Multiple Strain CCH2O RDWC Grow

I haven't seen too many grow journals using CCH2O systems, so I thought I would post mine to share. I took a break for a year or two, but I am now back in action. I am currently in the process of setting up my room and am almost complete. I am still waiting to get some of my old strains back and a few from some trusted friends but for now I am going to be experimenting with 12 or so different strains that I got at La Conte's clone bar in Denver. I have heard good and bad things about this place so I am a little concerned with the quality of the genetics, but since it is all I have right now, I am going to go with a shotgun approach so hopefully I can find some keepers.

Larry OG
Jedi Death Star
Grape Kush
Purple Diesel
Bubba Kush
Cherynobl
Vortex
Grape Kush
BG Kush
Sweet Kush
and a few others...

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the room as is. It is about 90% done. I am running 6 1000W Magnum XXXL's in the flower room and 1 1000W sun system in the veg room. The cch2o system is the UC12XXL13 with 40" plant centers. This is a 12 site system of 13 gallon buckets. This thing was a bit pricey (around 2k) but it was super easy to assemble and pretty nice quality and best of all, it came with all the parts needed so no trips to home depot!



As far as nutrients go, I will be running a mix of botanicare in both veg and flower. Looking forward to see how this system performs. I will update when the room is finished and I am placing the plants into flower.

Just an update, finished up the grow room, got all the ducting and wiring finished and got the plants moved in.

So it has been about a week and unfortunately I am seeing some really slow growth in the system. The plants are not happy and something is off. Hopefully I can get this resolved sooner than later. Started another help thread here if anyone has any ideas:
https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/742476-any-rdwc-uc-experts-help.html

Nice set up there toaster1.. Iv'e never ran a rdwc myself but i've been planning too for awhile now. Whats your water temps like ? have you got anything to cover your tubs with? some reflective or black and white will help keep temps down if thats an issue .
mabye a flush and a few drops of superthrive might help ..Hope you get of top of it

dr green dre said:

Nice set up there toaster1.. Iv'e never ran a rdwc myself but i've been planning too for awhile now. Whats your water temps like ? have you got anything to cover your tubs with? some reflective or black and white will help keep temps down if thats an issue .
mabye a flush and a few drops of superthrive might help ..Hope you get of top of it

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Thanks for the advice. My temps are about 70 F in the reservoir, I would like them around 65 F. I actually have this posted in another forum and right now I am leaning towards a humidity issue. My RH is between 35-40% and they are saying I need 55-65 especially with rdwc. I have never had a problem running at this humidity, but maybe it is different with RDWC. I am currently in the process of cleaning the whole system out and starting with new fresh nutes at a real low level. Also going to buy a swamp cooler to get the RH up where it needs to be.

Also, I have my tubs covered with pandafilm to prevent light getting into the reservoir. This was an addition on about day 5 of putting these into the CCH2O system.