Man rdwc is easy! I just built my first setup and I'm horrible at diy stuff. If I can do it anyone can do it lol.
Grow Mediums DWC bucket size
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I don't think a spare rez would fit in my 2x2
Ahh no way to place a another bucket outside of tent? ;3
Yeah but I don't understand how to set those up then I'd have to cut through the tent
Doesn't your tent have holes in it already? I thought every tent already had holes pre cut. Well if you ever decide to take a look into it you should check this post out. I basically looked at that guide as a base for my build but then I changed it around since I only wanted to do 2 plants + res. Whole shit was literally as simple as buying some 3/4" tubing, some 1/2" tubing and a cheap water pump + cheap grommets. The most expensive thing is the damn tubing lol. I paid 30$ for 25 feet of tubing. I read that whole long ass thread before I started too.
Literally the only tool you need is a drill gun with some cheap ass hole saws to drill holes in buckets. I got a whole kit of hole saws from amazon for like 10 bucks lol. Cheap 10 gallon res that sit outside my tent that is almost the same size as a 5 gal bucket but just a little wider and taller.
Anyway, i'm rambling! I definittely think it's worth checking out but I totally can understand if you are apprehensive about jumping into diy. I was the same exact way, I almost didn't even go through with it because of it. I'd never built anything in my life before this.
Good luck man i'm sure you will get whatever you want to do all figured out. ;D
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I figured you would like that post lol, I guess maybe I have just been behind the times a little bit and people are not doing rez changes as often, I am hesitant to try it because like I said while it may keep your pH stable that is not ideally what you want, as I was explaining in another thread in an ideal situation in DWC you want your pH to swing from around 5.6 to 6.1 or 6.2. Reason being is that different nutrients are available at different pH levels, and while 5.8 or 5.9 hits in the sweet spot and you get virtually all of the nutes at that pH you are still on the low end of what say Mag needs, it really just starts being available to the plant at around 5.8 but the sweet spot for mag is really about 6.1 or 6.2 this is why I think so many folks have problems with CalMag deficiencies is because just as Calcium is becoming unavailable that is where Mag starts to become available, that in combination with LED's sucking all the CalMag out of them for some weird reason lol. Here is a chart that I am sure most of you have already seen but it helps me cause I can't ever remember what the dang levels are lol.
And as long as we are showing a little root porn here yall go, I am always down to show off an upskirt pic
No back to @dcat0921's original question, if you are doing things correctly in my opinion you want the biggest bucket you can get, as someone stated above(and from what you can see in my pic) that my 5 gallon buckets were too small and essentially root bound my plant. Because literally the entire bucket was a root ball, so that is why I am going to bump it up to either 7 or 10 gallon buckets on my next run. But Dcat you are doin such a hell of a job my friend, I am sending super good grow karma your way!
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errr Derek420 you better check it out man.. you roots man..the're eating the bucket dude!! pmsfl , man what a nightmare she must have been to feed lol better watch were you fkin sleep dude lol
errr Derek420 you better check it out man.. you roots man..the're eating the bucket dude!! pmsfl , man what a nightmare she must have been to feed lol better watch were you fkin sleep dude lol
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