Hey Snutter! Man I love your set up! I'm thinkin about heading to the store asap and get me some air line T's so I can toss those fuckin air stones!
Couple of questions for ya. It looks like each plant has its own light. Is that correct? What size lights are you using?
I read your other thread about how you build your DWC but I didnt get how you change out your old water. You have such massive root balls on those plants it would be a total bitch to pick it up and put it in a new res.
Major +++rep, btw!
Hello LoPan....Hahaha. First off, Big trouble in little china is a KICK ASS movie!!! so great user name brother!!
I don't blame you for wanting to get rid of the airstones bro, I don't dig them either. I've NEVER had to replace an airline in one of my systems. They work forever with NO hassles!!!
Now, as far as changing out old nutes for new ones, that's easy. I lift the lid up, and slide it over just a little bit and let it rest on top of the tote. Then I use a pump to pump out the old nutes. While that pump is running, I have an empty tote that I fill up with 12 gallons of water and then mix in my new fresh batch of nutrients. Once the old nutes are done being pumped out, I switch the pump over and pump in the new nutes. Easy easy brutha!!!
And yes, each one of my plants has a dedicated light. Each light is 400W HPS. That's in my flower room. In my Veg room I run 1 400W Metal Halide. But, in about 2 weeks I'm going to have two 400W Metal Halide's running in the Veg room, and only four 400W HPS lights running in the flower room. After that, I won't make any more changes to my lighting. I think that will work perfectly for what I want to do....And what I plan on doing is having 1 plant come out of the flower room every 2 weeks and at the same time one plant going in to the flower room. I figure at the least I will be pulling 8 oz's every 2 weeks. Probably more though.
Hope this helps bro.
-S