STORE BOUGHT SYSTEM Reviews

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MostlyCrazy said:

It does come down to whether you are handy or not. Simple enough to construct. If you price out the parts you looking at between $25-30. Bucket (dark color or at least light proof) - $5, 10" net pot - $5. Air pump and air hoses - $10, Drain - $5, couple of rockwool cubes - $1 (but you can only get them in larger packs around $10), hydrotron - $5 (again you usually buy in bulk) and things like a 3/8" and 5/8" bit to drill a hole for the air line and drain.

To me it's a fair price since I'm not particularly handy and really need something to blame if something goes wrong! LOL!

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Ya i mean i could probably do it, but either way i dont have a hydro store in my area so i will have to order stuff of the internet either way. The question i have is, would it be more effecient to buy 3 of those bucketeers or would it be better to just buy a bubbleponics set up and just do 3 plants in it and just alternate plants on rows so each plant has sufficent room to grow. Here is a link to the bucketeer http://www.stealthhydroponics.com/product.php?xProd=93&xSec=61 Here is a link to the SH Bubbleponics kit http://www.stealthhydroponics.com/product.php?xProd=16&xSec=60

I bought the best store bought system ever today. A net pot lid with an eight inch net pot that fits right onto any five gallon bucket. Perect. lol. easy too.

MP,

The only problem with the bucketeer is that you have to have rooted clones or seedlings to place in the bucket since the water does not get to the root system when it is small. You can play around with water levels in the bucket to overcome that but it is a difference between the two systems. The bubbleponic system has the feeder tubes which eliminates that hassle.

One way to do it is to have the BP system and veg them in that until the have a substantial root system and then transfer into the bucket. Somehow or another you have to get roots going strong before they go into bucket. Can be done with some time in a propagator or mystic/aero cloner. You can also sort of hand water the plant in the bucket until it's roots hit the res.

Anyone heard of or use General Hydroponics' Rainforest Series?

http://www.generalhydroponics.com/genhydro_US/rainforest.html

I'm trying to decided if the 66 its worth getting for 3-6 plants....

Anyone seen or tried one of these systems?

http://www.yaroots.com/producer.html

I realize that this thread is pretty old, I have 2 volksgardens and an 8 bucket waterfarm system with recirculation system add-on if you want my review on either of those.

Now that's some expensive gear you got there! How do they work?

MostlyCrazy said:

Now that's some expensive gear you got there! How do they work?

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The wheel turns slowely, about once every 50 minutes or so. The bottom tray fills up from the res and the bottoms dip in the water. So it's just an ebb and flow but the plants spin around the light. It works good if you have a really short strain so you can do a circular sog but for larger strains you can only use a few and have to tie them down which sucks, that's why I picked up the waterfarm setup so I can grow tall plants too. I finally started a journal, link is below

I just bought a Bubbleponics unit from stealth hydro, and for me it is a wait and see. The problem has to do with the lighting, HPS works, M/H is dead, and it has been a long weekend. I have Email them and will call in the morning to follow up.
This has all been bad timing for me. When I first decided to do some kind of a hydroponics grow system I ordered a Areogarden. I was run around the bush so many times about why they were not shipping it that I said stick it, don't need your crap.
That is where the timing got screwed, I have only one clone of nine left and I am doing my best to save it. I have it in the Bubbleponics unit with a 4' shop light with two 6500 k's in it.

The one company I would Stay as far a way from as you can is AreoGreden, as far as SH Hydro, like I said it is a wait and see. I do know that stuff does slip by, it's the time lost that is a pain in the ass for me.

Well That's the end of me doing any more business with STEALTH HYDRO. I had to send the ballet back to them on my dime, and it was a lot of dimes. (37.17to be exact) So they can go FUCK there selves, no more money from me.
And I am the type of person that when screwed will spend years if need be giving them fucked reviews.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but it seemed like an appropriate thread.
I just did some mods to my Supercloset Superflower... added insulated ductwork to try to cut down on SOME of the noise.

