how to water my setup bubbleponics setup NOW

Hey I just moved the seedlings in rockwool cubes to netpots with hydroton. Now I am confused about how to water them exactly and how often. Should I pour water over the whole netpot or just the rockwool cube?

If so, how much water should be used? Should the airstones be turned on? I dont see why they should, considering the roots are not sticking out past the rockwool very far.
thanks.

you might as well run the air stone, it will add oxygen to the water (as you know).

it's up to you how much and how often to water. in rockwool/hydroton pots, i water my plants for about a 1/2 hours 3 times daily...... but it's a dripper, it's not flooding the plants, just dripping water for about 1/2 hour.

Running Bubble ponics, beacuse of the drip thing is differnt, This is what I did in DWC which is the same, just no drip.

I raised the level of the water to just bellow the level of the rockwool cube (Like 1cm bellow it), that meanse it was covering the bottom of the net pots. this kept the cube damp and once roots started to grow outside of the pots I started to lower the water level untill it was the 1" bellow the net pot.

Using Bubble Ponics and there drip, you may not have to do this, but I can't suggest drip times for you, as I have not used the system.

Regardles of what you do, you want to keep that air stone running 24/7. if the water is left sit it will go stagnant and breed all sorts of nasty Bactira.
Good luck.

Mr Green Man said:

Running Bubble ponics, beacuse of the drip thing is differnt, This is what I did in DWC which is the same, just no drip.

I raised the level of the water to just bellow the level of the rockwool cube (Like 1cm bellow it), that meanse it was covering the bottom of the net pots. this kept the cube damp and once roots started to grow outside of the pots I started to lower the water level untill it was the 1" bellow the net pot.

Using Bubble Ponics and there drip, you may not have to do this, but I can't suggest drip times for you, as I have not used the system.

Regardles of what you do, you want to keep that air stone running 24/7. if the water is left sit it will go stagnant and breed all sorts of nasty Bactira.
Good luck.

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First of all, thanks for the responses they are much appreciated. (greenestheory and I are together)

attached is a crude drawing of the system.

There is no drip system, so what we were worried about is that even with the bubbles going, maybe the water would not reach the roots, which are protruding only about a cm from the bottom of the rockwool plug.

You suggest keeping the water level 1 cm below the cube and covering the net pots. Just to be clear , do you mean that part of the netpot, including the hydroton, will be completely submersed in the water up until 1cm before the rockwool?

I have heard of putting it right below the netpot, but havent heard of actually having the netpot in the water. Attached is another pic of what I am interpretting your suggestion as:

Am I correct in my interpretation?

Also, when do you suggest we start feeding nutrients to them.

Yep that is it.

This is what I was told to do and it worked.
The idea is that you keep the rockwool damp without letting it get saturated, just keep an eye. the roots will have started to grow out of the net pots in 3 to 6 days. and then you can lower the water. first to the bottom of the net pot and then to one inch bellow.

Nutes.
For the first couple of days (Untill you have a set of 3 prong leaves) I would keep the nutes at an EC of 0.3 then incresse as the plant gets bigger.

IF you can't get water witha n EC of 0, then be carefull, and just use a little nutes.
Good luck.

Thanks a bunch!

how much should i feed my plants when they r on flower?

bowzer said:

how much should i feed my plants when they r on flower?

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Make your own thread and don't ask such vague questions.

Indeed.

But in answer any way.
Growing DWC/Bubble Ponics, by the time you get to flowering you should not need to be told how much to feed them. You should no what they need by paying cloes attention to what your plants have been telling you.

bubbleponics can be run twenty four hours a day from seed... i prefer scrapping the pump and using a fogger, a lot more effective