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I wanted to share my mini DoubleD inspired MPB veg system with ya'll in hopes of continued progress, communication and success for the DIY'ers in this forum.
I wanted a veg system as near to identical as possible to the MPB system by DD. So after some head scratchin' this is what I came up with. I hope my idea is welcomed.
It's nothin' too fancy, but completely RDWC DD stylie inspired:
I have black 5 gallon buckets with 10" net pots. Holes drilled in the manner DD describes for the MPB mini res, but in my mini veg bucket I use one 3/4 inch line out and one 1/2 inch line in. The 3/4" lines out are connected via a one inch diameter drilled hole in black 4 inch pvc that the 3/4" line fits nicely into. The 4 inch pipe gravity feeds back to the reservoir. For now I am using one of the 27 gallon tubs for my main res but will likely change to a larger one.
From the main res a 3/4 inch black poly line connected to a 633 GPH pump runs along the length of the 4 inch drain pipe and tees off to 1/2" at each bucket for water in.
A one way flow valve will be put at the beginning of this line and a tee will be put on either side of this valve and a ball valve will be connected here in a loop to the tees. (For draining when time to do res changes, the ball valve is always in the off position except when time to res change)
Also from the res connected to a 264 GPH pump is a 1/2 inch black poly line running the length of the 4 inch drain pipe to which 1/4 drip tubing in ran to each pot...2 lines per pot.
A 6 inch round air stone is to be added to the bottom of each bucket. Add a couple air stones to the main res also. And don't forget the res chiller. I have a 600 watt hps on a light rail above this set up.
This design with said water pumps will work for my 10 to 12 bucket set up. Playing with different water pump sizes will give the option to change the amount of buckets.
The layout is like this:
and a few pics of the assembly of one bucket:
This system takes up little more than 3 feet wide x 9 feet feet long, and if need be you can easily have a couple sets like this side by side with good walkways between them for maintenance.
More pics of the set in action as soon as I get the free time to tinker a little more and take more pics.
I hope this helps inspire and motivate! There are many ways of doing things and with this I in no way intend to reinvent the wheel, just showing what works in my space for me.
I probably left out a detail or three so feel free to chime in with questions or ideas that may help out.
Happy pharmin'~
I wanted a veg system as near to identical as possible to the MPB system by DD. So after some head scratchin' this is what I came up with. I hope my idea is welcomed.
It's nothin' too fancy, but completely RDWC DD stylie inspired:
I have black 5 gallon buckets with 10" net pots. Holes drilled in the manner DD describes for the MPB mini res, but in my mini veg bucket I use one 3/4 inch line out and one 1/2 inch line in. The 3/4" lines out are connected via a one inch diameter drilled hole in black 4 inch pvc that the 3/4" line fits nicely into. The 4 inch pipe gravity feeds back to the reservoir. For now I am using one of the 27 gallon tubs for my main res but will likely change to a larger one.
From the main res a 3/4 inch black poly line connected to a 633 GPH pump runs along the length of the 4 inch drain pipe and tees off to 1/2" at each bucket for water in.
A one way flow valve will be put at the beginning of this line and a tee will be put on either side of this valve and a ball valve will be connected here in a loop to the tees. (For draining when time to do res changes, the ball valve is always in the off position except when time to res change)
Also from the res connected to a 264 GPH pump is a 1/2 inch black poly line running the length of the 4 inch drain pipe to which 1/4 drip tubing in ran to each pot...2 lines per pot.
A 6 inch round air stone is to be added to the bottom of each bucket. Add a couple air stones to the main res also. And don't forget the res chiller. I have a 600 watt hps on a light rail above this set up.
This design with said water pumps will work for my 10 to 12 bucket set up. Playing with different water pump sizes will give the option to change the amount of buckets.
The layout is like this:
and a few pics of the assembly of one bucket:
This system takes up little more than 3 feet wide x 9 feet feet long, and if need be you can easily have a couple sets like this side by side with good walkways between them for maintenance.
More pics of the set in action as soon as I get the free time to tinker a little more and take more pics.
I hope this helps inspire and motivate! There are many ways of doing things and with this I in no way intend to reinvent the wheel, just showing what works in my space for me.
I probably left out a detail or three so feel free to chime in with questions or ideas that may help out.
Happy pharmin'~
