I'm in the process of making fairly sizable changes to the grow room. I didn't document this last run because the last 5-6 months have been pretty wild. I had a close family member pass away and I was tasked with organizing their affairs and dealing with the estate... It has been very time consuming. On top of that covid has only slowed things down, especially on the legal side of things such as trying to get titles transferred and what not... it's been monotonous to say the least. But I'm getting past that and looking at the bright side of things.
I'm about to start another run of plants in the next week. This past run was alright, I ran a flood & drain in coco 2 gallon pots. Ended up encountering some fungus gnats towards mid-flower so I decided to part ways with coco.
Moving forward I'll be running rockwool blocks with drippers, drain to waste style. I picked up some 6x6x6 hugo blocks, some 1.5x1.5 starter plugs and some Floreflex drip trays that are made for the hugo blocks. I'll be repurposing my existing dripper system to work with the Floraflex trays.
Another big change is the reservoir. I'm replacing the 27 gallon HDX tub that sits underneath the table to a 30 gallon plastic barrel that will sit outside the tent. Doing this will allow me to lower the flood table another ft, gaining valuable vertical real estate. To deal with runoff water I'll have a 2 gallon bucket (9'' tall) sitting underneath the table with a submersible water condensate pump inside. This pump will move water about 20 ft to the closest sink so I don't have to manually empty the run off bucket. It has an internal float switch so it turns on/off on its own. It was pricey but hopefully a game changer.
I'm really trying to automate things as much as possible and I think this is a step in the right direction. The big thing is making sure I get dialed in with using rockwool. My only expierience with rockwool was the plugs I used for clones a long time ago. If anybody has tips for rockwool feel free to chime in.
great color, consistency.
