dwc x auto pot no competion

Black may absorb heat, but, those back buckets also block out light from getting to your roots, if you have a heat problem in your reservoir, you need to increase the agitation of the water in your buckets by increasing air pumps... A higher water temperature = a lower oxygen content for the roots. This is VITAL.

Get a water chiller if your bucket temps are higher than 72 degrees. OR at least figure out a way to keep your buckets cooler.

When done right, DWC is a no-brainer.

Also, raise your lights a bit more, the heat from the lights is making your buckets too hot.
 
I REALLY hope english isn't your first language.

tyke1973 said:
Well the heading might be just me but too much can go wrong with dwc pots,the plants looked brilliant when they was under 1 x 600 hps.

But has soon has i flipped the switch with the other 2 x 600's water temps just got too hot well i think they did i have grown in every hydro set up from airoponics to nft,but not one has come close to auto pot no where near.

I have just wasted 4 week on that system not to mention the money,I just think that so many changes need doing with auto pots from the coulour of them black,ffs who come up with that coulour for a indoor system
in hot rooms.They needed doing in white to reflect the heat i did use black and white polly but it was too late
for the plants.

The roots had all ready started to coulour up,mould of some kind,i did add cannazime,hopeing that would help but i did not really give it long enough to see if it would have worked.From now on i am sticking to auto pots i
know what i get from them i like the coco buffer,

I was lucky that i had some new mums that was taken at the same time has the dwc plants,because they are now in the auto pots and just look so much better health wise,i have multi topped em every single top so should be a bumper harvest there same sizea round 14/16 ".

There on 1.3 ec at the minute i'm gonna veg these for 5/6 week because i want them to full the room out and max the yeild,I put them in the coco yesterday at 10 am i have measured the two plants they have grown near 3 " over night so speaks volumes that does i gonna start doing a weekly up date on this grow.So any one new to growing will be able to see the process.

I will start the photo's from start of flowering think we have all seen vegged plants so i feel no need to bore you with photo's of them vegging.Next sunday i will be putting them on 1.4 ec all the way through vegging till i flower in prob 11/14 days.

I normal flick the 12/12 off at 18 " but going for 2 ft scrog table this time thats why im saying couple week more vegging let them full the table.Got some babies that rooted in a all time pb of 5 days through the big cubes healthy clones too,there now gonna be my new mothers.Forgot to put what im growing 1 x blues 1 x jack herer the cheese i have is gonna be left out this one,but it will be back next time but out doors.

Also ordered 6 seeds from attitude seeds for out door 5 of em hopeing the other time wreck will be a male i want to drop that on the cheese and blues,but more than likely it will turn out to be female normaly the case if ya want a male turns out to be female or not good breeding stock.If its a female im happy had it before loved the hash it made.

The other 5 are sensi seeds super skunk auto's but after reading about this strain ffs i might has well just light dep regular seeds,they say 4/5 week to get it into flowering mode then 8/9 week of flower.either they have not wrote down the cycle right or i have read it wrong.These will be hitting the greenhouse this week,i have done super skunk autos before but a cross a friend has bred him self but he was out of seed for a while so time pushing on i needed seeds so hopeing they produce has much ahs the last auto grow i did i got a lb near abouts from 6.

Got to say attitude is by far the best seed bank to go through ordered the seeds monday they was here wed morning fast service top notch seeds,i can tell all 6 are gonna be nice genetics even this early in there stage of growth,just the growth rate and the leafs and coulour.

Lot going on so i keep you all posted with the grows,If any one has done the sensi seeds,super skunk auto's please let me know whats the crack with em yeild and height wise.
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should have gone with pot chillers but i had plenty of air going to each pot,lesson learnt for me stick to what i know.its a no brainer it is to someone just starting out that is why i put this up if your thinking of doing dwc think about res temps.

Not every one has the money also to get all these thing newbies,thats why ya need to do a grow with out a gamble when it comes to yeild .

