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Sweet! What size system?I ran a single plant dwc in a 4x6x10 room and vegged for about two months and really stacked does branches out.
Nutrients= Mega Crop, two parts as it is better for hydro
Enzyme= z7/z9 depending where you are located. two parts | I use it and have never had root rot or any problems in rez. Water change every month and i had to top the water every few days. specially in flower.
Here is a picture of the setup. This is after i removed the scrooge net.
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you can also run 4 plants in 5x5 as RDWC and setup your plumbing and everything to one rez and still use the same enzyme and or nutrients.
Any resources that you know of that would help shed some light on live systems?Buy hydroguard and study how live systems work. Avoid chillers and run at 72f water Temps.
Don't run a sterile system.. Thats my best advice lol..
I would also suggest a huge holding capacity. I use 5 gallon per plant veg and 10gallon per plant flower. My 6 plants sit in a rig that holds 75 gallons of nutrients, and I plan on putting a bigger res on one day. I'm thinking 10 gallon per plant veg and 20 gallon per plant flower.
I say thst because it's a very hands off approach. The less water your system holds the more adjustments you will have to make. I made 30 gallons of veg solution, never drained it, topped off with 30 gallons over 2 months. I never did a res change lol.. I transplant at 2 months take clones and veg them lol.. Very nice system I got.. My only regret is not having a bigger capacity. Right now I have to ph adjust and top off once a week. I wanna move that up to every two weeks. I got other shit to do. Hell I'm pretty sure I'm in my tent less than soil growers, which is rare for hydro.
Good luck bro bro
Yea hook that bucket up to a res and add a pump for circulation. Otherwise you will have long stringy roots and be in there twice a day during flower... Id say a res is a must for your sanity.Appreciate it
Any resources that you know of that would help shed some light on live systems?
Also, I’m only aiming for 1 plant since it’s my first DWC. Would you recommend just having an isolated bucket without a res that I refill manually? Or would it be easier to still have an external res which I can fill my plant up with?
Makes sense.Yea hook that bucket up to a res and add a pump for circulation. Otherwise you will have long stringy roots and be in there twice a day during flower... Id say a res is a must for your sanity.
As for research on live systems, just look around here with the search bar. Aquaman has a guide to fighting root rot pinned for live systems. That should help you grasp the concept.
Hello all,
I’m new to the community and I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the forum to learn as much as possible about Deep Water Culture (DWC).
I’m looking to start off my 2nd official grow with a single-site Recirculating DWC system in a 5x5 tent under a sf4000 light, fed with floraflex nutes (1 plant, maybe more if it is advisable). It is to my understanding that there are several pros and cons to DWC including:
Pros: bigger, better, faster growth
Cons:
-High maintenance (sickness, disease, etc.)
-Water temps (68-73°F?)
-Root rot (causes, symptoms?)
-Cleaning system regularly (how often?)
-Monitoring and responding to ppm changes
I guess my main questions are surrounding how to maintain a DWC system for a beginner. I want to do RDWC so I don’t have to refill buckets manually, but what about cleaning buckets/res during grow? Is it necessary? Also, what beneficial bacteria/products are needed to prevent root rot (hydro guard, great white, enzymes, etc.).
I would ideally have a 10-20 gallon res pumped by a 3L/min chiller into plant(s) with pvc pipe recirculating water back into res passively. What size individual buckets are most ideal for plant(s), especially if I’m looking to potentially do 1 plant in a 5x5 space?
pipe the chiller to a wort coil and chill your system with the wort coil. Don’t use a chiller inline.
Am I overcomplicating it? Sometimes a brutally honest opinion helps LOL. I’m not sure if I’d be better off just doing a basic bubble system DWC and refilling the bucket 1-3 times a week. Possibly debating doing a drip feed to waste system in coco too….
Any photos for reference or additional advice helps. Like I said, this is my first DWC experience, so any additional tips are nice to know. Happy growing to everyone, and I hope this post can help answer some general questions for new DWC growers.
Thanks
I think it's time we add auto top off feeders, them float things. I need to that's for sure. I'm just scared they won't work right and flood my grow room.you don’t have to clean during the grow and hydroguard / southern ag is the only organics / bacteria i
I only need to top my system off maybe once a week when it’s heavy feeding.
Makes sense.
How about size of feed lines, pump, and return lines?
Light leaks are also horrible for all systems live and sterile
because light allows bacteria growth...why?
Wouldn’t that be beneficial to the beneficial microbes?because light allows bacteria growth...
possibly. but the bad will almost certainly outweigh the good! I've been growing since '95 and have never added beneficial microbes. not purposefully anyway.Wouldn’t that be beneficial to the beneficial microbes?
Lol
"Harmful algal blooms, caused by massive and exceptional overgrowth of microalgae and cyanobacteria are root causes for pythium". The bacteria we add is not photosynthesis like cyanobacteria and fungus. So if we add light, the only thing it helps is all the fungus were trying to kill with our bacteria. Perhaps there is a cyanobacteria that eats pythium like Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens does, but atm we dont have it. So adding light will basically help everything but our cure for root rot lol it is very counterproductive.Wouldn’t that be beneficial to the beneficial microbes?
Lol
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