5 gal dwc. Drinks 2 a day almost!

These are some two week old pics. I will update tonight as for now she sleeps.

Drinks like a fish. My semi monster. About 3x3 measured topped and with the outside branches tied down.

By now as I tied the outside branches down all the middle one grew up. These were the bottom branches and now I got an impromtu scrog almost with no screen,


I saw pics of a guys super lemon haze at week 6 and it was underveloped and some people showed them theirs at week 3 and they were fine.

I prayed at week flower 2 mine would grow. She did. lol. At week three she is huge.

Some chlorosis I think on two of her hundred leaves has me worries.

But she is drinking 2 gal or so a day of water! Shit every day I got to refill.

I now ahve a hose right at her bucket for help.

Super lemon Haze. Five gal dwc. 20 watt air pump with about five watt and 2 airstones into this one flower bucket. A 600 watt dig hps. GH three part. Two week transition phase and one week into bloom nutes.

About to add full co2 from a bottle. I will be using a timer for a few months. The cap co2 1 so it can take a monitor and contriller one day.
Also about to add koolbloom. Added big bud and a few leaves went haywire. Ph checked fine but mater is broke. But not worried.


I am thinking about adding a trashcan recirc system and three other buckets as this is supposed to be 4 in veg and 4 in flower but cloning has taken a down turn this season so I have a few sisters vegging but not enough to be happy. Lol. Anyway I was also wondering how much weight a second story can take? Of an apt. Think a trashcan full of water is too much? on top of everything else like 8 buckets and furniture? IDK, prob nuts to wonder. Got to tho.

These are week two pics. She has doubled almost it looks like in a week. Big buds forming and glands and the middle is taller and the sides are bent more. She falls thru the lid sometimes so heavy. More event than these pics.

Man these pics do us no justice. Two weeks old. Fresh one tonight If you stick around. I highly advise five gallon dwc lol. The growth is awesome. And the day i added 2 cheap airstones as to one and added five watts of power or actually 10, not three she bounded. I kinda like one bush under a 600 watt. I tilr her every day and even the bottom is developed. OF course you gotto tie down the side and let the middle shoot up for the weight I found. Tapwater is the only way to go.


I should add I vegged for a month under a 600 watt mh then a 6 bulb four foot t5. She loved them both. I put off using a five gallon dwc to try a tree because the roots put me off. I mean the size. Now I can see that the root mass even tho is the size of the bucket only takes a gal or so of compressed root space. I put off five gallon dwc for a year alost as I did not actually beleive that the bucket could take all those giant root systems the size and shape of a buclet. She does fine. I have converted my ebb and flow all over to dwc. Lavender is up next.

i would be more afraid of the trash can spliting open than it going threw the floor..

I second that.....would you worry about two fat guys standing next to each other going through?

32 gallon rubber maid trash can are used by many thousands of reef aquarium keepers to hold RO water. Unless you atart getting over the range of over 50 lbs per square foot over a fair sized area (6 to 8 square feet or larger <few have resrvoirs and water containers that large>) weight should not be an issue. It would take even much more than that if the weight is over an interior load bearing wall or next to an exterior wall.

To really improve the quality of the nutrients in you water an automatic water top off device is the way to go. Just consider every time your water level decreases it is mainly due to transpiration and evaporation and that the actual amount of nutrients is not really that large so they are not taken up in large quantities. This means both your EC is always increasing as your water is typically taken up and evaporated more than the EC declines due to nutrient use. And as your pH is always changing your nutrient availability is greatly changing due to the fluccuaton of the reservoir volume.

I highly recommend anyone with a recirculating reservoir use an automatic water top off controller. Especiailly those using small reservoirs common to many DWC systems and the many retailed DWC and aero systems with small reservoirs (anything smaller than 5 gallons per plant is small). Auto topp off devices and controllers come in all price ranges and levels of quality. To see many good home made systems go to a reef forum such as Reef Central and look through the thread titles in their DIY section.