Hello All New Farmer Looking For Advice

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EventHorizan

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Callipygous said:
I know i'm probably gonna get my chops busted on this, but i meant like environmental waste haha. Don't shoot me, I've read that for every 1 gal of r/o water produced it dumps 3-4 gals of water to waste.
Maybe you could point me in the direction of a good system, because what I don't like is my tap water ppm after running it thru a catalytic carbon filter is 101ppm
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well its like 1 to 1, but you dont hook it up so that it filters all your water. You tap into your water line and install it with a shut off valve. Get you a 55 gal plastic barrel, and fill it up with ro, and shut it off. Then you have all your ro for at least a month..

And what do you mean your ppm is 100 after running it thru what kind of filter?
 
EventHorizan

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Callipygous said:
This kind, picked it up for 30 dollars, the guy at the shop said it filters out Chloramines/Chlorine
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ya I think I have one of them on my filter... I have like 5 filters on my machine, and that is the first one..
 
Callipygous

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Dope setup! I built a scrog pvc diy myself(my plants are tall enough to reach it though lol), so I'll hit you up if I need any help with that. I know I'm asking a lot of questions but curious about your dwc there. How often do you have to change out the reservoir, is it more costly as you are using more nutrients?
 
Callipygous

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Those thick sturdy stalks seem to be a trait of plants grown in hydro, I wonder if it has to do with the substrate not being as solid as soil, so they make up for it in the stalk.
 
EventHorizan

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Callipygous said:
Dope setup! I built a scrog pvc diy myself(my plants are tall enough to reach it though lol), so I'll hit you up if I need any help with that. I know I'm asking a lot of questions but curious about your dwc there. How often do you have to change out the reservoir, is it more costly as you are using more nutrients?
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my system use 50 gal and I have it hooked straight to the ro filter. It can pull water when it needs it.. It has a auto top off valve so that it keeps the system filled to an exact level. I also have a ph controller that monitors my ph and adds calibration if needed. I change it out once in veg and once in flower. I have a chiller which maintains the water temp at 68, along with 350 watts of heating if it get to low.. Its quite the set up... These systems are so powerful I can only use half of the nutrients other types of systems and hand watering does.. So that is a big savings..
 
EventHorizan

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Callipygous said:
Those thick sturdy stalks seem to be a trait of plants grown in hydro, I wonder if it has to do with the substrate not being as solid as soil, so they make up for it in the stalk.
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no its from all the oxygen that is in the water... They just grow super highways when you supercharge them with Dissolved Oxygen..
 
Callipygous

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EventHorizan said:
no its from all the oxygen that is in the water... They just grow super highways when you supercharge them with Dissolved Oxygen..
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That's cool, I've wondered why this phenomenon was common. That makes sense though, seeing you're using a highly aerated water in the rhizosphere
 
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if i may, and i wonder if folks agree, i do think you get there more quickly and in many ways more efficiently with hydro...but it's all a function of the larger decisions we make about our overall systems: inside/outside/greenhouse, overall space and size of crop, number of plants, number of rotations...she's an amazing plant....
 
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