The Dawg
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Air pump failure?@907guy , How would you lose your plants in a matter of hours from a power outage when gowing in DWC? I've had plants for more than a month in a DWC bucket without power (apart from the lights and vent of course) without problem.
No, on purpose. "Kratky" method.Air pump failure?
@907guy , How would you lose your plants in a matter of hours from a power outage when gowing in DWC? I've had plants for more than a month in a DWC bucket without power (apart from the lights and vent of course) without problem.
Exactly, air pump failure, plants drown fast. With top drip, if the power fails for what ever reason I can simply hand water, they will dry out after a day or two so if power fails and I am gone for more than that then there will be problems. However I remotely monitor my temps and RH so if I do have a power outage while I am gone I should lose connection to my sensors.Air pump failure?
I have seen that method however with basically stagnate water I would think keeping it cool would be an even greater concern, also you would have to be carefully with maintaining water levels (too high and you will drown them). I would also be curious as to growth rates (do you see the same growth rates with the Kratky method as you do with standard air stones?). I loved the growth rate of DWC, everything about that grow method is awesome, like I said it is the only other way I have grown and have been very successfully with it. I am just trying to move towards a more fail safe method with similar or comparable growth rates. So far my growth rates have been way down but that is completely my fault in getting this new system figured out.No, on purpose. "Kratky" method.
I would say you have 1-2 days after a pump goes out depending on the strain, some will die in a few hours, and it's extremely size dependant. A little plant can probably go amonth in a bucket before it dies, where a huge plant with established root system will drown fast as the o2 to h2o ratio to the roots is much worse than with the smaller plant.True, that Kratky method (without air-pumps) is only suitable for cooler temperatures. 20C in my case. Wouldn't do that in summer.
Still, the point is, your plants don't "drown" in DWC in a matter of hours. It will take days if not weeks for them to die from air-pump failure. That's the big difference between NFT or aeroponics to DWC. With NFT or aeroponics the roots run dry when the waterpumps fail. That will kill plants quickly yes.
No, on purpose. "Kratky" method.
I have seen that method however with basically stagnate water I would think keeping it cool would be an even greater concern, also you would have to be carefully with maintaining water levels (too high and you will drown them). I would also be curious as to growth rates (do you see the same growth rates with the Kratky method as you do with standard air stones?). I loved the growth rate of DWC, everything about that grow method is awesome, like I said it is the only other way I have grown and have been very successfully with it. I am just trying to move towards a more fail safe method with similar or comparable growth rates. So far my growth rates have been way down but that is completely my fault in getting this new system figured out.
Also on another note, I can easily move plants around, take them in and out, have several strains in my tent and water them from the same reservoir. Things not so easily done with DWC. If you water from the same reservoir you are doing recirculating system and there's no way you are moving them in and out and around.
Short answer; 'all signs point to yes'I'm a noob in every way (and that includes posting in this forum), so please be patient with me, folks - I have a cab with two 23"w/20"d/48"h grow chambers. I have a 250w HID in the left chamber, and was planning on the same setup for the right side, but then I found myself tumbling down the LED rabbit hole. Any chance the 135w QB kit from HLG could compete with a 250w HPS, yield-wise? I know yield depends on a hell of a lot more than the lights, but assuming all variables are the same, how do you think they would compare? I know just enough about LEDs to know that you shouldn't make a watt-for-watt comparison with other types of lighting, but my knowledge doesn't go much further than that.