hymem
Well-Known Member
Im always skeptical of claims in the hydroponic industry and lot of the time they are usually unfounded. Ive been trying to design a simple experiment to test the effectiveness of Root builders such as root excelurator. Here is my experiment:
Take 12 cuttings of the same strain (The more the better), root them in 1.5" rockwool cubes. Ill allow rooting hormones to be used for cloning only in this initial experiment. Once the cuttings have rooted they will be transferred to 6x6 Hugo blocks on 4x4 table/s. They will only be feed by base nutrients in tap water, ph adjusted to 5.5-5.7, the atmosphere has to be kept uniform in temperature (78F) and humidity (50%). To be more precise a CO2 monitor should track the PPMs of CO2 but I think only fresh air will be used. Once the clones have been transferred to Hugo Blocks they will be split into groups of 6.The first group will only receive the base nutrient and the second half will receive the base nutrient with Root Excelurator.
These plants will be vegged out for around 3-4 weeks. Once a cutoff point is determined each plant will be hacked off at the stem so it is flush with the block. Each block will then be allowed to dry out completely and weighed. The weights of the blocks will be compared using statistics to determine if correlations exist.
Any suggestions? Criticisms?
Take 12 cuttings of the same strain (The more the better), root them in 1.5" rockwool cubes. Ill allow rooting hormones to be used for cloning only in this initial experiment. Once the cuttings have rooted they will be transferred to 6x6 Hugo blocks on 4x4 table/s. They will only be feed by base nutrients in tap water, ph adjusted to 5.5-5.7, the atmosphere has to be kept uniform in temperature (78F) and humidity (50%). To be more precise a CO2 monitor should track the PPMs of CO2 but I think only fresh air will be used. Once the clones have been transferred to Hugo Blocks they will be split into groups of 6.The first group will only receive the base nutrient and the second half will receive the base nutrient with Root Excelurator.
These plants will be vegged out for around 3-4 weeks. Once a cutoff point is determined each plant will be hacked off at the stem so it is flush with the block. Each block will then be allowed to dry out completely and weighed. The weights of the blocks will be compared using statistics to determine if correlations exist.
Any suggestions? Criticisms?