Reply to Big Wheel:
Lots of folks are bad mouthing stealth hydro all the time because the theory is that 6 plants root systems can not be supported in the tub system here. I have not had 6 going I only have 4 but with 4 the root system is gigantic and almost fills the entire tub now. I will try to have some root shots up eventually for all to see. As far as filling my resevoir back up I wait til the res is just a tiny bit above the water line and then I empty the resevoir completely, fill the rez half way full with clean fresh water, empty that out again to get out all the excess nutrients and fill it with a fresh batch. When I did have more plants going before I cut my male and a few other plants I was having to fill my rez back up about every 6 days. Now with only 4 plants its about every 6-8 days. You can easily get the extendable resevoir for a stealth hydro system, but as far as the forums your reading there is reason to question the system and I would not be surprised if I had trouble doing all 6 plants in here. I also think the spacing between the plants is too close in the stealth hydro system. The easiest thing to do is just go out and buy a big plastic tub, cut holes for 3-4 inch net pots, go grab some of the pumps and stuff that they have on stealths website or similar with a bubble disk and just do it on your own, but the stealth hydro system is simple and makes it easy to figure out.
As far as the service end goes my first system took maybe 3 and a half weeks to ship, I just kept calling to get on their ass about it every few days. I had trouble with my 430watt HPS son agro light and ballast taking a while from them as well, took a bit more than a month, but luckily came 2 days after I induced flowering so everything was all in well. |