With all respect- kits are for noobs who haven't spent enough time reading.

There's not a hydroponic system out there that absolutely anyone can't replicate for a fraction of the money demanded for kits with only a trip or two to a hardware store and an aquarium shop. One simply has to read about the system they want to replicate for an hour or two, understand the concept and buy a few bits and widgets to make it go.

Someone up the thread asked about converting a bubbler to DWC. Aren't those two different names for the same thing?

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Yo can get the hub, (that's the hard part to find) from StealthHydro.com for just a few dollars. Look at IRRIGATION PARTS there.
Get a cheap underwater pump, and pump water to the hub and to the seed cups, to the rockwool cubes. Make sure you have two air stones in your tank so that you are pumping not just a stream of water but a lot of air or bubbles to the cube.

Bubbleponics is the art of delivering highly oxygenated nutrient solution DIRECTLY to the inner root zone. The days of merely misting or spraying 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. Oxygen to the roots is often neglected, but MUCH IMPORTANT and BUBBLEPONICS takes care of it.

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IN a DWC system, Deep Water Culture, roots dangle in the water resovoir WHEN and AFTER they are long enough to get there in the water. And there they stay in the water, and to avoid root rot the water is frequently moved, churned or aerated.
Bubbleponics (copyright and patent applied for) adds a new diminsion, or way of sending highly aerated water, nute enriched water too, right to that rockwool cube to make it grow like a rocket. It sort of "bubbles" out to the cube, and the spped of growth compared to DWC is amazing! Absolutely Amazing.
I am building a 5 gallon bucket now to do the smae thing. The difficult part on a 4 or 6 plant system, is delivering the same equal amount of water thru each tube to the root base. A "hub" or irragation bae is needed.

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lol the thread is dwc - bubbler, n i asked it. not bubbler - dwc

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I was thinking of getting a getting a bucket and filling it just enough to cover the air stones that i have.
then id get a water pump, and have it pump from the bucket that has an extremely large amount of bubbles forming since itll be a small bucket and little amount of water.
so whenever the water pump pumps, it is getting the bubbles that the air pump creates.
so basically, home-made.
i hope itll work

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I still don't see the difference, one way or the other.

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yeah they basically are the same thing, xcept the bubbler has a water pump, while the dwc doesnt.

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You probably won't need the water pump.

Do a little experiment- stick a bubblecurtain in your bucket of water, connect an airpump, put some sort of cover over top of the bucket- and come back in 5 minutes. You'll find that your cover is dripping wet.

Bubbles from the airstones send up a tiny droplet of water when they break the surface. I think you'll find that this is sufficiently wet for roots, yet there will be lots of oxygen in this very humid little environment.

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hmm, ok. Can you link me to some drawings?

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I am SO tempted to cook up a bubbler bucket just for the hell of it. I have most of the stuff on hand and some leftover cuttings in RW cubes from my last batch. My only consideration is how to support the plant. I hate expanded clay- I was thinking about a medialess aero or NFT, actually.

The bubble bucket method is a little impractical due to the size of my op, but I have been considering how it might be done on a larger scale by converting a flood tray.

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