I just ordered the ebb and grow by CAP , the 12 pot setup. I'm switching over from soil. I'm used to using fox farm nutes so I have all fox farm nutes including the three pack and now the grow big hydro bottle. I also picked up florasheild for cleaning and resivor change? I also got a jug of sm-90 as an addative to help with root problems? Not sure if these go well together? I was hoping somone could help with this in telling me if these fluids work well together or at all with the system Ive got (ebb and grow)?
Hey just smokin, i cant reallly give 100% on those nutes cause im unfamiliar with fox-farm. I'm not sure if your saying you wanna use your soil nutes, in your hydro system? I'm no pro but I believe they are designed to work at different ph levels and such. I only know bout the nutes I use. But I do know everything bout those. You should research your nutes specifcally to see what works.
As far as the buckett system, I built a diy version of this that uses a reservoir under the grow table and pumps nutes up to the buckets, it is designed in such a way that the pump turns on fills buckets to a level I set by a single overflow that dumps back to the tank. No bucket can ever get higher than the overflow is set even if it runs for hours. I also made sure my fill/drains were as close to the bottom of the outer bucket as possible. My inner bucket with the root ball in it dosent get low enogh to touch any standing water. If yours do then simply space them a little higher to prevent the standing water from reaching them. Also, with this type of system you will feed as often as once every two hours, so as long as you are aerating your water real good, and exchanging that water often this system will work fine.
