Hydroponic Help needed

[D-Man]

Hi all,

Let me 1st get something out of the way. I'm growing veggies and need some advise from experienced hydroponic gardeners. Not pot growers... its 2 totally different animals.

My Setup: Drip System

25 gallon resivior 3 - 14foot troughs filled with cyrpess mulch as a growing medium. Flora Series nutes. feeding 30 minutes on 1 hour off.

Picture of it withour plants (need to take a current picture with the plants) located here

am having to recharge my tank every 3 days and using close to 11 oz. of Gro, 9 oz of Micro and 4 oz. of bloom during the vegitative stage is going to break me. I buy the quart sizes for 32 dollars and this is going to break me.

So my question is, what can I do to keep my costs down and my harvest up?

I've heard of people using mirclegro tomato, epsom salt and nitrate for nutes but I am scared of killing all of my plants.

help! :)

[bizbee]

On 7 Sep 2006 19:25:41 -0700 in , "D-Man" graced the world with this thought:

Try two hours off? Seems like a lot of watering going on there...

VF11 is actually pretty good for nutes, too, surprisingly. I've only used it a few times, but never had a problem.