[OSBC]

I see you grow in beds of coco in ur setup.. I have a few questions if you dont mind to anwser,from what i can see u dont do much vg time in ur beds..from the time u plant ur bed how long until u flip them? and what is ur water feed schedule from planting till flip?or do u plant um and flip?what nutes do u use?do u top them at all or go all natural?once in 12/12 can u explain ur water feed schedule please?type and strength or nutes and frequency? how do ur beds get watered by hand or sum type of system?and if u dont mind? what is ur average yeild off of those 24 lights im assuming they are 600w thanks im a big fan of your work....

[HortiLab]

The beds are used by friends of us & consist of a layer of perlite, a kind of fleece & then pure cocos.

I think there are aprox. 16 plants per square meter and their veg time is around 7-10 days.

The beds are watered 1-3 times per day by drip irrigation tubes buried below the coco surface.

Topping depends on strain & amount of plants per m2...the plants in the beds were not topped.

Fertilizer is a dutch brand coco product & yields can be as good as 1g/w.

[ChaosCatalunya]

Hi Hortilab,

Can you please explain the beds a little bit more ?

The Vermiculite is on the bottom layer ?

THe bed has a drain for runoff ?

What is the depth of Coco and what depth of Vermiculite is used ?

What depth is the coco watered at ?

Why bury the water hose ? Is it against fungus gnats or do you find coco works better with a drier top layer ?

Is this a method your friends have developed themselves, or is it a common Dutch method they are just repeating ?

Many thanks
c

hortilab can you also please respond in the thread labeled "were can i get sour pink grapefuit?" on your forums. thanks

And the "Sour Joker" thread.......

[OSBC]

Canna fert? H&g? How strong of nutes do you run? In ec?

[HortiLab]

Hey OSBC, yes, CANNA fert. EC depends on water. Without RO in some cases up to 2,8.