New Grower New Grower - What Hydro System to buy???

[truth_830]

Hey guys, I'm building a custom grow tent 4x4, using 6 cree 3590 cob's from BigSm0, and a gorilla grow tent.

I need more info on what hydro system I should buy for my grow setup. Any and all input is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[jingo]

Nothing simpler than a single deep water culture bucket, a 5 gallon bucket with a net pot on top. You just put yourself an air stone down in the pump some decent air thru and away you go.

If your in the States Uline has good prices on black five gallon buckets. I used to run 6-8 buckets in a 4x6 foot space. Unless you run all the same strain you won't want a multi site recirculating system, so single bubble buckets work well.

I used to just mix a bucket of nutes and pick the net pot up plant, airStone and all and put down on my new bucket and I'd be good for 3-10 days depending on stage of growth. I even used to start off in 3 gallon buckets and move to 5 when the root ball got big.

If your going to do hydro you need to know everything about your water before you start. So your first bit of equipment will be a parts per million meter and a pH meter. For your pH meter you will need two calibration Solutions 4 and 7 are best in my opinion but you can also get 10. Then you only need one calibration solution for your parts per million meter and you don't have to calibrate it that often.

Hydro works best if you have a concrete floor you always want to keep that root zone cool, when you're doing Hydro.

 

[truth_830]

good to know.

I'm looking for something that features ease of use. something that can be placed on a timer.

 

[jingo]

good to know.

I'm looking for something that features ease of use. something that can be placed on a timer.

Not sure I understand the timer part. In hydro you will have either and air pump always running or a water pump always running. Unless you meen nft, which I know nothing about.

If your looking for high yield then you might want to look at coco with a bluemat drip system. You can set that up gravity flow and it waters automatically.

 

[jingo]

good to know.

I'm looking for something that features ease of use. something that can be placed on a timer.

Not sure I understand the timer part. In hydro you will have either and air pump always running or a water pump always running. Unless you meen nft, which I know nothing about.

If your looking for high yield then you might want to look at coco with a bluemat drip system. You can set that up gravity flow and it waters automatically.

 

[truth_830]

Oh okay. Yea I was looking a the ebb & flow NFT, any other recommendations?

 

[jingo]

Here's a 20+ ounce plant with coco and a drip system. I get 20+ ounces in Coco but I hand water.

https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/56794/

There are a few nft guys on here and they'll probably be along soon.

 

[Creature]

Have you looked at waterfarms? Basically a top feed rdwc. I'm thinking about getting Autopots in the near future. Not hydro but more a self watering system where you can add an airdome in the bottom. Run coco/perlite and it's basically hydro. I'll likely get the 4 pot system AND a waterfarm to screw around with. lol

 

[jingo]

Sorry wrong link https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/55750/

 

[jingo]

That was Jan plant of the month I believe.