Water Farm/DWC club

[latewood]

scrog would work great with waterfarm...

[BlueBear]

You need to make sure you have a way to flush/change out your buckets though because the screen can make it a little tricky.

[xcrispi]

has any one had any luck with a scrog set-up and the 8-bucket w/f system? or even 2 or more single bucket w/f scrog?

working with a small space but wanna go big.

thx

hey seasoned vet ,
take a look at a thread called "lovely ladies" by justaseed . he's awful damn good at scrog , very tallented - 3yrs. practice . he gets 12 oz. out of a lil 400w. hps. using a 2 x 4 ft screen , he was talking about a 1000w. scrog .
a 1000w. waterfarm super scrog would be the shit !!!!
peace
crispi :greenthumb:

[BlueBear]

There are some of those over at IC using water farms.
Adieu

[Racerx]

has any one had any luck with a scrog set-up and the 8-bucket w/f system? or even 2 or more single bucket w/f scrog?

working with a small space but wanna go big.

thx

I am currently doing a scrog with 16 buckets (well actually only 12 of the buckets are screened, the other 4 are simply tied down, love experiments). Ill give you some input in a couple months. They just got the screen recently. Its not a waterfarm system but it is recirculating DWC with 5 gallon buckets. I think the waterfarm system might be to close together. Our buckets are about 21" away from eachother (center to center), the waterfarm look far far closer, but Im sure you could change that.

[HowBigSuperBig]

Hey guys, new member here. Been following the hydo threads for some time now and decided to finally post. Almost everything I've learned has come from this site. Heres what I'm working with: Cloned unknown strain in DWC Recirculating fill and partial drain that is in 2- 5 gal buckets with makeshift net pot and RIVER ROCK for my medium (was that a bad idea??). 5.5-6.0ph. 3 part GH, LK, Calmag+, SensiZym, and big bud. I am also using a stainless steel cooling coil that sits in my rez and every two hours a pump runs cold water through the coil. This means I have to keep a cold cooler on the side. This has been my most time tedious task but from what I can tell has been benifitial. It keeps my res temps 64-70. Early on I was using an aluminum coil and did not see and negative effects from using the AL in my res. but I found that AL can be corrosive so I changed it out for the SS. Thank God for winter, to keep temps cool I draw cold air in from outside. temps stay 66 at night and 75-82 at during the day. The concept I struggled with was designing a method where I could grow SCROG but at the same time allowing the buckets to be removed for cleaning without affecting the plant itself. Basically I came up with a hanging screen. The key is to have a wooden frame that the screen is attached to so that when hung from the ceiling or where ever it is rigid and can support the plant and roots. I cheated and used an old dog/baby safety gate which could have dubbed as my screen too but I also attached some chicken wire. I grow in an extra shower that is painted white and it lets me drain stuff with ease. Also, instead of growing the plant UP through the screen, (mainly because the clone grew to a foot before I decided to try scrogging it) I laid the plant over sideways on the screen and continued to tie it down with plastic zip ties. Then I used three hook screws in the top of the bucket where the net pot sits and connected those hooks to the screen so that when I unhook the potter bucket and remove it, the net pot, roots, bucket top and plant hang from the screen. Before spreading the plant sideways on the screen I topped it, waited a week+ and then FIMed it. After the plant began to grow out and cover the screen I topped it an additional 2 times followed by FIMing to reduce stretching and to thicken it up. It got so crazy with 'tops' I was crisscrossing them back over each other. While aligning and placing shoots I would from time to time break stems or pinch stems to slow certain areas of growth. NOW that I'm flowering and I can clearly see the stems and buds where breaking and pinching occurred and the stems are huge. Early on I even accidently broke the main stalk right at the base from the screen laying on the plant before it was strong enough. The result was a huge main stem. HUGE stem= better supply of nutes. After about a 2 month veg with 400w MH I started 12/12 HPS. I used some side lighting during early phases of flowering. Once she stopped stretching after going into flowering I cut all the zip ties to let the stems fully develop and to allow the plant to breath better. With criss crossing so many stems leaves were smushed together. Anyway, after they started to put on more weight I used string to lift the stems off the screen and make almost a blown of branches. This let every bud site receive more even light. I'm on day 55 of flowering. I've been off N for about 12 days now. Just high PK. I've had some sort of def. for some time now but have not been able to correct it. I think it may be root rot because my roots are pretty dark with some blacker looking areas. Starting from the center of the plant (which is the newest growth) it started to turn yellow and it moved out from there. It happened when I left for a week and the res temps went up for that week. Its so late in flowering now its too late to do anything about it. The buds are a little airy but then again it is alot of bud for one plant, plus I think I have that def. which effected the grow. With all this talk of watching Trics for prime harvest. If I look at the trics on the top of finger leaves some are amber but if I look UNDER them, some are clear, some are cloudy still with little to no amber. So basically, where am I suppose to be looking? I've been cutting off a couple little leaves near the top of the buds and looking at them with a 60X mag, the radio shak one someone posted up. (works great). Anyway, I just wanted to share my experiences. This turned out to be super long, holy sh!t. Sorry to ramble. I'm going to post some pix of my setup. Its been saying server busy for a while.

[HowBigSuperBig]

here are some recent pix. They are about done but I just dont want to do the deed before they are ready.

[BlazeIdo]

Welcome to Cdot. Those are some trichy buds

[Weedhound]

Very nice setup and SUPER nice buds!!!

[BlueBear]

You can harvest in stages, meaning finding the areas which seem to be more ripened, and for the most part, the buds which are closer to what the top of the plant would be if sitting vertical will be the most fineshed IMO.
Sounds like you have put alot of work in, and yes the week of high temps may have did you in with some root rott.
Keep on keeping on.
Adieu