The thing that bums me out is that even though I have two of these fans (one for the air-cooled lighting hood on my 400w, one for dedicated exhaust through a carbon scrubber), My temps are still in the low 90's.

Each of those fans are 117 CFM, which should be MORE than enough for my little 4x4x2 cabinet. What gives?

Thanks for the help,
BILLDO

Im in total disbeleife in the price of some of these systems, i built my own stealth system from plywood for less than 300$

I know... and to think that I will pretty much have paid that much for a cabinet with nice machine work and the lighting system. Everything else will have been replaced soon. I am replacing the two fans with one S&P TD100x.

Bmasta said:

Im in total disbeleife in the price of some of these systems, i built my own stealth system from plywood for less than 300$

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billdo said:

Sorry to hijack this thread, but it seemed like an appropriate thread.
I just did some mods to my Supercloset Superflower... added insulated ductwork to try to cut down on SOME of the noise.

The thing that bums me out is that even though I have two of these fans (one for the air-cooled lighting hood on my 400w, one for dedicated exhaust through a carbon scrubber), My temps are still in the low 90's.

Each of those fans are 117 CFM, which should be MORE than enough for my little 4x4x2 cabinet. What gives?

Thanks for the help,
BILLDO

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no way is that enough cfm, for size wise of the room but without a fan your room will be 110F, you can pick up a 250cfm booster fan from lowes of HD and set it up, i have done this and it is perfect for a 400watter, anything less and its fucked, try the same fan for the extractor, i dont remember ever seeing any carbon filters being that low rated

morrisgreenberg said:

no way is that enough cfm, for size wise of the room but without a fan your room will be 110F, you can pick up a 250cfm booster fan from lowes of HD and set it up, i have done this and it is perfect for a 400watter, anything less and its fucked, try the same fan for the extractor, i dont remember ever seeing any carbon filters being that low rated

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really?

4x2x2=16 cubic feet

16*5=80 cfm


So, according to the math, I would need 80 cfm to recycle the air 5 times per minute.


Is the standard formula bunk? Is it because of the small size of the cab?

for a 400 watt hid I would stop the stealth a little, my prob once too, and buy a 420 cfm, lol, six inch true inline fan for about a 100 bucks. I have two valuelines, a 6 and an 8 and they are cheap and work fine. I tried booster duct fans and no dice there either dude. Get a real fan and yu will have a nice start to working with HID lights. The scret is do not bullshit around. lol. true.

Also I just got a turbogarden. I got it off craigs list. I wud never have paid full price, but it is a cool cool thing. Very conveneint. I would recoment anything botanicare makes as being nice but very high in price if new. I could make one with a 2x3 cement tray and a rubbermaid. But hey, it is so nice to look at.

the cfms are right on the money for the size of the space, its just having a 400watter in there is overwhelming, one of those duct fans will do you good if you have an air cooled hood, set it up so you blow air into the hood, they dont suck well. HTGsupply sells them for 25$ wired and ready to go, or you can grab a 6in 424cfm from them for 120$...$200 with a filter combo.....turbo garden are cute arenty they? =)

morrisgreenberg said:

the cfms are right on the money for the size of the space, its just having a 400watter in there is overwhelming, one of those duct fans will do you good if you have an air cooled hood, set it up so you blow air into the hood, they dont suck well. HTGsupply sells them for 25$ wired and ready to go, or you can grab a 6in 424cfm from them for 120$...$200 with a filter combo.....turbo garden are cute arenty they? =)

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Word.

I am thinking of trying the TD-100 on its own and using one of the current axial fans I have to cool the lights.

That means 107 cfm over the lights and 135 cfm for the scrubber/exhaust.

If that doesn't work... I quit.

Here is an update on the venting situation.

I replaced the scrubber-attached axial fan with a Soler & Palau TD-100x, and my temps dropped 10 degrees. I am really impressed at how quiet this fan is.

I have now ordered the slightly smaller TD-100 to replace the axial lighting fan. I am hoping that this will drop the temperature a bit more, and i am quite certain it will make my cabinet MUCH more stealth.


Thanks for the help, RIU!