Its not just leaks in the system that make carpet a bad choice if you never have a leak....... Its what about the time when you want to rearrange the plants so the short one is in the middle and the tall ones are around the outside? The buckets WILL drip a little water on the floor no matter what you do. And sometimes the plastic fittings crack, your controller may overfill if a float fails and spills the entire reservoir worth of nutrient solution all over the floor too. What about when you want to hand water a plant that got some nutrient burn with some fresh clean water and you spill the half gallon on the floor when you trip on a mouse?
If the carpet was at least white to reflect the light that hits the floor from only having 6 plants using 1/2 of the space of the lights for the first 4 weeks of flowering then that'd be cool at least.
But yea, congrats on having NO LEAKS! We ALL still get a water spill -- eventually.
5 gallon buckets are retarded on an Ebb & Grow. Your plants wont ever use that much of a bucket. I grow mine 4 feet tall and they barely use half of the 3.5 gallon buckets......... All you'll do is promote water loss and waste nutrients really. Most people using 5 gallon buckets have purchased them from Lowes or Home Depot because they are cheap and in stock. They are most certainly NOT the best or proper bucket for E&F unless your going to veg them for a few MONTHS before flowering (which, some people for outdoors would, but not on indoor Hydroton E&G)
With respect to Grow Elf's system, it's cute and new and whatever, but this is the cap thread, not other companies. Everyone who posts on RIU about grow elf always has a very low post count and I think its more trolling for good publicity than anything. Most new people are asking questions, rather than sucking a manufacturers dick right off the bat.
