Poontanger
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Ok, so we're is the advantage
Is it growth or disease control or yield
Is it growth or disease control or yield
Haven't tried it myself yet, buuut I'm about to mid-grow! I've MacGyvered a sound way to do so and it will allow me to remotely monitor my PH, EC and water temp while on vacation without buying TWO BlueLab monitors that connect to my phone through wifi!When I started my learning about DWC VS RDWC the thought of one plant having root issues was scary.
Compound that spreading to all in a shared recirculating reservoir. DWC lose one !
2nd grow and well...... could have gone either route. No issues as of yet.
What PH doser do you use and do you recommend it? Anything for nutrient doser as well worth getting? Highly interested in automating my grow and I just got the BlueLab MONGUACON Guardian today!I do RDWC for simplicity. I can have 8 plants all connected together and have a pH doser automatically correcting the pH versus checking 8 plants and adjusting.
Also the larger volume of water per plant means less pH and EC swings.
Sounds awesome! Got any pics of your girls or setup?I'm two weeks into flower on my first RDWC run and loving it. I mix 51 gallons of nutrients. 36 gallons go into my system and 15 gallons into a top off reservoir. My TDS and PH run very stable. I have four girls drinking about 3 gallons a day so the top off reservoir keeps feeding them, at a constant level, for five days.
A friend of mine runs DWC and puts a lot more work and time into his grows then I do. He also has a hard time getting away from his DWC buckets where I'd feel comfortable leaving my system for a few days.
Sounds awesome! Got any pics of your girls or setup?
Sounds awesome! Got any pics of your girls or setup?
This looks awesome and I will have follow up questions when I'm not at work! Nice job man!!View attachment 4919622
The control bucket, lower left side, is a 17 gallon tote. The nutrient level in the control bucket is kept at a constant level with a float valve which is feed from a top off reservoir, upper right side, which can hold 15 gallons of nutrients. The nutrient solution is then drawn from the back of the control bucket with a Hygger 1065 GPH variable speed DC pump feeding a .25HP chiller. The nutrient tubing then leaves the chiller and runs through the top off reservoir keeping the solution in the yop off reservoir at 68 degrees, then feeds into the system.
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The system is four 17 gallon totes. Each tote has two spray bars for waterfalls, two air stones feed from a 1 1/2 in air manifold on the back of the totes, 3/4 in drain line on the bottom and 2 in gravity return lines back to the control bucket. Nutrients are pumped through the spray bars and the drain lines to prevent the solution in the drain lines from going stagnant.
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I had no idea of the explosive growth rate you can get with a RDWC system. The girls went 38 days from seeds sprouting to flip. The photo below is 7 days into flower. Will definitely have to pay a lot more attention to canopy management next run.
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