@SweetBuds , lol, understand. Just set up your plants as though you are doing a dwc (rockwool, starter plugs, whatever you do to get main roots going) and don’t expect explosion of grow until after the first week of growth. You will see roots with the fuzzy off shoots come after the first week and then it will be nonstop after that.
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Ok what if power goes out then am I just screwed? And how you change water out just swap buckets?
Place the sprayers about 4"-5" from bottom of your 5 gallon bucket, spraying upwards or at about a 15° angle from straight up, and get a timer like pictured below to have it come on and off at a set time frame (mine is setup to run 20 secs every 20 minutes.) This timer cost $10, and you can set it to whatever timing you’d care for.
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Where you get that timer the one we got a pain in the bottom .lol
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You rock thanks hon! 
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@SweetBuds , miss, any questions you may have to get it setup or anything about once it’s setup, feel free to ask and I will try my damnedest to give you guidance or put you towards someone that has more experience than myself on the subject.
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Thank you so much.
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@SweetBuds , Just “at” me when you guys post your setup so I may see.
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You bet I will and keep watching you as well @ me
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To change water, just pour bucket out and replace water with your new nutrient solution. You’ll have plenty of time to seeing how you have 20 minutes before pump comes on again.
Sorry I popped on the seedsman site see some strains I haven’t heard of before.
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@SweetBuds meant to say, if power goes out, have a spray bottle (mister bottle) available and take some of the water from your reservoir to place in the spray bottle. Spray the root system at least once and hour (every 20 minutes if you can) during power outage. Spray them well enough to where roots have droplets dripping off of them. Once the power comes back on, the timer and pump should have kept the timings set for both units.
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@IRDuH You have 2 spray nozzles in the bucket is it necessary to run both in one bucket or can I just longer mist cycle also I noticed in the picture you have a tray of solution why not just add to bucket, I’m referencing our last grape auto 
which was sucking down 1 1/2 gal. A day you use reservior to keep it full? And how does it keep pan full of nutrients full?
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@SweetBuds i put a total of a gallon of water of nutrient solution in the bottom of the bucket and place the spray nozzles about a half inch above the top of nutrient solution. (FYI, nutrient solution can be as low as 1/4 of recommended dosage due to open air environment instead of submerged.)
I would suggest both in one bucket (one mid-upper way and one a 1/2 inch above a gallon of solution) to ensure misting of all root surfaces to not allow them to dry out. You can go longer on the mist but need to allow time for roots to reach SSD or surface saturated dryness else you can drowned your plants with too much water.
The reason for lower dosage of nutrient solution is that it will be more readily available for the plants consumption due to availability of air to the roots more frequently than a hydroponic setup.
If you see your plant is drinking more than a gallon a day, you would want to move it to a larger container setup. I’ve found that (with an auto) I didn’t have to add more water more than 3-4 days after getting it set.
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@SweetBuds , this system is setup to use a fraction of the water needed for either hydroponic or soil. In a normal autoflower lifecycle, you shouldn’t need to use more than 10 gallons (that’s for a big one pushing 8-12 ounces) in its full life cycle.
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Thank you so much for your reply I agree it’s sounds like a great system we’re going to give it ago for sure I will post a diary of it and send you updates.
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I’d just like to chime in for a second, @IRDuH in our 5 gallon bucket we are having the roots getting too “dense”, lacking of oxygen at different areas.
How do you keep the nozzles free of the roots, and second, how do you maintain adequate flow to the center of the root mass? Or am I overthinking it
@Steven if you are finding that the root system is becoming to dense for the spray nozzles to complete there intended function in a 5 gallon setup, this is where I would move to a larger system, per say a 7.5-10 gallon setup to allow more expansion of root system. But by placing the the reservoir in the bottom of the 5 gallon bucket, while still having the spray nozzles for aeroponics happening, you introduce a melding of both systems for advantageous grow on both ends of the spectrum. Just remember, aeroponics is hydroponics, but in an advanced state of formulated growth.
If you run this system and find your are have too much root growth in a 5 gallon setup, I would suggest moving to a ten gallon setup (10 gallon tote from box store) next grow to see the outcome of that process. For example (take this with a grain of salt) I produced a 2 ounces soil grown Future #1 auto in a 5 gallon bucket, where as, with aeroponics I produced a 4.85 oz plant in a week and a quarter shorter time frame.
It took 11 weeks in soil and 9 weeks 4 days in aeroponics.
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@Steven this is my outdoor setup of the peyote Zkittlez in a 55 gallon drum, I changed it from the 25"x25"x22" setup I was going to have due to a buddy 
thanks tmaxxx555, that had an extra one laying around. I have 3 clones that are in a cloner and will show my results of an aeroponic 17 gallon setup as soon as they are set and ready to go. One will be hydro, one will be soil, and one will be aero.
Want to be as transparent as possible without getting the neighbors in a kerfuffle about it.
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