So I had a setback after the great root starts. I added that root zone fan, added mycorrhizae to the reservoir and some old questionable organic type nutes....plus increased the flood cycle to every 15min to compensate for the root zone fan. after a day or two of that I was seeing the beautiful new roots look damaged, not better and better, as I would have hoped.
This was the general Idea just yesterday....
so I nixed the fan, changed the nutes to fresh upping nute levels from 200 to 400 ppm and slowed the flood and drain to once every 2 hours. 24 hrs later, bingo bango back on track!
and this morning.....
These things are easier to grow if you can see the root! and its more fun to watch the roots grow than it is the plant at this point. I am loving it right now! some of the plants are looking really healthy. some are still recovering but all in all I really like this set up. in the future It might be better to use net pots with some gravel and have a spare table top ready to go for system hygiene and cleaning...
rock and roll .
I think the rootzone fan was messing with air humidity and rootzone temps too much plus shady nutes and organisms...this system shouldn't use beneficials. and maybe too much water with the 15 min cycles but its aerated so I doubt it. seems like 1-2 hour cycles really does the trick...I might mess with shorter cycles again in the future on the notion that it was the microbes and fan that got things going wrong.... I really want to see these roots keep on gong this way for a little while longer before I get creative again. peace
