Everything from plant count to medium and watering . What methods have you had the best result with ? Drain to waste , recirculating , ebb and flow , dwc maybe even aeroponics . My very first was aeroponics I used ionic grow and bloom from hydrodynamic international. It wasn't easy or good( harvest sucked lol ) . Immediately after that i switch to soil. I bought a book called teaming with microbes and the results were way better than aeroponics. Numbers weren't great but the results in quality difference was amazing my nutes and medium were botanicare and fox farm ocean forrest and happy frog . After a few years of that I switched to 6×6 rockwool cubes . The problem there was plant count was higher which meant I would need to make more clones and keep more mothers . I was able to keep quality and increase quantity. It was alot of work to keep up with 16 plants per light, i ran a modified Lucas formula with c.e.s. micro and bloom drain to waste and recirculation ( drain to waste worked better). So I switched over to 3gal pots with 5 plants per light and same 7-10 day veg from rooted clone. Coco was the medium . It has a great c.e.c and will allow beneficials to colonize. I ran drain to was with front row ag . After 10 yrs and many different experiences I'd say Coco was the best for me .
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I’m currently working on my first aero setup. My best run so far. Harvest in 2 weeks. Nutes from T.A.
Personally prefer dwc, don’t really count plants per light, we count watts per sf, grams per watt, and grams per square foot.
As far as grass I want to smoke. It’s all about the living soil. Led and hps checkerboard for lighting.
I enjoy coco with 40/60 perlite w/ hand watering. However my total space to grow is a 4×3 closet and my electricty is $0.60/kwh so I engineer my grows for these constraints. I’m doing molasses and kelp with some extra flowering nutes and have been loving the results, much bigger buds. But honestly, kelp extract is full of plant growth regulators, I consider it to be straddling the line of ‘acceptable’. I do plant tissue culture as well so I own all the hormones but I would never use it unless I’m deliberately creating feminized seeds.
I really want to experiment with fully automated grows. I’m a programmer guy who can do hardware. I was thinking of a rockwool grow since that seems most friendly to automation. My own nutrient combinations seems like an interesting rabbit hole, but may be out of my league as a hobbyist.
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Running a little 2×4 AC infinity tent setup just for me.
It’s mostly automated- I just need to add in an electric ball valve for feeding.
200w full spectrum LED light, 1056GPH pump setup inline, and a floraflex feeding head.
2 plants in rockwool Hugo cubes. Each has a 5 gallon bucket with a basket for the rockwool. I top drip feed using a floraflex flood and drip tray. I am manifolding and training the plant to break apical dominance and produce about a dozen colas per plant.
I built a custom water loop so I can recirculate the plant runoff once the res fully empties to the plant buckets. I only recirculate once per week, and of course I check and correct PH/PPM/EC and change my res altogether every week.
For nutes I run my own mix of Cal+Mag and a combination of House and Garden and Nectar for The Gods products, but the supply Nectar for The Gods is running out and I’m running into issues acquiring more, so I may have to find an alternative next year. I use regalia bio fungicide every other reservoir.
First grow in about a decade so I’m just getting my setup all dialed in again, but I used to produce about 8-12oz per plant with this method.
2.2g Autopots + Airbase, Canna Coco Professional and Terra Aquqtica TriPart + Grow Genius Mono Silicic Acid. Stable ph. No waste. Less nutrients needed. Happy plants.