Hi everyone. Im pretty new here and don't grow pot by the way but thought I would show you my DIY wilma system. im going to use next year for chillies.

Here is the parts to build a 6 pot drip system but is easily expandable to 8 pots for next to nothing. I think 6 is the max I can fit in though! I have recently built some staging in my greenhouse but I need to cut the legs down for this. I should then have from 70cm - 130cm of growth height!!!

The tray sits on the staging and the reservoir sits underneith. A pump feeds a 13mm manifold from which (6/8) 4mm dripper lines come from. They drip into pots, passed the roots and onto the tray. Then the water flows through a 19mm return pipe back to the reservoir. A small air pump will be used to keep the solution aerated and flowing to prevent stagnation.

Parts Required:

1 Garland Giant Tray (1200mm x 550mm x 40mm)
6/8 pots (im using morrisons flower buckets)

3m 13mm pipe
1 13mm T
2 13mm stop ends
3 13mm elbows
1 13mm filter

1 19mm Ebb and Flood (bulkhead) fitting.
1m of 19mm pipe
2 19mm elbows

8 Blue flood drippers
8 4mm nipples
4m 4mm drip line

2m of air line
1 4mm T
1m bubble tube.

A Maxi Jet MJ1000
A Reservoir
A medium (i'm using hydroton clay)

All parts were ordered from [spam] except the reservoir, the pump and growing medium. Picked up a 50 litre storage container for £4.00 from Wilkinsons.

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I hope you don't mind viewing the pictures through a photobucket link - my files are just a bit big and im not sure the best way to compress them. You will see the captions explaining each pic.
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Chris

hosted pics not allowed m8

How do I compress my files to under 250k so I can upload them? Whats with the rule of no hosting elsewhere? Its not like the pictures are of anything illegal.

Thanks, Chris

download irfanview its free

just resize...i use 20% size and around 30% quality

posting to other sites is a security risk to peeps who go to the site to view the pics and the host site prob know where you are linking to

Thanks for that. People use hydroponics for other things though. Mostly I upload to Chillisgalore.

Thanks for the chilli tips Toleman but you should upload your pics here.

So pictures then after a little time with Irfanview. Hope you like my attempt and give me your opinions please.

Drain attachment installed
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13mm manifold
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Hole punched
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Nipple inserted
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Mock up for testing - real set up the tubes will come out the side of the reservoir so the lid fits normally
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5 morrisons flower buckets for scale
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Flood drippers
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Drippers all attached
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Drippers work
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Pooling due to levels. The staging I have built in the greenhouse is going to be modified to allow the water to fall towards the drain. The tray will also have a layer of hydroton to keep light of any water on top
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Leak due to ridges on tray not giving good seal. Silicone me thinks.
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Return pipe (19mm)
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Air stones made from pourus piping/ leaky hose
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2 of. one for this dripper system and one to go in my 205 NFT
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What do you think then?

Chiris

Nice tidy job dude, it'll work a treat.
When i use drippers i like to sit my pots on pvcu corrugated sheeting set at an angle with the res at the bottom, there's no pooling or
waterproofing needed, it all runs off into the res. You can pick up a 2.5m x 600mm sheet of corri for 5 or 6 quid.