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It was throwing me off that air pockets in soil help roots breathe, and that aeroponics has roots exposed. Both of those had me wondering about how roots breathe. Only grown once and it was soil. Instead of simply copying a technique, i wanted to understand more about how it all works on a basic...

Is there a way to delete this thread? Ive changed my plan. A bucket a week gives my rotating garden too many issues with unlevel canopy. Switched to 10 buckets every 9 weeks. Also bought a water pump to switch to rdwc (or ucdwc, whatever)

So all the breathing is done through the water, got it. And water agitation is more important than bubbles themselves, got it. I've got two stones per bucket but just ordered a water pump as ive decided to switch to rdwc. Thanks for the help guys

Closest thing to a straight answer yet. Thanks

This is why i had to ask specifically for straight answers instead of the same rhetoric and you literally quoted yourself lol you didnt answer the question about which part of the roots brings in the most air, the parts right above the water exposed to air, or the parts under water breathing via...

Because of all the conflicting information, please only post if you have experience. I get the same rhetoric over and over from both sides, and it's usually verbatum as if ppl are quoting the same sites instead of speaking with original thoughts. In dwc, are the roots breathing oxygen dissolved...

So if I'm using undercurrent to move water between buckets and rez without water pumps, the air stones will agitate the water around the roots enough to control the 'nutrient and oxygen depletion' problem? Sry if I'm being repetitive, I'm just tryin to figure out if what i read about ucdwc...

Im a little unclear on that last part. You mean seal up the room? If i dont get air from outside, ill have to get it from in the house, which will bring down my stealth score. Im already in the process of cleaning out the room, repainting the walls white, caulking all corners and borders to make...

Also, almost every video i see looks like plants grown from seed and/vegged way longer than i plan to. Huge thick stalks. Didnt find much on rotating crops cloning clones, even though i read you can clone clones just fine. I plan to mainline each clone twice, to end up with 4 colas all lookin...

@firsttimeARE is pointing out that active water circulation benefits roots by moving water actively through them, eliminating the potential for nutrient or oxygen depletion. In reference to moving water around, my research has brought me to a few videos on UC where they claim its way easier to...

Still workin on that, and not only am i open to suggestions, its why im here ;) im using the back room in a mobile home. The central air is disconnected and replaced with window units, so the vent in the floor is my air in and air out. Two ducts will go through it, forking under the trailer in...

So I'm about to try and set up something I've been working on in my head. First time hydro grower. I'm hoping to lay out my plans and have someone tell me what i got right and what i have wrong. I want to clone clones and put two clones in each 5 gallon bucket (roots are pulled to the sides with...

With a UC setup, wouldnt the water level be maintained? I mean, the chiller is pumping it into the plant bucket, and the connecting pipes down below would be pulling water back into the rez, right? Sry for adding more questions to your question but im currently researching uc systems because i...

If one $10 pump could fix my problem, it wouldnt be an issue. Right now theyre grouped up. The veg room has 5 buckets and a cloner tray. Of the 5 buckets, 2 are on one rez (early veg nutes) and 3 are on another (late veg nutes). The flower room is 9 buckets with another 2 rezes (7 buckets on...

So you werent using a chiller?

"It's almost Kratky.. Weed really won't do worth a shit in it." Yeah youre right, all im doin different is adding the air pumps. I know im gettin ahead of myself, and should probably just wait until i have everything i need before starting, but you dont think a regular noncirculating dwc that...

That's the info I was looking for. Getting more stones. Thanks. Hopefully I'll feel confident enough to switch over to rdwc before too long

Im getting contradictory advice from these forums. Some say the bubbles mostly agitate the water, and that o2 absorbtion mostly happens at the surface when bubbles pop. If that's true, theres no need for tiny bubbles with greater surface area since the amount of o2 getting absorbed by the water...

Thanks man. I have a few stones and will have some with and some without to see and get more stones if i have to, I just noticed in all the reading i did that that hadnt come up yet and wanted some opinions or to see if anyone had done it