Not sure if this should be in Aero or DWC forum, kind of a hybrid question.
So, after years of soil, I decided to add a little bubble bucket on my table during my perpetual soil grow. The thing EXPLODED! Blew my mind. Based on this I decided to take my old rubbermaid diy aerocloner and put some clones in that after they rooted in coco (which is what i started using a year ago) and see how they did. They exploded too. So I made the big switch and now how a full aero garden, perpetual sog. Looking pretty sweet too. On to the question I have:
I noticed after about 3 weeks of flower, the plants start sucking up water ridiculously fast. This happens about the same time the roots have reached into the water about 6 inches. Then I realized my pump gets a little less submerged and the sprayers basically do nothing. This has been going on for about 3 days and my roots still look happy as ever. Can I get away with just taking the pump out and going DWC with this and have the water at the same level? Mainly because Im using the 18gal rubber maid buckets and im not trying to put in 10gals for 8 plants. My roots are exposed to air for almost a foot before they are sitting in the water, is this too much over time even with a big airstone? So far they seem to like it, just wanted to know if anyone else ran into this before.
So, after years of soil, I decided to add a little bubble bucket on my table during my perpetual soil grow. The thing EXPLODED! Blew my mind. Based on this I decided to take my old rubbermaid diy aerocloner and put some clones in that after they rooted in coco (which is what i started using a year ago) and see how they did. They exploded too. So I made the big switch and now how a full aero garden, perpetual sog. Looking pretty sweet too. On to the question I have:
I noticed after about 3 weeks of flower, the plants start sucking up water ridiculously fast. This happens about the same time the roots have reached into the water about 6 inches. Then I realized my pump gets a little less submerged and the sprayers basically do nothing. This has been going on for about 3 days and my roots still look happy as ever. Can I get away with just taking the pump out and going DWC with this and have the water at the same level? Mainly because Im using the 18gal rubber maid buckets and im not trying to put in 10gals for 8 plants. My roots are exposed to air for almost a foot before they are sitting in the water, is this too much over time even with a big airstone? So far they seem to like it, just wanted to know if anyone else ran into this before.
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