I'm thinking of going to DWC,
but i would like to know a few things.

Is yield substantially higher with DWC than soil?

Will i need to fill/change the water
every day if so how many hours
can it go before i have to fill it up
with more water?

How much water does it use?

Can i get rid of that chemical
taste.

And if you can what are the disadvantages and other
advantages with DWC.

Thank you.

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hope this helps and good luck

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fdd2blk she said she wanted 12 inches, so i gave her 4 three times.
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if u go with multi dwc, its best to use a control and res. if the plant is huge and you have a small bucket, you'll have to water every 2-3 days, especially at the near end of flowering cycle. everything else is good, just make sure that it has enough air bubbles to support the amount of plants you put into the dwc, and the temps will correct itself when you correct the temp of your grow space.

another con is when a plant gets way too big you'll have to support it and its a lil bit annoying when you have to lift the lid to a huge ass plant and watering it, but its doable.

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Waffles.

could you explain that alil better please? it sounds to me like your saying if you have enough bubbles your res temp will stay cool. im prolly just misreading.

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fdd2blk she said she wanted 12 inches, so i gave her 4 three times.
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if you keep your grow room temp at 75-80 degree it will be fine, because the water will be cooler then the grow room.

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Waffles.

ill have to disagree on that point. your water will be whatever the average ambient temp is. if your rooms temps stays at 80 youll have water that is 80. there are other factors like what kind of flooring, type and size of container, and things like that, but in most cases the water will be really close to the rooms avg temp.
water that is 70+ in a DWC is just asking for probs and more work than there should be. water at 65 will hold almost 30% more oxygen than water at 75. that mean almost 30% more pumps and air stones. algae has a hard time coping with the cooler temps aswell.
a chiller of some sort really is a smart investment. there are tons of DIY chillers out there so its not something you have to go nuts and drop a few hundred bucks on. and as a side bonus when you have a good chiller you can crank up the heat in your room. i keep mine in the low to mid 90's when im flowering, and my res temps holds at 66.

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fdd2blk she said she wanted 12 inches, so i gave her 4 three times.
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Where did you read that from lol.

Anyway look in my gallery, that room was at 85 degree throughout the grow with 2 dwc, and not only that the 2 dwc i had 1 264pump in there each to circulate the water(so that pump puts on more heat). So obviously you feel victim to the water chiller company that probably put it out there that your res temp has to be 70- degree. And i do agree with you that the water in the res will eventually be the same temp as the ambient temperature, but when its nighttime the water cools and when the lights turn on and the room heats up the water temp will take awhile till it get to that temp this is because plastic isn't a heat conductor.

70degree? i think fdd would call this BS!

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Waffles.

if your asking me where i read the desolved oxygen to water temp ratio im sure i can come up with a few links when i get the time to look.

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fdd2blk she said she wanted 12 inches, so i gave her 4 three times.
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well obviously you never grew dwc because algae doesn't grow in the bucket, oh wait its just really known that algae doesn't grow at all if light isn't present.

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Waffles.

I think you may be outgunned in this debate wafflehouselover.