Loading... Please wait...For people with no time or space to garden: no more tilling, weeding, hand-watering or feeding. AquaBuckets equals big yields/less work. Grow your own heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, melons, peppers, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, chard, chinese vegetables, and more.
Based on the same principles as professional hydroponic greenhouses, Deep Water Culture technology produces astounding yields of heirloom quality vegetables by circulating an oxygen-rich nutrient solution to the planters 24 hr a day. AquaBuckets is constructed of the finest quality materials: food-grade reservoirs and planters.
Now anyone can experience the explosive growth rates and tremendous yields of hydroponic vegetable gardening in an ultra low-maintenance, consumer-friendly package. Turn your porch, deck, or spare room into a garden area. Forget about weeding, and tilling.
-Set it on top of your former garden area: no more digging or weeding.
-Forget about the tremendous weight of rooftop gardening with soil.
-Water and energy efficient.
-Huge yields.
-Go on your summer vacation. AquaBuckets waters it self.
Included: everything needed to start growing hydroponically minus plant food.
-Heart (mixing cell) With 200 mesh filter.
-3, 6, 12, 24, or 36 plant sites. Please specify above. (All black buckets to ensure a complete and healthy root system)
-3.5 or 5 gallon plant sites. Please specify above.
-Hydroton. Enough Hydroton for all cells.
-All needed parts and fittings. Tubing, connectors, etc. 1" PVC manifold and 1/2" black flex tubing to each cell.
-Water Pump. Sunleaves/EcoPlus brand water pump. Note: the size of the pump will increase with larger systems. Example: 3 site system uses a 140 gph pump. A 12 site system uses a 250 gph pump.
-Air Pump and air stones. 2" Sunleaves air stones are included, 1 for each cell. Note: smaller systems will only include 1 air pump. 12 site systems will include 2 air pumps, and 24 site systems will include 4 air pumps and or the size of the air pump will increase to handle more cells.
-Comes with illustrated installation instructions.
System dose Not include PH adjusters or Plant Food.
We recomend Vita Grow as an inexpensive Base Nutrient. We currently used this prouduct, and have been doing so with exceptional results for over 10 years.
We recomend House and Garden Auqa Flakes. This is a complete Nutrient and works well with other nutrients and aditives.
6 site fits 4' x 4' (600 watt), and 5' x 5' (1000 watt) grow spaces.
Versatile grow configuration allows for plant sites to be moved around up to 1.5 feet in any direction, even in the middle of a grow cycle. Save energy by using a 400 watt while plants are small, and then switch to 600 or 1000 watts during flowering.
12 site system fits 4' x 8' or 8' x 8' grow spaces.
24 site system fits 4' x 15' or 8' x 15' grow spaces. Heart (mixing cell) placed in the middle.
36 site system fits 4' x 22' or 8' x 22' grow spaces. Heart (mixing cell) placed in the middle.
200 mesh filter attaches inside the "Heart" to keep drip lines free and clear of all sludge and debris. Use Organic plant food without the fear of clogged lines.
AquaBuckets in a nutshell: It is a modular recirculating hydroponic design consisting of a nutrient "Heart" and a series of 3, 6, 12, 24 or 36 planters. You lay out the system as you would potted plants....from a small balcony to an entire garden area. This system is gravity fed. Simply add Water and Nutrient to the "Heart". Transplant your seedlings or clones and let it grow for you. You will add and adjust your nutrient every 1-5 days. Need to go out of town with no one to water your plants for you? AquaBuckets can be retro fited with a 55 gallon resivior for automated watering up to 2 weeks. Keep in mind that Deep Water Culture may require a Water Chiller to maintain adiquate root zone tempetures. Water Chillers easly atach to existing AquaBucket systems. AquaBuckets is a Deep Water Culture Kit and is intended to be modified and prefected by you, the hobby grower.
Afraid of Hydroponics? Think it will be too technical for you? This will be the easiest gardening you've ever done. The whole idea behind AquaBuckets is to make high-performance, hydroponic gardening simple and available for anyone. Our automated systems do the job for you day in and day out, 365 days-a-year: no watering, no weeding, no worrying about what will happen if you go on a two-week vacation.
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Posted by Jack G on 9th Jul 2011
This system works great. Love the option of being able to move the plants around in the middle of the cycle.
Minus 1 star because of the lack of Growing Instructions. Not really an issue anymore, because i found plenty of info on the internet on how to use DWC systems.
Posted by CHONG on 29th Apr 2011
Great Kit. I like the fact that you can still move the plants around durring the cycle. Each cell is NOT restricted, and can be moved in any direction up to 2'.
Makes it easy to save on electricity by using one light while the plants are small and later upping the wattage, and spacing the plants out when thy get big.
Posted by pleased grower on 29th Apr 2011
I bought an Aquabuckets DWC kit 12 site. After my first harvest i realized that 6 plants would have filled my 4x8 foot space just as well as 12 plants would. The nice thing about this system is you can add or remove plant cells with Aquabuckets during setup.
Be prepared for the biggest plants you have ever seen. A friend of mine uses 1000 watt per plant per 5x5 foot area. 6 plants, 6 1000 watts, in 10x15 foot area.
Posted by jack bean stalk on 29th Apr 2011
I cant believe how big my plants got. 11' tomato plants in my back yard produced hundreds or vine ripe fruit. If you want to grow the biggest plants, get this system.
Posted by Unknown on 9th Jan 2011
I bought one of these last year and I have to say I have never seen faster vegetative growth of any Organic or Hydroponic garden. 6 site AquaBuckets system produced over 800lbs of Heirloom tomatoes.
Thoughts on chillers:
It is absolutely necessary to use a water chiller in the summer months. Exceeding 72F for extended hours of the day will result in root rot.