Aeroponics "Dutch Bucket"

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Hello everyone!Im uploading my "Dutch Bucket" i made long time ago. The concept is: you spray into the bucket, onto the roots with 2 sprayers. On the bottom there is a rubber grommet which fits a 16 mm tube which can be connected to a garden hose. Under the buckets there is a tank to collect the water again. In the tank there is a pump to feed the spray nozzles again.You can always enlarge the holes in the netpot. That is preferable while some roots grow a lot bigger than the small holes shown in these netpots. The water is pH 5.5 with a light nutrient solution. If you want to clean the roots up you can add some hydrogen peroxide to the water, to get all the brown gunk from the roots that sometimes grows there. So they can take up all you want to give to the plant; water, and nutrients. Use a filter with fine mesh so you dont clog up the sprinklers. Nutrient solutions get flaky after time. Its pretty straight forward. Check the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtbRsIqEZJ8. The guy has a grow operation, but is also using fine misters too. This does not have it. I talked to a guy though. He used pvc sewer tubes, and reported he had great results using this growing weed. Its at the picture section!One note on the video: If you want to grow a lot of weed, use maybe 1 week to grow the plants from cuttings 18/6hours light, and then put the light on 12/12 hours.This works great for tomato's too! Ive even seen potatoes being grown with this technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjCvsu4t6GE. NASA also uses aeroponics on their spacecraft to grow vegetables. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6zMB8S6sgThis was made a while ago, however the CAD file is very precise, and information is accurate!Use a netpot as shown in the picture with the roots, it has bigger hoes, that will give better results probably. However i did use the net pots with the smaller mesh in an aquaponics system for pumpkins, and that did do very well! One tip, and this is for every plant to be harvested: only use water some time before harvest, at least 1 week, or maybe 2 weeks (however this is aeroponics so maybe 1 week is enough?!?!). Try and be amazed! One more thing about making connections in a pressurized water system, you want to connections to run parallel and not in series. It works just like electric wiring. The last on the line gets the lowest power/water pressure. So you want to have a loop, and wire your connections from there, so every nozzle gets the same pressure! DISCLAIMER:I am not the judge of the laws of the region you are in. You know what is best for you. Also, i am not trying to get you to grow weed, its just an area of indoor agriculture that is well developed.