In my endeavor to become an anonymous internet growing guru, I set off to...
Lol, just kidding. I just posted this in Pal's diary, but I thought I'd open a thread for its own place and debate.
I stumbled onto this due to necessity. Being the mother of invention, along the lines of many great inventions, it was mere accident.
So I had root slime/rot whatever problems. First thing in order? Up the oxygenation of your roots and proceed with bennies/sterile methods, and what not. So I added a second pump to my 4 pot recirc circuit. I set each stone so they've be opposite to each other in the bucket. I use round 8" hailea grey stones.
This results in a inwards flux from the "rim" of the bucket to the center, where negative pressure forces the water down (only evident without the roots submerged)
The result is the roots kind of enter this "circular-entaglement" motion, creating a ball, and they wont go so deep into the bucket. This is heaven for recirculating systems against roots clogging the pipes, and highly improves nutrient mix.
It also has its place in regular DWC, as per bucket changes it is MUCH easier not to crack the root tips and make a mess from a long dangling root system.
Its a proper training root training method! From what I've seen, if done really right, it will make a heart shape out of the root ball.
Now, this was done with one stone about half the power of the other. So I welcome anyone out there to give it a shot a post their own findings if its cool for them or not!
Lol, just kidding. I just posted this in Pal's diary, but I thought I'd open a thread for its own place and debate.
I stumbled onto this due to necessity. Being the mother of invention, along the lines of many great inventions, it was mere accident.
So I had root slime/rot whatever problems. First thing in order? Up the oxygenation of your roots and proceed with bennies/sterile methods, and what not. So I added a second pump to my 4 pot recirc circuit. I set each stone so they've be opposite to each other in the bucket. I use round 8" hailea grey stones.
This results in a inwards flux from the "rim" of the bucket to the center, where negative pressure forces the water down (only evident without the roots submerged)
The result is the roots kind of enter this "circular-entaglement" motion, creating a ball, and they wont go so deep into the bucket. This is heaven for recirculating systems against roots clogging the pipes, and highly improves nutrient mix.
It also has its place in regular DWC, as per bucket changes it is MUCH easier not to crack the root tips and make a mess from a long dangling root system.
Its a proper training root training method! From what I've seen, if done really right, it will make a heart shape out of the root ball.
Now, this was done with one stone about half the power of the other. So I welcome anyone out there to give it a shot a post their own findings if its cool for them or not!
