DWC- shallow tubs to save water???

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resinraider

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so im planing on running a perpetual... it will be in 3 week intervals... veg 3 weeks and then flower for 9... i was thinking 9 tubs of 8 plants (3 tubs each week)....

now my question is, how can i consume less water with all them tubs??? thats alota water especialy if i use an RO system cuz there will be waste water too... if i use 18gals plus my 5 gals for the moms thats like 200 gals every weeek or 2, plus waste water and topping off... seams a lil excessive....

can i use smaller tubs since they r only vegged for 3 weeks??? any down sides to this??? or maybe fill them with 1/2 way??? still reading through threads and researching DWC so im not sure how far they need to be submerged...
 
Sorry but the word greedy comes to mind. You want to expand how much you grow and get constant yields worth a lot of money, but you don't want to pay for the extra ..... water? I'm glad you don't raise animals you'd starve them. And hell yes there's a downside. Water is rootspace and when you limit rootspace you limit growth and yield. You should have 2 gal per plant of water in each res.
 
well its beyond the cost of water.. more water = more nutes, more time, ect.... plus all the space to hold 200 gals till i need it... where the fuck am i gonna put 4 50gal drums???
 
Think I should run another system? Is DWC more for small areas or do ppl Run larger scales of these? Is a 9 tub set up worth it?
 
ummm once the roots grow down far you can just use less water, but shallow tubs :| its hard enough to achieve ideal air coverage for the buttom surface, with a shallow tub you would have to tie the roots up every week or something to hold them up off the bottom so they get air
 
maybe DWC isn't what you should do? E&F? you could obviously use 3 gallon DWC buckets or set up a top feed and then use dwc once the roots are down
 
Well I'm running diff strains at diff stages as its perpetual so eb and flow is a no go. Any1 here run 9 tubs or more
 
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