Deep Water Culture Explained - Hydroponic Supplies & Equipment for DWC

Visit us online at http://www.thegrowshow.org Don't be fooled by imitations. Don't be fooled by high price lines. What you're looking at here is a 3.5 gallon bucket, a 10 inch net pot, a single air pump, a pack of rock wool, some air tubing, an air pump and your hydroton. What we have here is everything you need to do a simple, one-piece hydroponic, deep water culture unit. A base deep water culture system starts out easy and simple like this: You have a 3.5 gallon bucket, a nice little net pot that holds the hydroton, a piece of rockwool to wick-up the water, and underneath is an airstone to get the water nutrients bubbling up to the plant. Here we have a 70 liter airpump. This will power the airstone that bubbles the water and nutrients up to meet the rock wool and the medium, pulling up water and oxygen for the rooting system. Today we have a 70 liter high-output active aqua airpump. This one can power up to eight buckets. We have it going on three today. The roots grow down into the water, then are fed with nutrients via the airpump. The nutrients uptake through the root system that are being constantly misted at the bottom. When a younger plant is started, you are required to have more water in the reservoir to hit the rockwool and create a wicking activity and bring water and nutrients to the plant. As the plant grows a little bit larger, you get the luxury for the roots growing down into the water and you can have a slightly lower reservoir, but you still want a good bubble-up to make sure your medium stays nice and moist. These products are very easy to maintain on a daily and weekly basis. Its very easy to follow and get done. All you have to do is lift the top of the bucket off, which seals nice and tight on here. You remove the plant and set it in another bucket. Once you do that, all you have to do is change the water, add new nutrients, set the plant back into the bucket, and you get back to growing again. If you would like to do more, you can upgrade your airpump, and add them in a line. You get some more buckets, some more tops, larger airpump and you can get many of these in a series and have more plants growing. What I do recommend is having an already rooted clone or a plant out of seedling stage to place into a pot. As you can see, we have a very lovely deep water culture system here in the store, producing us a nice wide variety of tomatoes. This is all available at our Ann Arbor store location at 4095 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan or on the web at TheGrowShow.org .