Water Farm/DWC club

[evlme2]

I just bought a waterfarm 8 pack and im wondering what is with the un-even nutes/ph from bucket to bucket that you guys experience? Why does it happen and how does recirculating the mix fix the problem? I didnt wanna have to constantly fix a system, especially for all the $$$ i paid for it.
Do i have to recirculate or can i just tie the end 2 buckets to eachother to complete a loop?

[xcrispi]

I just bought a waterfarm 8 pack and im wondering what is with the un-even nutes/ph from bucket to bucket that you guys experience? Why does it happen and how does recirculating the mix fix the problem? I didnt wanna have to constantly fix a system, especially for all the $$$ i paid for it.
Do i have to recirculate or can i just tie the end 2 buckets to eachother to complete a loop?

Sup Evlme ,
The plants living in the sys. use dif. nutes at dif. rates so ppm. in cells is always dif. I dont know why ph changes from cell to cell but it does also .

As far as why to recirculating the sys. - It'll be the biggest improvement you could prob. make besides drilling out all those b/s lil poked holes to like 3/8 in and adding a whole bunch more of them . Recirculating it cures ph flux , ppm flux , and stagnent res. probs . Take a 5 gal. bucket of water n let it sit for a week to 10 days w/o airstones or recirculaing and smell it . mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Not a pretty smell . Plants don't dig it either .

Dont wanna constantly fix a sys ??? Then do it all now , and all at once like Docco just did <- smart man . Learning from all our mistakes , trials , and errors so he didn't have to make them all himself .

Loop at end of 2 rows does nothing . Look at the pics G/H shows of their sys . Only 2 cells ever get true new nutes -> the first 2 buckets in each row . the further away from res . you get , the more fukd up the ph , ppm get because it's just passing old played out nutes further down the line till it gets to the last set of cells .

Take this for what you will . I wasted some money too , but am now blown away w/ my results after many changes and a cpl. of floods .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[evlme2]

Thanks for clearing that up xcrispi. My setup is similar to docos' in that ill be using only 4 buckets. Well, i have 2 grow areas', veg and flower so four in one spot and 4 in another.
How often do you recirculate or do leave the pump on all the time? (the one in the recirc bucket)
Thanks again.

[xcrispi]

Thanks for clearing that up xcrispi. My setup is similar to docos' in that ill be using only 4 buckets. Well, i have 2 grow areas', veg and flower so four in one spot and 4 in another.
How often do you recirculate or do leave the pump on all the time? (the one in the recirc bucket)
Thanks again.

Sup ,
I use a 120 gph. Via aqua 302 pump - like 7.00 at petstore or lots of em on ebay. I run it 24/7 w/ no probs. it's designed to be used for a fishtank so continious use isn't a prob.

Also with a cpl. pet cocks / valves between the res and 1st cells you can close them once a day and the pump bucket will put the nutes all in the res for you to chk. ph and ppm once a day , when done open valves and sys fills itself via. gravity .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[latewood]

you are not jumping anything...to me jumping is when a member start a convo w/another in a members thread, and ignore the ortiginal convo altogether. Most of us talk about a wide spectrum of off-topic subjects in long threads like this, because that is how you learn. Peace

all I know about effects is that when my hip is chronically out of place, anbd pinching nerves which causes my neck to ache...Nothing other than a great DOOB will throttle the pain. Peace

Perhaps someone with more MMJ experience can answer further. LOL Peace

[Weedhound]

Nice hut Doco! I hope you're growing short plants tho.....:stoned:

[doco]

Thanks Weedhound, I was just checking out your waterfarm too. Looks great! I love the tip about the raincoats too.

This is the third grow in this hut and I top them at least once so hopefully it's plenty of room - first time in hydro tho. I want the best light penetration I can get from my little 400w and topping seems to be the easy way to do that. I think a 1000w is in my near future.

I'll keep stopping by your grow thread and start one of my own as soon as I know these guys transplanted and adjusted ok. :thumbsup:

[kushkorea]

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?

[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.

[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?