Pyro's Vertical rdwc

iPurpleSticky said:

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Try that out. That'll give everyone an idea of what I'm working with. It's photo's always looks confusing because of my room setup. Plus now, you can be soothed by my smooth voice!

Enjoy.

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The curling is from excessive nitrogen. It's actually called clawing.

Also your res temps are on the high side, especially for a flooded tube setup. The water temps I mean. You might consider picking up a cheap igloo cooler to replace your bucket. Add frozen water bottles once a day, should maintain well. Given your ambient temps are good even just having the cooler will maintain the temps quite a bit better.

Don't think it would break your budget and I think you would see significant improvement in your overall end product as well as any problems you might have relating to root health will disappear.

I really like your setup though and I might more or less copy it as I do not have the proper tools to build a nice PVC setup. It's a future project though, for now my lazy ass is growing a few trees.

How do you regulate the water levels in your tubing?

Thats fucking cool man!

iPurpleSticky said:

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I would recommend to put a bit more light in there and cover the wood with white plastic or reflectiv material ... because with the space you have you run low in light and your plants are like on a '' diet '' of light.

But the Set up is really great tho! Keep up and have a good one!

I'd suggest some of that reflective insulating material you can get at home depot. Insulation of the entire setup will help with your res temperatures.

OG, I alter the levels by sticking 'shims' under the pipe before it goes down to the next level. It just humps it up over, and raises water level. I couldn't ever figure out a better way, and this way I don't have to build something that'll fuck up.

I've been working on just getting this working before I get down to the small things I need to do. The reflective stuff is next on my list. The black pipe has to be converting a ton of light into heat. I'm pretty sure they'll be impossible to actually wrap with the stuff from the Depot. I'll probably just staple the stuff to cover the insides of the pipes, to deal with the direct light.

I've been running high reservoir temperatures for a few harvests, and it doesn't seem to be causing any issues at all. I know it's frowned upon and such, but it's something I'll take care of later. I can't afford a chiller at the moment, and I'm still growing decent pot. I want one really bad, but I can't take spending 300 bucks on a chiller. I'm tempted to gut my dehumidifier and go that route, but I really don't want to fuck up.

Maybe I'll throw a picture or something up here, I haven't updated in months.

I don't think you need a chiller. Just better insulation should do the trick IMO.

Even if you don't wrap your tubing (and it can be done, just a PITA), you could probably lay down some reflective insulation flat, cutting holes where plants pop through, pretty easily.

I'm not very concerned about the temperature. It caused some algae growth early on, but that was solved with plugging the holes with aluminum foil to keep the light out. Even then, the algae wasn't causing any issues with my plants.

I'm going to try and consider some alternate ways to put reflective stuff everywhere. I was thinking of trying to find something like panda film so I could stretch it around and try to get it looking nice. I think the stuff from Home Depot is a little too rigid.

Here's the cluster mother \/



Jamaican Dream mother \/ to the right


Fucked up JAck mother. Been flushing for a week now, so I'll get it back to nutrients.














And here is how I change my levels. I've had a few people ask and I think everyone's been thinking too hard!

you're plants look so droopy, whats the deal-E-O with that?

they do have couplers for this pipe you could do what heath did to control the level but are they water tight?, i know you just use a bit of wood.. also would be best to add reflective before setup, rolling the full tube up in it and taping it down..

also do you have to have levels, couldnt you just do one contious spiral, and use a valve to control water level?.

birdmananyweather said:

you're plants look so droopy, whats the deal-E-O with that?

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The jack just had some stress earlier in veg, but the rest aren't really droopy. I'm not sure if you have any vertical experience, but the leaves tilt to the light. That might be what you're seeing.


Blocker, corrugated pipe and fittings aren't meant to be water tight. I went with the design for a simple reason; it's simple. The more shit you start implementing, the more shit you end up having to fix. The block of wood isn't pretty, but what the fuck do I care?

You could do a continuous spiral, but the corrugated pipe will only let you wind it so tight. You won't be able to wind it into anything much smaller than maybe 2-3 feet in diameter.

I've come to a conclusion that everyone on the internet is obsessed with reflective tape. I've got some 4'' flexible ducting left over. I think I may try to slip it over my pipes. I'll just cut a slice along the bottom of the ducting, and slip it right over.

I'll have more pictures soon. Last night I filled 2 more rows with clones. I did a test and had a clone root into 1 EC solution, so I figured I'd pump a ton more in. I'm kind of curious to see what weight will come off this 400 watter. If I get the cash, I'm going to buy a 1k watter and toss it in there.

hehe, i was always told if you want to stay cool on a summers day wear a white t-shirt not black it absorbs the heat and light - white reflects, whats the distance from your light to your main stems?

Good thing I'm not having any heat problems .

It's a 4 foot diameter octagon. The plants tend to grow towards the center so there's about a foot to a foot and a half.

about the flood level, is it easey to get right flood level doing it that way ie, just touching the bottom of cup, flood level very important, trying to rack my brain for a different way

As long as the roots and stuff are touching the water, it really doesn't matter as much as you'd think. You can run this like a big NFT system if you wanted.

If the plant has contact with water, it'll be okay.

Awesome!
way to go!!!

reflectix would be an easy way to "reflect" more.. I believe that is what Heath used originally... No need to follow the corrugations...

either way bomb set up!!!

Ps. I kow it says Cali Cali up there... But this is GypsyBush here....

Ok, back in my own skin again, dont want to loose this!

fantastic stuff.

Thanks. I'll have to get some newer pictures of it. I'm finally getting it all running nicely.

Although, the worst of worst kind of came up. For some reason the city I'm in needs to inspect the gas line pipes in the house. They do it every three years. So I'm going to have to move my entire grow up into my bedroom for a day, and hope my carbon filter will clean the smell out of the basement in an hour or so. I've got a lot of shit to do, that's for sure.

fucking figures!