has anyone got a photo of a set up like this one?

it seems simple, I wish I had a photo of this though!


Garden setup
prep time: 1-3 hours
items: plastic crates, they are free just ask you local grocer for some
exhaust fan, obtained from home depot or local hydro store
1 gallon milk jugs with tops removed
rock wool or other porous rock, obtain
aquarium pump and tubing, available from k-mart
gang valve, to water all plants at once, available at k-mart
1/2 inch vinyl tubing, 2.5 feet , for siphoning
hydro solution, fertilizer
reflectant, such as mylar or you may use tinfoil
heavy black plastic, to prevent light from escaping
ballasts, a Must! has mandatory electric components that are needed to run HID
light source, high-pressure sodium AND metal halide(HID)
timer, avalible at garden store
power strip

Cut off top of milk jug. insert siphon tube and air tube down the handle of the jug until the reach the bottom(fig. 315). fill jug with rock wool. cover walls and door of closet with heavy black plastic. then cover with reflectant. set up exhaust fan at top of garden. attach to existing ventilation i.e. furnace or dryer vent, you want to suck the air and vent it out of the house. stack crates in pyramid fashion( fig. 420). place hydro jugs on crates. plant sprout pellet and inch or so into rock wool fill jug with hydro solution until it just touches the pellet. after roots grow into rock wool keep solution level at around 2/3 full. attach and turn on air pump. with gang valve, you can run up to four plants.

That's to ghetto for my taste. I see problems with it.....I assume you have grown like this before because of your detail. Gallon milk jugs? How big did you grow them out? Alga was not a problem for the clear jugs? You do know by the time you cut the tops off you end up with about 3/4 of a gallon usable?

good input for sure zandor, I just found those plans at a weed growing site and I wanted to get a look at how they set up the "pumping column"

http://www.hydroponics.net/productdo...structions.asp

I use waterfams right now but I've got the room for more.