This looks like it is keeping the RW plug saturated. Bad rice! This will kill the plant! If that tubing through the side of the netpot is pumping water into the rootzone area, take it out! It's not only not needed but will cause BIG problems!

If you want to do an aero or DWC, drop that water level and put an air stone in the bottom of the tank. Bubbles breaking the surface will create a mist which will dampen the pellets but not the RW.

The RW plug should not go into the pellets until there are appreciable amounts of roots coming out of the bottom of the plug. The roots will find the damp pellets in a week or so. .

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Get a harvest every 2 weeks - A batch of clones in rockwool - Al B. Gone

this is not rockwool, it is the aerogarden sponge and the bubbles keep it moist and oxygenated, the nutrients make it grow rapidly, the roots are already out of the plastic pot and sponge, about 5 inch long roots in only 5 days, this will be my second grow where the roots sit spideweb like in the water and nutrients and bubbles.

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Doesn't matter whether it is a sponge or rockwool, both accomplish the same thing. Once saturated, it doesn't matter how much oxygenated nute soln you throw at it, a saturated absorbent medium will not take any more water in.

Your saving grace is that you do have roots out of the pellets- and if the seedling went in to this system before it had roots out of the absorbent media, I'm really surprised it lived long enough to pop out roots. If the seedling only had roots within the absorbent medium and had water piped right to the absorbent media, the seedling should be dead in days.

With an aeroponic system, the pellets should be wetted ONLY with the mist rising from surface of the nutrient soln, caused by the air bubbles from the air stone breaking the surface. There's no need for a tube carrying water to be run into the pellets.

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Get a harvest every 2 weeks - A batch of clones in rockwool - Al B. Gone

there is no tube carrying water, it blows air which causes bubbles and oxygen. All of the seeds sprouted in always wet media from the aerogarden with nutrients too. They didnt die, the sponge never fully absorbs, the oxygen flows throughout the sponge Al B

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highlife how many grows have you done?

http://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-...ml#post1241779
This was my first with CFL that didnt fully flower my plants, now I will veg and flower these purple buds with the 600w HPS, I have done my research on every hydroponic system out there and know what works great. How many grows are you on now man?

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first one. serious grow.

does everyone here veg and flower with HPS, yall just change from 18/6 to 12/12?

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how serious, show us

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well it's my first serious grow check my link. I am using cfl's right now I want to go with 250 watt md with blue led spectrum lights as a supplement when I start flowering as md through the whole grow hepls produce a higher thc content. I'm not a distributer so I don't need the high yeild. I just can't afford the high ass prices around here. Worth every penny I pay for it but what it cost me for an oz I can grow twice that plus some.