[belivitez]

Its hard to find journal with aeroponic system. In near future i want to buy aeroponic system but first i want to heard some experiences.

What do you guys suggest? Money isnt problem, i like to experiment

Thanks for help and informations!

[PetFlora]

CHECK OUT MY THREAD IN MY SIGNATURE

[FrozenFire]

Ha ha I've got a aeroponics vs dwc grow showdown running in this as section and another link in my signature for the last grow. I'm running a 4x4 flood and drain table i retrofitted to be a recirculating aeroponics table. Simple, reasonably cheap, and gives me very happy plants.

Here's the aero table now. Clones from last run.


Last grow, table wasn't full due to removing males and hermies from seed run.

[Palindrome]

Hello belivitez, a few questions

Are you thinking high or low pressure aeroponics, how large is your grow area and final is high plant numbers a problem?

I have worked with high pressure or true aeroponics (what ever you wanna call it) for years. So I might be able to give you a few pointers, if your looking into high pressure aeroponics.

[belivitez]

@petflora thanks i will check!

@frosenfire you are using diy aeroponic system?

@palindrome i start look at Aeroflo system, but i have no clue if this is hpa or lpa type? i have 1.2x1meter space and 2m high grow box... do you have any suggestion for me? For bow i dont have enought time to make diy, so i want to buy totally working product here in Europe. Are you still working with aeroponic?

[Palindrome]

Belivitez I like you mention you don't have time for DIY, and I'll be straight up with you.
Aeroflo is a NFT system, not Aeroponics for one, you can't buy real aeroponic systems in the shops. You can buy things called aeroponics, but it really isn't modern aeroponics as we know it today.

You can convert a aeroflo, but to be honest they are overpriced. But as you say, you have little time for DIY. But with aeroponics, your better of just building it yourself.

Aeroponics was developed in the 70's, but in the 90's NASA changed the aeroponic standards. As they re-developed it for growing in zero gravety, and thats what we today call Aeroponics or True aeroponics.

I no longer grow with aeroponics, I just got back after a 10 year break and im not going back to commercial growing. Aeroponica is the Formula 1 car of growing, fast, awesome and can give amasing results. The dark side is, when you crash with 350 mph. Shit go wrong, really really fast. High pressure systems take up space, as it's hard to get a pump small enough. High pressure pumps, also moves a lot of water. Aeroponic misters, don't allow a lot of water to go thru them. The once I used, sprayed 7 liter per hour at 5 bar. So when your pump moves 5000 liters per hour, you can feed about 700+ misters. You can go down on mister numbers, with a overflow valve but still you need at least a few hundred misters. Fitting it into a tent, is not possible.

So for the size of you grow area, not wanna go DIY. I would recommend that you go look at something else then Aeroponics, if you deside that a little DIY is okay. You can quite easy convert a aeroflo into a low pressure aeroponics, by adding a few extra feedlines, misters and a bigger pump. But IMO there is little difference, in low pressure aero and DWC in yeilds. Aeroponics is great for sea of green, with a lot of smaller plants. DWC id prefer for larger plants.

Or look at FrozenFires aeroponic table, I have grown in something simular. Works great and easy to build, but DIY.

[belivitez]

Man thanks for your massive answer

Ok i didnt know things about thrue aeroponic, and about aeroflo (if you looking on online shops they all promoted aeroflo like aeroponic system).

Maybe i must to find time to make diy system.... but like you say i need right parts and this would be a problem here in europe i think

Or maybe go with dwc, drip, nft...? I want simple system. Just check ph/ec, change water once a week, move lights up... What do you suggest to me?

I want formula 1, but i dont want to crash

[PetFlora]

This is my twist on lpa from things I learned from hpa.

Primarily instead of running nutes 24/7 and basically drowning the roots, I am opting to use a deep cycle timer with hpa misters. I'm going to start at ~ 1 minute on/3-5 minutes off, and adjust as needed

4 of the seedlings already have the tap root exiting the bottom of thee coco pellets, so I made nutes and will be putting those 4, and maybe the other 2 as I last checked at 10am this morning, and their taps could be out now

[belivitez]

Looking great petflora!

How about to put fogger in? Hpa also provide mist/fog?

[Palindrome]

Originally Posted by belivitez

Man thanks for your massive answer

Ok i didnt know things about thrue aeroponic, and about aeroflo (if you looking on online shops they all promoted aeroflo like aeroponic system).

Maybe i must to find time to make diy system.... but like you say i need right parts and this would be a problem here in europe i think

Or maybe go with dwc, drip, nft...? I want simple system. Just check ph/ec, change water once a week, move lights up... What do you suggest to me?

I want formula 1, but i dont want to crash

It's not a problem to get parts in Europe, im based in EU as well. The misters I used, was made in Israel and sold in europe. Just google micron sprinkler, but before that you have a ton of stuff to read. But you prolly won't find them in regular grow shops, for canna growers. But contact a company, that sell to the greenhouse industry.

Aeroponics can be really complicated, if your not a skilled grower. Everything have to be perfect, if not you won't get any bennefit. Just like if we where to drive a F1 car, we would be screwed without training and a whole team behind us.

If you look at growing like a old barrel (see the pic) everything have to be optimal, or you won't get the bennefit of high pressure aeroponics. And would be yealding about the same, with any other hydro system.


About the aeroflo, the shop's are not directly lying. They are just not telling you or they don't know, its a 70's aeroponics system. But it would be more honest to call it NFT, I've had a aeroflo 28 and it's easy to set up and use.