steamroller said:

I am not familiar with this type of grow.
Is there supposed to be water in bucket for roots?
If the res and buckets are same level the water will be also [or very close].
Raise your res. to match the buckets if you want more water in them, or remove the stage.

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QcBerry said:

The water return to the reservoir from a 1inch pipe. And no the roots are not sinkibg into solution, only drip go through the root and then dry. Its not a dwc since there is almost no water in the plant bucket, the bucket are 4 inch higher.

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QcBerry said:

In the reservoir there is two pump. One for the dripper and one that take the water from the bottom of the reservoir and make a fall to the top of the same reservoir. The only flow in the plant bucket are the dripper. The plant bucket are 6 inch higher that the reservoir and the reservoir is half. So there is not much water in the plant bucket

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QcBerry said:

and the drip water came back to the reservoir since the reservoir is lower. I got 2 x 1gallon dripper per bucket, and now i try to run 3 min on and 2hours off. Should i wait till the bottom of the hydroton net is completly dry???

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QcBerry said:

The other pump just make sur there it have a continuous flow i guess.. dont know hahahaha. I just taught a fall in the reservoir will put more oxygen and help making my water better XD im a noob guys. And for the root, in aeroponic the root are not into the solution, the concept i had in mind is the drip will fall from the root. Even after 2hour the root is stils humid so basically it still into water since the water stays on the root by capilarity and slow go back to the reservoir

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Oldguy71 said:

After readin about your set up, your system in a new one to me. Where did you see it or how did you come up with it? To me it seems kind of like a lvertical nutrient film rig (nft). I think you should put an air stone in it for sure. Oxygen to the roots is a must. Get a 2 or 4 port aquarium air pump some 1/4” tubing and some air stones. Do that and you can run water over the roots continuously. Or you can raise your res so the water level just touches the bottoms of your mesh pot (dwc or rdwc) then lower the water level to 4-6” below the mesh pit as your roots grow. Until then I think you’ll be good with 1 hour off 5 min on watering. If the plant doesn’t show any sign of wilting I’d extend the off time.
For dwc or rdwc set ups I like an air stone in every bucket.

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RootsRuler said:

I think your right on the NFT. If I was going to keep his system intact in the way he has it setup, I would stack the buckets. Lids on both buckets with net pot on top bucket and a hole on the bottom of the top bucket draining into the bottom bucket res. Bottom bucket would have airstone for aeriation.

I'd also paint the outside of the top bucket where the roots are growing into so that it's dark and the roots aren't seeing orange light. Might be one of the reasons he's not seeing roots outside the net pot as the light is self pruning the roots.

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