Flooding?

Never mind

just make sure you give your roots just as much oxygen. they like to breath just as much as they like to drink

Fllod multiple times a day. Allow water to drain. Plants grow.

Flood/Drain or Ebb/Flow one of the easier way. DWC is probably easier, but they all have their pluses and minuses.

StreetRider said:

Fllod multiple times a day. Allow water to drain. Plants grow.

Flood/Drain or Ebb/Flow one of the easier way. DWC is probably easier, but they all have their pluses and minuses.

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Thanks fellas but im not exactly sure what ebb/flow is or dwc.

Ebb and Flow is where you flood a table or pots and then let the water drain out.

DWC = Deep Water Culture / Bubbleponics - is where you have your plant over a tank of aerated neutrients.

Simply Hydro maintains a nice reference of different sorts of watering systems. Look here.

Flood (aka ebb & flow) systems are the simplest, cheapest and most noob-friendly sort of watering systems.

noob-friendly is key imo. I'm still green with hydro and Ebb and Flow's larger margin of error has saved my ass many times already. I love my aeroponic cloner but I left the pump off on accident for a few hours and lost two clones... it also doesn't have anything in it but Clonex and water though so no nasties build up in it. I would probably fuck up DWC somehow too, and it also makes me think of pythium...

Clonex is not a pathogen inhibitor. Left long enough (long enough for the chlorine in the tap water to flash off, a few days), pythium & fusarium would colonise your aerocloner soln, no freaking doubt. Regular application of H2O2 is the trick to keep it all clean, aerocloner or DWC.

What/Who is the best supplier of H2O2 in the strengths "35%?" required? My local Hydro shop doesn't carry it.

Try other hydro shops or foodservice supply houses. Hydro shops should have 50%. 35% is common in foodservice as a steriliser.

Thank you for the QUICK reply!

no wucking furries, mate

http://www.dfwx.com/h2o2.htm
get the pool grade all it means is its more than 30 days on the shelf. get an extra gallon for free...

Might be a good deal, but whatever you do, don't fall prey to the pseudoscience claims made by some new-age nongs about drinking H2O2, some which appear to be linked to the cited website.

For the uninitiated, there's some truly nutty 'alternative health' loopbags out there who think that it's a good idea to 'get more O2 into the human body' by drinking H2O2 (as if your gut were made out of lungs or something). I can't think of a worse idea. H2O2 is great for sterilising your hydro op tanks, but somewhere between ineffective and stupid for human ingestion. All that is meant by the 'food grade' classification is that 35% H2O2 is suitable for decontaminating foodservice equipment. It DOESN'T mean that the stuff is suitable for human consumption.