Flood and Drain threads? where are they? Thanks

[DirtyMcCurdy]

Hope you're right about it being just as good, i have to choose to finish out a mother box im working on in dwc or flood and drain, any1 have eny experience using rockwool slabs for flood and drain ?

I haven't used rockwool but a few times, those little starter plugs, didn't have much success with 'em and wasn't impressed. Rockwool takes to long to dry out, imo. Some have luck with it but I would use either coco, perlite or clay pebbles. Clay pebbles will require frequent cycle times, much more frequent then the other two.

 

[kmog33]

so any hydro is faster than soil, but some hydro is better than other hydro?,,
is the ease of better health factor make it better to do hydro in flood drain/ eb flow verses DWC?

Ime any less medium other than water/air slows the growth of the plants. I use flood and drain over dwc because it's easier/less maintenance/and harder to have issues like root rot, but the growth rate is way faster dwc. No one way is better, just different strokes for different folks I guess lol.


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[kmog33]

Someone said rockwool doesn't dry out enough between flood, suggested to use hydroton or perolite? Hopefully some others will Ichime in

That probably means he was flooding too often. I run twice a day for 10-15 min once roots are established. Hydroton jut needs to be flooded more often. Rockwool can also affect ph I believe, like coco.


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[kmog33]

Hope you're right about it being just as good, i have to choose to finish out a mother box im working on in dwc or flood and drain, any1 have eny experience using rockwool slabs for flood and drain ?

Rockwool slabs generally go under your cubes once so roots can grow further unexposed. It's just as good as you can grow it, genetics are genetics.


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