The 30 minute 6 plant aero build

I just made my Areo setup... its the only 2 pics in my galery... its way too complicated for me to figure out how to post them here... I'm lucky I got this far...
So I go to the hydro stoor and tell them I need fox farm nutes???

Good job its an easy setup to master wasnt it.Simple is always good. Yeah I used Fox Farm grow big, big bloom and tiger bloom.I get mine from a local hydro shop but always find the cheapest advertisment as I always barter and get my shop to match prices.Worm's Way - Gardening Products, Supplies, Service, Support, and Knowledge Base for all your hydroponics, indoor, outdoor and organic gardening needs, year 'round! has it for like $39 for the 3 bottle set,Good luck and show the final outcome.

sorry for bringing up an old thread but whats the smallest water pump you can use? if you had more/long tubes could you build enough back pressure to have it mist out?

i was thinking of like a 100gph pump, would that work?

haha... I just actulay put my first few plants in the aero system I built then just 10 minutes ago!
I'm using a 100GPH pump I think... maybe 150... it seems to be working fine

nice, can you get some pics of the setup? what style did you build your sprayers?

this is exactly the build i was interested in doing on my next grow. i currently use soil and the whole mess/space thing is getting to be a issue. my only question is do the roots eventually drop down into the water? and does having the roots sitting in the water not produce root rot or something? prob a dumb question but i dont want to have something go wrong when i try this on my next grow

my roots aren't hanging down too low yet... but there only a few days old... I read they will eventualy grow down into the water... and for some reason thats ok...
I have 2 picks from when I first built it in my galery... I wold put up new picks... but I'm retarted... had help with the last 2... and I aded new pipes and shit since that pic... well just a hose outside for drainage, and a third parallel pipe with 4 sprayers close to the top of the lid... so it gets all up in there...

awesome thanks!

weediscool said:

this is exactly the build i was interested in doing on my next grow. i currently use soil and the whole mess/space thing is getting to be a issue. my only question is do the roots eventually drop down into the water? and does having the roots sitting in the water not produce root rot or something? prob a dumb question but i dont want to have something go wrong when i try this on my next grow

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is the answer to my question just to get a simple airstone?

The roots will grow through the net pots hang in the air and get misted with the misters then as they grow they will hang down into the nutrient water which is aerated since it goes highspeed through the pump and them aerated going through the mister heads and falls back into the water. I also like to add an air stone to the res to keep any nutes from settling and it also adds air. I also add H202 hydrogen peroxide from grotex this adds o2 and kills and rot or bacteria that may try to form and stops algae growth.

how much peroxide per gallon?
can you use hydrogen peroxide you find in supermarkets and places?

With the grotek they suggest 2-5 drops per gallon of water for established plants. The store stuff is onlt 3% and the grotek is 35%. Heres a link to read about it and the store stuff has some extras in it that arent so good for plants... Grotek Super Oxy H2O2 Hydrogen Peroxide 1-liter - Plantlighting Hydroponics

ok so the net pots sit about an inch above the water level right? I dont get how the roots get wet?

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my roots aren't hanging down too low yet... but there only a few days old... I read they will eventualy grow down into the water... and for some reason thats ok...
I have 2 picks from when I first built it in my galery... I wold put up new picks... but I'm retarted... had help with the last 2... and I aded new pipes and shit since that pic... well just a hose outside for drainage, and a third parallel pipe with 4 sprayers close to the top of the lid... so it gets all up in there...

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the misters mist the roots allday

ooooooh I just bought this thing whaat do you think? I have one 400 watt hps I want to get about an oz and a half per plant, is this possible?

so will that thing work?

it sounds possible, what company did you get that from? how much was it?

it was just over a hundred bucks on ebay. they told me it was modeled after the 6 site general hydroponics model. I got it on ebay. They person had over 100 previous clients and had good marks on all of them so he cant be selling a shitty product. It just seems hard to grow six plants in a 20 x 20 x20 unit. How much faster is hydro than soil grows, how much time do you actually save. Given that I transplant one foot clones into the chamber the day after harvest to keep a fast turn time. I want to get 6 harvest in a year. 2 oz per plant. so basically every two months a harvest

thats not a bad deal, and it came with all the stuuf seen there?
I'm only a month into my first grow with one of these systems, and I'm planing on harvesting like once every 4 or 6 weeks, by rotating plants.
I put one plant in there that I would say was only about 8 inches, and now, 2 weeks later its over 2 feet tall, and has roots like the lockness monsta!
it seems to be about 2 times as fast to me, but if you have a seperate place for veging I think you can harvest every 8-10 weeks, depending on strain and all that, and an ounce and a half seems like a reasonable goal, thats what I'm aming for, I hoe I get more, but I dont want to get my hopes up.

dude im interested do you have a journal? Yes it came with everything seen there. Ok next question I have my six clones going in soil right now, wasnt planning on using this system. they are about 3 inches tall, can I just soak them in a few series of bowls of water to get all the dirt off then put them in the net pots? Will they survive this transplant?