Thanks everyone for your help.

In regards to the timer:
Stinky when you mentioned the $8 timer at Walmart, I don't think that will be sufficient will it? I just posted another post about timers in a different forum, but the problem I believe was the constant water to the net pots. The roots couldn't handle the constant wet. The cheap timers at Walmart seem to only go on and off a few times per day. Will that be enough?

In regards to getting a REAL light:
At one time I thought that I read on several occasions that the 430Watt San Agro was good, which is why I bought it. After coming here I read on several occasions that the light isn't any good. I'll try to research why it's not good and what I should replace it with. Perhaps since I have the ballast I can buy a bulb?

About the fertilizers:
I'll research this too thank you. Right now I wonder if I should go get some miracle grow for the ones growing in soil, but I had better do some reading.

Thanks everyone, you've helped.
420kidder Reviewed by 420kidder on . Please help after several failed attempts Ok so me and my girlfriend bought a hydro system about 3 months ago and have failed to yield, I think primarily because we don't have a timer for our hydro system so the water continues to feed to the rocks without stopping. I'm not sure where to get a affordable timer that will allow water to be transferred only ever so often. In addition the nutrients we have are what came with the system, and may not be ideal. So we've decided to move soil. We also had a failed attempt at soil which is Rating: 5