Under Current New 13 Gallon Buckets

The buckets each hold 13 gallons of water and the netpots are 8 inches. The buckets are light proofed with foil insulation wrap around the bottoms and 15 gallon black growbags on top. The 15 Gallon growbags fit like a glove over the buckets. Soon Current Culture will be stocking blue 13 gallon buckets but until then this is a quick and easy way to light proof them without breaking the bank.

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[archuletajustin]

vertical lighting is optimul with this system

this system is too powerful for horizontal lighting, might as well use ocean forrest soil IMO

also i think the buckets restrict th "dripline" of the roots

13 gal and 8 gal look the same width, tall plants dont really give more yield compared to plants thats roots are able to grow sideways furher...

[opt1c420]

@archuletajustin you're right on the vertical lighting but wrong on the container depth. when it comes to the plants i grow taller containers always do better than short squat containers due to the root system of said plant. You want to plant a spruce tree in a square dwc setup go ahead.

That being said this was a demo setup and i prefer the 8gal buckets for horizontal lighting setups; especially ones using less than 1k ballasts.

[mregulater]

i would like to build one of these if you could send me the plans please to baird_2009@yahoo.com thanks or even a parts list would work once again thanks

[opt1c420]

@mregulater cch20.com go from there if you want to diy but you won't save that much and you have to line up the cuts on the buckets just right

[firmjerm420]

@01spikyspider007 where did u find these buckets?

[baseballDUDE32]

I picked up slot of ideas from your design. Thanks

[twincities012]

wat kind of yields did u get

[dcantanable]

You ever going to use it? looking at it had to get old

[alexakapollo5]

amigo yo soy nuevo en esto y estoy bien perdido y me di de cuenta que eres hispano y me puedes ayudar mejor ya que no se mucho ingles tengo un bolle de 10,000 para empezar con los sistema que usted me recomienda que tenco que comprar para que todo me salga bien avisto muchos sistema que mean gustado pero no se mucho me gustaría que me ayudara esperare tu respuesta

[01spikyspider007]

my buckets were a dollar each and there black

[2tallbrandon]

@sharonmarkham5 the plastic buckets still let a fair amount of light into them. The plastic helps reduce this, thus reducing your chance of algea.

[sharonmarkham5]

why did you go with black cover on your buckets

[archuletajustin]

@opt1c420 It dpeneds do you want to grow tall or wide...I just got my new buckets today they are $32 each, for each plant ;).