Racerx's G13 3000watt recirculating DWC grow

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I thought it might never happen, but we actually had a flood 1.5 weeks before harvest. I decided to come home early to find water coming out of our room. Bad bad bad. 15 towels later and I finally had to go procure a wet/dry vac to suck up the rest. Good lesson, I think I will put the flood alarms back LOL! Essentially one of the plants grew way into the line despite the screen, and then when I went to clear them out, I dislodged something into the line. One line of buckets hadnt been draining well for awhile. It finally plugged and bubbled out about 15 gallons of water, some of it making its way eventually onto my carpet despite the plastic. But it was taken care of. We had a tiny bit of powdery mildew come out in the end in the small lower bud area in the corners, none of it affecting the upper buds.

We flushed them for about a week, 4 days with water and 3 days with Flora Kleen. I usually dont go that long but so it happened. It is especially dense because of what I believe is the CO2. I cut some down a week ago and dried it and the smoke way ok condsidering it had not been flushed yet at that point. Its a fruit/watermelon taste, but while the bud is pretty good so far...the hash is absolutely fantastic. It tastes exactly like watermelon candy and is some of the best yet. Bubbles like crazy.

As far as a light mover, we decided to move over to vertical lighting instead. I believe this burning is from the reflector and the reflection of the light, and not the light from the bulb directly. If it still ends up being a problem, we will downgrade to 600s and use an extra one. I am happy either way, but we wont be using any aircooling, just A/C.

after just looking at this thread , you have just become my newly found god .
its a must i read this thread . its just what im looking for .
thanks for the motivation...

Well, here we have some more final shots. Everything turned out really well, better then expected. After some curing, it is amazing. A wonderful blueberry smell and taste with a devastating high. Exceptionally dense. The hash is out of this world, with huge trichromes. The 90 and 73 bag really caught em good. Full full melt.

The NYCD is almost done. She is going great, on 8 weeks. Trichromes cloudy, no amber yet but were moving soon so itll get cut so we have time to cure it before leaving. The 1st pic is the G13, the rest is the NYCD.

im looking forward to seeing what your total yield is going to be

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Originally Posted by Raelum

im looking forward to seeing what your total yield is going to be

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I yielded over 4 pounds of prime stuff from the G13. A lot of trimmings too. I expect to get 1.5-2 pounds from the NYCD closet, since its a lower yielding strain.

damn dude
i love your grows they never seize to amaze me
keep up the good work :thumbsup:

good english grower

Looks great man. Too bad about the flood.. at least you got it controlled somewhat. I am trying to move into a house where I can do my project in the garage... eliminates the worries about water so much when the water will just go down the drain =) Just did diesel not too long ago, came out real nice... I took em down at day 67 because I like a more uppity high. BOL

Our area Razzy has some really famous Sour Diesel circulating, I wonder if what you had was the same as what my friends have been growing lately. I personally have always liked New York City Diesel better then Sour, its always looked a little better to me and I enjoy the high a little more.

The flood was definitely fun. We had some flood alarms too, I just moved them for some reason and never put them back. They call my cell phone when there is a flood. The room is all taken down and back to a regular bedroom and we have no mold/mildew which is great considering how wet the carpet got.

Our new place has a nice big 2.5 car garage with 2 different drainages so we are definitely happy with that. Had I not come back until the next day when I was supposed to, and my plants would have been high and dry for 24 hours and my carpet would have 100 gallons of water in it.

I am thinking about using 20 gallon containers for the next DWC grow, mainly because these 5 gallon containers are just not big enough for trees. With more then 3 weeks of veg, the root growth is so massive it just stops drainage almost. With a 20 gallon container and far less plants, I think not only will we not have a risk of floods...welll have even better yields.

Yep, I'm from Santa Cruz as well - lots of good SD avail around here lately. I am moving and highly considering doing a Hydro Set up. I was thinking NFT actually... do you have any experience with that? I'm pretty new to growing, only a few cycles in, but that method seems real good. Or maybe just a flood and water as that may be the simpler version of hydro. I use SunShine#4 right now, but it seems hydro pellets would probably get dry quicker which means they could uptake more nutes ya know?

Racer... why did you choose DWC when you went hydro? Always like hearing what each person enjoy about a particular method. Looks great man, good work bro. At some point we should huff a joint at the beach together and chat if you are into it bro.

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Originally Posted by razzapiggy

Racer... why did you choose DWC when you went hydro? Always like hearing what each person enjoys about a particular method. Looks great man, good work bro. At some point we should huff a joint at the beach together and chat if you are into it bro.

