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OK, so let's say there's landscape cloth used instead of the burlap. How then do the roots reach the reservoir?
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OK, so let's say there's landscape cloth used instead of the burlap. How then do the roots reach the reservoir?
Genius comes to mind.
Have to go some actual gardening now.
OK, so let's say there's landscape cloth used instead of the burlap. How then do the roots reach the reservoir?
I wouldn't have it any other way.I get to bust you on the duct tape though.
I've built several different designs and find they all work great. The "gravel bed" type as I describe it works well but I've found it limits the available reservoir volume late in flower as the water roots pack the reservoir, so currently I'm using that style in veg to build a bigger and more robust root system and switching over to the air void structure in flower. I haven't gone through the full cycle with that combination yet, though. First pairing is currently only about two weeks into flower so I don't know how it will end up working.In a closely enclosed bottom reservoir setup with smaller airspaces due to the fact they are like what I believe Azimuth has arranged in only a 2 gallon pot, that's is, a rocky irregular landscape, the roots will be emboldened spreading slowly then with more intensity into the reservoir. However where the airspace is of a wider span, where fewer holds are offered and protection is limited I believe we will find them consoling themselves to grow into the 'wicking foot', feature common in this design type
The same way they get through your soft pot. Very easily. But the success of this system is not gained by assuring they do. That's the wrong end of the stick.
In a closely enclosed bottom reservoir setup with smaller airspaces due to the fact they are like what I believe Azimuth has arranged in only a 2 gallon pot, that's is, a rocky irregular landscape, the roots will be emboldened spreading slowly then with more intensity into the reservoir. However where the airspace is of a wider span, where fewer holds are offered and protection is limited I believe we will find them consoling themselves to grow into the 'wicking foot', feature common in this design type as approximated by myself as something protruding into the reservoir that contains a matrix capable of transmitting water via capillary action, often of that identical to the planter's matrix. Hydrodynamics tells us that particles of similar size transport liquid more easily than ones of dissimilar size). This strikes me as an opportunity for the experienced grower to control the speed at which this important if, not only, method by which our waters defy gravity to rise from their pools on our behalf. The cloth's sole purpose is merely to keep the reservoir from filling with earth and erasing this necessary separation and oxygen flow. The roots don't know they need elements found in gasses, yet they still do. We have to make sure said gasses flow continually into the water that the plant can very well access, and do so by preventing the system to fall into the gooey undecipherable mess it seemingly longs to.
Oi, you got me talking like a TV college professor now. Fuck. Maybe if I say fuck enough Teddy will come by and wipe the whole thing away. Fuck.
I came here to find people who could help me to not screw up all those 8 other things, so I'm your responsibility now. And you'd better look sharp, because you've got a 24 hr case on your hands now. I am selectively blind to buzzsaws going off in my face.
Lol on that one mate. Have fallen foul of Mr Edwards beforeOi, you got me talking like a TV college professor now. Fuck. Maybe if I say fuck enough Teddy will come by and wipe the whole thing away. Fuck.
I came here to find people who could help me to not screw up all those 8 other things, so I'm your responsibility now. And you'd better look sharp, because you've got a 24 hr case on your hands now. I am selectively blind to buzzsaws going off in my face.
Never a bloody policeman when you need one! lol. Thanks for the support Joe.Lol on that one mate. Have fallen foul of Mr Edwards before
Now, have you not yet added a wicking foot to this design in the photo, or will you grow without one? For growing cannabis, do you think a wicking foot would deliver the best outcome?
The only photo in my reply, mate.
I can't know spec. to which photo you refer if you don't refer to it, and I haven't given them any markings to make that possible for you. Sorry mate.
Yes, I did and do understand that. I saw your "net pot", and thought you might fill it with medium, but didn't see a photo of that until now, thanks.Also, pardon me but I have to confirm, for your and everyone's benefit, do you understand we're speaking about a single grow-unit consisting of two totes, nested together, with the 'wicking foot" wedged between them? One is 17 gallons and shallow (planter), the other 27 gallons and deep (reservoir).
That 10-gallon discrepancy just sang out to me, "Subterrainean Irrigated Planter!" when I saw them at Canadian Tire, just as I'm sure it does to every harried, frost-bitten Joe who bursts in looking for an ice-scraper.
Both totes have the same footprint and are designed to nest together for storage. I thought this feature, the fact that weight was carried and spread aloft, along the top, much-strengthened opening edge, where here one rests against the other, would make it the strongest design I could think of from a non-purpose-built, off-the-shelf container design.
By chance alone, the 'wicking foot' when illustrated previously has always been empty in previous pics, but rest assured, one is packed and deployed in all 14 I've built and used so far (ten for tomatoes last year, no, I mean actual tomatoes. I wasn't growing canna last year or for many years before that.
A note on wicking foots, er, feet, they must be packed to maximum density before you move on to building out and closing it up so it cant become packed by gravity later, over time. This could cause slo-mo sloughing downward potentially causing the wick foot to lose contact with the planter matrix and killing the plant from draught even though plentiful water sits 1 inch away. No foot connection, no capillary action, no bueno.
agreed!... Thank you so much. If this helps people grow meds - that'd be f-ing brilliant in the extreme.
Yes it is, sorry Carcass, I became distracted responding to a post. Maybe just, at your leisure, take a gander at the pics I put up next and if you see anything worth remarking on, let me know. Thanks for the Tip roundup link. So grateful. Please don't hesitate if I can ever be of service.Is this the one? How can I help you,RD?
Concerning the training, in my journal, check out post #6610- @Timhomegrow put links to all the tutorials in one place (Thanks so much, Tim!)
I would've just linked it, but I can't get the link thing to work on this phone .a