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Old 02-07-2012, 06:56 AM
GpsFrontier GpsFrontier is offline
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12 large plants, 12 plants x 2.5 gallons (minimum each)= 30 gallons is the minimum reservoir size you should consider. Me personalty I would want to double the minimum recommendations. A 50 to 60 gallon reservoir is what I would use. It dosen't need to be filled all the way while the plants are young, probably even less than 1/2 the way, but it will need the full water volume when they get to be full size.

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This may or may not help visualize things. Let me ask this question. If you had two children the same age, would they eat less food if they had separate rooms, or shared a single room? The room size wouldn't make a difference in their individual nutritional needs. The same holds true for plants, regardless of how many plants are in each bucket/container, or even the size of a central reservoir they all draw their nutritional needs from. Accommodating them all the same is important, unless you want them to suffer.
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