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I have a dwc set up with 5 gallon buckets, im trying to determine how often i should change my resevoir, and when to top up. any help with this is greatly appreciated.
U need some help buddy,, I help you..I have a dwc set up with 5 gallon buckets, im trying to determine how often i should change my resevoir, and when to top up. any help with this is greatly appreciated.
that is what i said but my friend and the people at the hyroponic store said these nuts are desgined for farm water like mine, so idk what to tell you, ive given you the same info i gave them and ive exhausted my brain on this already to many times trying to figure it out for myself which is ive turned to here
This is expensive! Unless you just buy a t5 and some ffof soil and feed tea lolfuck i was hoping to avoid spending money i dont have, oh well guess ill rework the budget and make a snackrifice so i can grow my own meds
I hear you brother!!no just a seriously tight budget, i got sick awhile aback luckily i was smart and put money away but i only have so much to work with till im cleared to go back to work, and at this rate.......yeah im looking for a new job already
lol i dont know! I think you can.. Go take a ppm reading of it!! This turned out to be a good conversation.. good job homie, now go get us the answer! All you have to do is get a ppm reading.. I think ph will be 7.. check it too, and let me know!how about rain water, i have an excessive amount of that stuf
Well we are gonna find out :)all i have to do is put some kind of pail outside and catch some rain water, its pissing here at the moment but i will get us the answer, just dont hear of to many people doing it, least i havent
I got my money on it will work!Well we are gonna find out :)
it is illegal so dont get caught lol!!!! fed offense :cry::cry::cry:all i have to do is put some kind of pail outside and catch some rain water, its pissing here at the moment but i will get us the answer, just dont hear of to many people doing it, least i havent
lol ok then!i have nothing to worry about in that department i have enough excuses for why id be testing water, say 3 or 4 thousand fruit bearing plants all with different needs hahaha also i have to restart the cats were trying to drink from the water in the pail i set out and fell in lol
Not bad! Pretty decent plan! Do u just use the 3 part, or do you use the rest of the GH line in the feed schedule?I don't know if I can help, but, here's what I do:
I have a six 5-gal bucket RDWC system with a 40-gal res(only uses about 20-gal in the res), The only time I change the res is when I'm changing nutrient ratios or I've gone beyond 6 weeks without a change. Ive read so many different opinions about when to change the res. I've read everything from "I change the res twice a week" to "I never change my res except between grows". so what works for me is about 3 changes for the whole grow cycle. when I top off, I usually just top with tap water. when the EC drops, I add nutes to keep the EC level where I want it for the appropriate grow phase.
example:
my tap water is .45 ec or 225 on the .5 ppm scale
I use the GH 3 part flora series (gro, micro, bloom)
1. for the first 3 weeks of veg I use(on the current grow) 3g:2m:1b at a 1.0 ec or 500ppm (very light on the nutes)
2. after 3 weeks, I bump up the nutes to 1.4ec (700 ppm)
3. at the 6 week mark(start of bloom, light cycle change), I change the res and start with a 1g:1m:1b ration at around 1.6 ec (800ppm), only for 2 weeks.
4. at the 8 week mark(two weeke into bloom), I start using a 1g:2m:3b to increase my ec to 2.0ec (1000 ppm)
5. at week 12 (6 weeks into bloom) I change res and and add add 1g:2m:3b to get back to my 2.0ec (1000ppm)
6. roughly 2 weeks before I think I want to harvest, I stop adding any nutes and just keep topping off with just water.
note 1: I always top with just water and adjust the nutes after topping off the res.
note 2: when I change the res, I'm never empting the whole system, when the res is empty, the buckets still half full.
note 3: I think this cycle, instead of just stopping the nutes on the last two weeks, I'm going to change the res with just water to help the plants use up the stored nutes in the leave more
note 4: keep in mind, I tend to run my nutes kind of light compared to others, but I haven't had an issue with staving plants yet. More nutes does not mean bigger plants, appropriate nutes means healthy plants };-)
I hope this helps a little };-)