Indoor RDWC Grow - Failure at every turn

[pinner420]

He stated he was putting them in the res then mixing. So I meant to say mix fresh batch in separate container. I personally mix 25 gallons at a crack. In order to do this I'm putting a fresh 10 liters in its own private bucket and adding each of my additives. Each bucket then gets poured into a top off tank that feeds the float valve to the brain bucket... Order Sillicic Acid, Micro, Bloom, Uncle Johns Blend, Plant Amp, Mag Amp, Sugaree....

 

[JMek420]

He stated he was putting them in the res then mixing. So I meant to say mix fresh batch in separate container. I personally mix 25 gallons at a crack. In order to do this I'm putting a fresh 10 liters in its own private bucket and adding each of my additives. Each bucket then gets poured into a top off tank that feeds the float valve to the brain bucket... Order Sillicic Acid, Micro, Bloom, Uncle Johns Blend, Plant Amp, Mag Amp, Sugaree....

I'll give that a go next time.
So you reckon adding small amount of nutes to the control tank to "top up" is a no no?
Does it throw the balance of the ions out or something?

 

[Airwalker16]

I'll give that a go next time.
So you reckon adding small amount of nutes to the control tank to "top up" is a no no?
Does it throw the balance of the ions out or something?

Your pH is gonna be high still. Check it and see now that it'd had time to circulate. You have a TdS meter right?

 

[JMek420]

Your pH is gonna be high still. Check it and see now that it'd had time to circulate. You have a TdS meter right?

Read my mind Airwalker thats some voodoo shit right there haha I literally just went and had a look because of that thought, you are right it came up to 5.9 after recirculating through properly.
I just added a little bit more of my HCL PH down solution. The whole thing seems to be sitting at 5.6 now.
Yeah bro I got a TDS. It's reading 450 now that ive topped up nutes.

 

[Airwalker16]

Read my mind Airwalker thats some voodoo shit right there haha I literally just went and had a look because of that thought, you are right it came up to 5.9 after recirculating through properly.
I just added a little bit more of my HCL PH down solution. The whole thing seems to be sitting at 5.6 now.
Yeah bro I got a TDS. It's reading 450 now that ive topped up nutes.

K don't go past 550;in veg

 

[Airwalker16]

And also, you want to do UC? I really reccomend you try the waterfall method I've used. It's really reliable.

 

[JMek420]

And also, you want to do UC? I really reccomend you try the waterfall method I've used. It's really reliable.

I do like the look of your set up, but im not much of a tradie ill be honest, and UC seems like less bits and pieces.
I've already bought all the bits for the UC too....
Bro believe it or not it took me like 3 attempts to make my shoddy garden hose waterfall set up thats going right now hahaha, and its still not entirely leak proof, god help me if I trip over something.
The UC build just seems really simple and easily adaptable for adding another 2 buckets later on when ive got everything dialed in right and more experience.

 

[Airwalker16]

I do like the look of your set up, but im not much of a tradie ill be honest, and UC seems like less bits and pieces.
I've already bought all the bits for the UC too....
Bro believe it or not it took me like 3 attempts to make my shoddy garden hose waterfall set up thats going right now hahaha, and its still not entirely leak proof, god help me if I trip over something.
The UC build just seems really simple and easily adaptable for adding another 2 buckets later on when ive got everything dialed in right and more experience.

You're gonna use uniseals?

 

[JMek420]

I was gonna just drill holes in the bottom, fit some tophat gromments, and use barbed elbows/joiners to connect all the buckets up with some poly pipe.
The "Out" end of the system will connect to a pump, which pumps the water into my chiller, which then feeds back into the control rez.

 

[Airwalker16]

I was gonna just drill holes in the bottom, fit some tophat gromments, and use barbed elbows/joiners to connect all the buckets up with some poly pipe.
The "Out" end of the system will connect to a pump, which pumps the water into my chiller, which then feeds back into the control rez.

Use Donut grommets.