First Hydroponic set up.. EBB MONSTER! feel free to check it out and leave advice

[sneakerhead702]

this is my first hydroponic set up i have ..i just got approved for my medical marijuana card here in nevada and now just waiting on the actual card to be sent to me.. i feel comfortable growing now so i switched from soil to hydroponic and i purchased the ebb monster it came with a 55 gallon reservoir, 6 five gallon buckets, and that sexxy 13.5 gallon controller module aha i really like how it operated cant wait to really grow in it now im just waiting on my seeds...if you have any experience with this set up please leave some comments and advice.. thank you

 

[hellraizer30]

There are lots of ways of seting the flood/ flood times, useing hydrotron x3 to x4 time a day for 30 min will do fine.
Another tip, this is very inportant, keep the lines going from the control box to the res as short as possable! Even
Better keep the c box right next to the res. Reason for this is when its pumping water back to the res the pump
Will turn off waiting for the water level to rise and trip the switch turning pump on. When all the water is drained
Out the pump will turn off, heres where the issue lies! The water left in the line leeding to the res will drain back
To the c box raising water level and triping the pump to come on, and this cycle will repeat till the pump burns up!
Keeping the line short will reduse the amount that can drain back, and iliminate the issue.

I run x3 ebbs and my link is in my sig, feel free to check it out, tons of info in it. Peace

 

[sneakerhead702]

There are lots of ways of seting the flood/ flood times, useing hydrotron x3 to x4 time a day for 30 min will do fine.
Another tip, this is very inportant, keep the lines going from the control box to the res as short as possable! Even
Better keep the c box right next to the res. Reason for this is when its pumping water back to the res the pump
Will turn off waiting for the water level to rise and trip the switch turning pump on. When all the water is drained
Out the pump will turn off, heres where the issue lies! The water left in the line leeding to the res will drain back
To the c box raising water level and triping the pump to come on, and this cycle will repeat till the pump burns up!
Keeping the line short will reduse the amount that can drain back, and iliminate the issue.

I run x3 ebbs and my link is in my sig, feel free to check it out, tons of info in it. Peace

Thanks for the information bro.. and yea i checked yours out yo set up is sick bro i like it...but say for like seedlings how many times will you prefer to fill up the buckets.. like around 4 times a day for 15min or less than that?

 

[hellraizer30]

I see your using hydrotron even though the babys wont need much water! I would still flood 3 to 4 times a day during lights
On for 15min a flood! You can always back off the floods if they look over watered

 

[sneakerhead702]

I see your using hydrotron even though the babys wont need much water! I would still flood 3 to 4 times a day during lights
On for 15min a flood! You can always back off the floods if they look over watered

Oh okay cool thanks for the information bro.... and i noticed you said flood while the lights on.....is that the best time to flood is when the lights are on or can you split it up like flood twice while lights are on and flood twice while there off.......while their seedlings i plan to have my lights on 24/7.. but im talking about during flowering stage.

 

[hellraizer30]

Plants dont uptake water during night hours! So theres no reason for night flooding!

 

[sneakerhead702]

Plants dont uptake water during night hours! So theres no reason for night flooding!

okay cool thanks bro. ill keep that in mind

 

[permat]

Your going to need more Hydroton I have the 4 gallon titan system but use 3 bags of hydroton and also have the technfloria starter kit, its great for once or twice but you going to need much larger bottles of each thing(hellraiser advised me to buy the 4 liter bottles and i'm 2nd week of flowering and most of the nutes are halfwaygone)