EBB AND FLOW

A Ebb and Flow Hydroponic bucket system is independent buckets, spread apart and hooked up to a feeder line, the feeding line is hooked up to a controller box that is feed from a reservoir. The control box has floats inside and a timer hooked to it, it controls the height of the water and the amount of times a day it feeds, and for how long. The advantages of buckets:

*Plants have more room to spread out

*Plants are easier to get to and mess around with.

*They say buckets give more root space for roots to grow bigger plants, this I don't really believe, but yes you can grow some monster plants.

*Reservoir can be in another room.

*Buckets can sit on the floor

*Buckets can rotate or spin to give plants even light on dark side of plants.

A Ebb and Flow hydroponic table is just that, it looks like a table. You have a hole in one end of the table, then you have another one at the other end. The reservoir on this system has to be underneath the table or at least lower and out of the way. You only need a timer and one pump for this system. The advantages of tables:

*Less equipment to break down.

*More area to grow plants (SOG)

*Can be made very cheap

*Reservoir can be in another room, just lower than table.

*less equipment needed to buy to get started.

Disadvantage:

*You loss some height do to the table having to be higher than the reservoir.

*Fixed in one spot unlike buckets that you can move.