cemchris said:

Any type of anti siphon or vacuum break works. I get mine from the irrigation supply house. They thread into a fitting so just run a T off of my line. You can brew a home solution up just easier for me to run those when I needed to since I'm at the irrigation supply house quite often locally. They will leak water so just make its over a part of the table or rez to collect the runoff. What u said should work fine. Just armed with that going into it and watching it when you test the lines and know what to look for you will be fine. I made the mistake and went to bed and emptied my first 40 gal rez onto the table and overflowed my collection rez first day when I went to drip .

I keep my lines wet but salts, sterile and no organics. You shouldn't have a problem keeping them wet with bennies or PBP since you wont go more then 24 hrs without fresh coming through the line. I would just flush the lines after a round with H202 or Bleach to make sure to clean them out and avoid any problems over time.

1 dripper is fine if using 1/4 in up to 6in/slab. 1/8in I would def run redundant backups. Pressure can help with this some but 1/8 is notorious for clogging. Why I avoided it like the plague. 1/4 I have never had a problem with clogging (pure salts and with stuff like LK added). 1/8in is good if going with hole punch and 3/4-1in flex tubing you want to rip out and replace for more commercial settings or if you like that approach.

Saw a buddy for a little this weekend that was back in town doing some things. Told me on transplanting clones to blocks a good trick they have been doing in the warehouses is transplant to a dry cube with a soaked rooter. Watch them for the first 1-2 days and then water down the block. Says it avoids the 5 day stall on transplant and they basically get to eating right off the bat. Said to use caution since it's easier to kill a clone this way and just to watch them. Makes sense to me.

Lol if you want some floraflex's I got you. Have a grip sitting on a shelf.

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MIMedGrower said:

Why is 1 line to each block risky?

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Dirtbag said:

After a long time using soiless, I've decided to give rockwool hydroponics a whirl.

I'll start this thread by saying, I'm feeling like a beginner again and loving it. I dont know a whole lot about growing in wool and have zero experience running any true hydro setup, so this is going to be a huge learning experience for me. And on that, Any experienced hydro growers are welcome to chime in if you see me doing anything stupid I shouldnt be.

Plan is to stick to the same basic layout I have now, 16 plants in an 8x8' room, using 6" Hugo blocks, maybe on a unislab, or maybe just on it's own.. or a big mama 8 incher..
Itll be a DTW top feed setup. Ill use Botanicare PBP and drip clean, and run it sterile since Canada is silly strict about stuff, finding biocontrol like hydroguard is impossible without a license. Plan will be to veg for about 3 weeks then flip.

The room is currently being used as a drying room for my last crop, but in a week or so I'll install the irrigation manifold and distributors and get the place cleaned up.

The room empty looks like this currently. Plan is to use bilge pumps in the drain buckets below the gutter sections to pump the excess runoff directly outside. But have big enough buckets to hold a couple days of runoff just in case a pump dies.
Also note the benches are usually closer together under the lights when I've got plants in there.View attachment 902975

And tonight I completed job number 1.. Cuttings.
I have always used peat pucks or more recently rapid rooters for cloning, the one time I tried rockwool years ago i had a very high failure rate. I fucked it up somehow, but this time I did a ridiculous amount of research and harassed every hydro grower I know for tips, and took a ton of extras just incase. 40 cuttings, and I'll keep the best 16. View attachment 902976

Stay tuned..

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Dirtbag said:

Lol not a fan of the floaflex? I guess we all need to find out for ourselves haha.

Thanks again for the tips man. Much appreciated.

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25hewitt17 said:

Hey can someone tell me what the CL means on these packs of seeds please

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25hewitt17 said:

Hey can someone tell me what the CL means on these packs of seeds please

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cemchris said:

Who are those filters from?

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25hewitt17 said:

Hey can someone tell me what the CL means on these packs of seeds please

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Dirtbag said:

Made a bit of progress on the water system tonight. Got the pre filters and UV reaction chamber mounted, just need to plumb it over to the holding tank and run a line of PVC from the top of the UV light down to a hose bib. Once this is finished up I'll work on getting the irrigation line installed. Also need to redirect my dehu runoff hose over to the holding tank rather than the resivoir where it is now, you can see it just below the UV chamber.

Good times.

Also for anyone curious, No.. those two outlet boxes are not live lol. They're my backup power outlets connected to my generator. And the water line wont be u der pressure anyway unless I turn the pump on to fill the res. It's all safe.
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AtomicRoostr said:

This reminds me of the days i would build fish filters for the LFS. Looks like fun.

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Aqua Man said:

Yeah to be honest a sump or refugium would be perfect for this if running a live system.

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Dirtbag said:

Never heard of a refugium.. But I will be running it live, at least at first to see how I like it. I have a 210L holding tank as the main water supply with a pump in it that sends water through the filters into the res which will be kept live with bacillus strains.

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