Simplistic, yet great hydro system.

[Treetops]

Thanks Stinky...I cant wait either...Will make a nice addition to my gallery...She is 11 days old today :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Treetops]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Peace,
Treetops

[Opie Yutts]

I wonder this as well, can 6 bigger plants roots fit in this? Also, a switchable ballast is a great idea. That way I would only need a mother room, and a flower room.

The roots of 6 plants fit just fine in an Emily's garden. I have used it many times, vegging for 2 months then budding for 2 months. The roots get tangled toward the end, but that doesn't matter unless you like taking your plants out alot. If you take them out often they might not get tangled anyway, and you could cut them apart if you needed to. It happens in many systems, no biggie.

And you cannot do sog or scrog (which I highly recommend) with one light. With both styles, you have separated veg and bloom areas, with one light in each, hopefully MH for veg and HPS for bloom.

[Paht_Hed]

One thing you have to realize is that your plants size is going to be limited to the rootball size. Go with a 5 gallon bucket to get maximum results hell you can even go get a 25-30 toy bucket from walmart, the ones with the rope handle, cut some styrofoam to fit the top, cut a hole in the styrofoam and put your net pot in there. I saw some guy grow a 32 oz plant using that setup. Take a look at my log (not updating it anymore) But it shows an easy DWC setup, a bucket a net pot and some tape. After that all you need is an airstone and a pump. I upgraded to solid black buckets recently b/c they are better than just black duct tape.

[Opie Yutts]

Treetops, I'm just saying, careful, yesterday I checked a couple of my CFLs with a laser thermometer, and they had spots that were 145 degrees. I wouldn't want something that temp, that close to a struggling seed.

Then again, if aint broke don't fix it. Nice healthy-looking root mass.

[Opie Yutts]

Go with a 5 gallon bucket to get maximum results hell you can even go get a 25-30 toy bucket...

There's no way you need 25 or 30 gallons for one plant. Sure the bigger the better, but there's a point where it gets a little ridiculous. Right now, using an Emily's Garden and a DIY Emily's Garden, I'm growing 9 plants in 3 gallons, or 6 plants in 2 gallons, whichever sounds the coolest. I have to add nutes every 4 days, at which point they are getting close to running dry. The good part about that is it's a complete reservoir change 7 times each month instead of 1. I've grown big beautiful crops using this method.

[DurbanStone]

The roots of 6 plants fit just fine in an Emily's garden. I have used it many times, vegging for 2 months then budding for 2 months. The roots get tangled toward the end, but that doesn't matter unless you like taking your plants out alot. If you take them out often they might not get tangled anyway, and you could cut them apart if you needed to. It happens in many systems, no biggie.

And you cannot do sog or scrog (which I highly recommend) with one light. With both styles, you have separated veg and bloom areas, with one light in each, hopefully MH for veg and HPS for bloom.

I was thinking about getting a conversion ballast, and using a little room to clone, then right into vege?

[Opie Yutts]

With a conversion ballast you will be harvesting half as often than as in a sog or scrog set up, which is fine, but it's also less weed. If you aren't going to sog or scrog then all you would need is a combo mother/clone area and a separate grow area. Take a clone from your mother plant, put it in your system, when it's time to bloom, switch your ballast from MH to HPS. 2 or 3 weeks before harvest get some cuttings from your mother and start them in the cloner so that they will be ready to go into your system as soon as harvest clean up is done. Keep in mind your HPS will be on 12 hours per day and mothers and clones will have 18 per day, and they can't interfere with each others' light schedule.

[Paht_Hed]

There's no way you need 25 or 30 gallons for one plant. Sure the bigger the better, but there's a point where it gets a little ridiculous. Right now, using an Emily's Garden and a DIY Emily's Garden, I'm growing 9 plants in 3 gallons, or 6 plants in 2 gallons, whichever sounds the coolest. I have to add nutes every 4 days, at which point they are getting close to running dry. The good part about that is it's a complete reservoir change 7 times each month instead of 1. I've grown big beautiful crops using this method.

I ran a 5 gallon bucket DWC system for a single plant, the rootball took up the whole bucket within 6 weeks from a seed. I am sure given enough lumens I could easily fill a 25 gallon bucket with roots by the time flowering was done and that would make for a huge plant.

[Treetops]

Opie, Thanks for the advice.....it was 80-81ish at dirt level...I raised them a little..best to safe than sorry with these "kids"..On the root mass, gotta be all the bubbles from that stone as the other one just has an ordinary air stone....less bubbles...