DWC Help

I am using just and air stone for bucket system and dont have any type of water delivery. do i need to fill the water all the way to the bottom of the net pot? or should i fill it up even more because the medium does not get that wet in the net pot when the water is not filled all the way up to it. also do u think that the sir stone is enough?. I have heard that this is a good simple system but it seems like there wont be enough water for them. Thank you very much for your time

alright here is what you have to do go to a pet store and grab a small pump should be like 8$ ( submersible) and get some hose to fit then put some wholes in it and you set

hand water till roots hit water

and also whats you medium?

Yes, the nutes can touch the bottom of the net pot, the air stone will fizz nutes up to your medium. I presume you used rockwool to root the seedling/clone, and another less obsorbent medium between the rockwool and net pot.
You can then hand water them for a couple of days untill the roots show through the net pot. Make sure not to saturate the rockwool, just water the less obsorbent medium.

KirklandsFinest08 said:

alright here is what you have to do go to a pet store and grab a small pump should be like 8$ ( submersible) and get some hose to fit then put some wholes in it and you set

hand water till roots hit water

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Kirkland i dont think that is a DWC, i think it's more an aeroponic system.
Will the temperture of your nutes not rise too high, with the pump on all the time?
Or does it matter in an aeroponic system? Good idea though!

fitzyno1 said:

Kirkland i dont think that is a DWC, i think it's more an aeroponic system.
Will the temperture of your nutes not rise too high, with the pump on all the time?
Or does it matter in an aeroponic system? Good idea though!

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Thanks you very much fitzy. i agree, Im not sure that i need a submersible pump as long as i raise the nute solution level to the bottom of the net pot. And yes it is rockwool an i medium between. I am also wondering if I could place the rockwool cube lower in the net pot and put just alittle bit of the medium in the bottom so that the bottom of the rockwool is getting moisture, and then add medium as if grows? The medium is hydroton clay pellets. The holes reason for my concern is that I ran the air when my 6inch net pot was full of medium, and it did not even get close to getting enought moisture to the entire pot of medium. (if that makes sense) Even when the nute solution was filled right to the bottom of the net pot. Im hoping it is possible to do this with just the air pump running 24/7 and no submersible one. What do u think would be the best approach. Thanks again for your help!

also what did you mean by dont "saturate" the rockwool? Can the rockwool be too wet?

No nute pump is used for a single pod. Only an air pump.
First of all, is there roots showing from the bottom of your rockwool cube? They need to be showing.

Anyway...
If your air pump isn't fizzing the water up enough, put a few layers of pellets in your net pot. Fill the bucket up until it is 3/4 inch from that top layer of pellets. Put your rockwool cube and seedling/clone in , and fill in round the rockwool cube with the hydroton pellets. Just water the 'pellets' not the rockwool. If the rockwool gets saturated (soaking wet) the roots can't breath (oxygen) and they will rot and die. The rockwool should always be just moist. The roots will find there way to the nutes in a couple of days. Only give them light nute about 3-400ppm, and if you dont have a ppm meter just add the nute at a quater strength, or a bit less. Only use ph 5.8 water over the hydroton, no nutrients. And offcourse the nute solution has to be at pH5.8 as well.
Hope that helps.

KirklandsFinest08 said:

alright here is what you have to do go to a pet store and grab a small pump should be like 8$ ( submersible) and get some hose to fit then put some wholes in it and you set

hand water till roots hit water

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hmm, I may try something like that for a cheap bucket cloner… dont think I'd even have to buy anything

So damn happy i found u kirkland! After months with dwc i am goeing aero, and i based my design on yu. I did not know what size pump to get so i got 370 gph, what size is yours please? I might not have enuf water sites looking at yours, i plannred to go right through the middle of a long 20 gallon rubbermaid. Any thoughts? I gotta read the rest of the dwc post, i love it so far, my water covers 3/4 of the nest pot until the roots get lower then i relax. Shouls plant a rooted clone i think then in a few days they start poking outa the pot. They grow fast! But aero is so damn fun looking to build, i jut got my pump last night i hope it's big enuf. I got 10 sites in 2 feet of tubing. The pump says 6 feet from head 370 gph, in line, so the res does npt get hot.

Lol, i bought my first dwc as i was completley clueless, then the other day i realised my clones in some trashed rw i had were not rooting, so with my new skills, i grabbed a coffe can and a air pump and stone popped a few holes in the lid and dropped the clones in. In a few days i had 100 percent success. I just made a veg dwc too for 2 more clones and have 2 more clones who just showed flower igns last night. My first grow was a half hazard? put together grow as i went along now thanks to starting with the almighty forgiving i think dwc i can do anything. Aero my next shot with dwc veg chamber and cloner. U can diy any thing into a dwc. I got a kitchen pot, some styrofoam and a aritpump making to ladies happy. All u need is an airpump and u good. Makes dirt look like a suckers bet, lol. Although i alrady had the nutes form stalth hydro. I looked on nirvanna website the got a recipe for your own hydor nutes from home dept. I stay away form hydro shops as i hear cop love thos joints rofl. Good luck.

Anybody have any tips on keeping the res temp of a DWC down?