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Drip system vs E&F

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Lathund

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Finally going back to growing! This time with a true hydro system, I've tried Hempy buckets and Blumat's back in the day. Great result with hempy's but I want to go "true hydro" this time.

Wich one would you prefer in a Secret Jardin DR120? And why?

I've googled and youtoubed a lot and a top feed drip system seems to give better results, where E&F would possibly be a bit easier to setup?

Either way a flood table will be used, pumps and oxygen stones etc.

Any advice for a rookie grower?
 
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RockinRobot

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Personally prefer flood and drain over drip for simple ease of maintenance. No clogged drippers, no having to balance flow to each plant. I use 6" rootmaster pro pots with hydroton and flood 4x a day. I run up to 21 plants in a 2X4 tray with 2 weeks veg or as few as 10 with 4 week veg.
 
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Lathund

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RockinRobot said:
Personally prefer flood and drain over drip for simple ease of maintenance. No clogged drippers, no having to balance flow to each plant. I use 6" rootmaster pro pots with hydroton and flood 4x a day. I run up to 21 plants in a 2X4 tray with 2 weeks veg or as few as 10 with 4 week veg.
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Thank you for your input!

As a rookie who never used any of the two, is it common for drippers to clog?

I'll be running a 4x4 tent and I am leaning towards growing in sog. Would yield results be different between the two? I saw a youtube series where he compared flood and drippers, the drippers yielded quite a bit more but then again he grew big plants.
 
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RockinRobot

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Lathund said:
Thank you for your input!

As a rookie who never used any of the two, is it common for drippers to clog?

I'll be running a 4x4 tent and I am leaning towards growing in sog. Would yield results be different between the two? I saw a youtube series where he compared flood and drippers, the drippers yielded quite a bit more but then again he grew big plants.
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I run drippers in my outside hempy buckets for veggies and they always clog even with wide open 1/4 tubing and no dripper. Mostly from the mosquito dunks getting through the pump prefilter.

In a 4x4 tent I doubt you would see any difference between the 2 methods all other factors the same.

A 4x4 flood tray would hold up to 36 of the 6" pots that I use for SOG.

I'm consistently pulling +1g/watt under a 600w HPS in a 2X4 tray.

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Lathund

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RockinRobot said:
I run drippers in my outside hempy buckets for veggies and they always clog even with wide open 1/4 tubing and no dripper. Mostly from the mosquito dunks getting through the pump prefilter.

In a 4x4 tent I doubt you would see any difference between the 2 methods all other factors the same.

A 4x4 flood tray would hold up to 36 of the 6" pots that I use for SOG.

I'm consistently pulling +1g/watt under a 600w HPS in a 2X4 tray.

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That sounds really great, thank you so much! Do you have a journal of your grow or would it be okey for me to pm you to get some more info/details?
 
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RockinRobot

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Lathund said:
That sounds really great, thank you so much! Do you have a journal of your grow or would it be okey for me to pm you to get some more info/details?
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I have a thread where I rebuilt my grow room and document most of my grows. I don't detail any ppm or temperature info though. Feel free to PM as well.

I use Maxi-Grow for veg and Maxi-Bloom for flower. Only additives during flower are Liquid Kool Bloom and Mammoth P.

Can find my thread here

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=348952
 
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