MJ-IN-BLOOM
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This is a tutorial on how to turn regular 5 gallon buckets into an easy cheap DIY Ebb and Flow sytem or efficient drain to waste system.
I got the idea for this because of having to put up with 3 grows of frustration at not having a sufficient system to deal with run off. Up untill this point i have never been able to water sufficiently to flush salt residues out and i can tell that my girls have suffered.
From researching how i could build my own DIY ebb and flow bucket system to deal with the run off dilema i decided that ebb & flow in hydroton was going to be the best sytem for me.
I wanted to be able to build my system using 5 gallon buckets since i plan on growing semi large plants and i dont want yield to suffer because i get rootbound. Since there are no 5 gal bucket systems available i set out to find out how to make one.
I found another post with a guy who uses the same setup but instead he uses a bulkead that fits perfectly to the flat bottom of the home depot buckets he used. Because of my setup i could not use his idea because it required an elaborate homemade stand to allow the bulkhead fitting to come out while the bucket still stood fine.
Then i saw another post where a guy wanted to know how to secure a flat bulkhead on a curved resevoir. A guy said that he used something called a Uniseal for the exact same thing. Supposedly they are better than bulkheads and cheaper. After taking a look at them i got the idea for this build i am about show you.
I have only used the uniseals to make an efficient drainage system for the present grow, but as soon as this one is finished i plan on using the same priciple and concept to build my own ebb and flow system.
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I got the idea for this because of having to put up with 3 grows of frustration at not having a sufficient system to deal with run off. Up untill this point i have never been able to water sufficiently to flush salt residues out and i can tell that my girls have suffered.
From researching how i could build my own DIY ebb and flow bucket system to deal with the run off dilema i decided that ebb & flow in hydroton was going to be the best sytem for me.
I wanted to be able to build my system using 5 gallon buckets since i plan on growing semi large plants and i dont want yield to suffer because i get rootbound. Since there are no 5 gal bucket systems available i set out to find out how to make one.
I found another post with a guy who uses the same setup but instead he uses a bulkead that fits perfectly to the flat bottom of the home depot buckets he used. Because of my setup i could not use his idea because it required an elaborate homemade stand to allow the bulkhead fitting to come out while the bucket still stood fine.
Then i saw another post where a guy wanted to know how to secure a flat bulkhead on a curved resevoir. A guy said that he used something called a Uniseal for the exact same thing. Supposedly they are better than bulkheads and cheaper. After taking a look at them i got the idea for this build i am about show you.
I have only used the uniseals to make an efficient drainage system for the present grow, but as soon as this one is finished i plan on using the same priciple and concept to build my own ebb and flow system.
PICS NEXT
