These systems are one of the best on the market. There nutes are pretty good to you just have to know how to mix certain types of nuts first off. Second you have to understand how the feed tubes work in relation with the position of the rock wool cubes and hydroton rocks.
Its very easy to set up if you follow the way the system was designed and set up to run,
Most people that have problems simply made a mistake..usually right off the bat by using whacked out PH'd water, not having the right tools to measure PPM correctly..ect..ect...
It works, and works well! This is not really a new design in hydroponics and this basic method has been PROVEN to work time and time again for years and years....
Bullethead,
I've met 100s of newbies here over the past 2 years claiming that including myself.
Show me YOUR results, don't just say it's one of the best.
Best = manually made custom systems, not 300$ excuse for what you can make over the weekend for <100$ with lights.
You say their nutes are pretty good. What are they? What is the brand? You wanna tell me they make their own nutes? And stop calling them nuts. Nuts are what squirrels consume, not used in cannabis cultivation FYI.
Whacked out ph water? Not having the right tools? But SH CLAIMS that it ships good PH strips, do they not? Their strips are garbage, I went out and shortly bought a Milwaukee PH/EC combo meter, so what you say has nothing to do with my problem.
Again you say years and years. Show me some pics you got from SH. You sound like a fanboy with 0 evidence to back your claims up.
My proof is in my signature!! Also go and ask the admin Chiceh, she started growing when I did and she used the same crap bubble system, it failed, she's using rockwool and Dutch leech trays now with top feed drip system.
Their air stone is tiny, they give only 1 when for 3$ you can get excellent 12" air stones at any aquarium shop. Their pump is the cheapest crap you can find, it failed within 1 month on me. The reservoir it comes with costs <3$ at Home depot and is WAY too small to grow cannabis. Their valve is purchased for 5$ at a hydro store. The clay stones are equally worthless. The only thing that leaves you is their 150W fluorescents, but let me tell you EXACTLY how much that's worth.
Here are their spirals straight from them for 29.99$ each
SH Hydroponics, Inc. > Replacement Light Bulbs
Here's their 105W from ebay for 29$
105W GROW LIGHTS 5000K COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS - eBay (item 380074508264 end time Nov-19-08 07:30:27 PST)
So their Multi Spectrum Bubbleponics Complete Kit comes with 2 spirals and 1 tube fluo at the prices I mentioned, you can get them cheaper, I don't have the time to google, but here's an estimate for you: 29$ x 3 = $87
So I still stand by my claim that I can build their system for <$100.....where does the other $200 come from? It doesn't exactly require rocket science to assemble! In the end it's still a POS b/c it does not hold a candle to the rockwool tray system I can build for that price.
one of these days I'll figure out how to post pictures on here and I can show some pictures of my babys, this last grow I've been able to mostly take a picture a day since they sprouted to document everything. Happy growing!
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