Dadio's Flood and Drain closet .

good deal, ill check it out and grab my chair

Quiet an impressive grow my friend. What ppm you pushing? Lookin great! +rep!

Clean grow dude, my grow area is about the same size I grow in my closet to!

Thanks guys. I don't know what PPM I am running since I don't have a meter. I just change out my reservoir about every 10 days. This is one of the reasons I prefer hydro over soil growing. I never seem to have these defiencies with my crop because everything I need , I put it in there. In 10 days , I change it out again. With a soil crop , I always hear about one defiency or another and wonder how to fix it. Then come the Spider Mites. I haven't seen even one Spider Mite in three straight crops now. I find Flood and Drain to be a very friendly system for a beginner. Once i harvest , I can be growing again in about two hours. Thats how long it will take me to do a good cleaning in the room between crops. A good cleaning and then refill with fresh clones. You can check out my signature .... https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/424058-dadios-current-happenings.html and see the mini system I made to veg my clones. I am trying to make this perpetual thing happen.

Love this thread and thx for guiding a newbie thru...I promise I have read thru this thread and answered as many questions myself as I could, but I like being precise especially on my first hydro grow If you don't want to answer all these questions I understand but just a little more info that I either didn't understand or was just stupid and missed it. Thx.

What fittings around the overflow and pump? What to seal them from leaking?

Percent of nutes to water in resevoir at different stages?

Do you keep the smell isolated to the one room?



How to keep dark during flowering, some of the 12 hours im sure you gotta get in there?

How to transfer from germenating in small rockwool cubes, to the 6" ones, since I won't have clones?

What do you cover the rockwool blocks with?

A few more days and I will do a flush with Clearex
Flush how?

Is it ok to have the standing water left in there after feeding or do you get rid of all excess water...ie not all water will flow out after feeding, since it should be level?

great looking F/D settup bro it makes hydro look so easy. those are some animal plants man +rep

Happened to notice you have the same airpump and submersible. How is the air pump for 2 stones? I'm asking because last night I was reading for DWC to have 1lpm per gal of res and its only 8lpm and I have a 40 gal res. I know im not running a DWC, but I was wondering if it oxygenated the water well enough for the flood and drain system you got setup. Forgive me if you explained how well it worked deeper into the thread I only got to page 6.

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I am using a 44" x 84 " closet but I will only be using 44" x 26 " for my growing area .View attachment 1190819At this point , I just got done slapping on a sloppy coat of flat white paint . A gallon only cost $7 and is enought to repaint 4 times .
I bought a garment rack with a zip up tent to put clothing in so that I will be able to use this closet with a locking door . I have this exact same space on the other side of the closet that will eventually become another grow area . I Just lack the funds for another light system right now .

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Dude, you just made me smile. Darned nice write, darned nice system and answered a bunch of questions I had. thanks and I will be back on this and hitting you up. Years of outdoor equates pretty well with soil (thanks to the kindhearted souls here and grasscity and etc). But hydro is a different animal entirely. Not rocket science but it is science for sure. Just awaiting the arrival of my TDS meter and pH Adjust stuff. Going to use RO water from our dialysis unit, Advanced Nutrients whatever (since I use their Sensi Grow A&B on soil and like it) and my 1000 watt HPS/MH, 1 400 watt HPS, and a bank of fluoros. Made 4 DWC sets with 6 4" cups each. Was going to use my airbrush compressors but decided to buy 2 air pumps instead and use 2 sandstone air stones in each, pumice (washed and soaked on RO water for 24 hours). Suggestions? Maynard G Krebs rocked it, daddy-o.

great set-up man nice looking buds.. one ? when u say u were useing 8ml micro 16 ml bloom per gallon how many gallons were u useing to fill ur res? if it was ten gallons were u useing 80 ml micro and 160 ml bloom per week? thanks

clogreen , I use a 18 gallon res. that I fill up to about 16 gallons. going hydro is waaaay easier than people think.

wow. amazing thread. so thankful you lead me to your page! learned more here than anywhere, an i have been knowledge thirsty for some time about this crap! thank you SO much. this is gonna be my reference for my grow, for sure. on a mission tomorrow to get some of the same prods you have.

My plant is 4 weeks old. It's 5inches tall and about 6inches wide. I can't tell if it's a lady yet, though. Will you explain to me how to "top"? I understand the concept; I'm just not sure of the specifications. I'm pretty much mocking your setup and practices. Although, since it's only 1 plant I've just been top feeding the mixture instead of flooding. The plant is in a Gro-Block. At this point the roots are coming out all sides/bottom of my 4inX4in cube. I may need to transplant to a 6inX6in like you did, right? Thanks!

im growing in 6" rockwool blocks and the first pages of this thread have been very helpful im sure ill get a lot more pointers.. thanks a bunch