First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets

[GreenLeaf420]

HEY WH PLEASE TELL ME IT IS ALL GOOD OR GIVE ME A EASY EASY FIX OR TELL ME IF I"M REALLY FUCKED......

THANKS IN ADVANCED GL420
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GreenLeaf420 Reviewed by GreenLeaf420 on 06-07-2008. First Time DWC W/ Water Farm Buckets This is my first Bucket grow ever. I have done tables before and had great results Soil ect... Then I seen the excellent results People were getting out of 4 bubbler plants with LST. So I Just purchased 2 8 pack Water Farm Bucket Systems. After 5 days I can see that I need to buy a stronger pump and more line cause I cut it all down. I'm running tap water 7.8 dropping it down to 5.8 to 6.3 W/ PH Down. I set up the system without washing the Hydrotone and balancing the PH level of it. I did Rating: 5

[johnny5fingers]

I agree with Weedhound, 1000 or even less would be better at this point. Also I dont use more than 1 tsp of hydrozme per gallon.
Even if your plants were completely healthy 1000 ppm would make them flourish.
Once you figure out your system you will have a feel for how fast the ph and ppm are going up or down.
I know with my system I have to put a 1\4 to 1\2 tsp of ph down every day or so inbetween nute changes.
When your trying to diagnose a problem decrease the nutes etc. and increase the oxygen, till you figure out what the problem is.
If you decrease everything except oxygen and your plants come back looking better then you know your giving them too much of a good thing.
If you have a vented hood or have air blowing over the tops of the plants. Lowering the light as close as possible is a good way to get your plants to start thriving again.
Good luck.

[GreenLeaf420]

Thanks Johnny I just purchased serenada and the hydrotone was turning green on top. I hit them with more hydrozyme then I probably should roots are not an issue now stems are. I need to keep them they are getting to good looking just to kill them off. I used alot of that serenada I don't no when to hit the brakes with that shit and this hydrotone is now haunting me again.

WH were are you!!!!!!:jointsmile:

[GreenLeaf420]

Hey WH:thumbsup: Missed you babe.

The roots are popping out the bottom of the buckets but not like yours were. A 7 foot monster. The roots only apear to be a foot max and not alot of density. The plant's are tending to lean. What are you saying that they are to big? I was waiting till the 14th to flower. My head is all messed up I was up all night and I have to go check them out. I will get picks of the roots and I will post in 2 hrs..

Thanks WH GL420

[GreenLeaf420]

WH were you @?

Are you cheating on me!!! LOL
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[GreenLeaf420]

I was thinking of doing this with white poly. Pushing down the drip rings as far down as possible. Then stake them for support. Although I'm unsure how survival is looking for now. Probably I can just go W/ a 6" square poly cut and just lay it on the hydrotone. To prevent the water bounce back and just monitor it. If they are going to be able to flower stakes will be a must. A 6" cut may be better then a full CVR due to the humidity that will lock in below.


GL420:jointsmile::jointsmile::jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

Dude your plants are looking monsterish!! I'm sorry GL....as soon as I got off the pc I realized about your hydroton because of all the issues with it. What do your roots look like underneath?

Let me study the photos here for a min but how are they growing in general.....how happy do they seem?

[Weedhound]

Ok here are my thoughts:

Johnny....I love you. Every one in the world wants to add more and more. You speakum WISE words....less nutes and more O2. Great all around plan no matter what the problem until you can get a diagnosis.

GL....I dont see anything wrong with your plant stems. They look strong and healthy from the photos I see. If they are leaning then the issue is in the hydroton/and or your roots being weak/undersized/diseased etc and just not providing the support they should

You have pretty good sized plants for w/f buckets so you may well run into rootbound issues further in flowering. Imo cloning is starting to look like a good idea because of size issues only. That's something to consider because you already are going with more buckets, plants etc than a lot of us so if you are looking for MORE yield you may have to rethink your w/fs......just a bit of cud to chew on.

That being said.....the way to stop that leaning is to get some good gardening tape and tie the branches to the w/f. I ended up drilling some small holes in the sides of my tan buckets to tie branches to for lsting and they work great.

[GreenLeaf420]

WH PIC 1 leaves curling plant turning and quick. There seem to be 4 with this problem. The roots are not large at all coming out of the lower bucket. Should I be adding extra holes in them? I went and checked on them and topped them off they are really starting to drink up. Just when I though the fight was over.

What are my chances of survival with these?

Thanks GL420

[GreenLeaf420]

Here are a couple more shots!!!

The roots in the first root PIC ARE THAT OF THE HEALTHY MONSTER....