. basically just going in to check ph in ez cloners at this point until Monday.
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Where's all the easy cloners? I use 3 of the 126 sites alone for my house but I use oasis for my big grow. It's easier and less equipment needed and just as fast.
What controls are used to automate the grow and dry rooms? That looks like a very off-putting dry room. Loks more like a cubby hole you threw a tarp in. What dehumidifier and hvac do you use to control that drying room.
 
bk78

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Lordhooha said:
Where's all the easy cloners? I use 3 of the 126 sites alone for my house but I use oasis for my big grow. It's easier and less equipment needed and just as fast.
What controls are used to automate the grow and dry rooms? That looks like a very off-putting dry room. Loks more like a cubby hole you threw a tarp in. What dehumidifier and hvac do you use to control that drying room.
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You still have all your other rooms rolling still at the old facility?
 
bk78

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Tuda51 said:
Yea that room was a s

That doesn't mean we don't have hundreds of them and plans to scale it bigger than that.
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But you’re moving out of Canada anyways because it’s dumb, so you shouldn’t care about scaling bigger right?
 
Lordhooha

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Tuda51 said:
lol good luck with that. 2 people to chop hang, sterilize, data log, Refill, and de buck a flower room that size in a less than a day. Yea it is cute, e the dry room is the same size as the flower rooms 96 sq ft. Yea Master grower is a dumb title and I agree with you . But Health Canada decided to use Master Grower in the cannabis act up here in Canada. You would be telling the government agency that is issuing the 5 separate licenses that you need up here to do what you are doing to go get fucked when they ask you who your Master Grower is for your licensed facility.
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I mean I've kicked several government agents out before because they couldn't inspect Amazon or some other big company so they aren't going to do that to me if they're not going to hold other places to the same standards. Bucking machines are fast and all.they need to do is write down weight nothing more. 96 sqft is kind of small for a commercial room......but I have my rooms.down to.a science on how to run them efficiently and effectively with little people. Got a centurion 3.0 ss coming this stuff isn't that time consuming man even with my facility being this big. Most time I'm fucking around on here, reddit or anabolicminds.
 
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