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i chose recirculating DWC because I had already experienced the insane growth of the DWC system, but the main downfall was having to replace water, keeping temp down, and using a lot of nutrients. i chose the system after reading Blazeoneup's tutorial on a cannabisculture.com and because I had seen pictures of the explosive growth of the water chilled recirculating dwc.

The system essentially combines a few elements, and you get both your constant solution (where the main root mass is) and then you get your aeroponic environment around the top of the roots and the root ball, keeping everything humid and moist inside. One downfall is the fact that we go through about 100 gallons of water or more a week, which is hard to keep up with as far as refilling and adding more nutrients. pH is incredibly stable because of the amount of water and the constant mixing.

After using the system for a few grows now, I am convinced it is the way to go. However as I mentioned before, we are moving to even less plants. From 16 to 12 and now, if we were to do the same room, we would do 6 plants!! We are going to do DWC trees, veg for about 6 weeks again but this time not

im in love with dwc too, i had good luck to get convinced to do it rather than dirt, (im SO glad i listened)... but now the recirculating dwc system looks like the ultimate hydroponic system....(to me anyways)

hey nice grow btw.....ive been watching for awhile but dont post much....peace

We are about to get ready to move as well, to a more ideal location for what we are doing. My current land lord has been playing head games with me for a few months now, "we might come by next week" type of bullshit. She is just a bit nosey and completely flaky.

Any tips on finding land lords here in Santa Cruz that ARENT as nosy? I live in Aptos, seems people here are more concerned about their property than land lords in other surrounding towns but I could be wrong.

Great work man... I am thinking I'm going to set up a ebb and flow system in my new house... just have to figure out exactly hwo to do that in the next month or so. =) Good job, buds look wonderful

P.S I got 1.25 pounds per 1000 watt lamp of my sour diesel harvest.

Thats not a bad yield for the sour diesel. Its not a huge yielder but not a bad one either. Technically speaking from a wattage to gram point of view, this last grow on the G13 we achieved 0.65 grams per watt when using 3000 watts of light. The NYCD looks to have yielded around 1.5 pounds which is about 3/4 of a pound less then the Cindy 99 soil grow we did before. With the Cindy 99 we achieved fairly close to 1 gram per watt with the 2 600 watts. With the NYCD its more like 0.56 grams per watt with the 2 600s.

I would like to calculate how many grams per real wattage there was; I mean including the water chiller, 10,000 btu A/C, inline fan for air cooling, the oscillating fans, the water pump, the CO2 regulator, the environment controller, the dehumidifier, the inline fan for the dehumidifier...

The next grow, I am not sure what strains we will go for. I have a lot of seeds saved away...including Top44, Papaya, Lavender, Mango, crosses of a few of those, NL5xBB, and a variety of others. One of these days the seeds will get cracked and mothers grown. I currently have a NYCD mother going so I will probably keep that strain going.

PS. Razza, I agree we should talk some time. I always like meeting new people who do the same stuff. You never know when their knowledge and experience can help you out. I believe we actually both know someone else on this website as well, so maybe all 3 of us could meet up. I trust him for sure. demohit "at" gmail "dot" com its a temp email address I setup

great grow

eh racer i would really like to know the website from which you ordered the dwc recirculating system.. can u please sned me the website or link. thanks man btw i am so fucking envious of your op.

toke til you choke

u do realize this post is 2 1/2 years old right?

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Originally Posted by razzapiggy

Racer... why did you choose DWC when you went hydro? Always like hearing what each person enjoy about a particular method. Looks great man, good work bro. At some point we should huff a joint at the beach together and chat if you are into it bro.

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excellent question!!!

Great thread, Very much enjoyed reading. Keep up the good work.!!:thumbsup:

Thanks Racerx, you put one a great show grow:thumbsup:. Like everyone it seems iv thought about giving up my dirt too. I am changing up my room and looked at a few systems on ebay and have been reading threads. It always seem to much cash to start up, but im thinking it levels off after initial set up costs, so what do you think? Plus its a whole new ball game with tons of new knowledge to get threw and im having issues with just understanding some terms here-an-there.lol

Great grow for sure:thumbsup:as your screen worked perfect IMHO. I will use 2 150 w led bars and add a 400hps to flower with . So from CFL's you could say im stepping it up a bit, i just need to get the other tools to complete the set up crap. So i guess this would be the time to make up my mind, id hate to get all dirt stuff and some how change my mind:wtf:

But after reading a grow like this il keep thinking about the big switch:thumbsup:



Thanks man:rasta: