Quote Originally Posted by BlazeIdo
RacerX, Do your root buckets get cleaned between water changes or do your low temps and hygrozyme keep everything clean enough? Peace
Blaze, there is absolutely no cleaning necessary. I dont even need to clean them between grows! But I do of course, but there is nothing to wash. Not even the airstones.

I wanted to update anyone who was curious, but this has been cut down and gone for a bit. For various reasons I needed to clean house and its been amazing to have a few weeks of silence! Except for the bubble hash making and trimming, its been wonderful. Thats all changed again!! The revised room is nearly done and wow what a difference! We have about 25 more square feet of room to work with. More on that later. Because we had to cut early, and we actually did have a hermaphrodite problem at the end. It showed up just early enough that if we kept things going another 2-3 weeks there would have been some seeds. Still got plenty of good buds and a few pounds of weight, plus a LOT of stuff for the bubble bags. The product...well it was good enough but not up to my standards, and it was obvious that after around 6 weeks things slowed down like they shouldn't have. After a few weeks of curing, it definitely taste great and gets the job done well, but our Cindy 99 soil grow really blew it away, and I pretty much attribute it to genetics.

The Cindy 99 genetics are beautiful and while I had great results before, this last pull was just spectacular. Besides pulling over 2 pounds from a 5x5 closet, the product was gorgeous, just dripping with THC and a smell/taste that is so exotic its almost too pungent. Like tropical candy, almost to the point of being disgusting!!! We knew off the start that the White Widow genetics we used for the hydro room were not A quality, but due to time constraints we had to compromise, and I learned my lesson the compromising will never end up the way you want it.

But the biggest changes to the room involve tons more space to move around, less buckets, and more controlled vertical growth. The new window box is significantly smaller and only sticks out 4" from the wall, whereas before it was over a foot. The construction is sturdier with 2x4s for bracing and everything is just 10x more solid. But the biggest change is the 10,000 BTU window A/C unit instead of the portable A/C. This has the recirculating feature, allowing us to exchange no smell or air with the outside. Since it is summer around here soon, its not very suspicious either. The hoods still draw air from the window box for air cooling, from the very top of the window, where a piece of acrylic looks like a professional window surrounding the A/C, but we have designed a way to allow the hoods to draw air conditioned air, but I dont think it will be needed. I am looking forward to the screen for ease of bending them over and avoiding tieing down. I have always had great results with this and it allows really even light distribution. Once again we will be chopping all the small branches/leaves out the bottom and middle. Buckets are raised 4" off the ground to allow more water in the reservoir.

We have also built a box to enclose the dehumidifier, which will allow us to either vent it or re-direct the hot air to the top of the room where it can evenly distribute instead of being concentrated in one area. Open to suggestions on how to use the dehumidifier to our best, but hopefully with the A/C we will not require it during the day.

About it for now, pictures eventually.
Racerx Reviewed by Racerx on . RacerX's recirculating 16 bucket dwc "Grow Log" Im killing some time so I thought Id start my new hydro grow log and share some of the planning. Pictures soon. I have been in the process of building a 16 bucket (5 gal) recirculating deep water culture hydroponic system for a while. Only a few weeks left before completion. Its been a large endevoir and I really wanted to share the cost of setting something like this up, especially if you buy the stuff new. A little background: The room is 10.5x11.5x8 feet with a closet large Rating: 5