Airstone vs Aeroponics – Something Overlooked…
Airstone vs Aeroponics – Something Overlooked…
How to make it – https://youtu.be/MvXtu7BmSr8
The 96 Watt Aeroponic Watermelon – https://youtu.be/dGLfqfLdKI4
In this video I tested two hydroponic grow methods to see which consumes less water. This test initially is done without growing any plants for a control. In a future video I will be testing these methods by growing plants.
I use 2×4 in. air stones with a 300 Amp battery system and 2000 watts of solar, plants grow much faster and easier than soil…
Put aside the problem and i have cute guys talkin to me with gazing eyes….you can plant your seed anywhere
Yields and yield per watt are more important for most people
Depending on VPD and humidity targets, you want some evaporation.
When the system fail, but falls back to a Kratky system, is a good system 😉
You have to try these!!!!
https://youtu.be/Gf0wtwcruo4
I use a RDWC and my power went out for three days!!! I was 5 weeks into veg so no big deal at all. I will actually turn my lights out this run to switch to flower happy accidents!!
The best grow is a combination of both bro
Yes! Another great channel that uses the scientific method as well as we can in a semi-variable environment. Great motivation, great video. Subbed.
Edit: *Hybrid aeroponics. Great information about surface tension. I ebb and flow but am looking into aeroponics. I would have thought the hyvrid aeroponics would evaporate more and I like your logic. my current system is not for leaving more than 2 days so that looks promising. I wonder however about fog type aeroponics or mist? Thanks again!
3 cups over TWO weeks? BFD…😏
lol air pumps create heat thus the need for enzymes which your plants only need due to "ROOT ROT" dont get root rot is the best way.
The hybrid method for me is a bunch of coco around root with a drain and fill with air stones everywhere including in the coco itself so at worst my plants are using water while the coco allows the air roots that are never submersed to breath still even in total power loss at max depth
I currently use an air water pump so my second air pump runs that to fill and i have a auto syphon that drains but if that fails i have a wayer pump every 6 hours
2 air pumps 3 air stones 1 air water pump 1 Water pump
450w of led lights
Been great so far growing some carolina reapers and some passionfruit currently and buying some stuff for doing some outdoor salad dwc/kratky lettuce and pumpkin
could not imagine the thumb down on these videos. haters!
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Question: what’s the HIGHEST your water temp gets to in the aeroponic hybrid set up? I’ve heard anything over 64°F is bad, but I’ve heard others say they’ve had no problems with water temps up as high as 90°F.
Thanks for your time.
Hi, really good videos, thanks for making them. Would be interested to see you talk in more detail about how you set each system up. Keep up the good work
Great informative videos, just subbed.
I have a question similar to some of the other comments for this video.
I built a 5 gallon bucket cloner & opted for a pump & misters instead of air pump & stone. After using it for a few months with good results (nubs in a week, transplantable to soil in 2 weeks using plain tap water only). Now I’m wondering if I’d get better results faster if I got more air into the bucket, since it’s pretty much a sealed system??
Or am I worrying about nothing?
Or would adding just some rooting solution additive be better?
Kinda defeats the purpose of aeorponic when you’re "submerging" the roots in water, have fun with the 2.5x growth on the setup you have vs the 3.5x on a real aeroponic method
I have better advice than any of these other comments. No one should be taking advice from someone that can’t even bother to put together a proper aeroponic system.
Can you leave the pump on 24hrs with hybrid system or would the plant die
I wish i was smart like you.
WATER PUMP WILL MAKE WATER MUCH TO HOT
Lol….you’re wasting your time worrying about water evaporation completely blind to the fact that once you have plants in there, and assuming they are healthy and in a proper environment, the plants will uptake the water/nutrients before any meaningful evaporation has a chance to occur. This is common sense to anyone who has ever grown DWC. You have to top off water daily, not due to evaporation, but due to plant uptake to continue their rapid growth. How do you know that evaporation didnt happen quicker in the air stone bucket because that bucket’s lid has larger air gaps? Are we to assume those cheap plastic totes have tight tolerances in production?
Just found you and this is pretty intriguing. Gut instinct says that the airstone, with the small bubbles, is going to aerate MUCH more efficiently, so you’re just sacrificing aeration for convenience. The fact the airstone is evaporating considerably more water away would seem to bear that out, because there’s probably a greater water/air interface with the mass of small bubbles, compared to a few streams of water hitting the surface. I’d also be curious to see if either method causes the water to heat up. ie forcing the air through the airstone or the water through the holes in the pipe requires pressure and a fluid under pressure generates heat. May not be significant but possibly worth checking temperatures since the containers are, presumably, going to be side by side if I understand correctly. Also will both aeration methods be using identical pumps? You should maybe check the power draw of each as well, if you can.
