The Official Dwc Cooler Club - Any Kind of Cooler Res

[BeaverHuntr]

BH, did you put your rootball in a vapourizer again bro?

Just wait for the buds to mature next time my friend

I have no idea what that post meant but cheers!

 

[Globule]

Sorry BH - was just being a bit stoned I think. Can't even remember what I meant then but it was all meant with love I assure you!

I think because I thought you were harkening back to old times before your roots were nice and cool so I was saying something about smoking your roots because they were so hot?

I forget now bro. I apologize!

 

[Globule]

... I forgot his screen name but his avatar is methed looking Bert from Sesame Street.

Hehe

I think there are really some misguided people around who grow to impress others with really weird claims to fame. Like "the biggest roots".
I reckon that's like saying "I have the biggest feet and the longest ear lobes".

I used to feel something was wrong because the rootball growing out of my netpots never really amounted to the sort of mass you see posted. I assumed my res was sick. Not so.
You don't need the res filled with roots to pull off a good harvest. You can achieve a very decent grow with a partial root fill.

Don't be ashamed if your rootball aint up to the girth of the photos you see. I bet your buds still plump up in the final weeks anyway and end up smoking real good!



My mantra is, grow for yourself to give yourself and those you love the best product possible, not to impress others.

 

[BeaverHuntr]

Hehe

I think there are really some misguided people around who grow to impress others with really weird claims to fame. Like "the biggest roots".
I reckon that's like saying "I have the biggest feet and the longest ear lobes".

I used to feel something was wrong because the rootball growing out of my netpots never really amounted to the sort of mass you see posted. I assumed my res was sick. Not so.
You don't need the res filled with roots to pull off a good harvest. You can achieve a very decent grow with a partial root fill.

Don't be ashamed if your rootball aint up to the girth of the photos you see. I bet your buds still plump up in the final weeks anyway and end up smoking real good!



My mantra is, grow for yourself to give yourself and those you love the best product possible, not to impress others.

Oh yeah whenever I grew OG strains in DWC I always had small root balls... For some reason thats just how they grew with me. Oh yeah in DWC I pulled off 5.5 ounces of Super Lemon Haze..no lie that strain is good for DWC

 

[907]

Hey guys, I started out with the 5" square vinyl posts like Stinkbud uses. After a couple of years of that we decided to change it up so I came up with these. I like them because I can keep my nutes nice and cool (65) for pennies on the dollar. I use a 120 Quart Igloo for my main res in a adjoining room. These are not DWC ,nor are they Bubble Buckets. I Quit using airstones last year, Pain in the ass! I run a 1/2" black tubing inside the cooler and make a spray ring with it. I use a MAG3 pump in the main res to supply the flower igloo sprayers. Each flower igloo has 2 EZ cloner sprayers spraying the nutes. I run my pump one minute on and six minutes off. The drain is a 1" vinyl hose, each pot drains into a common line that drains into the blue 5 gallon cooler in the corner. Inside the blue cooler is a littlegiant condensate pump with its own float switch. There is maybe 1/2" of nutes that sit in the bottoms of the flower coolers. The roots in this set up are the best we have ever messed with.
The pics are of a Power kush from seed that was vegged 5 weeks and at the time of pic was day 14 of flower.

 

[BeaverHuntr]

Hey guys, I started out with the 5" square vinyl posts like Stinkbud uses. After a couple of years of that we decided to change it up so I came up with these. I like them because I can keep my nutes nice and cool (65) for pennies on the dollar. I use a 120 Quart Igloo for my main res in a adjoining room. These are not DWC ,nor are they Bubble Buckets. I Quit using airstones last year, Pain in the ass! I run a 1/2" black tubing inside the cooler and make a spray ring with it. I use a MAG3 pump in the main res to supply the flower igloo sprayers. Each flower igloo has 2 EZ cloner sprayers spraying the nutes. I run my pump one minute on and six minutes off. The drain is a 1" vinyl hose, each pot drains into a common line that drains into the blue 5 gallon cooler in the corner. Inside the blue cooler is a littlegiant condensate pump with its own float switch. There is maybe 1/2" of nutes that sit in the bottoms of the flower coolers. The roots in this set up are the best we have ever messed with.
The pics are of a Power kush from seed that was vegged 5 weeks and at the time of pic was day 14 of flower.
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Yeah the coolers allowed me to keep my temps under 68 degrees for 7 days straight.

