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 captain.koons
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 Re: who grows in straight perlite?  [Re: Dephect]
#372423 - 02/24/10 12:26 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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hydroponics needs to be checked everyday.
I should stop going on vacation for a week or two at a time then.
I love it how you come in here asking a question and you completely ridicule everyone.
Im going to laugh when someday you come back from your two week vacation and everything is gone..
I wanted to start a perlite discussion I'm not so much asking for advise. I'm definitely not hear what idiots have to say... ya fuggin' idiot.
My neighbor next door has come out to investigate my friends often for being in my driveway at odd hours with his shotgun in hand so I'm not too worried about being a victim of robbery.
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: captain.koons]
#372424 - 02/24/10 12:28 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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which one do you prefer? would you care to share a bit more on your methods? I'm thinking about getting away from handwatered perlite on my next round just for simplicity reasons.
Do you go with a bunch of smaller plants in 2qt or 1gal sized containers or do you use larger containers and larger plants?
Which one do you prefer? not just in terms of growth rate, but maintenance, quantity of nutrients used during the grow etc...
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captain.koons
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: mhbound]
#372427 - 02/24/10 12:29 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol........
no like.....shove perlite in a pvc pipe...one end in the bucket with the soil/plant/perlite or whatever growing medium you choose
one end in the water below and it keeps it perfectly watered you never have to worry about it all you have to do is check ph, feed those things
Yeah, have fun with that one.
You obviously aren't coherent enough to comprehend my previous post.
I'm not dooooooooooooood because I'm on some muscle relaxers, klonopin and weed because i have a stress fracture in my lower back and i need surgery...
Where is your lady?
You're never really coherent nor do you really seem to conduct yourself intelligently. For the record.
My lady is in bed, sleeping.
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: mhbound]
#372428 - 02/24/10 12:30 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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higromite never heard of it...will look in to it and i think i will do a grow with this type wick system in this thread just for fun in the box i just build out of random shit i had
My buddy has used it on his last two grows @ approximately 50% coir / 20% perlite / 30% higromite. It looks similar to perlite but acts more like hydroton, only better. Perlite & coco have good water retention and GREAT drainage/aeration, while hygromite is kind of the opposite. There were some guys on icmag who did lasagna gardening grows with it too, i.e. layered 2" hygromite, 3" coir, 1" hygromite, 3" coir. The only reason I haven't tried it yet and most people haven't heard of it is the price IMO.
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captain.koons
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#372433 - 02/24/10 12:37 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Harry_Ba11sach said:
which one do you prefer? would you care to share a bit more on your methods? I'm thinking about getting away from handwatered perlite on my next round just for simplicity reasons.
Do you go with a bunch of smaller plants in 2qt or 1gal sized containers or do you use larger containers and larger plants?
Which one do you prefer? not just in terms of growth rate, but maintenance, quantity of nutrients used during the grow etc...
Either medium works well.
If I could only use one I'd stick to the hydrotron with General Hydroponics 3 part (I'm currently using Floranova but I'd rather just use the 3-part) using KoolBloom liquid but I think I'm going to try using Koolbloom powder soon.
I've used Botanicare, Floranova, and CNS17 with coco and all worked well.. Botanicare are the most expensive and I'm skeptical about the cost efficiency of a lot of the nutrients from Botanicare and I think I'm going to try a 15ml Pure Blend Pro + 5ml Calmag which is basically the botanicare lucas formula. If you value organic you might want to try this.
On second thought I might keep just the coco if I had to pick because I plan to feed the spent coco to my worms.
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: captain.koons]
#372435 - 02/24/10 12:42 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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why the 3-part over the floranova?
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captain.koons
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#372437 - 02/24/10 12:46 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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less mixing means I don't have to over emphasize the importance of shaking vigorously to my garden gnomes.
Don't care that it costs like 3 times more than the floranova, I prefer it and get similar results.
I also tend to do my garden work right after going to the gym as thats when I'm not asleep and my lights are on so I don't have the strength to shake vigorously.
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mhbound
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: captain.koons]
#372449 - 02/24/10 01:04 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol........
no like.....shove perlite in a pvc pipe...one end in the bucket with the soil/plant/perlite or whatever growing medium you choose
one end in the water below and it keeps it perfectly watered you never have to worry about it all you have to do is check ph, feed those things
Yeah, have fun with that one.
You obviously aren't coherent enough to comprehend my previous post.
I'm not dooooooooooooood because I'm on some muscle relaxers, klonopin and weed because i have a stress fracture in my lower back and i need surgery...
Where is your lady?
You're never really coherent nor do you really seem to conduct yourself intelligently. For the record.
My lady is in bed, sleeping.
well sir if you don't think im intelligent then you need to come to the dome,
why would i spend the time to get a simple point across when i could make it simple.
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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: captain.koons]
#372451 - 02/24/10 01:05 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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is your lady still Anna Bannana? is she still underage? I miss that lady and she should hurry up and turn 18 so this website isn't so sausage party all the time
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mhbound
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#372454 - 02/24/10 01:08 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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i know man
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#372463 - 02/24/10 01:16 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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is your lady still Anna Bannana? is she still underage? I miss that lady and she should hurry up and turn 18 so this website isn't so sausage party all the time
Theres that new one, shroomie girl or whatever. But we all know there are no girls on the internet.
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captain.koons
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#372468 - 02/24/10 01:18 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Harry_Ba11sach said:
is your lady still Anna Bannana? is she still underage? I miss that lady and she should hurry up and turn 18 so this website isn't so sausage party all the time
I've never been aware of her age. She could be 3 for all I know.
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captain.koons
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Re: who grows in straight perlite? [Re: mhbound]
#372488 - 02/24/10 01:28 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you mhbound haven't come to the realization that a god damn pvc pipe filled with perlite isn't practical nor effective for hydrating soil, you're a fucking idiot.
If you want to wick feed soil for some reason just use a god damn cloth wick.
For the sake of redundancy and making you look like a moron, I'll explain. First off soil it's self doesn't wick water very good at all which is why the top of your soil gets dry rather fast. This goes for "soil-less" mediums too. PVC pipe can be filled with perlite and yes that can be lowered into a reservoir but at the end that enters soil will not be able to hydrate the soil all it would do is hydrate the surrounding soil which would be useless. One would then need to install a wick that layed out throughout the soil to get some useful hydration which would be pointless attaching to the perlite because you could just do this with cloth wicks through the soil right into a reservoir.
I think if one of my friends tried to design some sort of elaborate and useless setup such as your idiotic PVC perlite wick for soil I think I'd call Magash to punch him in the fucking head, because he'd be more idiotic than triptonic for putting seeds in a microwave which deserves a punch in the head.
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higromite never heard of it...will look in to it and i think i will do a grow with this type wick system in this thread just for fun in the box i just build out of random shit i had
My buddy has used it on his last two grows @ approximately 50% coir / 20% perlite / 30% higromite. It looks similar to perlite but acts more like hydroton, only better. Perlite & coco have good water retention and GREAT drainage/aeration, while hygromite is kind of the opposite. There were some guys on icmag who did lasagna gardening grows with it too, i.e. layered 2" hygromite, 3" coir, 1" hygromite, 3" coir. The only reason I haven't tried it yet and most people haven't heard of it is the price IMO.
Higromite is also a good source of silica. I was going to buy a bag myself, but the hydro shop said their supplier stopped carrying it.
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