Water ABsorbing Crystals?

[hippiepudz024]

Well, basically due to my location of my guerilla grow outdoors, i am not able to plant the plants directly in the ground and i will be forced to grow each plant in a 20 gallon pot of soil, and i also do not have enough time to make a super soil or anything like that, so i will just be using Fox farm ocean forest and feeding with their nutrients buy hand. My question is that i want to know if anyone has ever added water absorbing crystals to their soils to help keep from having to water very frequently and where to buy the crystals, Any thing Helps +rep

 

[dr.dank47]

i hear that they dont exactly do wonders for the taste of your product. i've never used them, but i've heard from a pretty reputable source that they tend to make buds taste a little like plastic.

 

[CrackerJax]

That's complete BS. There are a couple of products...one called Terra Sorb but I find it doesn't have the rehydration abilities of another product which is called Zeba. This is basically a starch product and can go from wet to dry for up to a year where Terra Sorb can only do it a few times effectively. Then again, Terra Sorb was originally designed for diapers so working more than once wasn't a concern.

 

[JonnyBtreed]

Hell yeah, I've ALWAYS used terrasorb and I've never heard a single complaint

 

[wtffgr33n]

you can use baby nappys if u realy cant find any or ur cheap like me they just as good =]

 

[HIGHFLY]

maybe cause ur a lil baby AHAHA just fuckin wit cha

 

[partyreefer]

Home depot... just saw em today in the gardening section by the flower nutes...

 

[hippiepudz024]

That's complete BS. There are a couple of products...one called Terra Sorb but I find it doesn't have the rehydration abilities of another product which is called Zeba. This is basically a starch product and can go from wet to dry for up to a year where Terra Sorb can only do it a few times effectively. Then again, Terra Sorb was originally designed for diapers so working more than once wasn't a concern.

Nice, thats some really helpful info because im definitely going to need something can work for about 8 months or so

 

[CrackerJax]

Go with Zeba then. It is a very good product. You may need to hunt it down on some nursery supply webs sites though. I don't think it is widely known.

 

[JonnyBtreed]

Go with Zeba then. It is a very good product. You may need to hunt it down on some nursery supply webs sites though. I don't think it is widely known.

Never heard of it. But hey if you've tried them both and you like zeba better I'm gonna check it out. I love terrasorb... Stuffs AWESOME.

 

[CrackerJax]

Yes, I have tried them both. Terra was made for diapers so they didn't look into making it do a bunch of repeat hydration. The Zeba though was specifically designed to rehydrate for commercial plant use. It is the better product.

 

[Hodgegrown]

Go with Zeba then. It is a very good product. You may need to hunt it down on some nursery supply webs sites though. I don't think it is widely known.

Jax knows his stuff and I agree, lol check out Sparetime supply in Willits, Ca. they have everything for your grow..

 

[hippiepudz024]

Yes, I have tried them both. Terra was made for diapers so they didn't look into making it do a bunch of repeat hydration. The Zeba though was specifically designed to rehydrate for commercial plant use. It is the better product.

i did some reading on the zeba and it all looks good, but should i use that nursery and greenhouse stuff, or should i just Zeba quench

 

[CrackerJax]

I am not familiar with all of its line but I think most of the differences have to do with the target container. I use Zeba on my seedling plants in 244 cells (tiny), but other mixtures are for larger containers and so on.

I don't use the one pictured, but I simply used it as a reference.

 

[hippiepudz024]

if u type in Zeba water absorbing crystals, this thread pops up as the #1 choice on google or any other major search engine, kinda scary

 

[CrackerJax]

That tells you that it's not being sold over the web much.

Very few ppl outside of the commercial nursery business know of it....

 

[hippiepudz024]

yeah i definitely am going to get the zeba quench and just add about 5 tbs per 20 gal pot just to help with not having to water during a little dry spell around here