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Posted 17 June 2009 - 12:03 PM

I was trawling through a local hydro shop website and found something called the earth box. Essentially its a self watering trough that can be used with compost or coco/coir. I've read lots of great reviews from people using them for tomatoes and other fruits and they say they outgrow their soil planted counterparts.

I don't see why it can't be used to grow cannabis and wondered if anyone had used them, or heard of anyone who had. For £20 it seemed a pretty good bargain.

Here's the spiel

EarthBox

‘Low maintenance planter’

The EarthBox is a portable, wheeled container that uses a unique organic feeding system to create the ideal growing conditions and help maximise yields from your crops.

* Wheeled base for easy movement
* Can be used indoors and outside
* Self watering without using electricity
* Easy to set up and maintain
* Perfect for both beginners and experts

The Earth Box growing system controls soil conditions by slowly releasing organic nutrients to the plants. Simply fill the container with compost or coco coir, lay the organic fertiliser strip, fill reservoir with water and watch them grow. Overflow outlet ensures over-watering cannot occur. Ideal for growing veggies and flowers on your patio, balcony, greenhouse or grow room.

The Earth box comes complete with enough dry, slow release, organic fertiliser to last throughout the crop cycle. The fertiliser is certified by OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute). The NPK is 5/6/6, suitable for most flowering and fruiting plants. For plants with high nutrient requirements, and when using coco coir, mix in the 450g bag of dolomite lime to supply extra calcium to the plant.


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Apparently it can't be used with liquid fertilizers, they provide a nutrient strip that provides what a plant needs, would this be a problem when growing cannabis?

The other thing is they only recommend 2 tomato plants to be grown at a time, but in 56 litres of soil I imagine they'd be some big old beasts :yinyang:

SO what do you think?
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Posted 17 June 2009 - 12:37 PM

Nice one T, I think it sounds perfect for growing ouside then force flowering as you can just wheel it into a shed (or something) ... you could buy some base nutes for any deficiencies the organic strip can't take care of?

e2a: specially like the 'Low maintenance' part :yinyang:

This post has been edited by prawn: 17 June 2009 - 12:38 PM

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