I wish I had the room for this sort of thing. All my hydroponic space is currently turned over to raising seedlings.
I’d like to see you compare growth with both methods. I believe you would get faster growth from the outside pump source because of CO2/Oxygen transfer vs the recirculating system that will not bring in more CO2/Oxygen. I know from aquarium experience that supplemental CO2 greatly helps plant growth. I just see the other one as being "stagnant" but with movement.
This video is GOLD!!! Opened many people’s eyes, including my own. Many thanks my friend, well done 💯🙌
Great video, thank you, I have a quick question. I have this small 7" square container with lots of action from to two 6" air stones. I have 5 spots for 2" net pots. My question is, Where should I place the end of my clematis cuttings in relationship to my water level. In some holes I’m using just the closed cell foam collars with the bottoms removed on pots others have intact pot with rockwool and collars. my waterline has the bottom 1/2" submerged.
Dwc with halo works great as hybred also works nice
Can you do a comparison video on aeroponics using a mist maker ultrasonic atomizer vs dwc with airstone?
Smart my guy very true an
very over looked
I wanted to like the vid, but its at 420 likes. I can’t do it.
No it kinda didn’t help
I use a combination to grow in turbo speed🙂. Roots sit in about 5 inches of water being bubbled. Water misters run 15 min on 15 off with a timer set for the pump . Grow is better than dwc. I use a smaller pump and only two hole. Smaller pump helps water temps. Something about suspended roots in air and dampness really makes growing fun. Also I use beneficial micro’s so I never get root rot. Dryer parts of the root ball will have fuzz.
So not fully submerged roots all micros to live and the plant uptake nutes.
Air pumps are not needed. Use inline or submersible pumps run resivior to feed water rings 24/7 to buckets head pressure will keep it all fairly level.
Great testing. Solve my problem too. Thanks.
Did you build the grow system? Do you have directions to build one?
Do you have the followup video on this one with the growing test Airstone vs Aeroponics?
Great video.
Again, this is not Aeroponics
I use stones. I’ve noticed that with the extra new water coming in I’ve not had to really change my water that often. This is my 1st grow though. If you got 2 mins here my video of my 1st 30 days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZeUb-nn1tg&feature=share any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
I’ve been growing with LPA for 10 years.
Each of the areo systems i built have 2, 21 site grow chambers with 1 reservoir.
Each system measures 3’x3′. This way I can use 1, 3’x3′ LED light.
I built 4 of these areo systems. I run all 4 systems at the same time.
All 2 weeks behind each other.
So i harvest every 2 weeks.
There have been countless times when I was doing something to a system and have forgotten to plug the pump back in.
A lot of times I don’t catch it for 24 hours later and I’ve NEVER lost a plant.
But the precaution I have done, just in case there is a power outage.
I installed a solar system on top of my grow garage.
Just for backup.
But I’ve also been using it to power my mother and clone room.
So it’s been a win win for me.
Your systems look ok. They work for you.
Me personally don’t like my roots hanging in the solution all the time.
I use two 180 degree sprayers in a bucket daisy chained to other buckets with sprayers + air stones in the bottom of each bucket. DWC + Aeroponics.
I believe the benefits of an air stone outweigh the cons.
For clarification, you no longer are injecting air into the container? You are just relying on the falling water to push air into the water basin?
I’m trying to decide if i want an external reservoir and a dry root area or having the reservoir inside the root area like you have.
Just wondering your thoughts
I like to use the flood and drain system using the big rockwool cube because even if the power stops the Rockwell cube holds a ton of water
fill and drain does not have to be a 100% drain, you can adjust the height of the bottom of the ‘bell’ so you siphon wont drain below that point. you then have roots in water 100% of the time and roots directly exposed to air aka ‘oxygen’ much of the time. also your aeroponics looked like you just had a hole pricked in the pipe and not a misting nozzle. so how is that aeroponic?
Great info, thanks
Are you going to do a side by side grow, with a fruiting plant to see if there are any yield differences? For example your Kratky method versus DWC.
Great Videos, really appreciate all of the information provided. Could you share where you purchase your Hydroponic supplies? I really liked the black buckets with the hinged lids you used in the Kratky vs DWC pepper test.
I think you need some potassium in your diet. Like, eat a banana a day.
Great video however I think that the water should 100% be changed at least every 2 weeks re nute every time please test this a d see if makes a difference would be a great video
you could try a small internal aquarium filter and set it up so that it agitates the surface of the water some of them allow you to attach a airtube to draw in air as well