Waterfarm Mods & Tips

ianb said:

lets see this answered, Having trouble seeing how my new clones will get their rockwool wet.

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Wet 4 inch rockwell cubes and put your clone (hopefully in a rockwool plug) in the center whole on the 4 inch cube. Push it down, make sure its conected good, and now when you put it under the rings it will get a kines o' nutrient.

Hulk Nugs said:

Also not really understanding how the water gets moved around to each Farm with just a air pump in the Control.

Trying to find some close up pics of the controls insides workings, was hoping for a video but GH's videos are outdated.

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The Water farm uses what it calls the "Circulating pump Column" which is the long tube part of the drip system. There are two hoses in the "Pump Column" that are joined BELOW THE WATER. This connection BELOW the water insures that there is always water in the tube that runs to the drip ring. Now hooking up an air pump to the other tube pushes air into the drip ring tube that happens to already have water in it and viola! it pumps water to the top using an air compressor.

Somebody else mentioned how long to run the air pump or how long to water a day. I am no expert... in fact im a noob4life, but I believe GH tells you to leave it run with your lights. This might be a good practice but what sounds like happens to a lot of people is that the Waterfarms when off siphon water back through the air tubes flooding your room. In which case you either need to keep your air pump very high up or run it 24/7 so that it doesn't have time to siphon air back.

just my $.04 (twice the advice)

just wondering w/ the waterfarm 8 pk how often do i need to drain the res (if i have upgrade kit)???? please and thanks

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im gunna have a million questions for this post so bare w/ me.... TOTAL NEWB! I appreciate all the advice and knowledge that this site offers!!!!!

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what size air pump would one use for just a single wf setup???? iam wondering this cause mine starts good but after about 3 or 4 min it seems to stop pumping! it also makes a diff noise like water not making it up to the tee and falling back down?? anyone had problems like this??
ps this is a brand new kit and its the first test run i ran it all nite only to find that it had stoped pumping. i tried to fix it by taking out the drip ring setup and reseting it back in but it only starts good for only 3 min wtf

dangrus303 said:

just wondering w/ the waterfarm 8 pk how often do i need to drain the res (if i have upgrade kit)???? please and thanks

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i would suggest changing the res every 7 days...understand there will be residual left in the buckets themselves

hey capn... Have you heard of the site hydofanatics.com? They claim i can get a waterfarm 8pk for 339.00 I have emailed them 3 times w/ no response yet... what do you think? Thanks so much for any input!!!

dangrus303 said:

hey capn... Have you heard of the site hydofanatics.com? They claim i can get a waterfarm 8pk for 339.00 I have emailed them 3 times w/ no response yet... what do you think? Thanks so much for any input!!!

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never heard of them. but let my experience from past failures help u.

make ur own modified wafterfarm.
garb the inner bucket from online for about 5 each.
then follow this grow design but apply it to our waterfarm theory
20 gal buckets yes!
i.e.....get a huge 50+ gal garbage bin, tap out your plumbing holes. (feed lines 1/4" and return pipe 2")
follow shaggytodopes idea for a lid its great! light pattern is essential! expect great yeilds

OK, love the thread found it just in time just got the water farm 8 pk(Ebay 200.00 still should have just made it myself but...) well i got 9, four on each side with a 9th on the end that acts like a T(my own idea I like to call the niner set-up). i have a 100gph inline pump in cold water bucket in center of pick. this pump draws from controller and releases in to 9th bucket. (9th bucket is better if it is 4 inches higher than other buckets,also pump has to be on timer still working out kinks) three weeks till i crop my plants in dirt and move this hydro setup in to its new home. My 9'longx6'widex8'tall grow tent w/3 inter linked air cooled 600 watt mh/hps.i will post more pic when final setup occurs. i would like to hear everyone's thoughts and ideas thx

top view of niner and controller bucketscontroller and res will be out side of tent in final setup.res will have shut off and will only be allowed to top off controler once a day. i plan to use connoisseur on this grow along with some other advanced juices.Has anyone seen or used ph perfect? prolly wont start this grow till more like end of August. so all info i can get is as always appreciated, thx

d4twamp said:

I'm in the process of getting things together to build a recirc. DWC w/ 10 gallon grow cells... I'm talkin tree pots I've seen people use 20 gallon buckets and grow 4 plants that produced 12 L-bo's

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thats looks huge..i like ur idea ,very intresting done some thing similar my self..check pics.. how much u get off the big one?

looking good d3twamp

I was thiking somthing like this just using the waterfarms and making somthing like the currentcultersetup (<--web link) witch you kinda did.

Looking forward to the updates pics, post up a link if you start a journal!!

dr green dre said:

thats looks huge..i like ur idea ,very intresting done some thing similar my self..check pics.. how much u get off the big one?

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what do you mean how much off the big one???? after playing with it for a few days, using water color to see how it would flow i think ill have it run for 3min once every hour. the gravity takes about another 10 to level the water out and dump back in to controller. ill prolly start a journal on this project in a few weeks

d4twamp said:

I'm in the process of getting things together to build a recirc. DWC w/ 10 gallon grow cells... I'm talkin tree pots I've seen people use 20 gallon buckets and grow 4 plants that produced 12 L-bo's

Here are some pix of his op

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I was talking about tha 4 pic,the huge plant!!

Gnarley said:

what do you mean how much off the big one???? after playing with it for a few days, using water color to see how it would flow i think ill have it run for 3min once every hour. the gravity takes about another 10 to level the water out and dump back in to controller. ill prolly start a journal on this project in a few weeks

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then i read further down and i see its not his grow..
you grow drip/bubbler before? what times would use for drip?
thnx

I run my dripper 18ON/6OFF

Does anyone use the "Dry pH DOWN" to adjust the ph in waterfarms?

I heard good stuff about this dry ph down & up.. its from General Hydroponics..
I think i'm going to try it soon.. but if anyone ever used it with waterfarms please tell me how effective it was? i had a few problems keeping my ph stable with the liquid ph down..

li0n said:

Does anyone use the "Dry pH DOWN" to adjust the ph in waterfarms?

I heard good stuff about this dry ph down & up.. its from General Hydroponics..
I think i'm going to try it soon.. but if anyone ever used it with waterfarms please tell me how effective it was? i had a few problems keeping my ph stable with the liquid ph down..

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What exactly do you mean? Are you talking about the bottles you can buy to adjust it? Or a powder?

its in powder form.. not liquid like the one in the pic

li0n said:

its in powder form.. not liquid like the one in the pic

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Any reason in particular that you like the power over the liquid? Does it do anything different or special that the liquid doesn't?