Hello Overgrowers!
I’ve always loved Bubblers as ultra easy way to do hydroponics. Its easy to build and setup and it has unmatchable grow speed of hydro. There are few critical factors you have to watch but once you do, you can really enjoy low maintenance setup.
Of course everything for me started with the article from Overgrow by HighGrade.
After initial compare with traditional soil grows I’ve been used to indoors led to impression that hydroponics and specifically bubblers are
faster
cleaner
easy to build, clean and maintain
You just need to get used to its speed… Everything is faster, it grows faster and also any possible problem (due to pH or nutes) also spreads faster… Luckily there are just few factors that you must watch to be succesful…
nutes temperatures has to be under 25 celsius (if you are bubbling in the hot air, you’ll have problems).
nutes have to be dilluted, because roots are emerged directly into it… I’m using 1/3 original dosage (that is what HighGrade originally recommended I believe)
its better to have more bubblers (one per plant) than one giant system for all of them, because any disease would spread immediately to other plants through the nutes
You can possibly see that I had some problems with air temps as the leaves curled up… This was actually problem only when plants were young, as bigger plants can through perspiration use massive amount of water to cool themselves down…
Still the results were not so good, as I didn’t have enough experiences with how quick vegetating plants can turn into jungle after 12/12 switch and also the genetics was too stretchy…
First success was possibly 3rd grow space where I finally got hold of indica dominant strains - particularly White Russian and Sweet Tooth #3 (Spice of Life)… Specially ST#3 has become favourite strain and keeper, which have followed me since till nowadays…
It is pretty unique indica with sweet taste, very heavy yielding and it just fits this bubbler small bushes style very well…
First round with ST#3 & White Russian… Still there was not enough uniformity, so it was clear that next step would be to go just with ST#3…
Temp probes always are a problem for me … best solution I have found is Ice Chest grows , granted I love MDWC rather than hydroton or whatever but man what great results and no issues with light mold limited space for roots or temps, be they hot or cold…
