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We all want dwc performance with non-rdwc reliability.At least I do.Some systems want to take a shit. Others do not.And topdrip reliabilityWith less water consumption thanI can run organics nowI can veg fast enough to make trees practicalI could yank and transplant into more coco if neededI can do anything I want.I can REPOSITION PLANTS.I saidI CAN REPOSITION PLANTS.Platforms, casters, flexible tubing for feed and drain.What.I feel like a dopegrowing superhero sometimes.And you can too.
(reposted from the RDWC brown root problems???? thread)
Yes. I run them without liners. Get yourself a 2011 sunlight supply/ngw catalog, it is in there. They are so much better than drilling hundreds of holes in buckets.dankworth how u like the ez root pots, ive never seen em. ez root>smart pots?
I've been thinking of doing something very similar: take a shallower tote maybe 10 inches tall, cut a hole in the lid, with the intent of positioning a square root brand pot (so roots can come thru more easily) filled with chow into the hole.If you cut a hole in the lid of a 27 gal tote, and put a drain as low as you could, you would have like 1-1.5" of water at the bottom of the tote(swc)Then the roots could kick it in the shallow water layer too.
Slick idea with the lightweight filler in the bottom tub. I was hoping someone would see the opportunity to adapt their old rdwc system into a topdrip system that did not lose crops.I can run organics nowI can veg fast enough to make trees practicalI could yank and transplant into more coco if neededI can do anything I want.I can REPOSITION PLANTS.I saidI CAN REPOSITION PLANTS.Platforms, casters, flexible tubing for feed and drain.What.I feel like a dopegrowing superhero sometimes.And you can too.------"i can do anything, way up high ,its in the sky, my mufugin reading rainbow!!!!"but dank this is exactly what im working on right now. chow mix in a converted rwdc system i have everything but the hepa filter for the airstones, fucking bam thanks for that tid bit. but yeha i plan oeith double bucketing it or just using landscaping felt pushed in supported by some crushed water bottles. we will see but my prognosis is AWESOMENESS.
Great riff on the chow mix, Dankworth.
I have been wanting to run the chow for quite some time now myself; it is almost eery to here you talk about:
I've been thinking of doing something very similar: take a shallower tote maybe 10 inches tall, cut a hole in the lid, with the intent of positioning a square root brand pot (so roots can come thru more easily) filled with chow into the hole.
Then I'm also considering filling the entire tote with perlite or hydroton, this way you would have lower chamber of humid/moist medium for you roots to expand into. Also debating how high do I put the square root pot? All the way to the bottom of the tote? Or only five inches or so down resting on the perlite or hydroton? And where to put the drain (I think you may be right about as low as possible)?
One thing that has held me back from doing chow mix is not wanting to mix my own; for even a medium sized grow this would be very labor intensive. But now with gold label 80/20 things should be much easier.
I wonder if chow mix could be improved by taking out the coco and replacing it with fytocell or loose fill rockwool? One advantage would be that such a mix could come prepackaged, sealed and sterile eliminating worries about bugs that could come in coco.
Lastly, I gotta mention, I disagree about the need to run this type of system/mix drain to waste. I think the problem withe RDWC comes from the deep water part not the recirculating part. This is based on my having run coco perlite recirculating many times without issue.
Right now I am in coco/perlite draining to waste and using 75 to 90 gallons every day. In chow mix I would be using up even more; just based on experience I think it is unnecessary.
Anyway I can't wait to set this up and see how it preforms, maybe I'll do a grow log.
yeah, you get it deep buddy. Thanks for seeing the vision.yep im excited cant see how it wont work out, and the real beuty is if they dont like as you said just use em as a drain , simple. i like coco cause it gives time to not worry about my crops comin the way i want, and i got like 2 pallets of it. this test run will be using second run coco as well. really like to be able to re use, and w, the dtw and rwdc acting as my drain i can flush suoer easy and recharge.:)
It will sit next to bags of something with RAs or some shit in a warehouse shortly before it gets to you.Compressed coco is unlikely to need to be heat treated due to the treatment in receives during compression. Make sure to rinse it well though!
Interesting info dankworth!! Think I'll go with the 7gl one each tote. Don't know if I'll add tge airstones or not. How do you plan on cooloing the water sitting on the bottom? I thought your not recirculating . My room has a 3.5 ton a/c for my 11kw floors concrete so that could keep the water cold enough. Might just stay with the smart pots,still debating
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