i need a hydroponics system that use no electricity

Ok so I came up with this idea see what happends

So the wicksystems says that you need some type of cotton or whatever fibric to provide the developing. roots with nurtients from the bottom of the resovoir well as soon as your roots grow there's no point or room to have your fabric hanging so soon or later you will end up with a passive system right?
So
I took the airstone off my dwc 2litter system and made it a passive wick system with no wick for now what ima do is take the airstone off when is flowering and stick the airstone when the lights are on
Hopelly that doesn't bring algea o well

If you never attempt something new
You will never advance.

(Keepgrowing)

Try the wick system , cheap and easy!

We grow in coco and perlite, drain-to-waste as well. Sugar Peak all natural nutes, and we water by hand.

0011StealTH said:

Ok so I came up with this idea see what happends

So the wicksystems says that you need some type of cotton or whatever fibric to provide the developing. roots with nurtients from the bottom of the resovoir well as soon as your roots grow there's no point or room to have your fabric hanging so soon or later you will end up with a passive system right?
So
I took the airstone off my dwc 2litter system and made it a passive wick system with no wick for now what ima do is take the airstone off when is flowering and stick the airstone when the lights are on
Hopelly that doesn't bring algea o well

If you never attempt something new
You will never advance.

(Keepgrowing)

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So far so good I don't see no change so my guess is that she don't mind the passive system
Ill be putting more input as the days go by.

shell said:

We grow in coco and perlite, drain-to-waste as well. Sugar Peak all natural nutes, and we water by hand.

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how long have you done this for
And how big is your containers?

Yeah, I'd say the people in the beginning are accurate. As long as your rez is higher then the end of your feeding tubes, gravity will take your solution down. I'd say all you gotta worry about now is the amount you're gonna put in the pots. I'd find a bucket, of some sort, that is the right size for your liquid needs, and leave some extra space, to mix your nutes. (like a five gallon bucket), cheap at the local hardware store. I'd drill a couple holes at the very bottom, put in a grommet, and say a 1/4" line to each pot, or whatever you are using. Make sure you get PVC line that's rated for drinking water, or something like that. I say this because you mentioned concern about algae growth. The lines intended for air, can harbor algae. I don't think the black air lines can, because light can't get through. But, the ones for water have shielding in them. The water lines are generally stiffer, from my experience. Like ones that would be on a reverse osmosis filtration system.
I guess, it depends on how many sites you have, too. A five gallon bucket would work good for a few sites, but you'd either need a lot of five gallon buckets, or Chuck Norris around, if you need to lift a rez for 99! Or some planning ahead to elevate your heavy rez would be smart...

0011StealTH, we are on our second grow. We start with about 1 gallon airpots then transplant them to about five gallon airpots. Check our signature link for some pictures of the containers if you want... also some pictures of our cured bud from our last crop using this method. :]

@ihavethetruth
Thanx man for all the info
I went on a dwc passive system and about the water tubes I didn't know there better than the see trough air ones. Ill look into it in the future I have to go buy more black air tubbin since I'm running out and my babys keep on expanding


@shell
Nice shit man that's something I need to try also

Here is what I added today into the science project.


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