RacerX's recirculating 16 bucket dwc "Grow Log"

[Racerx]

Ok, pictures from a couple weeks ago. Stuff is going great except for a 750 bulb blowing up. That was not fun, as 4 plants have been without light for the last 3 days. Suprisingly their growth seems to be right on track with the rest. Otherwise everything is going well and the growth is quite spectacular. We go into flowering at the end of next week. Since we are now at our spot for a little longer, we are able to get 2 grows on this system before dismantling it.

I posted an all around update in the Indoor Section if anyone is curious about our soil plants.

[MisterE]

Hey, have you been able to check how those ebb and flow fittings are working to keep roots from traveling down the outflow tubes from the buckets?

[Racerx]

Hey, have you been able to check how those ebb and flow fittings are working to keep roots from traveling down the outflow tubes from the buckets?

We use Ebb and Flow screens. They do a pretty good job of keeping the roots out. Since were only using a 350GPH pump, there isnt a terribly large amount of flow to really pull them down there and the airstone seems to help.

[MisterE]

Yeah I understand, thats cool.

I currently have just an open 1/2 inch fitting, and a couple of weeks ago I pulled at least 12 or 18 inches of roots out of there.. The plants in the container are really too big now for me to pop the lid and reach in and pull them again, so I'm just praying they dont clog it.

I'm planning ahead for upgrades and those fittings are definitely on the list.

You're room looks like it's working out pretty well! Plenty of room to grow christmas trees imp:

[Dazed4now]

badass setup ya got goin there
3000 watts of growing power, should yeild fat
good luck

[Racerx]

badass setup ya got goin there
3000 watts of growing power, should yeild fat
good luck

thanks for the kind words. gonna snap some more pictures tomorrow. they are pretty much doing amazing. we just now got the 1/4hp water chiller so thats going to take a lot of weight off my shoulder.

water has been about 74-75F in the daytime which is unacceptable for us. Ice buckets and cold water helped but with heat of the room it was inevitable. Anyways, water chiller goes in tomorrow and well be down to 67F in no time and I will be smiling as the roots get whiter and whiter.

The roots have already filled the entire 5 gallon buckets and the main roots coming out of the netpots are around 1/4" thick. The stems at the base of the plant are about 3/4" thick with the plants being about 1.5-2+ feet and about 2+ feet wide, topped a few times. The leaves are finally getting to be about 8"+.

We've changed around our original plan and decided to just run a sealed room. This enables us to take care of CO2 more easily and efficiently. A portable A/C will cool the room if needed instead of an exhaust fan. This is going to force us to change around our CO2 schedule a good deal so I am unsure at the moment. We will go through tanks faster but we might go for a steady rate for most of the day, letting it fall once in awhile and letting the room cool down a few times a day, possibly exhausting the CO2 but not as often as before. Well see.

We have had to adjust pH every day because our water is 6.9 pH. However the Advanced Nutrients pH down is so powerful that a teaspoon will drop 20 gallons over 3 points. We pH a little low, let it reciculate (takes a few minutes), then pH again and it stabilizes. PPM is at about 1300 at the moment of veg. They are absolutely positively loving it. Thats 2 parts Grow, 2 parts Micro, and 1 part bloom with Hygrozyme to keep things clean. Pics of the roots tomorrow.

PS. Also built a great new aerocloner from a 3 gallon rubbermaid storage container, little better looking then my other ghetto one. 28 sites with 2" collars. Trimmed the White Widow today at the bottom of small nodes and going to clone them all, throw them into 1 gallons and flower em in soil.

[Racerx]

Boom! Got some pictures! These are about a week behind.

[Racerx]

Few more pics. CO2 starts soon. We wont have any of that slight off white color roots when the water chiller is all hooked up.

Last one is some Trainwreck that was just harvested. Soil, but I thought it looked good.

[Racerx]

Got some more pictures, these are about 3 days after the other pictures to help illustrate the growth. Just trimming off the small inner growths to help focus the growth to the main bud sites was enough to make over a hundred clones which will go into a 4x8 flood and drain table with 6" square pots under 2 600 watt HPS lights in a little room, supplemented by CO2. More pics on that later.

the largest fan leaves are about 9" long, dwarfing my hand. temps have been focused around 75-80 F with the humidity down around 50% with the dehumidifier running nearly 24/7. Rigged up a nice little system that allows the dehumidifier to be hung up from an eyelet bolt through the ceiling and the water reservoir will drain the water into a 5 gallon bucket. This allows it to run 2-3 days without having to be switched out. A larger bucket could be used.

[Slackersulli]

Sick setup. Enjoy.