One thing I like when going through threads around here is seeing folks with well thought out precise plans, exacting techniques, and clean layouts - and offer it all up in a thread that makes you think 'Wow, I gotta try that'
This isn't going to be one of those threads
The floorspace is roughly 6x10, and until recently was ran with 2 staggered harvests, with most plants occupying 3g pots of pro-mix. the setup was essentially on auto-pilot until 2 things happened
1) I plopped a plant in a 5 gallon dwc bucket and not only did it fail to spontaneously combust, it did well enough that it made what I was doing with dirt look silly.
2) Spidermites pissed on my parade.
I noticed the evil bastards as one harvest had just been cleared from the room, and another was at 6 weeks - way too late to even contemplate what wonderful poisons I could introduce myself to on that batch. That left me with at least 3 weeks to get through that batch of flowering before I could shut the room down and demitify.
I also had a batch of large-ish plants in an aero setup vegging - they were due to be cut to make the next round, but with the inevitable shutdown figured in, they really had no purpose.
After finding myself standing next to those well vegged plants with a pair of scissors in my hand, preparing to introduce them to a trashbag, it occurred to me that the stack of net pot bucket lids I picked up for an as-yet-unplanned rdwc setup and these plants may be a match made in heaven.
The fact I have a room shutdown on the horizon, and that I want to try my hand at dwc on a larger scale than my first test inclined me towards just plowing thru one more grow before the shutdown.
In the best traditions of 'It Made Sense At The Time', I got 8 buckets, some uniseals, and hosed that shit up to a 27g res. Plunked a Mag9.5 into it, made a Home DePot PVC aisle manifold and ran drip rings to the buckets. The Whitewater LT-11 linear air pump came with a 6 output manifold - being either cheap, lazy, or both I opted to just put a splitter on two of the lines so it can feed 8 buckets.
Clear braided hose was all I could find to use for the drain/return lines, so getting baked and playing Arts & Crafts with hose and aluminum tape will have to do for this run
The 'subjects' getting their lanky on and their roots situated in a ghetto rdwc veg I tossed together. They got two floramite dousings and chilled out in this setup for a little over a week (I know, clear hose, bad ju-ju. I had it on hand, it only needed to run for a week, and I'll be fucked if I was going to consider Arts & Crafts again)
After getting their roots happily wound thru the hydroton, they got moved into the flowering room - 8 buckets, 1 400w per 4 buckets.
Two weeks later, with most of their stretch out of their system - and the other half of the room chopped down and cleared out...the fun begins. I turned the rows of buckets 90 degrees so they occupy the whole room, bowed the buckets out in a slightly more circular fashion, re hung the 400w's over each end...and hung a bare bulb 600w in the middle.
16 days of 12/12, 14 of which were spent w/ horizontal lighting
The next day, after a bit of time spent fiddling with the plants to get them half assed adjusted to both the 400w's above and the 600 beside them
Floor can fan/carbon filter ran to some ducting to keep things around the bulb from going all Easy Bake Oven on me. I also tossed in two plants in dirt in the middle - they were crosses I'd made that were unlucky enough to have landed on mitefest during their growth cycle. It was either chop them, or run them in this clusterfuck - curiosity won out.
7 days in this setup, 22 days 12/12
I think I could probably use this image to give those who defoliate nightmares. Or wet dreams, whichever works.
Again - I know this is a clusterfuck, but to be honest, I think it's why I'm enjoying this grow. I've never ran bare bulb, vert, indoor trees on this scope, and I have exactly 1 successful dwc grow under my belt - basically, I have no clue what the shit I'm doing, but it's fun. I've already decided that I'm essentially 'eating' this run (it's one thing for me to say 'that was sprayed with floramite, but it was weeks and weeks ago, it's fine to smoke' - I can make that call. Once it's out of my hands, tho - I have zero expectation that people that receive it will receive that information, too. I'm not saying anybody else is doing something wrong, I'm just saying I'm doing what feels right by me) so that adds another level of interest to the grow. Literally, nothing is on the line w/ this batch. I wouldn't be a happy person to walk into the room and see a wilted mass of death, but it wouldn't financially shit in my cereal bowl, either. I'm already planning on clearing $0.00 from it, so the 'step back, see what the hell happens' approach seems fitting.
