Ok everyone...ever since OG shutdown, this is my new home, so I'm going to start a thread that I had at OG from the beginning...Hope everyone joins along for the fun!

Here's my current setup:
Veg room - [3'wx2'lx3'h]
* 150w Growlux
* 70w MH
Flower room - [4.5'wx4.5'lx8'h]
* 1000w Hortilux HPS
Ventalation - 465cfm Dayton Blower aircooling the lights and the room

The past 6 months I've been running 10gal tubblers and a few 5gal buckets....Well, once you get enough of those into the room, they are pretty hard to maintain by themselves as things like PH and Nute/Water levels were different in every bucket, everytime. This was hurting my results, so I decided to go with a 6 bucket recirculating Deep Water Culture setup. Since I already had the DWC down to a pretty good science, all I needed was learn how to make a recirculating system like the WaterFarm systems. In the end, it was very easy and is a very good setup in my opinion for people who need to not have to worry about there plants for a week to ten days at a time. Now, I'll run you through a quick breifing of how this system is setup and works, of course with full pictures.

The idea behind the entire system is fairly simple. You have as many buckets as you want to run plants in, plus one extra that will be outside the room as the controller. If all of these are connected, at the bottom of the buckets mind you, then the water level set in the controller bucket will be the same height that is maintained in every other connected bucket. That solves the water level issues....then if put a water pump in the controller bucket and have it go through 1/4inch feed lines to every other bucket, then you have a recirculating setup...so if PH and nutes are maintained in the controller, they will be the same in every other bucket as well! Now the only thing left to do is to add a toilet float valve to the controller bucket, which is hooked up to a gravity fed 20gal topup reservoir, which is set to keep the water/nute level in the controller bucket to the exact height you want it. Now add airstones to each bucket in your room and woila.....I know that was kinda straight forward, but you will see from the pictures how everything is hooked up....
So here's before and after photos, then I'll get to building the system...
skunkydelight Reviewed by skunkydelight on . sD's 6 bucket recirc. DWC White Rhino / Orange Crush Ok everyone...ever since OG shutdown, this is my new home, so I'm going to start a thread that I had at OG from the beginning...Hope everyone joins along for the fun! Here's my current setup: Veg room - * 150w Growlux * 70w MH Flower room - * 1000w Hortilux HPS Ventalation - 465cfm Dayton Blower aircooling the lights and the room Rating: 5