Ebb and flow for large scale??

markos12

Active Member
I'm going from a 10 x 10 to a 20x20 area.
I was using the ebb and flow muilty pot system which has a resevouir, fill/drain bucket brain and had 48 pots.

I really like the simplicity of the system and have gotten quite comfortable with it.
How can I increase the size of my op? I want one huge resevour for ease of mixing my nutes solution. Problem is I will need to have 4 seperate drain/fill brain buckets because these systems max out at 48 pots/ brain.

How can I get around this or what style of irrigation should I do?
 

hornedfrog2000

Well-Known Member
All you would have to do is increase the size of your reservoir (daisy chain multiple 55 gallon drums?), plumbing/pump, and probably need a bigger brain bucket. I would just use a trash can as a new brain bucket, and maybe you could use more than one water pump, or just one huge one
 

markos12

Active Member
Mr. Ganja-

Sic avatar. I likey!!!
Thanks for the reply. The system I use has floats in the brain that activate when water reaches a certain level. My pots are only 3 gallon. Whatever the heigth your float is set at in your brain is when it will activate.....so the trash can brain wouldn't work because the pots are only around 8inches in heigth; meaning that is the max amount of water you could have in the brain for it to properly fill/drain the pots

Do you get what I'm saying or am I way to baked right now?
 

hornedfrog2000

Well-Known Member
No, I get it because I have the same system. Only reason I was saying the trash can was so you could have more pumps/tubing.
 
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