Best diy hydroponic parts source for southern Ontario canada?

[Northern_Loki]

I don’t know much about what’s available around Ontario. Here are some comments that may be useful:

There are quite a few folk that have built-up systems completely DIY by sourcing parts from the big box stores. You could buy the individual pieces from the well-known RDWC vendors. But the prices would probably add up being more than a package deal if you were to source all Current Culture components from a single vendor individually, for instance.

If you are looking to save as much dough as possible, then you’d probably need to source stuff from different vendors, instead of a single vendor, in order to get the best bang for the buck.

There are a relatively wide range of options. Is there a certain set-up/style you are looking into / caught your eye? Are there certain techniques within RDWC you’d want to explore. For instance, using air-stones versus water-fall versus need-wheel versus ??? Bucket size, DWC vs RDWC, cooling requirements, etc? SOG/SCROG? This will help folk point you towards specific options.

Here is a recent system the @SquirtleSquad built-up :

SquirtleSquads adventures in DWC

Nothing too exciting going on Just vegging from seeds TH Seeds Critical Hog and Chocolate Chunk in the line up Cracked 5 seeds each. All 5 critical hog made it. One chocolate chunk germed but quickly got over taken by mold?? Weird. And another I neglected to top feed until roots hit water but it’s still clinging on. So most likely will be left with only 3 which is perfect for my 8 site rdwc. [image] They are slow going right now, but just started taking off. I made the mistake of going too…

Here is something I had put together using buckets designed for RDWC:

Airpumpless Sluckets

Here is an experimental set-up utilizing “slucket buckets” in a, more or less, DIY configuration. [image] Slucket buckets have sloped bottoms along with a bottom port allowing for improved drainage over conventional RDWC type set-ups. Water is injected from the bottom ports on each of the growth modules while water is removed from the bottom port at the reservoir. Return from each of the growth modules is via a 3 inch diameter pipe. Several valves comprise the pump manifold allowing the dir…

Here is a small system @Daddywronglegs built:

First hydro grow!

Continuing the discussion from First hydro setup and grow: Tried to move topic from grow room design to the diary… best I could seem to do. Will post follow ups here

Take a look in the General Indoor Growing category as there are many DIY set-ups, too.