Pretty slick man, I like the idea a lot
Ughhh, don’t remind me, I broke the top of a plant or 2 when I was doing DWC switching buckets, I had an extra 5 gallon pale and I would clean that then do my nutrients, switch one plant into that bucket then dump and clean the bucket that plant was just in and repeat, I had 8 plants and did this once a week... messy and back breaking to say the least, I’m glad I switched to undercurrent because with having the pump inline I have a valve and a drain hose to be able to pump the system, and my resivoir I prepare my nutrients in has a pump to aerate the water as wall as pump it to the different stations it has to go to (clone, veg, flower, or waste((yes lots of valves and “y” adapters)) I’ve gotten lots smarter about it over the years haha. I’m a huge DIYer myself, my next project is figuring a way to seal off my grow lights and eliminate the fans in them and add ducts to make it passthru soo I can circulate outside air thru them and back outside to keep the heat from the lights out of the room, in hopes of possibly even eliminating my need for A/C
I have done my fair share soo far in my young years on this earth (27) with lots of good, and...... bad ideas haha. But you can’t have the good ones without bad ones to work on sometimes. I work on cars for a living soo having to come up with solutions for weird problems is always a constant battle. We sell tractors as well and I have actually gotten the chance to work directly with the engineers from Korea when they were here to fix a cold start issue and computers were throwing a ghost code for something that wasn’t even happening, which I thought was pretty cool to have the opportunity to do.. I love DIY a little too much sometimes and try to cut no corners which usually makes some stuff too expensive for me to try to do. But as we progress, we will get there..
I’m using hydroton clay pebbles, I fill my basket then I fill the system up with water to determine my water height, with the clay pebbles I fill the water halfway up the baskets, and then I turn my air pump on to figure out how much the waters going to bubble because the seeds can move around very easily, and I very gently (and nervously) set the seed on top of 3 pebbles I place to cradle the seed and I’ve had to date a 100% germ rate this way, when I started these 4 ladies up they all had taproots in less than 18 hours, and they all shed their shell within 48 hours, I’m just now at 2 weeks from when I put the seeds on the pebbles, and their starting their 2nd set of leaves, I’m pretty happy with that. I leave them under 24 hour light for the first couple weeks to jumpstart things and has been a good recipe for me the last few grows, just gotta wait for them to get big enough to take clones hopefully early enough to get outside and have some monsters this fall. Which reminds me I need to scrub my cloner down from its last use....
Got any pictures of it by chance?
