Water Farm/DWC club

[bud luv]

Here's a nice 'lil 12 bucket (soon-to-be) recirculating drip ring setup.

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=95268

I love the drip rings, bitches take off in those things. I might add an airstone into each bucket too, making each bucket a super hybrid hydro method.

[xcrispi]

hey weedhound ,
about the extra holes in the top of the waterfarm containers man , w/o them roots will plug up the small holes they poke when orig. from gen. hydro . when this happens everything that drips from the rings will eventually overflow the top container that holds the medium n make a hell of a mess of your room . here is a pic. of 1 of the containers i modified and a pic. of the results . aka "root porn" .

[xcrispi]

wanted to add a cpl. pics of how i went about making my farms recirculate .


at the end of each row of waterfarms i continued on w/ a t- fitting instead of ending the row by using a 90deg. fitting and ran them into a 5 gallon controller type bucket containing a small via. aqua 120 gallon per hr. pump pushing the nutes back into the resovoir via. the line in the center of the controller bucket and bringing fresh nutes back to farms via. gravity refilling the buckets .

in doing so i managed to stabilize the ppm. and p/h so all buckets were = , and also cured my problem w/ the cold resovoir temps by adding a heater in the resovoir .
peace all
crispi

[BlueBear]

Hey Xcrispi, do you think that the growth in the W/F is as vigurous as it was in the DIY DWC buckets? With the modifications you made is it easier to maintaine the W/F system compared to the first set up??
Thanks for checking in with the WaterFarm/DWC club.
Adieu

[PigSnout]

I put in a waterpump and 1/4" tubing in my waterfarm setup to recirculate the water also.

Question - Is the following being too cautious?
The main res is a little larger than the waterfarm bit still holds about 3-4 gallons of water tops. I put the nutes in the res in stages. Not talking about micro first, wait awhile then add bloom and so on, I do that. But I'm afraid if I put the full amount of micro in first in the ~3.5 gallons of the main res it might be too high a concentrate when it first hits the roots. By the end of the first day all the nutes are in.

[xcrispi]

hey bluebear ,
i think the growth in the w/f is = to or better than my old DWC buckets .

the maintence w/ the waterfarms is sooooo much easier than the old individual 5 gal. DWC buckets . if you look in the pics. w/ the pump bucket , the 2 black outside lines that bring the nutes back into the waterfarms and pump bucket , these lines now have a shut off valve between the first set of farms and the resovior itself , once a day we shut them and turn the pump in the bucket on high and it pulls all nutes out of the waterfarms and pump bucket and puts everything back into the resovior so we can check p/h and ppm once a day in just the 1 container and when done just open the valve n gravity refills everything on it's own .

once every 7-10 days we pump everything into the resovior and put a 1000gph wayne submersible pump in the res and run a hose down the floordrain and empty it for nute change , we just top it off w/ p/h'd water between nute changes .

i happend to find someone on ebay w/ the 8 farm set up but w/ the texas controller bradnew and unused for 220.00 delivered and was a private auction? someones mom or significant other musta said NO WAY ???

i only use the bottom half of the texas controller / resovior and don't utilize the float valve. the res. , 4 farms , and pump bucket hold like 16 gallons total . we ended up only using 4 of the 8 farms this run until we get all the bugz worked out of it . which i think we have .

i'll add pics. of my home made DWC/drip combo buckets in the near future . i think thanks to the ease of the waterfarms the old sys. is retired for good now though . lol
peace
crispi :greenthumb:

[BlueBear]

Hey Xcrispi, thanks for taking the time to explaine all of that. I am thinking about the W/F 8 pack as well and considering your modifications. I still need to go back and read how you made it into a recerculating set up. Can't remember if you talked about it on this thread or not?
Well, I got so many things going on IMO. I just started a coco run using GH coco coir and I am doing a side by side run with the soil grows to see if the coco will blow it away and par with hydro like they say, along with a few other coco transplants and about 20 plus soil and a couple DWC things cooking as well. They are all mostly test grows with different strains and systems so I can really get down to deciding what system I really want to role with and what strains are the most consistant and desirable for me and my goals and life style.
Adieu

[MisterE]

Sounds like a nice setup to me. I think I've got it.
bottom of res -> valve -> farms -> remote bucket -> top of res

Full recirculating. Plus when you turn off the valve, the pump will send ALL liquid back to the res where you can then do a good solid PPM and PH check.

It's almost like a waterfarm/recirculating dwc/flood drain, lol

So xcrispi, why havent you added some aero sprinklers you lazy bum? hehehee

imp:

[xcrispi]

hey mr. E ,
you got it , exactly. super simple,super effective. DWC / drip , ebb-flo hybrid sys. ? i guess . no aero sprayers yet E , soon tho , but not in this sys. . next project will be a 5 gal. bucket aero cloner so i don't havta keep messin w/ feminised beans . maybe keep a mom in a c-13 - 250 hps. cabinet i don't use anymore . last go at it was in individual self contained buckets n was a p.i.t.a . i'm just the mind behind my grow , mrs. crispi is my hands , i lost all fingers on my right hand and my left is contracted into a fist from an auto related explosion a few years back . i wanted the new sys. to be as easy to take care of as possible as far as up-keep n maintence for her .
gotta be good to old girl , been married 16 yrs. today .

hey bear ,
yep your a busy bear , i keep up w/ all my fav. ppl. man , latewood , weedhound , brooke , stinky attic , and yourself . hell you got hoes in the attic , in cabinets , dirt , co/co coir . you've got a harrem going on man .
lil side note bear - do you have plans in the future for any blue pups ? mrs. crispi n myself would be seriously interested . :question:

keep an eye on bud luv's new gro log too ,
really nice system , he's gonna scare himself it's gonna work so well .
he'll have his own private jungle in no time . :greenthumb:

peace everybody
the crispis :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

Hi guys, works been busy....X thanks for the photos of the waterfarm holes...I need more than I have definitely you obviously have a lot more room for your roots to come through and they look happier than mine did. ......I do the exact same thing with the recirculating thing that X-does which I love....pulliing things out w/pump and for me pouring it back in the top of the big controller after checking ppms and ph. The newer solution (correct ph etc) flows by gravity back into the each w/f. Every 7 days, completely change solution. In pulling the "older" solution out daily it seems to make a HUGE improvement in the clogging of my drip rings...pulls out the little bits of crud that work their way up to the ring holes and block flow; in addition to knowing I am putting in ph and ppm correct water in daily.....I really love this and growing is fun again rather than back-breaking.

I would have bet money that Bear's dog was a chocolate lab so now I have to ask X....what kind of dog is that on your photo?