first dwc

faust2000

faust2000

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started my first dwc on the 19th of june 2009,
i have:
8 26 watt 65k's
2 45 watt 27k's
22gallon rubbermaid as reservoir
2 4" round airstones bubbling away
3.5" net pots w/ hydroton and rockwool
foxfarm nutes (grow big and bloom)

not my first grow but def first time using dwc

thanks to all on here for the help and tips RIU is an awesome resource center.

I KNOW I NEED TO POST PICS, im working on that.

im sure theres a bunch of stuff i left out so please ask away, ill try to answer as soon as i can.

peace and chicken grease :bigjoint:
 
EpyxN

EpyxN

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After you hit upload on the attachment window leave it open, when your attachments are finished being sent the attachment window will clear and go back to being blank and then you can select 4 more attachments :)
 
faust2000

faust2000

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i have run into my first DWC problem, knew it wouldnt take long, my water is extremely hard so all my nutes r locked up and my leaves are turning into paper and crumbling off. i had to make a trek to the grow store to get some ph down so hopefullt thatll fix it. my ph was set to 7 last night and i checked it this morning and it was at 9.1!!! i have it down to 6.2 now and am toying with the idea of transferring all to their own 5 gal buckets. seems like it may be easier to care for them on an individual level. im starting to miss dirt farming, its only day 10 so i still have tons of time to get used to DWC'ing. peace and chicken grease :bigjoint:
 
kali love

kali love

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it looks good i like the set up did u build that yourself it so can you explain how you did it and the tools you used to do it im looking to build a system like this myself
 
faust2000

faust2000

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kali love said:
it looks good i like the set up did u build that yourself it so can you explain how you did it and the tools you used to do it im looking to build a system like this myself
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20 gallon rubbermaid
dual air pump
2 12" airstones
net pots and hydroton


  1. trace around netpots on lid of rubbermaid
  2. cut out holes for pots (i drilled a pilot hole then jigsawed the rest of the material away)
  3. used a small bit to drill holes for air lines
  4. and thats all there is to it.
so the flow chart from your wall socket would be: wall socket-airpump-air hose tubing-check valve (prevents h20 coming back into pump and setting ur house on fire)after check valve: tubing going into reservoir-12" airstone-submerge airstone- bubbles.

hopefully that makes sense, i have started another grow using 5 gallon buckets, very easy to do, if youd like directions for that let me know.
 

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