Do Hydroponics create more Waste?

Jon E. Doe

Jon E. Doe

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Vikerus Forrest said:
Wow, so much hate over someone trying to do the right thing... Name calling isn't wise and gives off no appearance of authority. Pack up and get out if you're going to be negative please. I've no time for it.

So basically what I'm hearing is: You can't cause you're not smart or rich.
Totally disregarding the fact that this would be in theory in the first place and then move to practical engineering.

I'll be waiting for cooler heads to chime in. Though reusing the hydroponics water waste on a dirt based grow wouldn't be a horrible idea since it's all going to the ocean anyway. My question stands. Is it possible to retreat a hydroponics water waste and further refine the results into something useful or safe?
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For fucks sake, how do you not already know the answer?!? Yes, it's fucking possible. Jeebus, the fucking municipal water treatment plant does it around the clock. Now if you're so fucking rich and smart go build a water treatment plant.

You asked about this shit and experienced people are telling you its a cost probative endeavor. If you don't like the answers don't ask the fucking questions. Or, build a wfucking water treatment facility to "show us". Either way no one gives a single fuck. Just stop with the bullshiting brilliance act, please.
 
Dumme

Dumme

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Jon E. Doe said:
For fucks sake, how do you not already know the answer?!? Yes, it's fucking possible. Jeebus, the fucking municipal water treatment plant does it around the clock. Now if you're so fucking rich and smart go build a water treatment plant.

You asked about this shit and experienced people are telling you its a cost probative endeavor. If you don't like the answers don't ask the fucking questions. Or, build a wfucking water treatment facility to "show us". Either way no one gives a single fuck. Just stop with the bullshiting brilliance act, please.
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It's been a couple years there bud...
 
Logan Burke

Logan Burke

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I am just popping in from reading your initial post; unfortunetly yes, it does create significantly more waste than growing in soil. Growing in soil, about the worst thing for the environment is either trashing the outdoor's around it with litter and such, or chemical fertizilers being applied near a running stream or well. With that being said....there are ways to recycle the large amounts of left over water from past resevoir changes in, per say, DWC. The easiest way to do this is to simply pour it down any drain in your house, this sends the water to water treatment facilities that; at the cost of our tax dollars, filters all of the chemicals out. This, while wasting the water as a resource itself, is the easiest way to ensure your chemical waste isn't going into the environment. If you're like me, and have an outdoor garden of any kind, flowers especially, you can store your old water and use it to fertilize your garden as phosporous tends to be left over in the largest amounts and blooming plants/fruits/veggies will eat the leftover chems in your water. If you do like me and go about 30 days between rez changes, there really is not a massive amount of leftover water like there is at rez changes every week...and it causes me no problems running standalone DWC.
Hope I could help some....
Happy Growing; I hope you can figure out what works best for you!
 
Xcoregamerskillz

Xcoregamerskillz

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Logan Burke said:
The easiest way to do this is to simply pour it down any drain in your house, this sends the water to water treatment facilities that; at the cost of our tax dollars, filters all of the chemicals out. This, while wasting the water as a resource itself, is the easiest way to ensure your chemical waste isn't going into the environment.
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This is only true if you're on a municipal water supply. Plenty of people on this site alone are not, so pouring waste down the drain is the same as pouring waste outside.
 
Dumme

Dumme

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Logan Burke said:
I am just popping in from reading your initial post; unfortunetly yes, it does create significantly more waste than growing in soil. Growing in soil, about the worst thing for the environment is either trashing the outdoor's around it with litter and such, or chemical fertizilers being applied near a running stream or well. With that being said....there are ways to recycle the large amounts of left over water from past resevoir changes in, per say, DWC. The easiest way to do this is to simply pour it down any drain in your house, this sends the water to water treatment facilities that; at the cost of our tax dollars, filters all of the chemicals out. This, while wasting the water as a resource itself, is the easiest way to ensure your chemical waste isn't going into the environment. If you're like me, and have an outdoor garden of any kind, flowers especially, you can store your old water and use it to fertilize your garden as phosporous tends to be left over in the largest amounts and blooming plants/fruits/veggies will eat the leftover chems in your water. If you do like me and go about 30 days between rez changes, there really is not a massive amount of leftover water like there is at rez changes every week...and it causes me no problems running standalone DWC.
Hope I could help some....
Happy Growing; I hope you can figure out what works best for you!
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Well, that's not right..

