Help me with my waterfarms

thagrimreefa

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hey fellas i just set up my waterfarm 8pk and i adjusted the float valve to about 4 and a half inches. and its takin forever for water to come out of the drip rings. and some have a few drips a min. so if anybody knos whats up lemme kno. thanks
 

d4mth3m4n

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I had similar issue, so I put more pumps to each bucket. Downside to that was there was too much dripping and the splash would get all over the place and started to kill off the lower branching due to salty bulidup on the leaves not to mention it got all over my floor with salty splashing. Overall I was not a happy customer with my waterfarm modules as they don't give you complete control over nute balancing unless you don't mind the hassle of taking the buckets apart which is fucking hard once the plants start getting to a larger size.

I had heard one guy say that you can use a wetvac inside your bottom res to suck all the water out, but even so you're still going to have to put in a lot more work than they are worth. I've got an 8 pack now sitting in my garage never to be used again.

Not trying to be negative, but these were the worst systems i've ever used.
 

thagrimreefa

Active Member
haha great. i guess if it dont work out for me i'll just have to make it an ebb&flo huh. thanks for your help man.
 

d4mth3m4n

Active Member
Yeah, sorry for being so negative about them I just recently got done with them myself and had a disappointing experience. I think if you're willing to put in the work they can really pay off.

A badass 'round these parts by the alias of "Heath Robinson" had some really good looking crops with a waterfarm-type setup: https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/101347-critical-mass-tree-grow-x.html

Again, not trying to dog on the systems, but with working fulltime and other things going on in my life I didn't have time to put in the work that they require. I find the aeroflo's are much easier to maintain.

Good luck with your future endeavors!
 
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