Bubbleponics 6 planter kit, a good setup?
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Roseman
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Man, I am not the one to ask about that.
I am not one to give advise if I don't know a lot about it, and I do not know. I am a CFL man.
sorry.
Roseman
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Questions about Bubbleponic Growing Thread < lots of experts there
Roseman
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There is an Ostrich here that does it, so it can be done. It is much much much much more work and efforts and they will grow slowly.
When I started my present grow, I checked my plants at 7:30 in the morning when t hey were one and half inches tall and they all looked great. When Ig ot home from work at 6:00, one was dead and dry as coould be, the feeder tube got disconnected from one cup, by accident..
If I had been home and poured water on it every 4 hours, it would have survived.
In a DWC, you are not going to be there to pour water on it every 4 hours, you must sleep sometimes.
If you had an air pump twice as powerful as needed and twice as many air stones as needed, you could get some bouncing bubbles to bounce up and hit the cubes and possibly make it.
tea tree
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a 1000 watt hps is more than enough for four trees. They will be very nice. I suggest you take advantage of the penetration power of a 1000 watter and let them go big. cool. I just moved a rapid rooter into a five gallon container with a 3 in netpot with recycled tire mulch as the medium. I filled the water level up very high, to half the net pot and at the point the roots were just out of the rapid rooter. They are very hard to overwater. Not like rockwool. It grew fine and in under a week the roots were down past the netpots bottom and I let the water lower.
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Read the link below and use your own judgement. DWC growers have been doing it this way for years. Bubbleponics with pumps and feeder tubes is largely a gimmick. But like I said, judge for yourself, try it both ways.
As for how much work and effort it is, LOL! You have no pump, distributor or tubes in your res. You dial in the bubble action for the right wetness and from there it is really a chore - you keep the water level steady and once or twice a day you put your finger on top of the cubes to check how damp they are. Grueling work. There are no tubes to clog, no water pump to fail. The plants grow just as fast because (use your head here) those seedlings don't care where the water comes from just that it is maintained at the right wetness. I have gotten roots in the water in 6 days, other growers have done it in 5.
Ironically, what is called bubbleponics does not rely on or make good use of the bubbles. It should be called tubeponics. But don't listen to me or guru wannabes, read it and try it yourself. Thousands more plants have been grown this way than with the drip from below which is all "bubbleponics" is. The only difference is, DWC growers over the years didn't give it a cutesy name, trademark it and try to turn a quick buck selling it to noobs as a technological breakthrough.