Waterchiller vs waterfall

[bluter]

Not a fan of top feed, seen too many drown there plants with too much water

How does chiller vs waterfall make sense, top feed dosent cool the water

hey chris, do you top feed til they hit the water ?

i've never done a direct to reservoir dwc, and was thinking of modifying the system i built to switch to it once i get roots hitting the water. my understanding is top feed introduces more oxygen than direct to res. curious on your thoughts.

 

[TurboBucket]

You still have to hold the root ball somewhere usually a netpot with clay pebbles or rockwool. The plant won't just float in a bucket of water

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I've seen a few that have drowned roots in excessive top feed and running the rezz above the bottom of the net pots

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

Like have the tube running over the roots say every 5 hours for a few minutes.

A 5 minute air bath while changing pots apparently gives a spurt in growth to. Is everything I've learnt bad?

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I've never done top feed

I start in root riots, when I get good roots I drop into 3" net pots in hydrotron pebbles and make sure the bubbler bubbling hits the bottom of the net pot and up an inch or so

Not a fan of top feed

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Like have the tube running over the roots say every 5 hours for a few minutes.

A 5 minute air bath while changing pots apparently gives a spurt in growth to. Is everything I've learnt bad?

No

But real life is different than online....lol

Top feed for seedling and starts I could see, but then stopping makes my a lot more sense to me

My 1st DWC was a tree....lol...and I knew nothing about it beside what I learned from this site

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

Do u leave half the roots in air in week 5 or 6 of flower? Chris

 

[bluter]

I've seen a few that have drowned roots in excessive top feed and running the rezz above the bottom of the net pots

understood. i usually leave two to three inches airspace below the net pot, and i don't run continous feed ever.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Do u leave half the roots in air in week 5 or 6 of flower? Chris

Not intentionally...lol

But when they drink a gallon a day, it tends to happen, but I try to refill to my visual mark daily, or as needed

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

I'm going to use at start a umm 5 gal/ 21L bucket then come flower I'm " HOPING" to
transfer it to a 30L drum. I wanted a 12gal/40L drum but cant find 1

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Also
Be sure and get hydroguard and z7
They keep the goopies down in the water, goopies is a technical term...lol

Especially if heat is an issue. My water is always 76-80 deg and I've never had an issue yet

 

[Chris Scorpio]

My tree was in a 5gal bucket, I have two 12gal tubs and are just unmanageable, I won't do that again

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

I bought a 7 stage RO system and the whole line of CYCO Platinum xl series

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

Ahahahaha I've only seen about 5 people with decent grows from a 5 gal. But they thought their faliar was from root bound but some are saying its coz ther sir pump and airstones was to weak

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I bought a 7 stage RO system and the whole line of CYCO Platinum xl series

Does it have any enzyme killer, or goopies killer???

My 5 gal was far from root bound, it's pretty hard in hydro, they just stack up

Again, careful what u read

Find some info here, best growers around on 420mag

 

[bluter]

I bought a 7 stage RO system and the whole line of CYCO Platinum xl series

holy cow skullz how much did that set you back ? i traded a light for hydrologic stealth 100 system which is pretty basic but works well for my purposes.

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

Yes their 1 is just called Zyme I think

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

Over here it costed 600 I think and the whole line of cyco was just under 400 lol

 

[DRINKING SKULLZ]

But the cyco line bottles was only at 1L

 

[bluter]

what is the water like where you are ? here it is routinely over 700 ppm. doctors where i live expect everyone to have kidney stones by age 50 due to the water quality. i've had them twice...