themadhatter said:
well i dont know much about the ponics, i know there are a few different setups, i have tons of instructions, i just want someting with step by step pics, i do better with visuals.
Dude it's real easy. Just read step by step.
1. Get a 5 gallon bucket.
2. Duct tape it a bunch, spray paint it black, glue mylar or black poly to it... Do whatever you have to do to make it lightproof.
3. Take your net pot and trace the outline of the top on top of the lid and use a razor blade to cut a few millimeters inside the line you traced so the net pot will fit inside and hang by the edges at the top. It's better to cut the hole too small and have to enlarge it than to cut it too big.
4. Paint the top, use mylar or poly or even cardboard to cover the top of the bucket so it's lightproof.
5. Drill a hole in bucket about 2 inches from the top big enough for a small airhose.
6. Run airhose through the hole and connect one end to airstone and other end to airpump. Voila, bubble bucket.
It should look like this.
I can't emphasize how important it is to make it lightproof so you don't get algae issues and root rot. If you can get a black bucket, that's the route to go.
Once you get it up and going it's ridiculously easy to care for and give you great results, this is my first time doing hydro and I'm running two bubble buckets... You can't tell from the pic b/c of the bad angle but these ladies are pretty dang big and have a crap ton of budsites, this photo is like 2 or 3 days into flowering so they're going to get a lot bigger. If you do decide to go hydro, do yourself a favor and buy a good pH pen and pH down for hydro, not aquariums, the pH pen makes life so much easier and the pH down is so much more stable than anything else...