 

[Flo Grow]

LMFAO.....Globule was on some shit !

907 - Very nice set up !

Sometimes I want to do some nice shit like that, but with my schedule, I love the simplicity of a powerful air pump, good black silicon hose and air stones.

 

[Globule]

907 that's a very cool system you're running there brother!
Never seen that sort of rig before. Very interesting to see how it must have evolved for you.
I really enjoy doing bits of work here and there on my cabinet when I get the time to improve it over time.

You guys have obviously spent a lot of time evolving your system.
Thanks for sharing 907 and grow on bro.

Flo - same goes for me too dude. One day I might have a man-cave to play cannabis in but for now I have to be content with 1 square meter in the garage

 

[Khrushchev]

I upgraded to a cooler for my Salvia plant today.

 

[Flo Grow]

Nice and welcome to the Deep Water Cooler Club !
Crush that shit Khrush !
Hope you get your best harvest yet too !!!

 

[Flo Grow]

I've noticed that in the last 5 months since I was away from RIU, more ppl are rocking some sort of cooler.
Post pics, info and knowledge freely on this thread.
ALL things that pertain to cooler grows.
ANY size or shape, as long as it's a cooler !!!

 

[dbkick]

man I've been the poster boi for igloo for the past I dunno, a little while. But now I'm contemplating using my ebb monster the way it was meant to be used which will mean killing the coolers. Unless however I fill them with rocks and go with that.

 

[Flo Grow]

You might be on to something DB !
See what you can do, I like the sound of that.

 

[dbkick]

I dunno man, I'm afraid to do anything different at all now that I think about it, I've been changing shit up too much. plus these fucking roks I use are expensive but I suppose I could just do hydroton in one cooler. is it feasible or even doable? sounds like the same idea as ebb and flo but the buckets are bigger and insulated from the room. but then if the room is at the temp it should be anyway there would probably be no need to insulate the roks.

 

[Flo Grow]

Afraid I can't be of much help.
I have a tendency to rock something until I perfect it, then I may move on.
But then, if I get the results that make ME happy, why change ?!
There are SO many ways to do this.

 

[dbkick]

Afraid I can't be of much help.
I have a tendency to rock something until I perfect it, then I may move on.
But then, if I get the results that make ME happy, why change ?!
There are SO many ways to do this.

All very true!

 

[meltdown213]

Anyone have a nice link to a recirc DIY cooler system? My problem is finding one with ideas on using 1/2 tubing instead of PVC. It would be great to find one with a parts list on how to hook up the coolers via their drain valves. Until I figure it out, I insulated my buckets and lines with common materials from Home Depot and it dropped my res temps almost 5 degrees! Cheap and very easy to use and wrap up your buckets with.

 

[dbkick]

I use coolers on a ebb monster controller bucket. I buy coolers with the 3/4 inch garden hose drain. I drain the coolers back to the main res and mix with whatever is left in there(which is chilled to 64 f )every two hours.

 

[Flo Grow]

Coolers are the best for DWC !!
Doesn't matter what the set up is or how simple/elaborate.
They are PERFECT for DWC's #1 enemy, HIGH TEMPS !!
I promise, after you go to coolers (5gal sports or rectangular/square models,etc.) your only possible issue will be PH.
Keep your PH 5.5 - 6.5, overall, and don't try to go all crazy with 5+ different nutes.
Get a reliable PPM and PH pen, and watch your harvest be bountiful !!

 

[dbkick]

I dunno, depending on how small an ice probe would work, 10 gals of uninsulated or better can be chilled, although an ice probe in conjunction with a cooler would be the shit.