Yea I used new trash cans in the past those worked well. Now use 55gal pickle barrels.
Yea i did the same lol and though they were good until about the 5th week of flower. I used the same netpots as you have or about the same. You can buy netpots with large lips. They have a lip about double the size of the ones you have. They cost a little bit of change but they are rigid and in my opinion worth it for a diy person. You're trying to ground 1# per plant, those plants are gonna be monsters and heavy lol.
They have good prices I'll be ordering from there lol. I wonder if I can just drive there. Their website says they ship from Detroit. I'm about an hour drive from detroit.
i was going to check that myself but think not.. warehouses worth the call tho...
You live in Michigan as well? Where about?
Heading to my local spot later today to pick up the 13gal ropak totes. There about the same dimensions as the 8gal but a little taller. Around 14$ ea and 4$ per lid. Trying to find some 3" bulkheads for a future build. Going to build new manifolds 3 rows of 4 for next run. Also going to use the square net pots.
Would that require 2 pumps? Or would one still do it. I like the idea of 2 rows, it looks like it has an even draw of water from both rows of pots
3 rows would be fine, you have to make the return manifold equal length between rows, im going to be getting a larger 1400gph pump. When i first built this 4 bucket system. I put red food coloring in the epicenter bucket and the system draws the water evenly through all 4 sites. Really cool. Noticed the ppms and ph keeps more stable also. Really liking these rdwc systems. Exspecially when you can build them your self. Half the fun for me.
$23.58 shipping cost for me but in long run i think my roots well love the more room
my question is since this system recirculates do i need to push air into each bucket? I would think if i push 1300gph of air into the epicenter and the water is circulating to both buckets via a 660gph pump, would the DO be circulated throughout the entire system?
Yeah i was thinking about doing that at first. I ended up just putting the dual air that was in the epicenter into the bucket that didnt have one. Would rather have as much DO around the roots as possible. Ill get another air stone for the epicenter in the future.
cant wait till they really put on some growth and fill this space.
They are clones i took off a mother that was 2 weeks into flower, i took 10 cuts and gave them to my buddy who fucking grew them like shit and these 2 were the only survivors. Nursing them back to health. i later found out people actually do this, its called monster cropping. These clones when rooted and brought back to veg get super bushy and yield huge
. Only problem with taking clones from a flowering plant is they take forever to root and they take like 2 weeks on top of that to revert back into veg. These 2 are almost back in there veg stage.