Your garden is looking really good, trying RDWC for the first time myself, indoors, hoping to get similar results.
This is my first time running flower in DWC, so if you wanna learn from my mistakes, just keep track of this thread! Haha. I hope you're using a beneficial bacteria product in your rez, the plants go ape-shit with that stuff!
very nice man. the babies look awesome. DWC and scrog outdoor man
good thinking. my cousin has a DWC like 30 gallons and the plant is a monster
and in yrs of seeing ppl grow he was the first person i saw with a DWC outdoor.
but yours look really good man.
and damn that last shot. those clones fucking took off with growth huh?
Yea, the clones grew from 5 inches to 5 feet in roughly 30 days...even i wasn't expecting that.
nice results so far farmer!!
1> how are you changing the res? or are you letting it run dry? they look like 5 gall buckets with 10" net lids, which gives you only 2-3 gal actual res, soon if there not already they will drink all of that in one day!
2> i see temps arent much of an issue this run but if you do it again, im thinking wrapping an insulation product around the pots before they go in, (thinking along the lines of a cool box?) maybe this would lower temps enough to increase growth even more!
3> do you have a box around your air pump or is that it in the plastic bag?? if it is in the plastic bag i would take it out the pump needs air too and needs to be kept cool, hot pumps seem to pump in hot air...
great looking plants so far mate, it would be interesting next run to do a dwc vs planted straight in the dirt. i predict the dirt one would be bigger.
did you notice slow growth under the t5's? i found that lower light in dwc buckets does NOT take advantage of the point of using dwc.....
again nice plants keep the updates comming! i just hope the extra work compared to planting straight in the dirt pays off!!
Firstly, ty! To answer your ?'s:
1. Every week, i've been pumping all of the water out, refilling it and running it for a bit, then pumping out again, so that i can start with fresh filtered water. I have a float valve in the control bucket that i ran a 1/4" water line to, so it constantly refills as they drink. I just go out and add nutes based on what the PPM reads. I've been having to add a TON of nutes tho. I went through an entire concentrate bottle of bloom nutes in 1 week...
2. I'm more worried about the temps being more on the cold side, than anything else. I bought an aquarium heater to make sure the temps don't dip below 62. I'd say the average temp is 66, which is pretty much perfect for growth.
3. The white 5 gallon bucket is the air pump housing. I drilled a bunch of 1" holes in a 5 gallon bucket and turned it upside down to protect the air pump from rain. I also lined the inside of the bucket with several layers of a very fine garden liner to keep dirt and other crud out of it. Seems to work just fine, but i will definitely put more planning into the air pump next time around. Seems like it was getting extremely hot when the plants weren't big enough to provide it with shade. It still didn't affect the water temps.
I don't think the plants would have done as well in the dirt. I could be wrong, but if the roots have unlimited resources and suitable temps, i don't see how dirt would even compare! I could be wrong tho, i don't have much experience growing...
The T5's were really slow, but i just wanted a low budget way to veg some mothers. I couldn't even run the ppm past 400 bc the lights weren't providing them with enough energy.
