First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
If your numbers are rising like that (starting at 1000 and ending up at 1400) then your plants are drinking a LOT more water than nutes. I would drop your number back further then......perhaps down to 800 if they are using up that much water and leaving behind that much nute in your solution.
Quite honestly I haven't really had that problem to a large degree.....I tend to keep my numbers fairly low all in all and generally while the rez amount will drop the numbers tend to go DOWN so I have no trouble adding fresh full strength solution. One of my plants is in week 6 and is drinking over a gallon a day so it's easy to keep up with that one by just adding a fresh gallon a day. :)
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
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Originally Posted by Weedhound
One of my plants is in week 6 and is drinking over a gallon a day so it's easy to keep up with that one by just adding a fresh gallon a day. :)
Nice going W/ that one gallon a day plant was that started from seed or Clone? Week 6 of grow or Flower? That is nice a gallon a day with no troubles.
That's cool Thank you for the advice. I will be lowering my nutes again 800 to 750 ppm Micro grow and bloom 250-250-250? I ordered 8" Air Pumps to add in to the WF buckets. I will do a How to Thread on that on Tues. It should help alot with the O2 uptake. I will be able to show off the CO2 machine on Monday.. Can not wait:jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile:
So drop nutes and plants should be even happier is basically the theory behind DWC and WF Buckets because they like the O2 and with the low NUTES it alows that...
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
Here are some updated shots of the garden. I'm sexing the tall "GIRLS" I hope in the back now in the VEG room. Seems be the normal 60/40. The train Wreck is blowing up really fast development. Has anyone grown this strain from GHS I hope it makes me happy...:jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile:
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
60-40% was not my ratio when it came to my Sensi NYCD It was 2 out of 6.
So that put a little damper on my grow. I had the intension's of flowering a few of the big GUYS with the ones in the HFarm Buckets.
Now that has changed I was thinking of trying tranobles technique. I'm thinking of cutting 40 clones to fill the 3Rd lamp and do a 4x4 Bed. I'm thinking of only Vegging them for 10 days just Like Tranoble said it could be done. No topping he said he was getting 40+ grams colas on each plant. That was with CO2 in a sealed environment. Which my CO2 unit arrived today and I do have a sealed room. When the unit comes on it throws off a bit of heat. I purchased one that has a spark igniter rather then the glow plug or pilot light. I have to get a game plan because I've put so much in and have been unable to get anything out. I left the CO2 on over night and I can not believe the difference and the water consumption the plants are taken up now....
Well they say Good things come to those who wait I sure hope it is True!!!!!!:jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile:
There are only 12 TWreck and Churches mixed in I wonder what the yield would be if I just flowerd out the buckets!!!!!!
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
As long as you don't run into root issues....which is something I've been fighting with the w/f's with for as long as I have had them.....why not flower them in the buckets? Otherwise go for your clone thing. Either way I don't think you'll be sorry with your finished product.. ;)
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
Thanks WH I was just hoping to get a little more weight then appears to be possible to get out of only 12 buckets!!!!
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
Help Help Help WH!!!!!
LOL it seems to be just me and you in here.LOL
I really appreciate all the help. I have a big ????
When the plant begins to develope and get larger do they have a tendency to lean? There are a few of the big ones I have are really beginning to lean. I thought @ first the stems cracked or the roots pulled off the plant. Then I took a 5 gallon bucket and filled one up to see what the plant would do and it just seemed to rise then settle to the side w/ A lean. Is this normal or am I having problems? The lower section of the plants 4-5 inches of the stem are really white I guess thats from the nutes splashing up causing it to turn that way. they are really fat stalks but my friend believes that there is a problem with the white to the bottoms but he never grew a DWC system FN Tommy LOL:D. The plants really took off after I listened to your advice on lowering the nutes the plants are really coming around I'm just really concerned with the stalks leaning. the roots are coming out of the bottom in full force now and they all took to the hydro except for one straggler which I'm not giving up on.
Thanks In Advanced GL420 :jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile:
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
Hey Gl.....can you take a photo for me? They really shouldn't lean at that age....what kind of medium are you using?
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets
Only the hydrotone and they were in peat pellets. I can get a Pic int he AM. I was thinking if it is a problem maybe balance out a 3" rock cube cut it and wrap around stalk to help balance them? I can get photo's tomorrow Afternoon I have to travel to the garden. Ohh Dam I wish I had a shot now to show you!!!!
First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets