Quote Originally Posted by stickygreenlightsabr
What exactly is KBS growing? Big fookin tree growing?
It's called "Krusty Bucket System" or Freedom Buckets in some cases. From what I know about them, it's like a recirculating DWC, without all the airpumps because you use a natural waterfall effect [drain return from buckets to control res] to maintain adequate DO levels...Plus the buckets are elevated to force gravity feed back to the control res. Then a pump in the control res recirculates the nutes to each bucket via a stream of water in each bucket. You also use Lava rock as your medium along with a "bio-filter" to maintain beneficial bacteria to take care of things like algea. The system in turn does not "require" lightproofing, even tho it has been said that roots like to grow better in dark conditions. Some also like to raise the DO level in these systems by adding an airstone to the control res. In essence, you are trying to mimmick a pond or stream environment where running water, nutes and beneficial bacteria is all you need to grow healthy plants....hope this helped.

oh and yes, depending on veg time, plants in these kinds of systems that are dialed in will grow faster and get bigger than any other hydro method I have ever seen before...
-sD