New Grower First Time Hydro Grower Questions

[beavergoods]

Okay so once again I would like to say hello to the Autoflower.net community.
I'm about to do my first hydroponic grow. I purchased a 4X5 gallon bucket system that also includes a 5th bucket as a reservoir.

I have a few questions before I get started.

1. How often should I be flooding my plants. My understanding is 6 times a day.

2. Are there optimum times throughout the day to be flooding? My understanding is that they dont drink at night and they are thirstiest in the morning

3. How often should I be cleaning my reservoir?

4. When it comes time how do I feed flowering nutrients?

Thanks for all your help everyone.

beavergoods

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

welcome!

i would like to see a pic of your set up.

1) depends on what your plants are in, rockwool, hydroton, fabric pots w/ perlite...

2)yes

3)every 7-10 days.

4)same as you feed veg nutes after you turn your lite to 12/12

 

[beavergoods]

I havent assembled it quite yet but ill get a picture up asap. I'm using rockwool cubes and hydroton clay. How long do i turn the water on for?