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Deep Water Culture (DWC) is a If you're a beginner, prefabricated
modular bucket system that suspends grow tents are a great option, as
the plant's main stem in a net basket they allow for minimal wear and
while the roots are completely tear on your property. Instead of
immersed in a highly oxygenated renovating or building a new room,
nutrient solution. An air pump grow tents can be set up and taken
supplies the oxygen to the nutrient down in a matter of minutes while
solution which circulates through 3-5 also providing a clean, reflective,
gallon, or 11.4-18.9 liter, pots. DWC and enclosed environment for your
buckets can be configured to run in a plants to grow. As a general rule,
stand-alone drain-to-waste system, or your ceiling height should be at
all of the buckets can be connected least a height of 8 feet, or about 2.4
together to run in a recirculating meters; this is the typical height of
manner. a tent. Check your prospective
tent's measurements before
Aeroponics are hydroponic systems committing to the purchase.
in which the roots are suspended in
air and lightly misted with a nutrient Grow tents also make it easier for
solution on regularly timed intervals. home growers to maintain two
This method can achieve faster separate environments: one for
growth rates while using less water vegetative growth, and the other
and nutrients than other hydroponic for flowering. This allows you to
systems, though this is considered of keep a perpetual harvest going by
the most advanced methods of propagating and growing young
growing hydroponically. plants in one tent and flowering
another set of plants in the other
Setting up your grow: tent. Maintaining a balanced
choosing a space rotation like this can result in
Before you purchase any equipment, maximized harvests year over year.
it is important to understand the
possible limitations of an indoor
garden. Consider the height of the
ceiling, how much insulation your
space offers, and your ease of access
to electricity and water. Some local
jurisdictions may also ask that indoor
gardens mitigate odors during the
flowering phase.
