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What's your feel on the size and amount of plant in that NFT setup? I am assuming all 36 plants go on the 3 tube system, if so you going to keep those 36 plants relatively small? I am not thinking in terms of grow space, but rather root space. Personally, I don't mess with hydro, because of my experience with it. I notice is the gutter system may not support big root systems, this is why dutch buckets, DWC, Autopots, Rockwool bricks flood and drain tables, Ebb and flow systems all became a big thing in hydro cannabis growing. NFT is really only for a bunch of small plants such as all the FMCG crops. works nice in vertical farming setups where a bunch of small plants are grown and crop is rotated monthly. Even when growing stuff like spinach and other leafy greens, all tiny plants, if ones root system gets a teetsy bit bigger than the others then the whole NFT flow gets messed up. If the first plant sucks up too many nutes the rest don't get any..... NFT systems are such a headache brother, and when growing cannabis you want a biiiiig thiiiiiick healthy root system. when looking into hydro growers you'll notice that they always show off their roots, cause that's the important bit. As always, the knife cuts both ways. potentially what you could do is keep the light on 12/12, never veg, put clones in and flower them all right away. would give less root related problems. otherwise, looking good man looks like you got a big plan and I am excited to see how this plays out.

So I started some feminized seeds in Freedom Farms seed mix and the seedlings grew very well and healthy. Eventually when the seedlings reached vegetative stage I transplanted into 15L fabric bags with Jaime’s Orgasoilux.The plants took off and did really Will until about three weeks in when the fan leaves tips started turning brown.I had heard somewhere this soil mix runs a bit hot so I flushed the plants with about three times the amount of water and let the soil dry out.This helped and at watering time that week I gave them only rain water with a bit of Topmax(fulvic&humic acid).I got taken by surprise when the plants showed flowering(first outdoor grow,I used to do hydro indoors) I decided to let them flower in the 15L bags as I read that the roots air prune and figured I could feed them with the Biobizz nutrients I had on hand! About two weeks into flower plants showed signs of Potassium deficiency with leaf margins and tips turning brown and clawing so I hit the with one ml per L Grow and 1ml per liter Bloom.After two days the plant looked even worse. To cut a story short I’m now in week 6 of flowering with decent buds but have lost most of my big fan leaves and have see sawed back and forth with flushing and applying mild then stronger nutes to try and stop the leaves from yellowing.Basically just trying to keep the plants healthy as possible until flush time. Today the plants leaves(mostly older looked terrible so I did another flush and checked EC/ppm run off with Hanna meter and my ppm was over 1800ppm.So aagain I flushed and re fertilized with 650ppm of Mega solution 3 part synthetic to try and resolve the leaf yellowing issue. some say ppm/EC is meaningless with organic farming! Is it? Can an experienced soul grower here give me some expert guidance on the use of Biobizz nutrients? I’m starting to think their feed chart is way off!Maybe I should have used a quarter strength first but I guess I panicked as I was already two weeks into flowering and as you know time is of the essence in getting a handle on problems at that stage. The largest fan leaves here are much yellower than they appear in the pictures! Thanks guys!

hi guys I'm kindly asking if anyone has pruned recently.I'm looking for leaves/branches. I will crush into powder(as attached) and make cannabis tea.Its the best thin for me to get high since my lungs are tired Im in PTA

Prom Using Biogrow Biobloom and Topmax.Very small amount of Aminos and some silicon(very sparing on the silicon privy as it is high k. I’m at week five in the chart but I noticed a pronounced yellowing after feeding even though my roots have basically filled the fabric bags so I’m sure between the root space and the flushing I’ve done most of the original nutrients in the soil must have been flushed out or consumed? I did also hit them once with synthetic nutes about 5 days ago and they improved temporarily I fertilized Monday with 3 ml /L Bio bloom and 2 mlL Biogrow .Last night the fan leaves were looking really sick, clawed down and burned tips progressively yellowing up the plant.So today I flushed the hell out of them with fresh rain water First run off reading was of 1.8 tested today = run off after 10 liters at ph 7.2. Flushed further with Synthetic nutes three part at 650 ppm at adjusted ph of 5.8. Last read after flush EC 1.1 740ppm. The plants were looking better this evening when I took the top view shots.I’ll wait to see how they look in the morning.I will have to let them suck up a lot of the water before I can adjust anything else!

And the last Gelato to go down. 22L Fabric pot, raised indoor till December, then put outdoor. Plant had the longest flower time but also produced some serious colas.

Your plant looks perfectly fine. The fan leaves are suppose to turn yellow in flower especially outdoors. Is this your first time doing Organics?

