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: