Water Farm/DWC club

[BlueBear]

Wow the thread came alive over night. Well, for KD a typical bubbler/DWC is generally self contained in one bucket or a rubbermade tub with multiple net net pots growing multiple plants, if you want to connect other buckets to a main reservoir where you can mix you're nutes and check PH and refill water and so on than this called a recirculating DWC. The Water farms can be an individual unit consisting of one bucket or can come in an 8 pack with a controller and main reservoir whir you add nutes and water so it can be distributed to all of the buckets. But once the water/nutes leaves the controller in the Water Farm 8 pack to go to the buckets it does not recerculate back to the controler so it is not a real recerculating type system, but can be modified to be one.
Weed Hound I think it was you who asked about mediums, around here in my state people use lava rockes the red kind, but it needs a peroxide bath before using, know the measurements of water ratio if anyone is interested. Transplanting, well some people when transferring in any hydro system with net pots will sometimes start off in small net pots with their grow medium and as they transplant will just take the whole net pot and place it in a bigger one and have no problems.
Xcrispi sounds like you had a pretty good run in your old set up, hope that this run is comparable. As for your water temp problems I see a couple possibilities, 1. If you did modify your system to a recerculating system, can't remember if that was you, use an aquarium heater in the main controller. 2. With 8 packs, you could get 8 heating pads to put under each bucket, I know it sounds like a pain and probably would be, not too mention raise your electric bill some, but it is just a suggestion.
Well Adieu

[xcrispi]

yep bluebear that was me ,
water temps are 60deg at the coldest when lights out but , there's no snow on the ground here yet and will prob affect it greatly . first i'll try a res heater , don't wanna mess w/ 8 sep. heating pads as i'm tryin to avoid all the clutter in the room so there's no issues w/ me funkin anything up in there w/ the wheelchair .
do you have any past experience w/ kool bloom ?
they claim a 1/4 tsp. per gallon -n- the numbers are sooooooo high on the powdered stuff . i don't wanna burn em up . maybe an 1/8 th tsp. per gallon ?
peace
xcrispi :thumbsup:

[BlueBear]

Hey Xcrispi, the Cool bloom is a bit strong and I would go with the 1/8 to start or approx 1g to 1.5 gram if you have a digetal scale and you may want to cutt back a bit on your main bloom in the process.
Hope that helps and I also have to keep the clutter down in my room because of disability, but it still turns into a jungle at times.
Adieu

[BlueBear]

Also Xcrispi you will prob notice a increase in smell after the first couple of days with your strains after you use the CB so be ready.
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[kdspecial]

thanks for clearing that up for me Blue bear ...

much appreciated...

kd

[xcrispi]

cool bluebear , thx for the heads up on the stink ,
i found that the blueberry is already funkin up the house w/o even any flowers yet . we have a 3rd. hurricane fan and a good 6in. carbon filter on hand .
peace

[BlueBear]

What do you think about your hurricane fans?
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[BlueBear]

Oh Yeh KD not a problem and HK keep us updated on your grow. You said that you use a 1K in veg and a 1K in flower, why not use a 600W in veg and both 2K's in flower, just wondering?
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[xcrispi]

hurricane / vortex fans are the only inteligent option out there
given they're 5 -n- 10 year warranty . i live on ssd. soc. sec. disability so moneys kinda tight , when i do go and spend a lil , i can't afford to buy junk .
i spent 2 yrs. reading up on overgrow before it was axed and there was soooo much good info i never even had to sign up or establish a user name . i knew the info i was looking for and i tried to learn from all the other folks mistakes because some of them can be incredibly costly . like buying junk equipment .
peace
your cuz
xcrispi

[BlueBear]

Same with the SSI and so on and same with me on the intense studying. Seem to have some things in common, and I also think the same about the fans as you probably noticed in my post earlyer about fan salection.
Your Cuz Blue