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*Edit: I'm personally more inclined towards passive hydro setups, as I state in a post below. I'm simply curious if the design I observed in this hydro store is really so easily duplicable with so little money compared to the item's price.
2nd edit: improved diagram.
Imitating a setup I saw at a hydro store, I drew up this diagram. The original setup had two "arms" - two plastic pipes side by side with holes in them that plants were growing out of. The sticker price was over $1000, which after taking a good look at the materials and how the hydro setup worked, I found incredibly shocking. Their profit margin must be huge... must mean not many people are buying - and are building it themselves?
I imagine with a drill, some PVC, a reservoir, pump, and some nutrient solution that you could build this kind of setup for VERY cheap, needing merely a trip to home depot and maybe a pet store. Plus, the roots of one's plants receive far more oxygen this way - in beetween mistings.
Am I wrong? This seems like it could be built for less than $100. Maybe less than $50.
neither and both. I'm mostly just curious - at the hydro store, it cost something like $1000 for their system. Being able to build the same exact thing for $100 without too much work , if possible, is something I'd want to know!
-------------------- This post is a work of fiction in its entirety. Any references to real people, products, or practices is entirely coincidental, and any other information in this post is hypothetical and fictional; this discussion has no bearing or relationship whatsoever to anything in the real world.
I'm definitely inclined towards passive hydro personally. I simply saw the design of the $1000 hydro tubes as incredibly simple to duplicate with a trip to home depot, a little elbow grease, a bit of imagination, and less than $100 - if that. Am I right?
-------------------- This post is a work of fiction in its entirety. Any references to real people, products, or practices is entirely coincidental, and any other information in this post is hypothetical and fictional; this discussion has no bearing or relationship whatsoever to anything in the real world.
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