Well, since you asked.....LOL Why dont you get them netpots that perfectly fit the tops of 5 gallon buckets ? You can grow trees in those bad boys, literally.

9 seperate buckets, huh ? Do you realize what a pain in your ass that is going to be changing them individually ? Plus, if you setup controller wit seperate rez you can control yer h2o temps much easier in mah opinion. ie. Water gets a little too warm, lift lid toss in frozen bottle of water for example. Not to mention pH and nute ALL the water at once, well I guess you could mix up a batch in trash can or whatever and fill from it. But again, sounds like a major PITA. With rez hook hose to it, drain, refill.......eazy as pie.

Get ya some panda plastic and turn those monster net pots upside down and trace around em so ya got a nice neat cover for each bucket, too.

OR....why not a drip for them monsters ? Could set them up on say a 1 foot to 18 inch high table you make outa plywood and 2x4's and drain back to rez???????? Huh, huh????? Build that table and make legs on side you drain to 1/2 inch shorter so ya gots a slope. Remember, water dont run uphill What about that idea, huh ? CHeap to build, too. Some beer, grommlets, hose, drill, beer, a rez, pumps (air, water), beer and you are live and in color. Oh, and some silicone goop and a recycling timer. Can get a cement pond (swimmin pool) recyclin timer at Wallworld for around 20-30 bucks.

Drill hole on each side of 6 of the buckets and daisy chain them together. Yanno, hook one in back to one in front to other and then T the lines at end of table so it connects to one main line to drain back to rez. Your last bucket on each row of 3 only needs one ho' in it.

WHen them babies get to be big gurls they gonna get mighty thristy. You gunna be fillin buckets frequently ......and hate life.

Thats it, my vote is for drip, drain back to rez, large netpots, and trees. Unless you wanted to get all fancy and mirror that flood and drain system they sell for about 600 bucks with controller and seperate rez. What a spot for 2 1000 watt HPS's.............Holy shit, what a yield you would get.

Just some ideas to ponder. You settle on something, let me know. I enjoy building as much as if not more than growing.

Its always green,
b0nger
bongerstonerd00d Reviewed by bongerstonerd00d on . latewood, crispi, weedhound.... asuming you would veg for thirty days, how much room will one plant's roots take up? is it possible to do more than one plant in a 5g without getting bound? i'm in the process of learning new tricks, if you haven't deduced that already... any help is much appreciated. here's the particulars. i'm going to be doing dwc, hopefully nine 5g buckets in flower in a square under a 1000w hps, will be vegging under one or two 400w mh with solarmax gold bulbs (blue spec with added red, works wonders). Rating: 5