Awesome man! Make sure u neatly tape some black garbage bags around those tanks until no light gets in b4 u put water in um!
Guess from my own experience, back to the original reason i started this thread is the amount of effort, time and the ease of hydro growing is whats going to benefit you!Not including how much less of a mess soil is and the ease of maintaining and being able to completely control ur grow environment.
Production, Quicker, amount differences. Yes u can expect veg times to reach 2 weeks depending on the hieght requirements of ur grow room, the strain types ur growing and plant types ur trying to grow(cloning or seedlings).For example,if u keep a constant veg room at 1 foot which takes about 2 weeks in my system, u can move them into ur flower room and depending on strains u can expect anther 6 - 10 weeks flowering!In most cases u can expect an entire grow thru flower in at the most 3 months. If setup like this u can harvest every week if you wanted to so amount differences = space.But u can easily flower 8 plants in a 24 gallon rubbermaid tub about 2 by 2 sqaure. Beats having 8, 3 gallon pots with soil to have to worry about.

Better in my own opinion yes if flushed properly (last 2 weeks strictly water no nutes).As far as stronger i would say no i had some bomb bud grown in soil, but the major benefit to growing in hydro, is the ease and amount of time versus the problems that go with soil i guess. For me it was like putting a supercharger on my grow!

Setup ur tanks and let peeps know! I look forward to hearing about it!

THANX FOR YOUR TIME,,, YOUR VERY GOOD AT EXPLAINING SO ITS EASY TO DO,, SO KEEP IT UP AND LET US KNOW IF YOU TRY TO MOVE THIS THREAD,, IVE BEEN GROWIN FOR MORE YEARS THAN I CARE TO REMEMBER, OFF AND ON, BUT NEVER DID ANYTHING BUT SOIL.. CANT WAIT TO DO THIS....

Much respects to u sir, for u were prolly growing in soil 4 i stopped suckling me mommas teet lmao. I am very interested in hearing what someone like you has to say about the transition from soil to hydro.Please keep us posted!

i got my complete setup from ebay
4x 5gal buckets with 12 3in net pots
4x 3in circular airstones
1 20 lt bag of clay balls
1x digi ph tester
1x digi ppm meter
1x 4 way air pump
all connections
canna veg + flora nutes (2 part)
canna p/k 13/14
all for £70
also got a 400watt hps + ballest for £45
at the mo there are 3 plants in my grow
you dont want anymore than 2 plants per bucket
as the roots will just fill it

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Bifta im suprised u only have one pump on yer girls. THat would suck if that pump went down and u didnt catch it quick enuff!

This is such a cool thread, good job so far...so to clarify some things about the nutes, regardless of the brand.... you start your clones or seedlings and after they are good an rooted in Rock Wool you put them in this system with NO nutes for what like the first few weeks and then what? Do you slowly go to 50% strength an then to full strength and then just top off with water when it gets low...until I assume your PPM falls then you totally change the water out and refresh it up with new nutes?....if so I need to change my setup because after im rooted in rockwool I go directly to 25% for a week or so and then to 50/50 nute strength but my system is different...sounds to me like im wasting nutes for the first 2 weeks or so...

so could you clarify...when and what you do after you add them to the final bucket they will flower in?...im curious about the nute thing an im determined to create a very similar system...

Just my 2cents. I have lost power for hours and not had my plants die in dwc. Now... Longer than several hours and Im sure they would be drowning. Ive been thinking about one of those computer Battery backups for my air pumps to prevent this possibility... losing power for a few hours wont kill them but a full on pump failure or kinked air line are death if not caught in time. I am way more worried about pump failure... I think the idea of a redundant back-up pump is great.

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how powerful do the air pumps need to be? for a 20 gal bubbler i made that i want to grow two plants in, i got a pump rated for a 10-30 gallon aquarium. is this sufficient or do i need more?

oh, and misterdogman, from what i gather ppm will actually rise most of the time in hydro as time progresses, because the plants drink faster than they eat so to speak.

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Once ur root system starts hitting the water u need to start nutes on clones.I suggest following the directions on ur nute bottles for seedlings or cuttings. They all have it. And make sure u change ur water on time and increase ur doses as suggested as ur clown grows into mature veg state.Usually my nutes blend for veg maxes out at about a foot ( about 3 weeks of veg )at 3/4 strength max see what im saying?..
FOR a 20 gallon tub i would say to add a small water pump to the res for water circulation and def add another 10-30 gallon air pump and stone to the sytem, U cant have enuff air really. And having a backup pump at all times is reccomended.

Hope that helps out.

wow, thank you for the advise it was definitely an eye opener; instead of running two of those bubblers and 5-6 in soil it looks like i'm only gonna run 1 and 7-8 in soil.

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