Mad Lab
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man get that stick out of your rear already
lol, i think this might be the wrong thread for him... maybe he got lost.
If i can find the link to the toddler growers thread i will post it..
man get that stick out of your rear already
this is not true in my experience. did you look at the thread i linked earlier?
the root mass in the center of my buckets were 120% dead, and rotting. yes, granted the roots entirely filled the buckets and formed these rock hard dense masses directly under the misters that almost completely remove any chance of mist circulating gracefully.
however i would submit that something similar would happen, though not to the same extent, regardless of how much room was available for the roots. The key mistake i made, besides the laughably small container was... IMO using these giant 8" wide net pots. an 8" net pot seemed to create an 8" diameter column of roots.
my musing was in responce to that issue.
Using a 5 gallon bucket for HPA is asking for trouble unless your growing something like lettuce. With an 8" netpot in the bucket you would be left with less space. The nozzles should always be aimed into relatively open space, not directly at roots, netpots or other obstacles.
Guys try this it might help with ideas and stuff, a lot of things have already been done/tried
https://www.google.com/search?q=hpa+aeroponics
thats great.
regarding my core assertion, what say you?
ill reiterate.
regardness of adequate room, one will find that the roots in the center of a root column of large diameter die off readily.
Here's an example of a simple HPA manifold I drew up real quick for people who are really new it to, to give them an idea of the components and where to get them if they need reliable ones.
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I put this together really quick as well for some people who needed a real good breakdown, it is not complete and it is also copied and pasted from a few old threads, mostly on rollitup. So TB, atomizer and treefarmer: credit goes to you.
The pressure relief valve position is dangerous. Located downstream of the pressure regulator it cant sense the accumulator pressure
ok here is another question being again this is old tech more or less out of date but that main answer you need to ask your self isyour doubts are certainly fair, as its not a well studied area.
however your questions and subsequent musings regarding the how and why is an absurd masturbatory gesture.
just read the papers published on the subject. you are pissing into the wind here asking folks who don't know shit about biology.
regarding your concerns about supposed complexity... its not merited. the system very simple, and NOT prone to failure... its more or less the same as a private well water system, with the only difference being a solenoid and misting nozzle.
Please show me a thread of your so called faster growth and bigger yields pretty please??? better yet since your talking about this please show us your HPA grow
i got 3 strains just sexed and back in veg once i clone them i will be more then happy to post 3 pound per plant undercurrent would love to see a 3 pound plant in this style
But we both know that is not going to happen
ok here is another question being again this is old tech more or less out of date but that main answer you need to ask your self is
``1 Does it out yield other methods under current , RDWC , PPK flood and drain ????
My guess is NO cause if it did you would see every one jumping on the band wagon
2 Are they ???
3 what is the cost for a 20 site system like this is it 90 percent more then a snype DWC system
And again people can read all the shit they want Bottom line is Cost . Yield
and this is why you do not see Commercial growing like this
huge difference between growing 6 plants or growing 6000 plants