Construction
Over the past weekend I stopped by a local gardening store and purchased a few items to build a drip hydroponics system. This included the following items:
- 5' Tray
- Tubing and Fittings
- Submersible Pump
- Tote (Big Hardware Store Variety)
- Timer
- Drip nozzles
- Coconut Husk and Perlite
- Aeration Bags for planting
- Nutrients
Putting it all together was fairly easy. Getting it mostly level on my mound was challenging but once I had a platform to work on, all it took was piecing it together, mixing the medium and nutrients attached the tubes and nozzles and turning it all on.
Planting
After 3 days everything has been running very smoothly and already the growth is noticeable. I pulled plants straight out of the soil, rinsed them thoroughly and stuck them right in the coconut medium. I fully expected this to very shocking to their systems, and some wilting and struggling the first couple of days. I am pleased to say that they had no ill effects.
So far I'm really happy with it. But I still need to get some ph chemicals and I might get a TDS Meter to measure the concentration of the nutrients.
I plan on using 10ml micro, 10ml grow, 5 ml bloom for each 1 gallon for the duration of these plants.
I plan on posting images every week to show the growth.
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