GH WATERFARM USERS: SIMPLE RECIRCULATING SYSTEM

[billnie40]

Why does the air lift hose have to be above the water line. Wouldn't it circulate more water if it was slightly below the water line? It would also fill the pots faster when changing water.

[Booyagrandma]

bulkheads
1 inch pvc for draining
1/2 inch pvc for feeding
and a big ass water pump,

you need to drill bigger holes in the 1st mesh bucket, for more roots.
(just re drill the already preexisting holes bigger)

the set up they give you for the online kit isn't that great, when your recirculating water you want hugh amounts moving fast and into a water fall effect for uber DO. the kit they give you just isn't sufficent enough to do that.

[Weedhound]

Boo makes a good point......the recirculation is extremely slow with the existing kit.

HOWEVER, my personal reason for wanting to recirculate the system was for one main issue......I got damn sick of adjusting the ph on each w/f bucket individually. This does indeed solve that problem and for that alone it's worth it imho.

[nlkush]

first time here, long time on og. check the link for all the details.
http://www.generalhydroponics.com/ge...structions.pdf

thanks for all the info though.

i am running 4 systems all link together. one complete circuit. one rez out take to next intake and so on. i think the major hang up on this was visualizing it. you have the air in every bucket all ready but they are not directly hooked up the feed line. where when you mod with this, the pump on the controller is directly hooked to the intake, thus creating the same afect as in the buckets, but it actually moving the water from the line into the controller.

so in a multi w/f set up ( ie 4 rez and 32 buckets) hook them all up to each other. this way all four are working together, better regualtion. awesome idea and plan, thanks again for the post,
cheers
:rastasmoke:

[Weedhound]

And thank YOU for the link.

[nlkush]

Not a problem on the link, least i can do with all this knowledge floating around in here!!!

WH what time of water regiment are u using?? (ie on/off day/night). i have a CAP extreme room controller ( C.A.P. Xtreme Greenhouse Controller - XGC-1e) and it has some adjustments but i could also us another timer for day and night?? Or do you let yours run constantly? been in cocco forever, also did an areo flow a couple time. switching to this today. building after i goto the depot. oct 1 will be veg day 1. everything is set just need to build. feel like a lil kid on xmas yet again! let me know what ya think.

[Weedhound]

nl when my plants are vegging I just use the drip rings that come with each w/f and we run it 24/0.....its ALWAYS dripping so no timer needed. The only time we run it differently is perhaps the first few days after putting in a new seedling.

We've tried some different techniques in bloom.......DWC with GOOD sized air wands and a commercial air pump that does the job extremely well and that part is standard in bloom. HOWEVER......we've run out of electrical outlets in our grow space and short of adding more and more extension cords (or getting a SAFE electrician in to add another fuse box or whatever they need to do which we haven't been able to do yet) at this point we are going back on forth on the drip ring part in flower since the rez is well oxygenated.

SO......the last few grows we have discontinued the drip ring part in bloom and gone strictly DWC BUT we think it may be part of what is affecting our poorer-than-aimed-for-yield estimates so a couple of plants we're growing right now we've deliberately (ie:another extension cord) made sure to keep the drip rings running through bloom 24/7 as well.
We're not sure if turning off the drip ring and switching to strictly DWC affects final yield but we'll get some sort of clue this go round as we have several on 24/7 drip ring AND good areation running 24/7 in their individual buckets as well.

My personal thought is the plant would grow better with constant drip ring action vs just "wicking" up needed nutes but the electrical situation has made it impossible to know for sure.

[TurboLife]

Has anyone made their own pumping column? I am trying to recirculate my dwc buckets and I used this 1/2 fitting with a 1/4 nipple coming out the side kinda like a tee. I'm just having trouble getting a steady flow of water, alittle bit come out then it kinda bubbles the alittle more comes out. I was wondering what the diameter of the GH pumping colunm is? Or if anyone had any ideas. Thanks

[d4twamp]

Has anyone made their own pumping column? I am trying to recirculate my dwc buckets and I used this 1/2 fitting with a 1/4 nipple coming out the side kinda like a tee. I'm just having trouble getting a steady flow of water, alittle bit come out then it kinda bubbles the alittle more comes out. I was wondering what the diameter of the GH pumping colunm is? Or if anyone had any ideas. Thanks

Turbo isn't that what WH did on the 1st page of this thread..idk I might be wrong...check the 1st page out...

[TurboLife]

Turbo isn't that what WH did on the 1st page of this thread..idk I might be wrong...check the 1st page out...

It looks like she made one out of an exsiting pumping column, and added a elbow to the bottom. I had the tee laying around that I tried to make one out of but I think the bubble's might be too small for the 1/2 line, IDK, maybr it needs to be a Y shape. I just wanted to see if anyone esle had made their own, and what they used.