This isn't going to be one of those threads
The floorspace is roughly 6x10, and until recently was ran with 2 staggered harvests, with most plants occupying 3g pots of pro-mix. the setup was essentially on auto-pilot until 2 things happened
1) I plopped a plant in a 5 gallon dwc bucket and not only did it fail to spontaneously combust, it did well enough that it made what I was doing with dirt look silly.
2) Spidermites pissed on my parade.
I noticed the evil bastards as one harvest had just been cleared from the room, and another was at 6 weeks - way too late to even contemplate what wonderful poisons I could introduce myself to on that batch. That left me with at least 3 weeks to get through that batch of flowering before I could shut the room down and demitify.
I also had a batch of large-ish plants in an aero setup vegging - they were due to be cut to make the next round, but with the inevitable shutdown figured in, they really had no purpose.
After finding myself standing next to those well vegged plants with a pair of scissors in my hand, preparing to introduce them to a trashbag, it occurred to me that the stack of net pot bucket lids I picked up for an as-yet-unplanned rdwc setup and these plants may be a match made in heaven.
The fact I have a room shutdown on the horizon, and that I want to try my hand at dwc on a larger scale than my first test inclined me towards just plowing thru one more grow before the shutdown.
In the best traditions of 'It Made Sense At The Time', I got 8 buckets, some uniseals, and hosed that shit up to a 27g res. Plunked a Mag9.5 into it, made a Home DePot PVC aisle manifold and ran drip rings to the buckets. The Whitewater LT-11 linear air pump came with a 6 output manifold - being either cheap, lazy, or both I opted to just put a splitter on two of the lines so it can feed 8 buckets.
Clear braided hose was all I could find to use for the drain/return lines, so getting baked and playing Arts & Crafts with hose and aluminum tape will have to do for this run
The 'subjects' getting their lanky on and their roots situated in a ghetto rdwc veg I tossed together. They got two floramite dousings and chilled out in this setup for a little over a week (I know, clear hose, bad ju-ju. I had it on hand, it only needed to run for a week, and I'll be fucked if I was going to consider Arts & Crafts again)
After getting their roots happily wound thru the hydroton, they got moved into the flowering room - 8 buckets, 1 400w per 4 buckets.
Two weeks later, with most of their stretch out of their system - and the other half of the room chopped down and cleared out...the fun begins. I turned the rows of buckets 90 degrees so they occupy the whole room, bowed the buckets out in a slightly more circular fashion, re hung the 400w's over each end...and hung a bare bulb 600w in the middle.
16 days of 12/12, 14 of which were spent w/ horizontal lighting
The next day, after a bit of time spent fiddling with the plants to get them half assed adjusted to both the 400w's above and the 600 beside them
Floor can fan/carbon filter ran to some ducting to keep things around the bulb from going all Easy Bake Oven on me. I also tossed in two plants in dirt in the middle - they were crosses I'd made that were unlucky enough to have landed on mitefest during their growth cycle. It was either chop them, or run them in this clusterfuck - curiosity won out.
7 days in this setup, 22 days 12/12
I think I could probably use this image to give those who defoliate nightmares. Or wet dreams, whichever works.
Again - I know this is a clusterfuck, but to be honest, I think it's why I'm enjoying this grow. I've never ran bare bulb, vert, indoor trees on this scope, and I have exactly 1 successful dwc grow under my belt - basically, I have no clue what the shit I'm doing, but it's fun. I've already decided that I'm essentially 'eating' this run (it's one thing for me to say 'that was sprayed with floramite, but it was weeks and weeks ago, it's fine to smoke' - I can make that call. Once it's out of my hands, tho - I have zero expectation that people that receive it will receive that information, too. I'm not saying anybody else is doing something wrong, I'm just saying I'm doing what feels right by me) so that adds another level of interest to the grow. Literally, nothing is on the line w/ this batch. I wouldn't be a happy person to walk into the room and see a wilted mass of death, but it wouldn't financially shit in my cereal bowl, either. I'm already planning on clearing $0.00 from it, so the 'step back, see what the hell happens' approach seems fitting.
,good luck with the grow dude i'll be tagging along .
