DYI hydro?

[Mr.Blue]

I am trying to find a DYI hydro system that i could make my self, i thought i saw one on the site a while back but i cant seem to find it, help?

Mr.Blue Reviewed by Mr.Blue on 04-09-2007. DYI hydro? I am trying to find a DYI hydro system that i could make my self, i thought i saw one on the site a while back but i cant seem to find it, help? Rating: 5

[clayboy]

Yeah I'm interested in a DYI too, or a quality kit for beginners

[Dnutz]

Hey I was looking for exactly the same thing, then i saw this movie and its hella easy to make your own systems, it includes a drip system for veging and an ebb and flow for flowering, pretty simple and watch what he gets outta it!

YouTube - How to Grow Green

[bongerstonerd00d]

Blue...............

4 5 gallon buckets black ones or painted black
4 Mega Monster Netpots that fit lid perfectly
1 quality airpump
4 airstones
Some airline
Hydroton to fill netpots
Nutes
ph/TDS/EC tester
pH Down (Unlikely you need pH up)
R.O. Unit (optional but very nice to have)
Some CFL's or T5's to veg with
Seperate mom/clone/veg area
1000 watt H.P.S. to flower
4'x4' floor space for flowering
Drill with bit to drill the lip of each net pot or the side of bucket to feed airline thru and drill about 30 holes around top of bucket to tie string to.
Learn to LST the 4 plants so you can get the benefit of every lumen your light produces.
Few cases of wide mouth Mason quart jars

I am assuming you have ventilation, odor control, etc already in place.

There ya go........... DWC setup in 12 beers or less.

Oh yeah, learn to grow from clones while keepin a mom.

Done correctly you cannot smoke what the above setup would produce every 8-10 weeks. If you can, then add two buckets. Wait, if you smoke that much you would be too fuckin stoned to move and add anything.


Lovin it green,
b0nger

[Cornelius]

bonger is right, dwc is probably the easiest and most effective hydro system available.

one thing though: you can use little netpots (5 inches or so) so you can use less hydroton, since the roots mainly live in the water anyhow.

[Scarlet Sky]

here's a diy (do it yourself) dwc setup. easy easy...

Bubblers or DWC/deep water culture

[socialistpete]

Thanks for the link Scarlet, thats a great diy tutorial.I think i'm going to build one, I've always used a drip system and now I am very interested in DWC. So I have a few questions that might help some others out as well as myself. In dwc when you place your clones in the net pots with your hydroton your supposed to keep it one inch away from the roots right? If thats the case when you first put your clones in the net pots no roots will prob be exposed so will the roots contained in the hydroton still have nutes deliverd to them?

[Scarlet Sky]

i place my water just below the cut, the roots will spread and hang in the water. no nutes til you see roots, just plain jane ph'd water

[socialistpete]

I'm not very good at asking questions on boards so I'll try this again. When the plant has roots but are not hanging out of the net pot yet do the nutes penetrate the hydroton in the net pot to reach the roots?

[Scarlet Sky]

they do if you are already using roots. let me rephrase.

you won't use any nutes, until you see roots sticking out of the net pot. not before. all you have to do, is keep the bubbles splashing the ht until they come out, which takes about a week to two weeks.

then nutes.