One Lonely Blueberry

I really want a water farm after seeing all these amazing results that you, and others using DWC are getting. I'm still somewhat afraid of messing up something, as I've never done hydroponics before, so I would plan on getting GH Floranova Grow and Bloom, as to minimize the possibility of messing up and killing them :wtf:.

I'm looking at the single water farm kit. I'm wondering weedhound, how often do you change your reservoir? I plan on getting one of those heaters, to keep the reservoir temperature at a constant temperature for EXPLOSIVE growth :rasta: lol.

So, would you recommend starting the seeds in the water farm, as long as I keep the hydroton wet? I normally germinate in peat pellets, but I've read it will eventually get into your reservoir and potentially cause problems if you transplant them into a hydro system. Sorry for all the questions, I'm completely new to hydro, but very fascinated by all these mind blowing results. And I want to get the best out of autoflowering varieties and I heard hydro is the way to go for that.

Actually HB I found the botanicare line to be more easy and convenient than the GH series but that's only my personal opinion. The less things I have to mix and measure the better and botanicare puts everything in one bottle ready to go.

I change my res every day really.....at least I recirculate to new stuff daily and I think it helps the plants grow better and definitely helps with the ph issues. I change the entire rez about once a week but top off with fresh stuff in the meantime. When the plants get to that size they'll snuffle up a gallon a day or so.

You can buy the waterfarm or you can make one pretty easily....X-C made those big 5 gallon ones to grow his 19oz trees in and a friend of mine made hers with some five gallon buckets as well.

I honestly don't know anything about peat pots....I germinate my seeds in rapid rooters and then just stick the enitre RR in the setup once I see a taproot coming out the bottom. I'm told you your plant must have some sort of root system to go into the waterfarm so you'll need to germ them in something else. I like the rr's because trying to plant a teeeeeeny little seedlings in those hydroton rocks without damaging anything is pretty damn impossible to me and I can just pop the entire rr in without hurting anything.

I love hydro growing personally and would be lost without it. I really feel that if you follow the directions exactly and start with some good seeds you WILL grow some nice plants. Soil has so many unknowns and guesses......makes me crazy. Hydro's not that way at all imo.

Well, I really want to get the single unit Water Farm before I shell out the money for the 8 unit with main reservoir one. I want to make sure I enjoy it, etc...

I buy spring water by the gallon, as my PH is quite alkaline and hard, so would this be how I would go about doing things?: Fill the reservoir with 4 gallons of spring water, and then mix in the nutrients for whatever stage of growth they are in? And then, each week dump it out, and do the same thing again? Because if that's all there is to it, it seems much easier than soil. Of course I would buy a pH meter and pH + and - just in case the pH is off. It says it comes with hydroponics nutrients. Does it come with the Flora line?

The GH FloraNova is also just one part, like the Botanicare line you mentioned. I'm debating between GH FloraNova and Botanicare Pro. I also don't like mixing a lot of things, especially since I'll be new to hydroponics.

But one thing that scares me, is it seems to me that a lot of people initially run into some sort of problem with pH, or I'll notice them adding things such as calcium and magnesium because their plants have deficiencies. So, in all reality, will I definitely need more than my nutrients in order for my plants to go from seed to harvest in the water farm?

I'm also wondering what you're opinion on planting 4 Master Lows in the water farm. The only thing I'm worried about, is the fact that autoflowering plants (and all plants apparently, lol) thrive in the water farm. I could see planting 4 master lows in a 4 gallon pot of soil, but I'm wondering if their roots would just go crazy, and somehow die. Perhaps 2 Master Lows?

Hmmm....I'm not too familiar with the autoflowering strains but my friend used a five gallon bucket waterfarm (the ones you buy are 2 and 1/2 gallon) and I'd say you could put 4 good plants in there if you were't worried about roots growing together...four per the larger waterfarm that is.. probably 2 for the smaller storebought kind.

The ph issues usually stem from your water....you'll need to get that part right before or you'll go mad. Everything in hydro goes back to ph.

Let me dig up some threads on that stuff.....I can think of some good ones about DWC and ph issues.

This one about water and ph is excellent. I didn't know that GH even had a one part....i'm sure that will work more than fine for you. Also think about what medium you want to use.....have you read all my sobbing on my hydroton issues?

http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...-question.html

Here's another one on DWC....this is a great thread and will answer any questions you have about it.

http://boards.cannabis.com/91976-wat...-dwc-club.html

The ph thread talks alot about RO and distilled water which is something to give serious thought to in hydro so study up on that. If you do go with one of those you'll need to use CalMag+ to replace lost minerals etc in your water to prevent defs. This is where (imo) people start veering off from what they are told. Allow me to PONTIFICATE :jointsmile: once more....if you do exactly what you are told...which may be buy this or use that for instance....so sometimes hydro can get expensive.....more so than soil I think; especially when you first start. Once you get things going it gets better and cheaper. But if you are willing to bite the bullet at first and commit the results are excellent :thumbsup:

Thank you for those links, the DWC club link didn't work, but I searched for it and found it. I'll be studying those for the next few hours, lol.
Peace,
:rasta:

Np HB. ;) Just don't ask me stuff about building parts etc....I'll buy it first. :D

Well snipped off another bud and trich are all still clear....maybe 5-10% cloudy so I'm going to stick with starting flushing on friday. That tends to slow things down somewhat as well.

PS...The bud is absolutely CRAMMED with trichs...the damn things are just growing on top of each other almost. .I'll try to get a photo but seriously they are hard to see without the scope....just don't seem to show up as well as they did on the crystal....but they are definitely there. :thumbsup:

Let's see some day 47 pics of the entire plant ;)!

Hb....one thing I forgot to say that you had mentioned....with a waterfarm I don't think you will need a heater.....if anything perhaps a chiller. When they sit on the floor like they do the water will usually go to within a few degrees of your room temp so that's one of the reasons you want to try to keep your room temp down. I see many more issues with water that is too warm than being too cold. Some other cud to chew on.....PS....I don't use either but try to keep my room below 74 degrees.....the water usually ends up a little below 70. ;)