My Current Grow

[Tom]

Rooted clones, planted and photographed 29/8/02

[Tom]

Nine days later - 7/9/02

[Lindsay]

Hi Tom,

 

Nice and simple setup. Do you grow in straight perlite? How often do you have to feed/water with a topfed run to waste setup? Cheers.

[Tom]

Hi Lindsay, my media is 60% perlite and 40% vermiculite. My watering system is currently set to run 6pm - 6:20pm, 12am - 12:20pm and 6am - 6:30am, the lights are set to start 15min apart from 4pm to 10am (18/6). whilst the system is technically a run-to-waste set-up the reservoir under the waterwell plant pots hold the run-off and once the root system reaches this reservoir there is little to no "waste" left to run off.

 

[joedave]

Hey Tom whats the deal with the black transport crate looking things are they just to keep your plant of the ground or do they actually serve a purpose?

[Tom]

They are a dark green nylon/plastic (neoprene) tile type mat that has either been used as non-slip flooring or some sort of drainage channel cover, they are about 2" high and their main function is to keep the pots of the cold concrete floor. There is a picture in one of the posts in indoor growing showing me using pieces of wood for the same purpose, and another showing some yellow plastic stuff. I found the present flooring at a tip for a mine in a nearby town, they cleaned up ok so I recycled them.

 

[Tom]

two weeks under the Son-T's and they are doing well.

[Tom]

Another picture

[Tom]

One more.

[Tom]

Taken today.