Ill be setting up 2 4x4 ebb/flow trays. Each tray will have a 1,000 watt HPS and 8 ladies in each tray. The growing room environment is temperature and humidity controlled.
Presently Im growing 16 plants in my own mixture of coir/perlite[FONT="][/FONT]/bat guano and worm castings. I use 12-15 gallons of water with nutes per week. If Im filling a 50 gallon tank with nutes it seems to me Ill using more nutes per crop. The plan would be to mix a new tank weekly.
The business side of me says I need to budget for each crop so feedback on nute quantities used for hydro versus soilless would be appreciated.
Also is it reasonable to expect a higher yield going hydro. Presently Ill turn 5 crops per 1,000 watt HPS, yielding about a pound per crop. Would it be reasonable to expect higher yield going hydro?
Presently Im growing 16 plants in my own mixture of coir/perlite[FONT="][/FONT]/bat guano and worm castings. I use 12-15 gallons of water with nutes per week. If Im filling a 50 gallon tank with nutes it seems to me Ill using more nutes per crop. The plan would be to mix a new tank weekly.
The business side of me says I need to budget for each crop so feedback on nute quantities used for hydro versus soilless would be appreciated.
Also is it reasonable to expect a higher yield going hydro. Presently Ill turn 5 crops per 1,000 watt HPS, yielding about a pound per crop. Would it be reasonable to expect higher yield going hydro?