AlphaPhase
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[QUOTE="Dr.Pecker, post: 10546622, member: 87543set Do you have to trim your roots with an ebb and grow?How often do you have to change the res? the more i read about this stuff the more it sounds like a pain in the butt. Your plant dont look bad at all except for the second pic under the hps. I got my dwc all set up and ran for a day the hydroton was damp so i guess it works but the bottle floating around was blocking my airstone.the frozen water bottle idea sounds good. to improve on your water cooling system with a frozen bottle it would be best to set the bubble buckets in a larger container like a rubbermade tote and float the bottle outside of the buckets so it doesn't block the bubbles.[/QUOTE]
It kind of is a pain at first but once its all set up and working correctly its pretty easy, you can trim roots if you have to. If the roots block the drains definitely trim them. My net pot only have holes in the very bottom so it contains most of the root mass. The idea of setting the Dwc buckets in a larger tote is an excellent idea! In Dwc buckets I change out the res every 10 days or so. It depends how much water the plants are drinking and how many nutes they're eating. In the ebb and grow I'll be running the same res for the whole grow and just topping off with water when needed and adjusting nutes when needed. Some people change it out in ebb and grow every week-every month, but its not always necessary.
It kind of is a pain at first but once its all set up and working correctly its pretty easy, you can trim roots if you have to. If the roots block the drains definitely trim them. My net pot only have holes in the very bottom so it contains most of the root mass. The idea of setting the Dwc buckets in a larger tote is an excellent idea! In Dwc buckets I change out the res every 10 days or so. It depends how much water the plants are drinking and how many nutes they're eating. In the ebb and grow I'll be running the same res for the whole grow and just topping off with water when needed and adjusting nutes when needed. Some people change it out in ebb and grow every week-every month, but its not always necessary.