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i changed my setup just a little bit, instead of the styrofoam floating on the top of the water i now cut plexiglass(painted black of course) and put that at the top of the tanks, on day 4 after germinating, kinda got impatient and took one of the seeds out of the medium to check progress and it...

ooo i did not mean to discourage you at all, the biggest cost for me was the lights which is always the biggest cost in most systems ive encountered. Biff - do you think i should add some peat moss to the perlite? or maybe rockwool?

anyways heres some pictures first one shows everything im using notice how bright the flourescents are? 2nd is a side view on how it is setup third is got seeds?

haha let me tell you this is not a low budget thing, soil was so much cheaper the only reason hydros is kinda cheap for me was because i already had most the stuff but so far the if i bought everything it wouldve gone something like this 2x4x4' grow box - 80(for all the wood and screws and...

well over the past 2 days i did more reading, i found out they call this a bubbler system? anyways yes the cups do sit in the water all the time and the roots are supposed to poke through the bottom of the cups (i cut alot holes) I also found a store that has water soluble solution in alot of...

Hi also new here but ive been growing in soil for a while, now im trying my hand at hydroponics. Well i started with this 2 10 gallon fish tanks 2 10" air stones 7 cups in each 1 big air pump 8 40w compact flourescents at 1600lumens each perlite exhaust fan 75*/ 65% humidity 5-10-5 water...