dwc or die

New to the forum. Been growing about 6 years now. Spent most that time poking around in the dark. Finally started using forums in the last year and learned so much more.

As you can tell by the title I'm a dwc guy. Never been locked into any nute companies. Started with gh 3part and had great results, moved onto Floranova Bloom start to finish. Also ran advanced nutrients. I've tried their 3 part, and connoisseur and just a couple of the boosters. Only booster from AN that stuck is bud candy. But I love their base nutes. the only other product that makes it to every grow is hydroguard. That stuff keeps roots perfect at any temp. I'm currently running Mills nutrients. Have great results with them but not blown away.

I was contacted by a rep from Current Culture and he sent me their entire line because he liked the results I was getting in my simple dwc set up. So I will be starting their line-up soon. And looking fit any input on using them.

I'm currently growing out of a closet so the grow is small. Currently one Skywalker kush from DNA. Under a 600w mh/hps for veg/flower. she's about 7 weeks old and just got her final topping and cropping to lay her out flat. Running mills base at 800ppm (500 scale), higher than I'm usually at but she's loving it. Ppm lowers quite a bit as the water level drops.

I usually run autos over photos for the speed. I run a single grow space so that's the fastest way to get the most weed. But I have the equipment now to run mother, veg and flower room. Can't wait to get started on the clone game. I've only grown from seed.

Here to learn and meet some other growers like myself. Been a member of another forum for about a year. But I'm ready to see what y'all can teach me.

Here's some random ass pics of plants and buds and shit. I know people like pics.

Damn homie is that a fuckin garbage can?!

Lmfao, yea a 10gal brute trashcan lol. Holds 7gal to bottom of net. Gets me like a week between changes with big plants. And grows huge roots.

WaterN2Weed said:

Lmfao, yea a 10gal brute trashcan lol. Holds 7gal to bottom of net. Gets me like a week between changes with big plants. And grows huge roots.

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Ya that's what's up. Those 5 gals weren't big enough for you. I prefer RDWC with 9 sites and keepin em small. You oughtta build one. You could save a ton of time vegging for so long to get your 1 plant so huge.
I also built a little miniature 1 gal one too they both use 6" holes so I can just take them out and put them in the bigger setup when I'm ready. If you're looking In to doing 3 rooms, you might wanna look into doing this.

Airwalker16 said:

Ya that's what's up. Those 5 gals weren't big enough for you. I prefer RDWC with 9 sites and keepin em small. You oughtta build one. You could save a ton of time vegging for so long to get your 1 plant so huge.
I also built a little miniature 1 gal one too they both use 6" holes so I can just take them out and put them in the bigger setup when I'm ready. If you're looking In to doing 3 rooms, you might wanna look into doing this.View attachment 3758613 View attachment 3758614 View attachment 3758615 View attachment 3758617 View attachment 3758619 View attachment 3758620

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Damn I like that. Sexy ass roots too. My next setup Will prob be something similar to that or coco in pots in a tray on a drip feeder. I'll never get away from dwc tho. I like rdwc but love how simple these buckets are. I overkill with air and change weekly and as they get bigger I just let them drink the water down. I don't top off . How many gallon is that system.

Is that an iso chamber I see?

What nutes you run? Bennies? Sterile?

WaterN2Weed said:

Damn I like that. Sexy ass roots too. My next setup Will prob be something similar to that or coco in pots in a tray on a drip feeder. I'll never get away from dwc tho. I like rdwc but love how simple these buckets are. I overkill with air and change weekly and as they get bigger I just let them drink the water down. I don't top off . How many gallon is that system.

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It's 3 gallons per 5gal to the net pot (you know this already) x 10. 30 gallons.

WaterN2Weed said:

Is that an iso chamber I see?

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ISo chamber?

WaterN2Weed said:

What nutes you run? Bennies? Sterile?

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And like you once used to, I use GH flora trio, calimagic and h2o2. I use a chiller and think it's better for keeping things clean than hydroguard.
Ro water always.
Will be trying mammoth p once I flip em. Got some samples.

Isolation chamber.

And I was asking total gal for the whole system.

WaterN2Weed said:

Isolation chamber.

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It's an unfinished closet with a piece of panda film on it. Cut a slit down the middle and stuck on a sticky zipper. If you wanna call that an isolation chamber.... lol.

WaterN2Weed said:

And I was asking total gal for the whole system.

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30 gallons is what it uses to run to the bottom of the net pots. It's 10- 5 gallon buckets.

What did you use for a manifold on the waterpump?

WaterN2Weed said:

What did you use for a manifold on the waterpump?

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It's just a submersible pump, up and out the top side of the bucket, split to a "wYe", then just tubing continuing down to each top side of the buckets using tees like in the pic. The side where there are 2 buckets though I used a cross instead of a tee and it works great.

The bottoms of each bucket have a hole as well connected in the same way as the top supply lines but are all on tees and are 1" so as the buckets fill, gravity just pulls water back into the quickly lowering res(pumping waterfalls) and keeps it all linear. You never see the level drop at all, but that's just because water is always coming back through the big return lines.

Cool, I ran similar system but with aero. Thanks for the info im still trying to figure out exactly how I'll set up the new room/s and what systems, this helps

WaterN2Weed said:

Cool, I ran similar system but with aero. Thanks for the info im still trying to figure out exactly how I'll set up the new room/s and what systems, this helps

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Does it make sense to you or do you need pics? Because I really reccomend this method. It's so easy to maintain and you can build it by yourself without a hitch. You just use donut grommets and barbed fittings. And you get the added benefit of constant extra dissolved oxygen from the waterfalls along with a constant mixing. Nothing is EVER stagnant.

Here's the 1/2" 4 way cross I link two buckets on for supply, the grommets, and the 1" tees. The end buckets are obviously 90*elbows for the single supply line and all 3 return lines though.