I think it is a simple system just the res temps i should have took photos the plants looked fine but the roots told another story
 
If i used less light i would not hit my targets,so it was out with the new in with the old.Tried it was not for me.
But if you are thinking of doing dwc under a decent lighting out fit then think about the res temps

Even if the room like mine is running at 28/29 then you can still have problems but you can in all grows i suppose just every thing has been pretty much going good untill i put dwc pots in,now im back to auto pots plants same size,im back on track but like ya said i think a chiller would have sorted it.

You can still have white pots that light can't get through there just primed in a coulour like black first this would help a lot,because every grower in dwc i talked to all said the same thing wrap the pots in black and white polli.

Some said put a bottle of ice in the tubs ffs would that not shock the roots
 
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tightpockt said:
I REALLY hope english isn't your first language.
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Welcome back to reality. Spelling was deemed a waste of time years ago.
tyke1973 said:
should have gone with pot chillers but i had plenty of air going to each pot,lesson learnt for me stick to what i know.its a no brainer it is to someone just starting out that is why i put this up if your thinking of doing dwc think about res temps.

Not every one has the money also to get all these thing newbies,thats why ya need to do a grow with out a gamble when it comes to yeild .

I think it is a simple system just the res temps i should have took photos the plants looked fine but the roots told another story
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So once again. It is nothing to do with DWC. The error was with you. No different than that which is required for growing in autopots, things must be learned in advance about DWC, and by the time a plant goes into the water, the grower should be fully aware of the importance of res tempts. It sou/nds like you jumped into DWC without doing proper research (which includes checking what your res tempts would be like with 3 600w's!)

DWC is not a gamble, you just didn't know what you were doing. You're bashing DWC because you made a mistake. I don't see you slating autopots over their valves. That could effect someones yield just as much as a hot res in DWC.
 
I should have used a chiller,but it is well worth thinking about if your doing a dwc unit set a bucket of water in the room with a pump running to it before buying that system unless you are doing a cold grow or you got chillers
 
still not money wasted because just turned pipe upside down and now have a res for each auto pot so all in all it worked out ok in the end,just bought new tops lids,the other thing that put me of to be honest is i like to have my main room has a flowering room and its a nightmare trying to keep clones for 4/5 week in them net pots.

At least with the auto pots i can grow my next set up in pots till there about 12/13" then just veg till there 2 ft.I most of the time veg right up to 2 ft so the main room is only ever on 12/12 off .so it is not a no brainer some thought has to go into thinking about your next set in the veg room,my veg room is not a size where i could have had them in dwc pots.

The plants do not support them self in dwc so think about the support for them scrog or cages
 
tyke1973 said:
still not money wasted because just turned pipe upside down and now have a res for each auto pot so all in all it worked out ok in the end,just bought new tops lids,the other thing that put me of to be honest is i like to have my main room has a flowering room and its a nightmare trying to keep clones for 4/5 week in them net pots.

At least with the auto pots i can grow my next set up in pots till there about 12/13" then just veg till there 2 ft.I most of the time veg right up to 2 ft so the main room is only ever on 12/12 off .so it is not a no brainer some thought has to go into thinking about your next set in the veg room,my veg room is not a size where i could have had them in dwc pots.
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This clearly indicates your lack of experience of DWC. If you can fit a plant pot in your veg room, you can fit a DWC pot in your veg room.
 
There bigger dude ffs what dwc pots did ya use, ya talking a 20 ltr pot ffs come on.

Put pictures up of this perfect room YOU ONCE HAD,
 
Aw, he doesn't understand it, so i must be making it up..

DWC can be done in any size pot. You have come across this term transplant right? You can veg in a small pot, and then move it into bigger pots as or when needed. I'd veg in anything from a cococola bottle turned into a DWC pot, to a 40L pot per plant, and then transplant them when going into the flowering room.
 
Its each to there own you got on with dwc,me i like auto pots,the reason i ripped the system out is because i would have got half what i normaly get ya understand what i mean
 
Because there are more important things in my life than growing.

And i understood what you meant from the very beginning. Hence why the thread was pointless.
 
true. But i do it for oil so to me its important mate medication i do not grow to get high just well.

The oil has been a big life changer for me and my wife so every single gram is needed thats why i could not risk only getting half the yeild i normaly do.

If you have got the health your a lucky person dude but where not all that lucky
 
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