Outdoor dwc

sandjsdad

sandjsdad

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I'm not hijacking your thread but I want to show you what you can do with outdoor DWC. 5 plants, all on my deck. Never move them. I have to top off the reservoirs at least once a day. Once August is here it will be twice a day. Makes adding nutes simple though, just top off and add. You can see a couple DWC melons and my autoflowers too. If you need any advice I'll be happy to help. 20180724_170547.jpg 20180724_170553.jpg 20180724_170557.jpg 20180724_170642.jpg 20180724_170549.jpg
 
sandjsdad

sandjsdad

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The strains are from right to left (biggest plant is the DJs gold its7 feet counting the pot)

DJs gold
Chocolate mint OG
Champagne Kush
Green crack
G13 C99

Like the OP I use bricks on top of the buckets for weight since they get really top heavy and can topple
 
sandjsdad

sandjsdad

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Outdoorhydro said:
Still growing and still too warm. The hole I have dug for this to sit in is in a raised bed and I believe raised beds are a few degrees warmer than if I dug down deeper.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the temps, I never do and have had great success with outside DWC. i had some algae issues and the plants seemed a little smaller than normal but I'm not really sure that was the cause. I'd avoid peroxide if it were me.
 
Outdoorhydro

Outdoorhydro

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I took off a bunch of giant Shader leaves and sprayed it with a mildew spray, that's why it's white ish. Good growth overall.20180803_232734.jpg
Roots and definitely looking better than they were before.
I just built a greenhouse its going to be finished off in there and I'm digging the hole to place bucket in. I've switched to maxibloom by General Hydroponics and terpenoids booster by nutriplus.
 
PopeyeSpinach

PopeyeSpinach

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The only way i think i could do it here would be to do RDWC. Keep a Reservoir in my basement and run the supply and return lines buried underground out to where the grow area would be.

I would probably need a chiller.

It would also require me doing some digging and probably coring two holes in my foundation wall. all of which I know how to do, and have access to the tools and equipment to do so.
Reservoir changes would be a bitch and it would probably take alot of nutrients due to the size of the system, ALOT of liters moving around..

Nothing soon, but its a someday possibility once laws change here.

Ya see^^^ ive barely thought about it lol
 
Outdoorhydro

Outdoorhydro

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I think the best system would be to use a very large Chiller in rdwc. A much cheaper option, but more elaborate, would be to use a small used chest freezer and run a large copper coil through it and run the water through that copper coil.
There are several problems that arise of which I think one of the worst would be that it is heating as it goes through the system and Cooling before it goes back through. This would cause fluctuation in the pH and stem a lot of other problems from that.
 
PopeyeSpinach

PopeyeSpinach

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Not if you bury your supply and return lines deep enough. I could bury mine 4- 5 ft deep if I wanted to as my back yard is 8 feet higher than my basement floor. Hence the comment i made about coring holes for supply and return lines.

Once you get down that deep it's going to be the same temperature year-round
 
Outdoorhydro

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I should have secured the electrical lines running to the greenhouse. My dog must have knocked the plug out and my air pump turned off. It's been about a week since, branches cut, newts changed, we're back in action.20180820_135457.jpg
 
PopeyeSpinach

PopeyeSpinach

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If these plants weren't so finicky I could turn a giant waterfall feature I have under construction on my property into a giant Hydroponics system. But it will get all kinds of Rainwater in the reservoir every time it rains, it prob get run off from the yard too...

Already have all kinds of 1" and 2" lines ran through it.

There will be soil grows behind it though, coming 2019 or 2020

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