Waterfarm hydro system?????

[JackdaWack]

I would like to do away with clogged drippers too weedhound. ONLY FLOWERING weird.

JackdaWack Reviewed by JackdaWack on 11-16-2006. Waterfarm hydro system????? Do u guys think this is a good beginner hydro setup? is it easy to use? please any info would be appreciated. thank you. kronz Rating: 5

[BlueBear]

With your clogged drippers, are you using organic nutes? That may be the reason why if so. JW your right with the ebb and flow, only having to check and maintain one res is nice. Another thing that is an advantage over both DWC and the hydro farm is that in a eb and flow you don't need to worry so much about res temps especially like you do in DWC. The water is not around the roots long enough to cause root rot problems from sitting in warm water like in say DWC where temps are the biggest thorn in the side. But never the less res temps between 72 and 62 are ideal.
With a 3x3 ebb and flow you could actually put 18 in there if you wanted to do a SOG style or just a hand full of 2 1/2 footers.
I just read a thread on IC Mag where a fellow pulled 1 LB off a2x3 maybe table under a 400w with CO2 and that is breaking the 1G per Watt thinggy.
As for the PH problem in flower, perhaps you need to dial in your system a little more, but I don't know. If your plants are eating allot then you can have PH fluctuations, so stepping up their nutes may help, and if you are using organic nutes they may not have a PH buffer to help stabilize the PH, but again I am not sure.

Adieu

[Weedhound]

yeah seems to be a much bigger thing when the plants are older and larger and clogging up the drippers with bits of roots. Don't seem to have a problem with fert salts or anything........

[Weedhound]

Yes, have had ph problems in flowering every time. I don't use organic nutes--using the botanicare line but do have to add ph down daily...groan. No problems at all during growing...what I put it at it stays at but flowering is a different story. And yes, they do seem to eat like horses, more so in this cooler weather although they are indoors. Does this make sense?

[BlueBear]

Yes it does. I will give it some thought and try to give some opinions if I can. How often do you change the res and do you use any res/water clensers? What strain and what do you think your res temps stay around, also do your roots stay white threw out the grow?
How much of a jump do you have in your PH in a day, give me an example if you can, because some jumping is normal.
Adieu

[Weedhound]

Bear I started a new post regarding this so I could give this poor dude back his post....could you check it out when you have time? In the hydro section..I will go back and come up with the info you need. Would appreciate any and all info folks. Thanks

[rollone]

Waterfarms are great!
I've used these for years!
However my 2x4 ebbnflow gave the same results in less time. But then again your talking more plants.
Maybe about 3 years ago, I had a mom that was roughly alittle over a year old. 2 of them to be exact. I had to let one of them go due to space restrictions. well when the end came (harvest) I pulled just afew grams shy of 1lb. under a 1000w hps, hangin on a light mover that made it's way around to the otherside of the garden (where she was) every 15 min. Thats not to shaby at all!
The other side of the garden had roughly 20 smaller plants, and it's own 1000w, that gave me about the same in weight.
The strain used was white russain.
Of course with the proper care, and ebbnflow can hold a single large plant as well...with easy!
I still have an old megagarden that could perform like it came from the heavens

[Pay It Forward]

You won't have ph problems w/waterfarm if you follow my instructions on previous thread and you can use this for 4 or 8 buckets. the key is to raise the res 7 inches off floor so all nutes drain into buckets (no nutes in res) and to check ph, you lower res onto floor so nutes drain back to res, then check res ph. I also checked my system by checking the ph after lower res, and then I drained system and checked ph again, and it was the same.

That's not to say I don't adjust ph, because I do. I've learned to adjust ph below 5.7 and above 5.9, just alittle adjustment at a time.

Listen, these guys and gals are correct. You can build your own system for 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of waterfarm, that works as well or maybe better than a waterfarm. It just depends on you and your growing environment.

I just built 2 bucket bubblers for my 2 mothers (cheap to build), and I'm having great success with them.

Again, It just depends on you and your growing environment.

What ever you do, follow ZANDOR's advice:

"If you go cheap, you grow cheap"

Do it right the first time, otherwise you'll wish you did. I made that mistake.

Peace PIF:rasta:

[PigSnout]

I have that system. My setup is a pair of 1 reservoir/4 waterfarms. I use ~8 gallons of water in each setup. For each farm that puts the water level at ~4.5 inches and leaves about ~2.5 inches of air.

I have a pump in the res that sends water to each of the 4 farms thereby circulating the water. I added another of the same type of air pump and run 2 lines with airstones going to each res.

[Weedhound]

PIF, where is this water draining into from your individual buckets? Both my reses are full so I can't drain the water in the individual buckets anywhere unless I brought in another large bucket. Are you saying to drain the buckets back and forth daily? Hmmm. Might have something there except that I really don't have room for another large water bucket that holds 8 waterfarms worth. Now solve my clogged dripper problem.
Thanks