DWC and watering

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manifest

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I have a 3 pot dwc system which poors back to the reservoir. Why does it matter how often you feed your plants if the roots are sitting in water and secondly how do you force new clone's rooting systems to grow downward into the water past the medium?
 
herballuvmonkey

herballuvmonkey

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Because even though they are sitting in solution you can still overfeed them. Clone roots will grow down overtime. They develop a tap root and then start rooting out from then. Are you using cloning solution? I use olivia's cloning solution in a dwc cloner and then when I get a tap root out of the net pot I go to 150ppm plus superthrive to help produce a root system quickly.
 
superstoner1

superstoner1

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the last response doesnt make sense. dwc is all about the roots staying submerged so recirculating it will do nothing about overfeeding, that would be from nutes being too high to begin with. what u have is an rdwc setup, and it needs to circulate to keep oxygen levels up in water. in a dwc there is no extra res, the plants roots set in the nutes in its container only.
 
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manifest

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in dwc the roots are always being fed correct? To over feed in a DWC means to have too many nuts in the reservoir to begin with?
 
98034sar

98034sar

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Yes it does , what you want to do is find a good ppm to start with and every week change your nutes/ water and when the reservoir gets low midweek just top of with plain water only , that's the easiest way to do dwc , my pepper plants absolutely love my dwc routine !
 
superstoner1

superstoner1

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remember that in dwc they need much less nutes than other types of hydro because the roots are constantly able to absorb them. i never go above 600ppm in dwc and 1000ppm in aero.
 
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manifest

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Cool any other advice that can be given about my rdwc, ppm, nutes, and forcing roots to grow downward into the bucket?
 
superstoner1

superstoner1

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roots should never be forced to grow down, they do it on their own. make sure the enviroment makes the roots want to grow.
 
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jokerindustries187

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manifest said:
Cool any other advice that can be given about my rdwc, ppm, nutes, and forcing roots to grow downward into the bucket?
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Just leave em b
...the roots will grow out of the buckets and get heavy enough to hang down...no need to force them...just let em do their thing...they know what to do! Best of luck!
 
munchies7

munchies7

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So on this kind of systems the rockwool is allways wet? 24/7 a water pumo is pumping water? Why does this not cause.overwater at early and late stages, i want to start this kind of grow, is it the same for aeroponics? Rockwool wet 24/7??
 
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