I’ve got my 5gallon bucket with two air stones in the bottom, the top has been made and sits about 1" above the water. Feeding General hydroponics flora-trio with cal-mag then topped off with Botanicare hydroguard. Blue dream fem will be the strain I continually grow from this setup. Two 600w MH/HPS lights; the room has a exhaust at the top of the room and stays at 30C° with the lights on and 23C° while the lights are off, humidity starts in between 30% and 55%. Will be scrogging for quite a while as long as possible anyway, hoping for 2 months. Vegging so long because my goal is 1lbs per grow (1 plant).
What’s next on the list?
What kind of equipment successfully works for you guys?
A five gallon bucket will probably only hold 3 gallons of water which a one pound plant will suck down fast once its mature. This can lead to reservoir imbalances.
Allot of people here use totes instead of buckets so they can have a larger reservoir. Totes make things very easy.
If you have to stick with buckets you can do what I did to add more water which is here
This also allows you access to your reservoir without having to lift your plant up
Thanks! I sure didn’t think about that, those roots will get very big and will be drinking everything up within a few days. An imbalance is not what I need on my first Dwc! The link doesn’t show the instructional pictures on how to build it, I get the gist of what it’s getting at. Going to do some research on the whole thing.
Nice set up @Whyteboy1994
A larger tote would be highly suggested especially if you intend to fill that screen as full as I think you intend to. As @TDubWilly mentioned. She’s going to need a lot of water and nutrients and towards the end, she will be a hungry monster. Welcome to ILGM.
I was thinking starting with a clone the first time in hydro, I’ve got a sour diesel growing outside right now nice and healthy. She’s around 1 1/2 months at the moment. It was suppose to be an auto but it’s still vegging hard.
You will need a lil pump to pump water to the bucket with the plant in it… about 30 min every 5 hours so you don’t heat up the water…
The bucket with no plant in it is your control bucket , where you will check ph , ppm , add frozen water bottles if needed and instal recirculating pump…
As you can see , I pump water from the 5 gallon bucket to the 3 gallon bucket and all together the system holds 5 gallons of water and has 2 air stones in the plant bucket with two 2 liter frozen bottles in my control bucket if needed… that 5 gallons includes the 2 liter bottles… the pumps I use are lil fountain pumps that run 75 gph which I run 30 min every 5 hours … plenty of circulation…
I can put up more pics of needed…
I get my pumps from lowes for $19 bucks…
They have a built in filter and work like a charm… I’ll see if I have a pic…
Dangit… wrong pic again… hard to tell pics… using my stupid phone… those are my rdwc veg totes in the last pic… the pics above that are my clone overflow area…
