So with the help of my VERY good friend X-C (*hug*) I've FINALLY managed to accomplish making my waterfarms a recirculating system and may I say it has been worth the wait. :thumbsup: I LOVE this new sytem and so do my plants.....they have commenced to growing like giant redwood trees in a speedrace or something. This is a strain that X-Crispi got 19 oz off of one plant and while I don't think mine will be doing anything along that line they certainly are NOT wanting in the bud department. And they are only HAFLWAY towards the finish mark.

The system is pretty much jerryrigged. I was seriously too afraid to drill holes in the w/f's to accomplish a daisy chain effect so I had to work something out that would pull the water from the buckets without simply pulling the water from the original rez and putting it back (the "path of least resistance" theory) so in the end I set things up on a timer with the tubing set up in such a way that the path of least resistance was from the buckets to the pump and not from anywhere else. I FINALLY got that to happen the way I wanted. :yippee:

The ph has stabilized very well.....goes up about 0.3-0.4 a day which is a HUGE difference from before. The ph would EASILY rise a point a day during this stage on out in the grow and this appears to have held that in check. I adjust ph once a day from ONE bucket.....just like X-C says.....and no having to lift the plants out of the w/f's to check things.......how NICE for my back. :thumbsup:

Right now I have the system set up to run once every four hours (six times a day) but with the cute little digital timer I can do it up to 12-14 times a day if needed. So far every four hours seems to be working wonderfully so it may be awhile before I change that around and see if more or less works better.