![]() It does not really matter either way as you are constant flow. So if I make the bucket with the elbows do i just fill it with media and the water level just stays at the bottom inch or so? I am planning on using Scoria as my media so not sure how high well it will wick the water, or does this not matter with the water constantly flowing from the top? ![]() ** 90 degree bend immediately inside with pipe that went to bottom of bucket. * I suspect you would have to look at the air gap method anyway (e) for tomatoes my opinion is that they prefer having roots in a media - but I am sure there is evidence that they grow in DWC (that presumes support for the plant). I used to use sump pipes inside the bucket** but a good trick from the wicking bed guys was to put the outlet at bottom and then have a rotatable arm that allows control of water level - I am going to try that this year. (d) IMO circulation is the main issue with buckets, so you want to try and have new water entering the top and old water leaving the bottom. I went to them for tomatoes mainly because their roots dominated my small grow beds and I get better growth and more productive plants via the buckets (plus I can add additional nutrients and replant etc much easier). (c) no reason bato buckets cannot be continuously run - they would be constant flood or timer drain. Clay balls, rock etc provide bio-filtering and a host media for bacteria.ĭWC systems would be less so - so buckets and DWC are often a side/parallel system to a GB. (b) It depends on how important filtering is. (a) DWC really relies upon aeration, circulation and oxygen being in the water, that may be harder to achieve in a multi-bucket and any need for aerating every bucket that would make a larger container more viable*. I have used DWC using small 40-50Litre rectangular but only for lettuce. I have only tried bato buckets (15-25L buckets and square planters) as media based - both as clay balls and a mini-wicking system (rocks in bottom and shade cloth seperator). Does anyone know if a dutch/Bato bucket works best full of media or with a netpot in the lid holding the media and the rest full of water more like a dwc? I'm looking at adding a couple of 25L buckets to my system over summer for tomatoes and capsicums and cant seem to find much information on how to build them
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