Soil to Hydro switch?

Hey, I started a clone awhile ago and was only able to get one to root. From this I let it grow to about six inches and then I put it outside. From there it grew to maybe a little over a foot. I brought it inside where I have a 400w Mastercolor HPS retro white light bulb. I had been looking into it for a long time of when I was going to start a hydro grow. So after I brought it inside I took a few clone clippings and started a little DWC bubbler. My clones were able to root themselves within the first week I was seeing new growth on the top of the clones. It's been three weeks now and they are a really good size and looking extremely healthy. BUT, the mother of these clones has been looking very haggard. I feel that the water I'm feeding it is not able to dry out of the soil fast enough and I'm sure root rot is now a problem. Also I have had the light settings on 12/12 pretty much right after I cut the clones and they are all in the same room, except for one clone that I am keeping for a possible mother. The soil clone is about two feet tall and I want to see if I can flush the soil away from its roots and throw it into a hydro set up. The room that I'm using to grow generally gets a little hotter than I want in the summer as well and I think having it in the water helps to cool the plant. I will probably start it out in a good amount of just straight water and then boost the nutes up from there. The plant has already started to bud and sure this may stress the plant out but do I really have that much to lose? I am trying to make a bigger gain out of this, not lose a plant but if it happens I have four more that aren't too far behind. Has anyone ever tried this before?

So far it's been a week and I haven't really noticed a difference in bud size since I did the switch. There is some root growth in the bottom where they've started to move out of the net pot and into the water. Does this mean that it had to change itself to veg.... i don't know... probably just stressing the shit out of it more than anything. I few of the white hairs turned red as well. Not too worried about it since there is still about 4 weeks left to go... maybe more who knows.

plant is finally starting to show some signs of growing bigger buds! More or less because it had to grow more roots which fall into the solution. I saw the other day where someone was selling a "stealth bubbleponics" rubbermaid that would pump the already oxygenated air up to lines that ran into each bucket but would run constantly. So would this not be the same as submerging your roots completely in the water/nutes all the time with air stones running? The roots they showed were healthy and didn't have to grow that long. For some reason I've always thought that you can't have the roots under all the time because they like the oxygen as well but I guess if you're feeding oxygen into the water and keeping them wet you'll give them what they need. Will this be too much tho? Cause Nute burn or even kill my plants? If no one replies with an answer I guess I'll have to figure this one out on my own.

As long as you have oxygenated water (Airstones) then its perfectly fine to have roots submerged 24/7

True that. Deep water culture (DWC) mixed with aeroponics is a winning combination. Sweet bubbler... keep the pics coming. I am using a GH Rainforest and I love it.

NoDrama said:

As long as you have oxygenated water (Airstones) then its perfectly fine to have roots submerged 24/7

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