Why recycle? Well, I’m a control freak, so I prefer to have every aspect of cultivation under control. I grow consumer products and my clients demand this precision. I manage to do that because with my recirculation system I don’t have to cope with the mediums that both add and remove substances. This means my plants don’t lose energy by searching for food, but can fully focus on growing and flowering.
NFT systems: too expensive?
In the beginning I was a bit hesitant about using a recirculation system. It was an unknown world for me. I was used to just growing on rock wool and had diffi culty in getting used to the idea that you don’t need a base to give a plant optimum feeding. I was also put off by the idea of acquiring such a system; it was rather expensive and maybe it wouldn’t work. Then I would have been stuck with an apparatus like that in my grow room. Well, now I know better! Thanks to CANNA’s feeding, the system is easy to use and it produces more.
I start in the following way, five times per year. I put the cuttings in a small rock wool cube and spray them a little with CANNA RHIZOTONIC to settle them down. Then I make up the feeding tank, and the fun can begin. I have complete control over the situation. In order to be able to fulfil my clients’ requirements exactly, I need to be able to control my plants at every moment. Of course, I start with 18-hour lighting. I keep the EC at 1.2 in the feeding tank slowly increasing the EC over days maximizing it on 2.1 two weeks into 12-hour lighting. This is a little stronger than what is given on the official CANNA grow schedule (BTW, my tap water has an EC of 0.4).
No worries about the pH
Worrying about the pH isn’t necessary if CANNA Aqua is used correctly since once you have set the pH to the correct value then you don’t have to adjust it any more. The pH does fl uctuate during the fi rst two days but after this CANNA Aqua ensures that it stays within the optimum values of 5.2 to 6.2. Other makes can’t say that! You are constantly checking fluctuating pH values. CANNA Aqua takes this job off my hands and actually “corrects” the pH itself. So don’t go messing around with the pH if you are using CANNA Aqua, the feeding does that for you itself. Now don’t ask me how but it works great!
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The first developments
The first week I only use Aqua Vega and RHIZOTONIC. Aqua Vega for my plants’ new side shoots and RHIZOTONIC to give the root development and enormous boost. After all’s said and done it’s the roots that do the most work in the starting phase of the cultivation cycle. In the second week I also begin using CANNAZYM which contains an enormous amount of vitamins which means my plants stay nice and healthy. After the fi rst weeks the plants are always green and robust.
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