JoseQuervo
New Member
Hey Guys.
I am in the process of switching over my flower tent from soil to a RDWC Bucket system. So far I have designed the system I think will work for me and gotten all the parts. Before I start setting it up I had a few questions I was hoping you folks could help me out with. I see a lot of people on here using them and hoping some people with experience could chime in.
For some background the flower tent is 8x8. It has 2 x 1000w air cooled lights on light rails. In the tent I have 2 x 3x6 flood trays on the floor. I was using to catch the run off from my soil grow. I plan to leave them in there. as they were expensive and I don't really have any place to store them. I plan on putting 2 independent systems in there. One on each side. I was planing on doing 12 buckets on each side with a control bucket and res for each side.
What I am wondering is:
I see in a lot of set ups that people have the water return coming from the pump going into the top of the bucket on the side. usually with a 1/2 hose and fitting. The guy at my local hydro shop was pretty instant that I should use a smaller emitter tube and a v-stake in each plant pouring water over medium. I can see how that would be helpful at first before the roots reach the water. but is it necessary? should I just have the water going into the side of the bucket like I see in most videos or set ups?
also:
I was planning on doing 12 buckets in the 3x6 area. The buckets will be pretty close side by side. I planned it this way because when I was growing in 3gal pots that's how I had it set up with 12 plants on each side. Would I maybe do better with less buckets and more space in between them and then do some time of SCROG set up. Do you guys think I would get more flowers with less plants and more screen, or more plants and less screen? I see some of the posts on here with one plant SCROG'd out so much I could use just 2 or 4 buckets and get them same coverage as the 12.
Thanks so much for any help. I want to start building the system up soon.
Here is a pic of the layout I planned.
I am in the process of switching over my flower tent from soil to a RDWC Bucket system. So far I have designed the system I think will work for me and gotten all the parts. Before I start setting it up I had a few questions I was hoping you folks could help me out with. I see a lot of people on here using them and hoping some people with experience could chime in.
For some background the flower tent is 8x8. It has 2 x 1000w air cooled lights on light rails. In the tent I have 2 x 3x6 flood trays on the floor. I was using to catch the run off from my soil grow. I plan to leave them in there. as they were expensive and I don't really have any place to store them. I plan on putting 2 independent systems in there. One on each side. I was planing on doing 12 buckets on each side with a control bucket and res for each side.
What I am wondering is:
I see in a lot of set ups that people have the water return coming from the pump going into the top of the bucket on the side. usually with a 1/2 hose and fitting. The guy at my local hydro shop was pretty instant that I should use a smaller emitter tube and a v-stake in each plant pouring water over medium. I can see how that would be helpful at first before the roots reach the water. but is it necessary? should I just have the water going into the side of the bucket like I see in most videos or set ups?
also:
I was planning on doing 12 buckets in the 3x6 area. The buckets will be pretty close side by side. I planned it this way because when I was growing in 3gal pots that's how I had it set up with 12 plants on each side. Would I maybe do better with less buckets and more space in between them and then do some time of SCROG set up. Do you guys think I would get more flowers with less plants and more screen, or more plants and less screen? I see some of the posts on here with one plant SCROG'd out so much I could use just 2 or 4 buckets and get them same coverage as the 12.
Thanks so much for any help. I want to start building the system up soon.
Here is a pic of the layout I planned.
