A bubbler question

[Yam9000Studio]

I have a home made bubbler and I'm wondering if the plants have a good root system, do i have to keep feeding them from the top? or will they be fine just getting nute from the roots?

[kmac]

All the info you need is on the Overgrow .com web site

it a very good aproach to handeling plants and will explain better tha any note I could give you

kmac

[Rattdogg]

Mate once your plants have dropped roots low enough so that the bubbles breaking are keeping them wet, then no you dont need to water from the top, i only usually top my res up once every 2 days so the level is about 1inch below the net pot. I also dump a couple of cups full from the res through the net pot periodically just to clean things out a bit, hope this helps.

[Yam9000Studio]

Your a legend mate

 

thx heaps.

 

I just transfered my plants so i hope they like this new system

[Rattdogg]

Just curious as to what you mean by "Transfered to this system" were you growing them in another type of hydro setup or dirt ? Just that going from one type of grow medium to another does have it's own set of problems associated with it, grow on.

[Yam9000Studio]

The plants were in a 4" PVC setup. but the roots were growing to quick and i didn;t leave enough room between pots so the plants are blocking each other. sooooooo I made 2 bubblers outa 40L containers and put 2 pots per one. i've just transplants the plants last night and the roots have already started poping out the bottom

[pipeman]

hey yam man, you sure those chains are big enough???? . looking good mate.

[Guest Urbanhog]

That reminded me of my old grow area in Tassie, under the house, but I spend 3 days digging under the house to make the slope straight and level least other 3 feet deep, and the soil was fucking rock clay hard and setted up framed walls, and covered with Builder's Foil. And a Door made out of secondhand frames, and just covered up.... it was nice design, very disreect as you had you go under the house to the garage, move some storage boxes and there was wall that had small hole that you had to crawl inside and crawl for 5-7 metres to the grow area where I could finally stand up, but still head bended low.

 

Where are the walls? Maybe you should build walls out of frames and cover up and paint the walls white for better reflection to the plants....?? Just a opinion.

 

Urbanhog

[Rattdogg]

If your getting new root growth then things are bubbling along nicely, thing that may create problems for you is the white/semi transparent containers, bubbler roots really hate the light, maybe you can spray the outside of the containers with a mat black paint or somthing ?

[Mr Putard]

Hello,

 

I was wondering,, do you swap those boxes around?

Seems like some are taking off more than otheres..maybee if you swapped the boxes periodically (once or twice per week) you might get more even growth.