This is all true though I wasn't really saying one cannot grow with synthetics, it's been proven and done for many many many years, infact when you sit at the table with big time farmers and talk "conventional farming" you're talking about synthetic nutes. that's how much people use synthetic nutes. the food you eat was grown with synthetic nutes.. there are more synthetic nutrient growers than organic. I also didn't even touch on any effect it has on the body once you consume any product that's grown with synthetic nutes, though this is a problem aswell and the ignorance around marketing synthetic nutes as "the plant breaks it down the same way as orgaincs" is getting older than sliced bread. It's not the talk of the town anymore, it's nothing new. the big problem is the "conventional" part. it shouldn't be conventional. It literally kills microbes. There is no arguing that and what is EVERYTHING made of? Microbes. Everything comes down to microbes man, everything depends on it. It starts with the sourcing, extracting and manufacturing of the synthetic nutes that's not needed in the first place that's got a huge impact on our planet long before you pay R100 for distilled water with R0.01 worth of synthetics in, long before you get your hands on the final product it's already done so much damage just to get it to you. Huge machinery, mining, factories, packaging, transport and everything surrounding all that and all that has to go into the end product. I just feel it's 2023 man, we collectively as a planet went from full organics to "conventional farming", if a person argues that it's impossible to make the change back then I don't know what to say to that person. I'll just respectfully stop talking. Organics is detremental to this industry, cause once you go full organic you stop using nutes, even the "organic" lables. you literally go over to giving tap water and learning how to use your waste as nutrients. And if the argument is that not everyone has time, that is such ignorance, cause doing anything hydro related takes at least twice as long if not longer and the headaches surrounding the finer detail such as ph and that shit. I don't get it, I don't find it "cool" anymore. It was when it was new, but even the hype around how it's so much better than organics, when it really isn't, it was mostly just bias. eh.... I'm just over synthetics. Trust me my brother, watch the documentary, you'll understand where I am coming from. I've only scratched the surface here It's got nothing to do with how the plant uses the stuff.

If the roots still go to big ill need to add support to the frame and go up to 150-200mm tubes. Really just hope it works out as is. Starting the genie at night is going to be labor inntensive enough with all this loadshitting

Yeah worried about the root development as well. But i assume that these small plants, photos vegged for only a few weeks, and autoflowers together with 6/2 and 4/4 lighting might help in maintaining size. Is trimming large roots recommended? Im not running 36 on the first attempt have only 27 seeds germinating and some of them are going to soil, 18 will go to hydro. Have solved the issue of nutes stopping with first few plants, the irrigation pipe get drilled and connectors inserted which cut off to individual 3mm feeding tubes running out from the 20mm.

Its true that microbes play a large part in breakdown of chemical compounds in living soil to feed the roots. You can however feed the roots directly by means of mineral nutrients. The microbes in organic soil break compounds down into the exact same elements. One can grow either way. In hydro a similar scenario exist between sterile and live systems, again both work.

You know about "yerba mate" tea? The healthiest drink on the planet. wonder how it'll work/taste with cannabis. One can get quite buzzed off drinking just everyday herbs and spices as a tea and it's got crazy antioxidant properties, flushes the body. drinking cannabis the mate way will probably give the feeling of being on strong edibles. willing to give this a try myself hahah this is mate

when can we collectively start boycotting synthetic nutrients???? here is my motivation I remember trying to explain this in 2019 and people got so damn butt hurt when I said I strongly believe synthetic nutes just shouldn't exist. Personally I hate the stuff with a burning passion and I've got good reason to.

organics you build a biosphere over time, using synthetic nutes in living soil is counterintuitive as the most important part of living soil is the life in it and synthetic nutrients are all harmful to microbes. plus you never flush living soil, that's the point. if you flush is you turned it somewhat inert and gotta start rebuilding, though if you gona keep using salts you gona get salt build up and root zone problems such as nutrient lockout. if you need to flush and keep flushing it's cause soil and coco/water holds onto things differently and if you flush the soil enough you might aswell be growing in coco anyway. only difference is there will be less root stress in coco with synthetics. soil + synthetics = asking for trouble and flushing will prolong the problem. it's either or with those. don't mix grow style. to the people using synthetic nutes in living soil, no bad rep no bad energy no funny business no back and forth none of that childish shit, but rather don't educate others when one doesn't really understand the whole thing clearly. we can all help eachother and I hope I don't rub anyone the wrong way, I hope to be constructive. take some time, sit back, roll a few fatties and watch this.

I started off with the salt based nutes. Rather expensive but the plants ended up decent. My last 2 grows i went the homemade supersoil route and not looking back at all. Way less maintenance and zero deficiencies plus ive got some cash to spare on genetics. Also take into account that ive only grown outdoor.

Those are mineral salt nutrients you are using in an organic medium. It is going to do this every time. Either switch to plain coco/perlite and continue on the nutes you have for your next grow, or change your nutes to organic ones

Happy Harvest

And some more outdoor... Gelato (42FastBuds seeds) and the Slurricane (clone) came nice. I might repeat that next year... clones really enjoyed the outside.. just needed heavy supports. Gelato and the Slurricane

Power gone again... time to play with plants Need to stock up my stash, so took down 2 clones too, JetFuel, same feeding like the Gelato. Tablet picture... Proper camera ^^

First harvested plant of 2023 Gelato from 42FastBuds (seed grown) Reused Freedom Farm Premium Classic (Green Bag), Biobizz - Fish-Mix & Bloom, Grow Guru - Amino Acids, Kushy - Kelp Extract and Captain Black Straps Molasses ( a lot ^^) Got twice Humic and Fulvic Acids, Epic 5:2. BRIX tests were Veg 17% and Flower 19%

Gelato that went out when Stage 6 started ^^ as went flowering, just left it outside. This one getting a serious main.. 22L fabric pots Still a few weeks to go but looking good so far.