Welcome along for the ride - this shall be interesting!
I grew about 15 years ago, but in soil - so we're going to give RDWC a try with the help of this amazing community.
Have to give a shoutout to @Airwalker16 and @fragileassassin for mentoring me through the process of understanding how hydroponics works, the construction of my build, and so much!!!
Bare with me as I'm still situating things and getting the room fully cleaned up - any constructive advice is warranted and welcome!
I'm in a southern state with horrifying humidity and I'll be growing in a finished attic space with a window AC unit (keep the ambient room temps around 70-75 and an active intake from the central AC to the tent (keeps the tent temps around 70-80 depending on the time of day).
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Beans
Nutes
Setup
Active Intake from Central AC - keeps the tent nice and cool
RDWC - 4 sites with waterfalls
Res - sits on the outside of the tent with the inline pump
Made an attachment for the inline pump from the Res to drain to my downstairs bathroom (grow room on 3rd floor) - just unscrew the top attachment on the inline pump for the waterfalls and screw this guy in. Runs 75 ft of tubing down to the bathtub for draining... no carrying 50 gallons of water. Also I have a garden hose attachment that connects to the shower head and I run a hose upstairs to fill up the res + containers during feedings, flushing, etc.
Need to patch this up better so it doesn't look as bad, but there's multiple blackout curtains and the black gorilla tape to eliminate any light leaks. No one has access to the room - so there should be zero issues with light leaks.
After the beans root have hit the bottom of the rapid rooters - I'll be placing them in this clone king aerocloner for about 7-10 days or until the root structure is good enough to transfer to the rdwc.
Any and all constructive criticism is welcome - I'd love to hear from those who have a good amount of experience with hydroponics / RDWC for feeding etc.
I grew about 15 years ago, but in soil - so we're going to give RDWC a try with the help of this amazing community.
Have to give a shoutout to @Airwalker16 and @fragileassassin for mentoring me through the process of understanding how hydroponics works, the construction of my build, and so much!!!
Bare with me as I'm still situating things and getting the room fully cleaned up - any constructive advice is warranted and welcome!
I'm in a southern state with horrifying humidity and I'll be growing in a finished attic space with a window AC unit (keep the ambient room temps around 70-75 and an active intake from the central AC to the tent (keeps the tent temps around 70-80 depending on the time of day).
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Beans
- 1 x Bag Seed (honestly can't remember)
- 2 x Gelato
- 4 x Skywalker Ghost x Triangle Kush
Nutes
- GH Flora Micro, Gro, Bloom
- GH Rapid Start
- GH CaliMagic
- GH Armor Si
- Botanicare Hydroguard
Setup
- 9'x9' room
- 4'x4' tent
- 4 site RDWC with waterfalls
- 4' - 4 lamp T5 HO Grow Light - 6500K
- *Be easy on my plumbing as I'm not very handy nor am I a plumber
Active Intake from Central AC - keeps the tent nice and cool
RDWC - 4 sites with waterfalls
- Also you can see the dome is under the t5 - the helmets have came off those guys, off the heating mat, into the tent under the light at about 12" away.
Res - sits on the outside of the tent with the inline pump
- I understand the pump should probably be located in the front of the res, but it didn't seem to make much difference. This also makes it much easier in this position for what I wanted to do with the pump.
Made an attachment for the inline pump from the Res to drain to my downstairs bathroom (grow room on 3rd floor) - just unscrew the top attachment on the inline pump for the waterfalls and screw this guy in. Runs 75 ft of tubing down to the bathtub for draining... no carrying 50 gallons of water. Also I have a garden hose attachment that connects to the shower head and I run a hose upstairs to fill up the res + containers during feedings, flushing, etc.
Need to patch this up better so it doesn't look as bad, but there's multiple blackout curtains and the black gorilla tape to eliminate any light leaks. No one has access to the room - so there should be zero issues with light leaks.
After the beans root have hit the bottom of the rapid rooters - I'll be placing them in this clone king aerocloner for about 7-10 days or until the root structure is good enough to transfer to the rdwc.
Any and all constructive criticism is welcome - I'd love to hear from those who have a good amount of experience with hydroponics / RDWC for feeding etc.
