I need some insight, I'm about to flip my very first grow to flower and since I'm a beginner I just did stand alone Dwc buckets and change nutrients weekly by hand. How did everyone trellis their grows while being able to change the water and nutrients. I need some professional help because I do not want to damage my plants.
Flowering with stand alone dwc buckets
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Airwalker16
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You connect them all together and all to a reservoir. It's recirculating DWC(RDWC).
I GOTTA LOSE THE AIR PUMPS! HOW?! Plus my awesome mini DWC :)
That's cool man. Pretty low-key. I think you'll be surprised at the pressure of mine. i can't remember now, but its some where around 5-600 gph
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I GOTTA LOSE THE AIR PUMPS! HOW?! Plus my awesome mini DWC :)
That thing is way overpriced. The whole thing sits on a very simple method of splitting the water to oxygen and hydrogen. In big system I’d be worried about the hydrogen gas... I was looking around and saw 2 more very interesting thing. First one called Carmin. I don’t really get how it...
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J232
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No drain on the bucket or is your setup more of a dump the pail out? I use a small inline pump with a garden hose and just pop my lid up to suck the last little bit out, that’s one option, pump out and in. I have a small pump that goes on a drill, paid $20 for it at the hardware store, works great as well. Will add my system hold 100 gallons if i submerge 1” of the pots, complete drain is pump only.
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70's natureboy
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You raise the lid straight up 18" and swap buckets. I grow lanky sativas and they can handle it just fine.
No, no drain. And I really wish I would have now. I was thinking of buying one of those little pumps but I'd still have to take the lid off to get it in and didn't know how much up the plants would handle before damaging the buds if I put a trellis in lol
Thank you! I was so worried! Never messed the quality of your buds up?
J232
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Yeah I can’t say, maybe single buckets easier, would think if the screen is dense it would be tricky. My lids have 3/4” holes but I’m too lazy to take the foil tape off them so I pop the lid and stick the hose in.
rkymtnman
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that's what i was gonna say. get one of those step drills and pop a hole in the lid. then duct tape it when done pumping
Drop That Sound
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^ ya, during your next res change, drill a quick hole, and pop in a 1/2' or 3/4' grommet. Then stick a matching barbed elbow fitting in the hole, and piece of black tube higher than the water level. Or clear tube so you can have a level indicator, but make sure to tape the rest off, or you'll grow algea/sludge in there. You can easily spin the whole thing down to drain out, and back up when your done. Or even plug a pump\wetvac into it, just when needed, that way you don't need to prop the buckets to drain them..
Drop That Sound
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Moving DWC plants around a lot twists and globs the roots up, all balled up with spots that don't get enough o2, which leads to nice places for certain bacteria to thrive... Sure you can try to untangle it, which leads to broken off root hairs that just sit there and rot, helping to feed those bacteria even more.
Airwalker16
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This is all just not true man.
