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Grand Puba(Purple Widow x 96' Bubba Kush)
How to make a simple DWC System for your mothers.
This is going to be a quick guide on how to make a simple, yet effective, 5 gallon bucket system for your future mother plants. I started using hydro to do mothers' for the fallowing reasons:
1. No Soil = Less chance of bugs
2. Hydro is alot more forgiving
3. Being able to adjust the nutrient uptake of the mother plant.
Step one is buying your equipment.This is what you'll need to make this bucket:
Next your going to want to get your tools. For this you'll need a 3 inch Hole Saw, Drill and .5 inch Drill Bit.
First (I)You cut the hole in the lid using your drill and 3 inch Hole Saw.
Then you tap a hole into the bucket, just below the lid. I take out the handle and use hole for the handle as a guide for the actual hole like this:
At this point your bucket should look like this:
Next your going to want to set up your pump in its new home. One thing that is important is that you have your air pump at a higher level then your water. This is to keep any water from getting into your stone and air lines. This is not a priority, however it is a big must in my book. Connect your air line, don not plug your pump in just yet. Then take your stone and place it at the bottom of the bucket. some stones will not stay put, so 1 thing to do is buy some suction cups and attach the to the bottom of the stone. to keep them in place. I did not have to do this, but it will work effectively.
Next pop your new mom in the bucket:
This is the results you should get at the bottom of your bucket once the air pump, stone and line are hooked up and are on:
Here are the results of A mother plant after 1 month under 4 CFL's:
March 1,2010
March 31,2010
In conclusion, I just hope this helps out plenty of you to build this simple, cheap & effective system to produce any amount of cuttings. And this growth would and can be increased by simply increasing lighting or switching out to HID. This was just an experiment that came out sucessful, and has completely changed the way I grow my mother plants. I hope ya'll get the same results and have bountiful harvest.
THE BUTCHER
Great post Butcher but those pails with built-in net pots have been have been available in basic black here in Canukistan for at least a decade. $14.99 was the last price I saw a few years ago. You still have to install your own air-stone and line tho. The set-up in your post is spot on keeping that air-line hole above the high water mark. No chance of leaks that way and a recommendation I heartily endorse!
A decade ago DWC was scoffed at by even the pros of the day but is now embraced as one of the most productive and vigorous grow methods for the serious home grower and even many commercial growers.
So much easier than other methods IMO using spray nozzles and massive pumping power to achieve the same results.
Each to their own I guess and whatever floats one's boat is fine by me!
They have them at my buddies dro store too. the buckets are 5 and the lids' were 3 I think.. hes got lids with holes precut as well in various sizes. Its would have came out to about that much. + I like the whole DIY thing better anyways. And a big plus is 420Mag just opened up on the Do It Yourself forum, there is a ton of great new info on anything and everything in there for all the DIY folks. And anything that you cant get at your local store you can just order it from our 420 Magazine - Sponsors.(PLUG
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is written in stone. So in all things are really meshing together well. The time studying the laws, school, growing, becoming grow support for 420mag and the support of wifey has all fallen in the same line, all this was my clue in what I should be doing in life.
