its not a cloner its a 2ltr dwc, just a small res with air stone at the bottom, plant grows in top part which can be any growing medium, i dont have coco or pellets so used compost and it seems to work ok, so its just a very very basic 2ltr dwc, but even a small dwc like that outgrows soil grown plants, easily grow twice as quick.
im really not sure what dwc to go with, it would be very basic, a big res and a few big air stones in the bottom, then id have to find a way of getting it empty and filled back up without moving the res, i have enough height so i can have the res a foot or more off the floor so i could have a drain hole in the bottom of the res to empty it then just fill it up from the top, it wont be nothing fancy as i just dont have the cash, im only tempted to go hydro or dwc due to the how much quicker the plants grow, they grow easily 2 or 3 times as quick as any soil grown plants, all the research i have done and my own testing proves its easily twice as quick and possibly 3 times as quick. so dwy or hydro is the fastest growing method, maybe super soil would work better and grow plants quicker but i push my plants as far as i can with the nutrients and cant match the speed of my 2ltr dwc set up.
@Skybound, i got way to many plants mate, id be happy with just 4, i plant to many seeds to often and end up with to many plants. it means i cant grow them as big as i like as i run out of room, this ww x skunk#1 can easily fill the grow room on it own, thats how quick its growing, i had to lst it right over on its side as it was getting well over 1ft high compared with plants of the same age that was less than half the size, so i could do with just 4 big pots and grow 4 plants at a time, id run 2 or 3 grow rooms though so i can have a staggered harvest,
one room would be seedling room, 1 would be veg room and 1 would be my flower room, that way i can harvest one set of plants then move the next into the flower room to be flowered off, id have to time it right so my veg plants where in veg for roughly 6 to 8 weeks then they would go in flower room, so getting them planted at right time is going to take some working out as the seedling room would only be used for a couple of weeks, so i got some working out to do and decide what type of grow im going to go with,
hydro and dwc is a good option but puts me at more risk due to the set up needed, soil is just very basic and i can get away with saying i just planted some seeds and watered them, with hydro or dwc i cant say that as id need to have a good understanding of what im doing and would of had to get equipment to grow that way, so ive really not totally decided yet what ill go with,
with the autos ive tried many strains under 24-0 and all start to flower and reach harvest, i find they tend to start flowering quicker under 24-0 compared with 18-6 or even 12-12, but could all depend on strain, but the kc45 ive been growing does very poor under 24-0 but under 12-12 it ends up 4 times as big and yields go up from 7g under 20-4 up to just over 2oz under 12-12
