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allgrownup
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Has any of the soil growers experimented with wicking?????
I'd like to know your results. For someone whom leaves frequently on business i have come to luv my indoor hydro. i can leave it for weeks returning to find healthy plants 3 times the size i left them in veg. I love that part! but, this year i lost a few outdoors and severely damaged some others while i had to leave them outside while i was away. One heatwave and no water....Kapuuuuuut
Anyway....i recently just stumbled across "wicking" It was used with flowers but i don't see why it wouldn't work with WEED???
Use a large clay pot. What you do is prepare your soil mix; 1 part peatmoss 1 part perlite, 1 part vermiculite. tad of dolomite??? Than you add the wick (Nylon Rope) it should be long enough to spiral in the pot and hang out the bottom a couple feet. The wick needs to be soaked prior to adding to the pot. Add soil then wick, soil then wick, in layers spiralling around the pot as you go. you should not be tie'n the plant up! After your done you place the plant above a container of water so the wick is hangin down in the bottom container.
Theoretically the plant will absorb only the amount of water it needs through the wick. This would eliminate over watering and in my case, not need my presence for an extended period of time. You would continue to feed the plant through the bottom "resivoir".
Next year for outdoors i'm going to try this. Is anyone around here using this method or tried it?
I'd like to know your results. For someone whom leaves frequently on business i have come to luv my indoor hydro. i can leave it for weeks returning to find healthy plants 3 times the size i left them in veg. I love that part! but, this year i lost a few outdoors and severely damaged some others while i had to leave them outside while i was away. One heatwave and no water....Kapuuuuuut
Anyway....i recently just stumbled across "wicking" It was used with flowers but i don't see why it wouldn't work with WEED???
Use a large clay pot. What you do is prepare your soil mix; 1 part peatmoss 1 part perlite, 1 part vermiculite. tad of dolomite??? Than you add the wick (Nylon Rope) it should be long enough to spiral in the pot and hang out the bottom a couple feet. The wick needs to be soaked prior to adding to the pot. Add soil then wick, soil then wick, in layers spiralling around the pot as you go. you should not be tie'n the plant up! After your done you place the plant above a container of water so the wick is hangin down in the bottom container.
Theoretically the plant will absorb only the amount of water it needs through the wick. This would eliminate over watering and in my case, not need my presence for an extended period of time. You would continue to feed the plant through the bottom "resivoir".
Next year for outdoors i'm going to try this. Is anyone around here using this method or tried it?
