With a bucket ebb and flow system, with air lines to each bucket and to main resevoir(55 gallon drum)what is the purpose of flooding the buckets and draining them three or four times during hours of light? Why not just flood them for the day? wouldn't that be the same concept as a bubbler or water culture grow? You don't drain the water in a bubbler except to change the water do you? And what level should you fill either the bucket ebb and flow or the bubbler?
plants took a real slow start I'm pretty sure because water level was too low , I've corrected that but want to make sure it isn't too high now either. which raised my question to the necessity of drain and fill, drain and fill? Also am dabbling in the bubbler method since they seem to be quite similar?
Any input would be appreciated

Thanks
Bill
BILL THICK Reviewed by BILL THICK on . question about bucket ebb and flow With a bucket ebb and flow system, with air lines to each bucket and to main resevoir(55 gallon drum)what is the purpose of flooding the buckets and draining them three or four times during hours of light? Why not just flood them for the day? wouldn't that be the same concept as a bubbler or water culture grow? You don't drain the water in a bubbler except to change the water do you? And what level should you fill either the bucket ebb and flow or the bubbler? plants took a real slow start Rating: 5