Water Farm/DWC club

[elskeetro]

growing in 18 gallon rubbermaid with 3 airstones 5 plants and dynagro 7-9-5 with ph balance at 5.9 and 400 watt hp bulb will it work?

Yes that will work.

Depending on how big your plants are, it's gonna get real crowded quick. also, with 5 plants sitting in the lid of the container...it's a bitch to take the lid off, keep the roots safe, and change the solution, check pH, etc. i'd suggest buying an identical 18 gal tub to set the lid and plants in while you are changing water.

another option would be to set the tub on a riser of some sort and install a valve to drain the res. then you could just open the valve, drain the old solution, close the valve, add new solution.

I just harvested 4 plants in a 14 Gal DWC. They came out really great. nice big buds. 4.75 oz dry weight. While it was my best grow so far, i have moved away from the single res and moved to 5 gallon buckets. It's way easier to move the plants around and changing solution is a breeze.

i'm not sure about your nutes. i like the GH 3 part. but the rest of your setup sounds similar to what i just finished.

good luck

Skeet.

elskeetro Reviewed by elskeetro on 07-15-2008. Water Farm/DWC club OK, since I noticed so many people using the Farms I decided to put out some questions about the buckets that can be kind of like a Farm/DWC thread. Some things info to give, how many buckets do you use, what kind of lights, what kind of yields have you had and what kind of strains you have had the best exp with. Also, this would be a good thread for general questions and suggestions perhaps. With this, new hydro converts and curious folks could just stop in and ask or add their two cents. Rating: 5

[SAP420]

How do the waterfarms connect to the tubing to the controller. How do you flush your system to do your weekly or biweekly nute changeouts and flush. Usually I take each farm to the bath tub and rinse each one out and mix nutes seperately. I am seriously thinkin hard about getting a controller with the recirculation system upgrade but I need to know how much of a bitch it is to change out the nutes when using a controller and do I still need to take each farm out of the tent like I have been doing or is there a whole other method for flushing and remixing new nutes??? Also do I keep a whole fresh nute mix going in the controller or just ph'd water that will keep the reservoirs topped off (if I'm not doing a recirculate method). If I am doing recirculated setup, What do I have in the controller since all the nutes and water is constantly flowing from farms to controller to farms?

[markgreene]

Hi, I too am new to dwc, but have huge plants. I use 3 18 l oxypots and 3 rubbermaid clones that hold 20 liters. A couple of things:

1) do the plants really mature faster?

2) do you have to change the water regularly, as half the liquid is replaced weekly anyway

3) I use canna aqua and it costs a bloody fortune, with rhizotonic, flora and veg a and b, cannazym, cannaboost. Any cheaper options that are also good?

Thanks

horton

[markgreene]

I forgot, I also have to cut a male out in a 2 mesh setup. Ideas?

[Booyagrandma]

Doco, I don't mean to flame but you should have your water flow dirction changed, your looking for the water fall effect when recirculating dwc, then you can cut out any air pumps for the water fall creates enough DO, far and foremost I do hope the best of that great looking system, cheers

PS I use a 1000+ gph pump with my bucket system for dem trees

[tasermebro]

I have heard of the waterfall method as well form Heath 9tree grower)I love growing trees!what is your tree method set up?I'm thinking of gowing dwc with 5000watts vertical style 8-12 plants

[d4twamp]

I like the house and garden line the shooting powder at the end makes the buds swell

D:S5:

[d4twamp]

Hey All in the Recirc. DWC Club,

I'm setting up a recirc. dwc system, I was gonna use 5 gal buckets until I found these 10 gal buckets: my ? is I'm thinking about using 1 inch tubing for the drainage of the buckets,. Do you guys or gals think this will be enough or should it be larger. I was gonna go 3/4 in. for the 5 gal. but don't know if I should double the drainage for the double in size bucket. the buckets are the same height as a 5 gal bucket but they are 18 inches wide. any thoughts or help would be very appreciated

thanx D:S5:

[Weedhound]

where's X-Crispi when you need him? He'd be the perfect one to ask. I believe he uses 3/4" tubing for his and likes it much better than the 1/2 inch.

Even in my larger buckets D4 I'm perfectly happy with 1/2 inch tubing so I wouldn't be the right one to ask.

I suppose though, I would ask how you are going to recirculate....with an air pump or a water pump? That may change how large you need your tubing to be.

[d4twamp]

Does anyone still visit this thread, am I all alone here, Somebody, Anybody, please just gimmie a lil help...lol jus' playin..

I got some 1 inch ebb n flow outlets for the drainage but I couldn't find any 1 inch valves went to 3 hydro shops.. so I bought a bunch of fittings and a pvc valve at Lowes and some bucket lids w/ net pots I forgot to get the 1 in. tubing but I did get the 1/2 inch tubing I needed... I guess I gotta stop smoking before I go shopping for parts, I always forget something

My fridge just took a crap on me this morning so my mods to the cultivation station and the building of my 1st DWC system might have to wait longer. AAAAARRRGGH I can't stop daydreaming of getting this back up and running so much that I can't sleep, but it gives me ideas for inventions to patent for the hydro retail market, hopefully one day.

Later D:S5: