question about my waterfarm bucket..

Hey guys,

I just got hooked up with a waterfarm-type bucket, a drip irrigation bucket for a single plant. Now, i just set everything up, and i dont get how its supposed to work. once i have a seedling goin on in some rockwool, and its ready to be put into the bucket, i drop the rockwool cube into the center of the irrigation ring under some hydroton, and turn the pump on. But my question is this -

How does the center of the bucket, where my plant is gonna be, get wet? the irrigation ring only waters the outside of the ring. How does water get to the center of it? n if somethin aint right, and i need to just say fuck it n change the setup around a little bit, is there a way i can turn the single bucket into a flood n drain system, to get water to my plant easier??

I dont wanna do that if i dont have to, i just want the bucket to work, n not waste a good Twilight seed. So if anybody can help me out here, n lemme know how it works, i would be extremely grateful. Im totally new to hydroponics, so forgive me if i sound like a simpleton.

thanks everyone
-K1.

double posterread the other post you got replies

sorry about the double post. I just get kinda nervous when im about to go outside of what im used to doin - with new equipment n everything. So when i seen how the bucket worked i was like WTF??? . so sorry about that again, n thanks for the answer i nthe other thread. No clue how hydroton worked. Ill run it for a day in a day or two to break in the rocks, while im germing my seeds..

thanks again man

-K1.

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

sorry about the double post. I just get kinda nervous when im about to go outside of what im used to doin - with new equipment n everything. So when i seen how the bucket worked i was like WTF??? . so sorry about that again, n thanks for the answer i nthe other thread. No clue how hydroton worked. Ill run it for a day in a day or two to break in the rocks, while im germing my seeds..

thanks again man

-K1.

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you don't need to really break em in but do wash them before you use em as they got like a dust on em just from em rubbin up on one another

Im using waterfarms and runn them 24/7 the plants get tons of water maybe to much even from seed because the ring spits water everywhere

so are you sayin i should be running the drip 24/7 srom seedling to harvest??

Ill be using rockwool for the seedlings once theyre germed.

thats what i do and drill bigger holes in the bucket roots will grow way faster

yeh yesterday i took a drill n fuckkin mauled my bucket up real nice. Im glad i brought my deburring tool out of my toolbox too, lol. But yeah the fucking thing looks like a net bucket now, hehe. I woulda did the sides too if ida thought it woulda helped.

Ok, so just so i have this shit right n dont have to ask again, i germ, let it become a seedling in some wool, n then transfer the wool cube to my bucket, bury it up to the top of the wool in hydroton, and then pour a couple Ml of water on the wool to keep it wet while im waitin for the rest of the hydroton to wick up the water n start gettin it to the middle of the rocks, and thusly my plant aswell.

Im also gonna get an airstone, so when the roots hit the rez itll be more like DwC action goin on , n i wont have to rely as much on the drip action.

that sound like a plan to all you fuckers out there shakin your heads at my idiocracy?? lol. jk, i really do appreciate all the help guys.

I was going to help until you called me a fucker.