BUBBLEPONICS™, taking aeroponics to the next level...











Bubbleponics™ is the art of delivering highly oxygenated nutriently enriched water DIRECTLY to the inner root zone. The days of merely misting the outer roots with nutrient spray are over. Gone too are the days of over/under watering, over/under feeding; the Stealth Hydro Bubbleponic System automatically maintains the ideal oxygen level of the nutrient solution so as to facilitate a healthy thriving root system.

By adding Additional Oxygen, via bubbles, and nutrients to each grow cup, in a slight trickle (not a solid flow) You do not need a timer on the feeding tubes, and the cube or root base will not drown as is possible in a DRIP System.

A DIY Bubbleponics System:


You need an underwater pump, a submersive pump, 150 gph to 250 gph.

Walmart, Lowes, and Home Depot have the pumps. It is a small cheap pump like they use on water fountains in the home or yard.

It sits in the bottom of the tank, under water, here are a few examples:

DuraPump Water Pump - 185 gph
DuraPump Submersible Water Pump - 185 gph

Do an Internet Google Search to find, or Available from www.stealthhydro.com $17.99


DuraPump Water Pump - 240 gphDuraPump Submersible Water Pump - 240 gph
Price: $22.99









$17.97/EA Each from Home Depot












You also need a Irrigation Hub, also called an Irrigation Manifold. Many different ones can be found.



DiG Six Outlet Irrigation Manifold DiG Six Outlet Irrigation Manifold
Price: $12.99 420Budman showed us one that Lowes has, he said:

The brand name is MISTER LANDSCAPER. It is in the DRIP IRRIGATION section (even says "drip irrigation" on the package), the technical name for it is PVC SPRINKLER ADAPTER (that is on the package too), the item# is 191779, and the model# is MLA-RA9, and the cost is $10.73. My local Lowes had about 9-10 of them in stock.




Rain Bird Landscape Dripline System 2.0 GPH Manifold #MANIF2-1PK
Available at Bizrate.com, Amazon.com, and Home Depot for $4.99 to $5.99






You connect that Irrigation hub or Irrigation Manifold to the pump, and run 1/4 plastic tubes from the hub to each grow cup, to look like this:



You can use an 8 gallon tote as seen in above pic, (with 6 gallons of water) or a 5 gallon bucket, with 4 gallons of water.


You need an AIR PUMP:

$12.99 for Dual or two airstones






VERY Quiet, $9.95 to $19.95, depending on size.

Any place that sells Aquariums has them, like PetCo, Pet Smart, Walmart. They will have the airpumps and tubes and airstones.

There are 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch long airstones for aquariums, like this one:

Airstones are $3.99 to $5.99 depending on lenght.
You can also find round ones, and long AIR DIFFUSERS that make large curtains of air bubbles in the tank.

As the water in the tank BUBBLES, that Bubbley water is pumped to each cup, creating the most rapid growth rate a young sprout or clone can experience.

Look at the dates of these pics, at the growth rate. Also notice the small runts started the same day in soil.



4 days later:



Get roots like these:




and plants like this:



More pics at the link here: My PICS

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Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics-DWC Tutorial
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Jesus christ thats some fast growth. I want to try bubbleponics but im no handy man and it looks intimidating.

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It is too too easy. Get the parts, and I will help you and I have a thread on how to do everything already here: My PICS

It just looks complicated, but it is not.

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Or order a Kit for $179, including Lights

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Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics-DWC Tutorial
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damn roseman how old is the plant with that huge root mass?? my roots are rather small i thought.... perhaps this is something i should look into??

i have an ecoplus commercial air pump, that does i think 696 gph and a 4 outlet splitter for three seperate 5 gallon buckets. Its currently shipped off for repairs, but is this not sufficient for the same concept??

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http://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-...-go-hydro.html < - - FIRST GROWhttp://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...ml#post2579327< - - SECOND GROW

Nice thread Rose! Made one myself I now use it for flower so while one is in flower the other if in veg and then reverse. Beleive me if I can make one anyone can! Power tools and sharp things scare me! We'll all help!

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Will work just fine.

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Yea I may try the kit this summer then the DIY in the winter time when I'm at home more. Thanks for the info though roseman your always helpful.

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MC, can you post details oor pics of your system here?

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No pics but right now I have the veg pot in my 3rd bedroom sitting by the chest of drawers propped up on some old books and have a 105w 6500 cfl hanging from one of the drawer pulls with a piece of panda film connected to a spring loaded curtin rod that is drapped over the whole system white side facing the plants. Low tech solution! My Flower room is a 3 1/2' wide x 6' deep x 7' tall closet with a sloping ceiling. The Flower res is raised about 6" off the floor on a shelf to insure good air movement. I plant 3 plants at a time and that fills the space. I have a 250watt HPS in the flower room and use 105cfl in 2700 and 6500k as side lights in reflectors. I can keep the door slightly open and have 3 fans high pointed out and an oscellating fan on the floor outside the grow room blowing in air conidtioned air. Keeps the room between 70-78 lights on. Have one exhaust fan aimed between the top of the plants and the light and another one on the res and the largest fan just aimed out the door high. Take clones right before I go to flower for the next crop and repeat. Had 4 grows since last August with the fifth is at 4 weeks veg - 10" and about two weeks away from the switch to flower. My current strain (Barney's farm LSD) doubles veg height when put to flower and then works on filling out the buds. Vegged to 16" last grow and they stopped at 34". Had 4-6" of ceiling height left when they finished and I did some supercropping and LST on some of the bigger buds. Used some plastic coated paperclips to move buds around to expose the most sites to the light and tucked a fan leaf or two.

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