Everything is down and cleared out.

I've been scrubbing the troughs and about to run the pots through the dishwasher to prepare the setup for another round.

Now we clean hydroton...
Shown is a big bin with all the hydroton that the system used (equivalent to a 5 gallon pail full) and about 4 gallons of water with 40 mL cannazyme and an airstone in it. I've removed the chunks of root matter. I'm going to let that sit for about a week and then rinse it off and adjust the pH for re-use.

One thing I noticed with this system is that there is no need to adjust the res temp. Since everything is spilling over hydroton all the time, and cascading through air, it stays at approximately ambient air temperature- so if the room is at proper temp, so is the res.

It's the same deal with the airstone. It was completely unneccessary and I removed it early in the grow. The cascading action is enough to keep the res aerated.

I highly recommend this method to aspiring hydro growers.

And then we smoke the spoils! I'm a bit thunderfucked at the moment... :drool:

Uh oh... what's that under the domes? Could it be... noooo... but it IS!

OMGWTF!

TO BE CONTINUED.....
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . Stinky's Crash Course in "nOOb Hydro"... Welcome to the Darkside Hey all, can I start by saying for the record that I am a COMPOST grower- HAHAHA- just in case there was any confusion... :jointsmile: I'm setting up another room in my house to run hydro for the winter because I really don't have a good place to store soil that doesn't freeze, and disposing of used dirt in a place that gets SNOWFALL is just ASKING for trouble... So this is going to be set up as an example of what I consider to be a very VERY basic beginner hydro system, one which anyone Rating: 5