Not sure if you ever got the answers you were looking for.
The tiny tubing that the cones run off of is 3mm Blumat tubing - you must use this specific tubing or they will not work properly. Green Acres Hydroponics out of CA has it in 98' rolls. Having the extra makes running these a breeze.
The larger distribution tubing in the deck and patio kit is 8mm however I'd suggest just running the blumats using 1/2" to 3/4" regular soft black tubing as your distribution tubing. You then get the 3/32" tees from Kent Systems to barb into that tubing to allow you to attach 2ft or so of 3mm tubing to each carrot.
The system is easily manageable and expandable if you go this route. Pain in the neck trying to layout a garden if your just working with the 8mm tubing and fittings that come in the patio kit.
What I learned first hand about strippin leaves is that it`s strictly strain dependent and will affect different strains/hybrids/varieties differently , and when I followed the bullshit rules back in the day of takin off everything @ day 21 and then again at day 45........
It shut my Chem D`s down and took 2 extra weeks to get close to the returns I`d been used to getting in 10 weeks instead of 12 , so take heed bout leaf strippin techniques cuz they can help at the right time once stretch is completely done , or they can bite yas in the ass at the wrong time......anyways.....that thread shows what works with smaller grows that aren`t within time constraints and rotations , so just another tool to control stretch during veg and into flower while stackin nodes
That bassman thread was very useful. The idea that the plants are given enough nutrients by us instead of having to suck whatever is in the ground so the fan leaves are not as needed made sense.
Has anybody tried this with trees?
Stretch is scientifically proven to be 40% of the bloom cycle and is totally strain dependent as to actually when said stretch phase completely ceases , and bloomage actually gets fully underway with no more roots or foliage built....and...Thanks DHF great to hear from you. I've been around learning. I'll post my setup sometime here someday. Basically a krusty setup.
So just to be clear, besides how defoliation effects the strain which you would have to test, are you saying when stretch is done around day 21 its ok to try it out and see if the strain likes it but not at day 45 possibly unless the strain is ok with it?
I'm not sure of the ppk yet. I'm running normal promix in big pots with blumat maxis which is ok. I'd like to try the extra drippers or an extra blumat per pot and see if that makes a difference but what I'm still deciding on is ebb flo buckets or change to coco. I've been reading that the coco is almost as good as hydro and I have basically all the gear. To switch to ebb flow I need all new gear.
Big plant PPK thread here in vert section is the newest thread with build pics IC......I checked out page 20 but couldn't find it, thanks for posting that turtle.
I am looking into the ppk. For some reason I can't see any pics in d9's thread and most of the threads on ppk seem to be about how it is amazing and no one knows why. I'd like to find a thread that simple explains how to build one and I'll try it out.