latewood, crispi, weedhound....

Sounds like you want something more like the waterfarm setup but Bonger is correct......individual buckets will kill you eventually especially when the plants get bigger. Even though you only have to change them every nine days you will still have to check ph daily and adjust it as necessary. You will love yourself later when you realize you can stick on a cheap water pump and drain them all through one central line. That too has it's drawbacks....one problem is everybody's problem sometimes. But when push comes to shove I'll take them connected.

My feeling with DIY is that almost anything here (and for some maybe ANYTHING here) can be built at home. What you are really paying for with your $$$ is saving time and convenience. With the buckets attached (and I have little valves between mine to shut them all off individually if needed so color me smokin' :D ) you really don't even need the water pump....gravity will do the job....but timewise it will take forever. ;)

can you help me think of a solution here? i'd love to have them all hooked together, but i'm losing it at the part when it's time to fill the buckets... sounding like more tubes... *shudder*

pix would be great, if you can show me what you're talking about.

Why could she not hook all her Buckets together in series, then have a Ball Cock valve on the last one to drain from. First bucket being hooked up to the filling pump. She opens Ball Valve, drains all buckets. Closes Ball Valve Cock, turns on Pump and refills all buckets.
Am I missing something here? You can buy a pretty big rubber made barrel, that will hold over 50 gallons for pretty cheap. You should have fun working with all those Balls, Cocks, and tubing.:D

Hey Sis ,
Bonger , Cyc , & W/H are all right , even w/ clones just 1 per bucket or = girls end up fighting for space and choking each other out . You run them individually I bet your suicidal in a mo. or less too . All buckets will be dif. p/h -n- ppm all the time .

Only way I think you'll get 9 buckets under a single 1000w. will be sog . I saved my origional w/f's just for that idea - plans of buying 1 more farm and running 3 x 3 -n- sog . Plants just go ape shit in dwc / drip hydro when topped .
I'll email you a cpl. pics. sis . I currently have just 2 - 5 gal. recirculating dwc/drip hybrid buckets just starting so good pics of routing of tubes etc...

I have 5 - 5 gal. lids w/ 6in. built in net pots and a spare via aqua 302 to recirculate them too , want them ?
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

crispi, you're my hero! holy cow! that's great :) i deff see the validity of recirculation, i'm just going to have to figure out how to set it up. i was planing on doing a sog type grow with these, perpetual in the sense that when 8-9 come off, 8-9 go in. 9 buckets should work out to 46''x46'', which i know the 1000w will cover. i have a total of 6 feet from floor to the glass of the hood at the lights highest point, so i'll need to consider that...

the strain that i'm considering for the first run is dreamgoddess (godbudxdreamweaver). this pheno came out unbeleivable, and i want more :D she grew to be about 24 inches in all, and i din't get the yeild :(. but here's some pix...

sorry for all the q's and ideas guys, i'm a water n00b :p

Just throwing my 2 cents in. I was growing 6 plants in 3 inch netpots in a ten gallon tub. 2 tubs under a 1000 hortilux bulb. 12 plants. They would get about 3 feet or so. I had them stagered to harvest 6 a month. I got 3/4 to a pound a month, that is untill my nephew turned me in to get out of coke charges. Each tub only held 5 gallons of water. They seemed just a little root bound but not bad. It was working well for me. Do a search for loc nar1958 (papaya). My grow is still here. I was about to change to 20 gallon tubs with 5 inch netpots. They are drip systems. Oh nice bud wish I could smoke now. I will be in Cali soon enough though. East Coast sucks.

thanx loc, i may just try that, as i have an 18g already set up for that.. maybe three plants for a first time.

wh, do you have my email? if not, please get it from crispi; i still cant' rep you...

Not sure what the tubing issue is about.....does this photo help in any way?

yes, sort of... can you show me a pic of how it goes to the rez? and back? that's the part i'm not understanding, how exactly do you circulate it?

Mines pretty much a one way trip.....I will take a pic of main rez. X-C does a recirculating thing with his....I'm sure he can photo his for you. The main reason I have them hooked together is for filling and emptying the buckets without having to do them individually. I do have a cheapie water pump that I use to draw water out of the buckets just because it's alot quicker than them draining naturally. But they don't recirculate between each other

There was an old thread that BlueBear started.....DWC club or something here. I'll see if I can bump it back up to the top because I remember X-C, Bluebear, me, and Latewood had an intense discussion at one point about growing in one large rez vs individual buckets. Lots of good info and first-hand experience in the pros and cons in that thread.