bronkeydain

I will be doing my first indoor grow next month after we have moved house. Since I have done a few outdoor grows in soil. I was going to go soil indoor. Then I started reading on hydroponics and now I think I will do hydroponics as the advantages over soil seem very clear to me. I was going to go ebb and flow but I have no clue where to start. Now Cannabis has got me thinking towards the hempy direction... Is it really that simple?

Cannabis

Yes, it is Bronkeydrain. It's exactly that simple.

3.14159

4 drilled hempy's in each rubbermaid with a 2" rez up the side of the rubbermaid. water the rubbermaid every 5 days... simple as that!

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boss429

once you set up an ebb and flow system in really grows itself. mix the nutes, ph the water, set your timers, double and then triple check everything, then let 'er rip. check the ph and ppm daily and i prefer to dump the water, wash the entire system and start over with fresh nutes in fresh RO water once a week but you can easly go ten days (two weeks?)
i can give you a rundown of my exact setup with a pic or two if you want.

bronkeydain

That would be great, yes please!

boss429

hey sorry i forgot to send you this, i was pretty baked the night i wrote that up. ok so here are links to the wholesaler that my hydro store buys stuff from, and exactly what i used:

two of these:
National Garden Wholesale : Gardening Supplies

on top of two of these:
National Garden Wholesale : Gardening Supplies

I used the 2x3 trays on top of a similarly shaped 10gal reservoir. i use two so i can have two harvests under the light being harvested at different times. it's important to be able to flush the one tray while the other one is still drinking nutrients...it doesn't list it as ten gallon but it's the second reservoir in the pic.

the 400 watt ballast and then just an eye hortilux hps bulb and some generic piece of s**t hood. i'd spend the dough on a nice hood
National Garden Wholesale : Lighting

this is all my plants grew in:
National Garden Wholesale : Gardening Supplies

two 66gph pumps, one in each res. you will attatch them to a timer which should only run them for about four or five minutes, pushing water up into the tray. it floods the medium, gives the plants a drink, then after five minutes it slowly drains out giving the plants a ten minute drink.
National Garden Wholesale : Gardening Supplies

for the pumps i used this timer:
National Garden Wholesale : Gardening Supplies

then i just used general hydroponic three part nutrients to their schedule.

Maintenance:
my whole grow i would follow the nutrient schedule, top of and PH the water in the reservoir daily. i would dump all the water once a week and start over because the plant will draw more or less of certain nutes. giving it a fresh start makes sure you don't saturate your water.

i only grew it once but i did a TON of reading on this site (best site on the web, honestly) and four different books before i went out and bought my equipment. if you have any more questions i'd be really happy to help and once again sorry for the delay in response.

bronkeydain

Thanks for that info Boss and no worries about the delay, I appreciate you taking the time to inform us.

When I start my indoor grow, I will be using a 40" x 40" x 80" tent with 600Watt HPS. I have decided now to go 50% soil and 50% hydro. I am still not sure wether to go for ebb & flow, hempy or a bubbler system. So many choices, it'd be nice to see a thread with all these systems and pro's and cons, although I suspect this is very very personal.

I need a system where I can go away for a week or so, I suppose that means hempy is not adequate unless I install some dripping system? In soil, when going away, I used to tie garbage bags around the pots and put in some water and a tiny bit of nutes, tie the bags around the stems so the water wouldn't evaporate. Last time it kept my plants going for 9 days like this no problem.

tripps

Been there, done that, it was just too much for me. (My aching back) Great for a small starter grow, but it's ebb n flow for me next, gonna try the ebb n grow system Rip is using. Not cheap, but if cost isn't a big issue, looks like the way to go.

Edit: I'm sure Cannabis' system would work great, but I'm working out of town and trying to remodel my house, I just don't have time to DIY at this point in my life.

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Second journal Hempy (smoking it now)
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passive resorvoir systems or passive wick systems

alleycat

Ok I like the low maintenance grows myself, and tried quite a few different hydro ways. I say the ebb and flo way. I like it easy, but I also like it cheap. Here's some shots of what I use. It's a 2x2 tray for like 40-50 bucks sitting on top of an 18 gallon rubbermaid for like 4 bucks, a 66 gph pump for like 7 bucks from harbor freight, and a $3.99 timer from harbor freight when they are on sale, that works better than any other timer I've used, and has 15 minute intervals.

I love my grow and taking care of it, but I'm not 100% of the time around anymore to sit and watch it everyday. Trust me I'm glad to finally be out and about, and still when at home seem to be in the grow rooms more during the day, than the rest of the house. It's nice to have a system that will run a week and not have to worry about running home just to water the plants. This way I grow, the pump sits in the resevoir and pumps water to the tray, it doesn't need an airstone, cause the water drains right back into the rubbermaid the tray sits on, and once the level of the tray is reached, the water just starts overflowing into the resevoir, creating enough air bubbles to keep the water oxygenated, so no worrys about springing a leak while you aren't home and flooding the place. The only electric is for the pump. The pump is pretty much gonna be on any system that will allow you to be gone for a week, sure could make up some gravity feed or something, but that isn't low maintenance in my book. Cheap and easy that will last me a week is low maintenance to me. I also thru up a picture of just the rubbermaid, I add a board across and screw it to the rubbermaid to allow the tray to evenly sit on the tub, and also gives it an angle to allow the water to drain from the tray easy. You can see in the rubbermaid only shot, that I've got them set up so I can hook another rubbermaid to this one, and then can get up to 2 weeks away, and have done that when camping with my parents. Or just a bigger rubbermaid for longer times away would work too, if your not comfortable with your joining a couple of them together and worry about it leaking.

If you look at those pictures, there are NFT tubes, waterfarms, and a bubbler in the pictures, and that's no where close to the hydro stuff I've tried over the years. I've done a few hempys too, and they were by far the most work for my hydro growing experiences, very easy if you are gonna be around, but don't last long enough for me, and yes you could set up a pump on those, but they you have chances of the drippers clogging, been there done that, and leaks where the tubing isn't over a resevoir. Hempys really perform well, but not the low maintenance you are looking for, you'd have to have it all figured out how much time for the drippers to be on, and if one got clogged or something. IMHO

Happy Growing

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