Fizzy Farm ??

Anyone have experience with this system? I would like to see a dissolved oxygen meter on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocuBknEtEA

http://shop.zeromilefarms.com/

Looks interesting

Looks good but what's it like when the tub is rammed to the gunnel's with a large tight root ball?
Can it still deliver the same level of food and oxygen into the centre of the root mass as efficiently?
Do the principles still work when the tub is packed out with roots?

IMO it doesn't look like it does any more than a bubbler with a submersed pump for water movement fitted.

Having watched the promo vid, I still fail to see what benefits it supposedly offers over other systems; specifically how this system is better than others and what issues it directly addresses with it's design.

Personally, I don't do systems with mechanical pumps, espeically submersed ones. Unless you have a chiller or happen to live in a decent year round climate, they just add heat to the res which in turn makes it all nice n cosey for bad bugs, especially at the centre of the root mass where temps are supposedly higher anyway.

I just don't see the advantages he's stating over other systems.

If you ask me and I'm no professional mind, it offers no significant improvement over other systems. Just seems it does the same stuff in a new package. But that's just me.

I'm happy to keep on prototyping and building my own systems until I've found a design that actually combats issues these systems don't seem to bother about.


TL;DR?
Each to their own but I'm not sold that it's any better or offers any advantage over other systems that basically do the same.

I was really going for food safe materials and pretty. http://i.imgur.com/elbkUwX.jpg
I do have a but of science behind me.
http://www.eurohydro.com/pdf/articles/gb_dissolved_oxygen.pdf
http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/32383/PDF
To be honest we have never grown your plant. I have had rootballs from tomatoes that over a year old that fill up a volume of over 10 gallons and I was still able to penetrate. You guys cull after a few months right?

RoboSlop said:

I was really going for food safe materials and pretty. http://i.imgur.com/elbkUwX.jpg
I do have a but of science behind me.
http://www.eurohydro.com/pdf/articles/gb_dissolved_oxygen.pdf
http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/32383/PDF
To be honest we have never grown your plant. I have had rootballs from tomatoes that over a year old that fill up a volume of over 10 gallons and I was still able to penetrate. You guys cull after a few months right?

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Hi RoboSlop,

Are you the creator of the Fizzy Farms by any chance?

And yes mate, our crops are usually grown in the veg state for around 4 - 6 weeks on average and then around 8 - 12 weeks fruiting but they can't half develop a whopping root ball mass in that time.
That's why I was curious about the system's ability to penetrate deep into the mass where temps can be warmer and oxygen levels lower.

I'd be interested to hear / see more of your results and hopefully discuss the system in greater details.


All the best,


CM

CheeseMouse said:

Hi RoboSlop,

Are you the creator of the Fizzy Farms by any chance?

And yes mate, our crops are usually grown in the veg state for around 4 - 6 weeks on average and then around 8 - 12 weeks fruiting but they can't half develop a whopping root ball mass in that time.
That's why I was curious about the system's ability to penetrate deep into the mass where temps can be warmer and oxygen levels lower.

I'd be interested to hear / see more of your results and hopefully discuss the system in greater details.


All the best,


CM

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Yes sir I am. My real name is Scott. What questions can I answer for you. I will try to answer them with pics and to best of my ability. Also here is a review some guy did on reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/hydro/comments/17250k/review_fizzy_farm_no_joke_this_is_the_best_dwc/

Please understand, that while I have not grown your plant, I have learned all that I know about hydro from this and other forums. MJ growers seem to be the most attentive and passionate growers of any plant one could ever read about. They don't miss a thing and tune their methods accordingly.