Hydro Grow Method: What are my options?

solo602 said:

It's been some time RIU...

About ~3 years I believe since my last setup.

Since then, I grew and grew until my setup overtook my entire spare bedroom. I decided to take a break, had a kid but recently broke out a few old materials to grow some actual real veggies.

Long story, I'm used to growing DWC in a climate-controlled, indoor location. I do love my 5gal home depot single-plant reservoirs, but...
I do not miss cleaning and remixing nutes for 9 flowering, 3 vegging and 1 large ass mothering ganj plant every two weeks... Kicks the hell out of ya.

Currently, due to the child factor, I've decided to grow a cucumber and a tomatoe plant with the same equipment I had. 5gal buckets as each res, large air diaphragm pumps, giant air stones and basic Botanicare grow, bloom, ripe with liquid karma supplement.
This system has worked great for me and has yielded amazing plant toppling colas. My only issue is the biweekly nutrient swap out.

So with that being said, I also came across a 2 way water pump at a garage sale almost for free.
It's a 2850 RPM, 1" input/output, 330gal/hr clear water pump. I couldn't say no and now I have this sweet little water pump that I want to incorporate somehow...

This is where it gets fun.

I need some ideas on what I can do with this pump to grow some more family-orientated pants.. I know the basics of other methods such as EBB & flood n drain. But I'm not sure what is better rated or even what my other options are? I've got an outdoor soil garden with different sorts of flowers, corkscrew vines and lillys that could use a sweet drip system for this extreme evaporating AZ climate... Then again, I've got a little indoor space open for other ideas.

What can I do with this pump and what would be worth the time/money?

If you can explain an idea or setup easier through a drawing, please feel free. I'll try to put up as many pictures as I can think to be helpful and any questions are more than welcome.

Any acceptable responses/help will be very appreciate and rewarded.

Glad to be back RIU community.

Solo

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Go grow some tomatoes somewhere else u can't roll up fucking tomatoes go join a hydro veggie site wtf
I have a kid 2 and it's called a lock and key man not hard

yer i agree you carnt roll a cucumber up and smoke it this is a weed site not a veg site and what you going to do with the pump empty the Niagara falls with it Jesus and for 1 tom plant and 1 cucumber plant
your useing more electric then anything go buy a pound of toms for 2 qwid and a 50p cucumber from shop it probly costing you 50 -60 qwid to grow the fookers

pointless nif you ask me

solo602 said:

It's been some time RIU...

About ~3 years I believe since my last setup.

Since then, I grew and grew until my setup overtook my entire spare bedroom. I decided to take a break, had a kid but recently broke out a few old materials to grow some actual real veggies.

Long story, I'm used to growing DWC in a climate-controlled, indoor location. I do love my 5gal home depot single-plant reservoirs, but...
I do not miss cleaning and remixing nutes for 9 flowering, 3 vegging and 1 large ass mothering ganj plant every two weeks... Kicks the hell out of ya.

Currently, due to the child factor, I've decided to grow a cucumber and a tomatoe plant with the same equipment I had. 5gal buckets as each res, large air diaphragm pumps, giant air stones and basic Botanicare grow, bloom, ripe with liquid karma supplement.
This system has worked great for me and has yielded amazing plant toppling colas. My only issue is the biweekly nutrient swap out.

So with that being said, I also came across a 2 way water pump at a garage sale almost for free.
It's a 2850 RPM, 1" input/output, 330gal/hr clear water pump. I couldn't say no and now I have this sweet little water pump that I want to incorporate somehow...

This is where it gets fun.

I need some ideas on what I can do with this pump to grow some more family-orientated pants.. I know the basics of other methods such as EBB & flood n drain. But I'm not sure what is better rated or even what my other options are? I've got an outdoor soil garden with different sorts of flowers, corkscrew vines and lillys that could use a sweet drip system for this extreme evaporating AZ climate... Then again, I've got a little indoor space open for other ideas.

What can I do with this pump and what would be worth the time/money?

If you can explain an idea or setup easier through a drawing, please feel free. I'll try to put up as many pictures as I can think to be helpful and any questions are more than welcome.

Any acceptable responses/help will be very appreciate and rewarded.

Glad to be back RIU community.

Solo

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ok bro, nice bargain on the pump. Would you consider going back to growing mj? If not why not my mate?
I (given your reason) would set a drip line up or run a spreader hose through your patch. Pump on timer.