fragileassassin
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I was thinking the same. I had issues with my hdx totes at first because I forgot to cover or paint the lids. They let too much light in without something. I just covered mine in foil tape.
DIY hydro - share your homemade hydroponic setups.
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myke
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What did you use to cover your yellow lids? Looks slick.
fragileassassin
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just my adhd and ALLLLL the hvac foil tape. I get carried away with it at times, but I think foil tape is one of my favorite things.
myke
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Ya it works well. Just couldn’t see the seams as the foil I got is only 1.5” wide.
Wastei
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DIY Ghetto HP Aeroponics build 100psi. This is the absolute first picture when the console was installed:
Everything wired and added some armaflex for sound insulation. Manual switches for "bleeding out" the system by opening the solenoid valves manually at res change. I can also manually run the return pump while cleaning the system at harvest.
Here's the bucket design. Two 8 gallon bucket sits on top of each other. The upper bucket has a bunch of holes in it. It also has a paint filter bag that fits perfectly in the first bucket. The netting gets bigger and bigger when it's being filled by roots.
Thought process is roots can get fine nutrient spray mist and also passively uptake nutrients from the droplets stuck in the netting.
Last picture is to show the buckets installed and some root pictures. Your able to see the filter bag also.
Everything wired and added some armaflex for sound insulation. Manual switches for "bleeding out" the system by opening the solenoid valves manually at res change. I can also manually run the return pump while cleaning the system at harvest.
Here's the bucket design. Two 8 gallon bucket sits on top of each other. The upper bucket has a bunch of holes in it. It also has a paint filter bag that fits perfectly in the first bucket. The netting gets bigger and bigger when it's being filled by roots.
Thought process is roots can get fine nutrient spray mist and also passively uptake nutrients from the droplets stuck in the netting.
Last picture is to show the buckets installed and some root pictures. Your able to see the filter bag also.
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Wastei
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Sure it would work. But I also need redundancy and I'm aiming for optimal saturation and spread
. This way they still get water from top to bottom even though the buckets get completely covered and filled with roots.I don't like designs with nozzles in the bottom spraying upwards. They don't work optimally with larger plants with bigger root mass.
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Just Be
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I'd take @fragileassassin 's suggestion and get yourself a WaterFarm by General Hydroponics. Better yet, get their Power Grower as it's 3 inches shorter yet its res holds .7 more gallons than the basic WaterFarm.
Yesyes3000
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Is like to build something like this but with four buckets and one Rez
fragileassassin
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Do you have a solid idea of where your tent is going to be? Is it in a corner?
Generally is easiest to just run the external res on the side of the tent.
If you know how you want it, id be happy to draw you up a rough diagram and parts list. Slow day today recovering from transplant day yesterday.
Yesyes3000
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This is really cool
Yesyes3000
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Yesyes3000
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So I have a tent In my closet that is 5x2. I am going to remake it tho so that it’s got a higher ceiling. Now there’s a little corner In the closet that I could put the Rez in that is 13.5 inches by 10.5 inches.
Yesyes3000
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This little nook has my carbon filter in it but I could put the Rez in the corner and hang the carbon filter above it.
Yesyes3000
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One of the things I like about the flood and drain tables is that I could do multiple strains on it where with the buckets it’s one strain in each bucket. Unless I do like. 2 or 4 hole thing in each bucket which I don’t want to do. I’ve made my mind up that I don’t want to do any number of single DWC buckets because I have to change each one separately and stuff. If I do a RDWC it’s just the tank that needs tinkering with. I’d like to make a custom table that I can put pots in and flood it and then keep a Rez in that corner area I speak of
Yesyes3000
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How do you keep the temperature of the water down with the Rez in the tent ?
fragileassassin
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sounds like you want to do something like ebb and flow or flood to drain? A setup of either kind could easily be built to be used for both that and a rdwc table.
Axion42
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I use a chiller, 1/10HP is enough for the 25-30 gallons I run
reggie1387
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My current homemade setup
4x 14L hempy buckets (%100 perlite) with air stone in each. DTW setup.
40L nutrient reservoir, 4 airstones in the bottom + waterfall recirc pump. 4500L/H feed pump. 13mm main line + feed lines.
My light frame 5x 288s + 2x Emerson boards. (Adding 2x qb11 deep red, far red tomorrow) EVERYONE HOMEMADE!
4x 14L hempy buckets (%100 perlite) with air stone in each. DTW setup.
40L nutrient reservoir, 4 airstones in the bottom + waterfall recirc pump. 4500L/H feed pump. 13mm main line + feed lines.
My light frame 5x 288s + 2x Emerson boards. (Adding 2x qb11 deep red, far red tomorrow) EVERYONE HOMEMADE!