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Supp all been running around here long enuff figured i should start a grow of what i currently have growing on instead of jumping around from to other peeps thread maybe i can get a lil help and keep it organized to my journal..
Anyhow briefly heres my flower pad at any given time i can be running up to 5x1k considering i have everything dialed in with enuff veg and healthy.
Built my rdwc rig after building a couple Waterfarms for my buddy and took the basic bucket idea from there and incorprated it with a couple ideas i seen around includeing UC and other peoples ideas.
Anyhow mine sits flush.
Whats shown is a 4 plant single bucket set-up with a controller bucket used for mixing nutes and remote for my chiller i have set-up to an adjacent room to keep the heat from the chiller out.
Only revisions ive made from the picture is the middle tubeing/drainback or equalizer pipe is all 1inch instead of the 3/4 inch that clogged up when hydroton was pulled into the drainback tubeing id reccomend anyone that builds one of these with this idea to use as big of pipe or tubeing that u posibbly can i have used 1.5" that seated and sealed well in another build for my buddy but found anything more like say the 2 inch is pretty much a pain in the ass to get to seal without leaks on the rounded bucket..
The outside 3/4 inch push line was setup at 4inches to center.
The middle equalizer tube is set at 2inches to center.
The controller bucket intake for the equalizer tube was dropped as low as i could to allow for gravity feed.
The contoller buckets pull and push line where also set-up at 2 inches on center.
Why push thru the buckets all the way back go the controller? Simply because if u dont your pumps going to drain your controller bucket faster than gravity can feed it..
Anyhow i have a single 264ecoplus pump pushing water into the buckets thru the loop back into the controller bucket.
The middle tube or drainback/equalizer tube was put in to equalize and disperse the water between buckets while makeing it possible to keep same water level in the buckets without flooding them thru the loop.
I have air lines pumping air to each plant bucket site.
Think that just about covers my rig i can more thoroughly explain my Rig if anyone has any questions feel free to ask ive been working this rig for a couple years now and pretty much have all the kinx worked out..
Heres a pic its pretty much self expanatory.
Anyhow briefly heres my flower pad at any given time i can be running up to 5x1k considering i have everything dialed in with enuff veg and healthy.
Built my rdwc rig after building a couple Waterfarms for my buddy and took the basic bucket idea from there and incorprated it with a couple ideas i seen around includeing UC and other peoples ideas.
Anyhow mine sits flush.
Whats shown is a 4 plant single bucket set-up with a controller bucket used for mixing nutes and remote for my chiller i have set-up to an adjacent room to keep the heat from the chiller out.
Only revisions ive made from the picture is the middle tubeing/drainback or equalizer pipe is all 1inch instead of the 3/4 inch that clogged up when hydroton was pulled into the drainback tubeing id reccomend anyone that builds one of these with this idea to use as big of pipe or tubeing that u posibbly can i have used 1.5" that seated and sealed well in another build for my buddy but found anything more like say the 2 inch is pretty much a pain in the ass to get to seal without leaks on the rounded bucket..
The outside 3/4 inch push line was setup at 4inches to center.
The middle equalizer tube is set at 2inches to center.
The controller bucket intake for the equalizer tube was dropped as low as i could to allow for gravity feed.
The contoller buckets pull and push line where also set-up at 2 inches on center.
Why push thru the buckets all the way back go the controller? Simply because if u dont your pumps going to drain your controller bucket faster than gravity can feed it..
Anyhow i have a single 264ecoplus pump pushing water into the buckets thru the loop back into the controller bucket.
The middle tube or drainback/equalizer tube was put in to equalize and disperse the water between buckets while makeing it possible to keep same water level in the buckets without flooding them thru the loop.
I have air lines pumping air to each plant bucket site.
Think that just about covers my rig i can more thoroughly explain my Rig if anyone has any questions feel free to ask ive been working this rig for a couple years now and pretty much have all the kinx worked out..
Heres a pic its pretty much self expanatory.