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Old 07-12-2007, 06:28 PM
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Great Replies,

I just now came back to this thread and this is great info for someone that is considering options.

I may be wrong about the bloombox price, It may be slightly less than that, but I'm convinced there are cheaper ways to go.

Thanks for all the great info.

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I am using the Emily's Hydroponic System for my first grow.



I bought it from the internet and it came with:
• 2 Gallon Reservoir
• Formed Cover
• 6 Planters, Seed Starter Cubes & Growing Medium
• Pump & Tubing
Hydroponic Nutrients & pH Test Kit
• Illustrated Instructions
• Water Level Indicator


Later on into my grow, I added 2 air pumps, and 3 air stones.
My plants have been getting lots of oxygen to the roots and I thought they would end up very well.

I am on 6th week flowering and my biggest plant is 25"
The biggest bud on my plant is probly a 15 bag sofar, and it looks like I am close to harvesting. I will see when my microscope comes to my mailbox sicne I ordered it from the internet.


It seems that my roots have stopped growing probly about the 4th week into flowering, maybe because of not enough room?

I have decided this was okay for my first grow, but I am going to sell it and buy a Stealth Hydroponics System.
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Roseman, I realize you have left us but I still
dont think this thread should die...
I know there are others out there with
Pre-made systems, and this could be helpful to
all cultivators of marijuana alike...
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that's good to know! I should be getting my stealth 6 planter,deluxe lighting unit this week, hopefully tomorrow. it was a little pricy,but oh well, i think i'm going to like it, i have heard a lot of good things about it,so that's why i went with that, first timer here
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I just got my system a few days ago, have six seeds in rockwool in the system, first one sprouted after three days, the others haven't popped out yet, but so far I'm impressed. All I've used nutrient wise so far is 30 ML of Liquid Karma. Will update later.
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Anyone tried the GH Waterfarm 8 pack or Eurogrower? I've been considering it since it's only 300 bucks for the 8 pack.
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I bought an Aquamist IV a couple of years ago and while it is a good idiot proof beginner system it is not a true aeroponics system - it's more of a poor DWC with a sprinkler.

Description: The Aquamist IV is basically a 10 gallon square reseviour with a pump that feeds water to a spinning sprinkler in the middle of the 2' x 2' x 1' res container.

The plants hang in baskets from holes drilled in a peice of 2' x 2' x ~3/16" fiber(?) sheet, with 8 gallons of water for 16 clones there is only a couple of inches of air between the water and the bottom of the baskets.



The sprinkler head works like one of these, very thick drops of water. There is a mesh screen around the sprinkler to break up the water drops.


The top options allow for clones, 16 small plants or 8 medium size. I opted for the 16 site and my last grow got away from me a bit. The 8 site would give much better light to the lower branches - I kept a couple middle sites open and next time around am going to use shorter clones. The tops bend towards the middle and I have to attach some type of support.




The Aquamist comes with a nice PVC stand, keeps the res off the ground and brings the plants up to working height. The res also has a well for the pump to sit in, gets the bottom water.

The unit comes with a nice 250 GPH mag drive pump.



The Aquamist comes in 4 sizes, from 16" x16" (II) to 46" x 24" (I).

Pros:

Simple, resiliant, safe, all in one container.

It doesn't get much simpler than: a sprinkler for aero; oxyginate the res with the sprinkler; keep everything in one container so there are no leaks.

Good construction, beautifully simple design, nice pump, hard to clog the spinner (because it puts out drops of water the size of a fertilizer truck - oh yeah, that's a con. I think).

Has a side drain pipe connected to the pump that can empty the res without taking the top off.

The plants are in a 2' x 2' square rather than in a longer PVC tube, good for smaller gardens.

I could assemble it in a few minutes with no special tools.


It's like the rainforest, except it's square instead of hexagon. And the Rainforest has a 17 gallon res, is 2' accross so the res might be ~2' deep, allowing for more roots to hang in air instead of water.





Cons:

It's a Deep Water Culture system with a sprinkler.

The top is difficult to take off when it's loaded with 16 heavy plants and soaked roots. The inside has to be cleaned every couple of weeks, in addition to draining the res twice a week, or silt/dead roots/etc will clog the pumps filter and the sprinkler will stop. Not to worry though, since you have a deep water culture system your plants will live until they drown in the un-oxygenated water rather than drying up as in a normal system.

The Last Word:

The unit is beautifully simple and easy to use, resilliant and will take abuse from people new to hydro. You can screw up royally time after time and not kill your plants.

It is not an aero system.

While it was great to get my feet wet I want a true aero system, so I'm either going to: adapt this system with micro jet sprayers and a res for the Aquamist chamber to sit on so I can use the 12" high A.M. chamber for the roots to hang in with no water at the bottom; or make a system with PVC. Probably do the first then the second.

Recomendation:

1. If you're new to hydro and aren't set on aero this is a good unit to start with. It will give you years of good service, just remember that you are not buying an aero system - you are getting a DWC system.

2. If you don't want to shell out the $280.00 for the Aquamist IV you could make as many of these as you need, cutting holes in lids for 2-4 plants per bucket:


I'm no hydro expert but from my experience the bucket and garden hose will give you an as good or better system than the Aquamist or Rainforest. If I were looking at either I would consider the Rainforest if it has a deeper res than the Aquamist IV. (17 gallon res with Rainforest 318, 10 Gallon res with Aquamist 4 - Rainforest for 18 sites, Aquamist for 16.)
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Three more seedlings hatched two days ago, all four of the successfully hatched seeds appear healthy and are growing at a steady rate while consuiming the nutrients in their seed. They're being feed city water mixed with Liquid Karma to help with birthing. The light being provided to the sprouted seedlings is a Sunshine Systems GlowPanel 45, and I must say the the seedlings are responding in a very positive way.
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I bought the Ebb & Gro system about two months ago. Great system overall. I'm only using eight buckets and I'm in week three of flowering. So far so good.

 

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