I grow in hydroponics; I also grow in soil; both of these methods are done in an aeroponic method, in the same system. My hydro and soil I have "zero" waste. Nothing in my system goes to waste, ever. Cannabis garden's are not a cookie cutter, "one size fits all", as no two gardens are alike.
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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As Dumme says not all are the same. You stated that it's significant more but I'm thinking less actually. Using the res water to water another crop of plants actually saves by doubling the amount of plants fed by the same water. Mine is used for house plants and flower beds.
 
Logan Burke

Logan Burke

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No, but the leftover rez water is often still pretty usable in small amounts on flowering/fruiting plants, as long as no PH problems or salt accumulates...idk, I just know of people like Budley who uses their leftovers for watering an array of different plants, house and garden. Either way, used on a flower bed or turned back around and used for an ongoing cannabis grow in soil, the leftover water seems to work quite well. My strawberry patches loveeee it...haha.
 
Logan Burke

Logan Burke

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That is...absolutely amazing! I applaud the efficiency! Hopefully more hydro growers will become concerned with what they do with their "Waste water", because just as you stated, nothing is to waste about it.
Happy Growing :)
 
Xcoregamerskillz

Xcoregamerskillz

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I'm "Drain to waste" in coco, except I dont drain anything, I use my cloth pots to mop up the runoff. I end up with a few drops here and there that get missed, but my waste is 1-2% vs people in coco who water to 30% runoff
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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Ya even with drain to waste I'm not sure the water usage is more than soil if dialled in but really I have not done drain to waste. That is great Dumme and when you think about it, if the plants are drinking a balanced diet then it should stay pretty well balanced
 
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draxhemp

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I been growing 5 years just switched to hydroponic 8 months ago. soil plants cause FAR more waste
I have yet to throw away..... anything even my water changes go to out door plants
only thing i have left over is plant waste and nasty's inside the setup after it is done
that all get's put in my outdoor compost so really after initial set up buying parts n what not i have spent almost maybe 15 bucks on nutrients
even then i use ALOT less of that. I was going through whole bottles per grow now 2 grows with a lil left over.
meaning no offence but K.I.S.S you can recycle everything in a grow and have a + impact on your ecosystem.

also if you just make a small out door compost you can reuse your old dirt 100% every time. 30 gal container with 1/8 holes drilled in it and place it in sun, add left over vegies from your house.
be sure to add lots of peppers onion and garlic will solve almost all bug issues and really helps decomp.. if you want put it in shade and add 200 red worms (ebay) but then you can't add acid's like onion and garlic and will have insect pest problems. you also can't put to many vegies or you will create a green house affect and kill your worms. so i lean more to bio compost more than animals.
 
roseypeach

roseypeach

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Vikerus Forrest said:
Wow, so much hate over someone trying to do the right thing... Name calling isn't wise and gives off no appearance of authority. Pack up and get out if you're going to be negative please. I've no time for it.

So basically what I'm hearing is: You can't cause you're not smart or rich.
Totally disregarding the fact that this would be in theory in the first place and then move to practical engineering.

I'll be waiting for cooler heads to chime in. Though reusing the hydroponics water waste on a dirt based grow wouldn't be a horrible idea since it's all going to the ocean anyway. My question stands. Is it possible to retreat a hydroponics water waste and further refine the results into something useful or safe?
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You really shouldn't rerun waste water, its already been 'thrown out' by the RO system as unusable.

As far as being conservative goes, better to recycle the waste water and use it on outside plants, etc. like others have stated instead of letting it go unused. To do what you're considering, you'd literally have to reverse flow which would ruin the filtration system.
Dumme said:
Well, that's not right..

I grow in hydroponics; I also grow in soil; both of these methods are done in an aeroponic method, in the same system. My hydro and soil I have "zero" waste. Nothing in my system goes to waste, ever. Cannabis garden's are not a cookie cutter, "one size fits all", as no two gardens are alike.
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Our plants eat 99% of what we put in, the rest is happily devoured by my outside garden. Nothing wasted whatsoever :)
 
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