Hello!
I became interested in this PPK thing, and your grow from another site. Glad I was able to find you here and read the rest of the thread. Very interesting. I will be watching along to see the growth rates.
yes, WELCOME!!!
today someone on that forum wrote a poet (not in my thread in another)
that i am the only one sussing PPKs and jacks, and HE DID A search and nobody else knows PPK or JAcks
i think he didn't use google. certainly on 'that other forum' i AM the only one
how does one explain that knowledge gap
and after starting my first PPK thread over there, just about NOBODY cared. I was actually surprised. there were maybe 4 people who said hmmm, wow, whats this... and now its 5 counting you
jacks is exciting stuff
PPKs are exciting stuff
but I had to come over here to learn about either of them. apparently there isn't much knowledge flowing FROM here to there. AND there ISNT much knowledge flowing from there to here. It cant. they are behind knpplwedgewise for the most part.
when i realized i wasn't learning fuck all over there, and nobody wanted to learn f**ck all from my PPK thread,
i have had my last " 'no trust me, coco LIKES to be watered a lot, doesn't NEED A WET DRY CYCLE" with several coco boneheads over there
honestly, guys there telling me the PPKs won't work (though they had no idea what one was) . they were objecting to the concept of watering coco so much
one said i'd wash all the benes out of the root zone - another said everyone knows you CANT water coco more than about twice a day, it willassuredly kill the plant
and discussing these things rationally online with them was simply not possible. They were SO certain they knew coco. what they found out in their struggle with coco (but didn't know they had learned) is if you DONT keep it wet, it gets REAL FINICKY, and the way to handle it then is to let if have a wet dry cycle because the roots are not getting 02 from being fed, and then you CAN water it too much because the roots suck, then you have to let it dry out.... repeat.
there are some knowledgeable coco growers over there, but there are popular threads selling a non hydro way to think about coco. they use salt nutes, then feed once a day.and bitch about salt buildup
they get OK results that way. they could do better.
its not WRONG, thats not the point - but they don't KNOW they can do better.
one guy actually said that he was reluctant to try anything so "next wave". as a PPK and was quite dismissive of the concept.. after all he tried hempies recently and totally failed. and converted them mid grow to having holes in the bottom. got too much salt buildup with the hempies. go figure, unless you keep coco really wet you get salt buildup. and his hempy was like 20 gallons, absolutely did not want to hear that coco requires less, and a LOT less than soil is normal. made him angry
i tried to explain that hempies aren't "next wave", the concept having existed (for tomatoes and such) for at least ten years before dalaihempy claimed to have created them more than ten years ago.'
(so 30 year old stuff was considered "next wave")
and PPKs have been around for at least than 5 years (that I know of, it could be more )
and in response to that he flamed me, and threaten to get me banned. called my thread pathetic, said my plants were ugly....
my feelings are not hurt, considering the (bonehead) source
another time a guy hammered me for saying coco with salt based nutes, hand watered with salt based nutes IS passive hydro
he said, no - there is hydro, and there is soil, and there is soils. coco with salt nutes is "soilless "
oh
i responded that ANYTIME a medium is used in hydro it HAS to be soilless. this happened in the coco section of that board which is
a folder IN THE HYDROPONIC GROWING SECTION
and he actually threatened to have me banned for putting out false information
so i decided to hang here instead - i wasn't banned, I've never even received a warning from ANY moderator over there EVER
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