This is a good system except the res in right in the middle where when your plants get big you can't really get to it. Also no water change could lead to high levels of salts. PPM is total particles, EC is the conductivity and you need both to determine what your talking about. PPM can drop and EC spike. Your setup and key points otherwise I found right on.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on RDWC. Hit the nail on the head with respect to how important the water temp, airration, ph and ppm. PPM and ph for people that have small res tanks is horrible thats another big factor. Great video. Oh and dehumidifying also a big one. Excellent video. Definitely professional.
I would love to try this style but my power goes out 2-3 times a year unfortunately (high winds), this style seems like a power outage would be catastrophic?
This has to be the best compilation of tips for dwc I've ever seen. DWC seems a little daunting but this looks pretty simplified to get you started. Sub very well deserved.
Proper nutrients is a key as well, hydroponics does not work well with organics, I've always heard clear nutrients are important. You don't want murky sludgy water. Good break down 👍
One quick thing that I see so many people do. If you move your water chiller out of the room your ac does not have to work as hard. You are just removing the heat from your water and recirculating it back into your water and room .
This is a grow room, not a tent.... there's no way that I'm going to drill holes in my wall to run a chiller outside the room when I have a propane burner making heat in the room... my minisplit is oversized for alot of reasons
High🎉 So excited to find you. We been growing in happy dirt. Im buying air stones. Im binge watching your content. Running general hydroponic and great white. My first auto. 🎉😊🎉😊. Grandma growing medicine. Thank you so much.
great video! So, if you do not change your water, how do you balance the nutes in your water? For example, If plants are drinking more N than P or K and you keep feeding the same mixture every week, aren't your NPK levels going to be out of whack?
Thank you for reflecting your Mastery...I am inspired to incorperate this knowlege in my next run. ...I have a 1st time diy ebb and flow ..Rockwill blocks...great info at a level you teach even a caveman like me!! greatness I see😇
A lot of good info!! I'm on my first RDWC run, wk 2 day 3 of flower plants are looking real good. I've been doing water changes every week we'll it kinda seems like a waste of water and nutrients I'm glad I ran across your video on resivor water, if the PH is stable I should be able to just mix up the top off res I have sitting next to the main resivor to the same PH an add it.watching your video is going to save me a lot of money in nutrients and water thanks for the Awesome help 👊
Greetings from Germany :-) Your system is really mega cool. I am now trying to rebuild it. How important is the pot size for DWC? I would like to have plants about 2 meters tall. What would be the minimum pot size for that? Is this just as important as for soil? Do you use a separate tank or is the whole system the tank?
Pot size isn't like soil, but you need a bigger volume for bigger plants... your main concern with bigger plants is avoiding roots clogging the pipes and causing floods... I did some videos in my 'builds' playlist on how I constructed this system...
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 I've already seen the video where you put it together. The problem is that I'm not allowed to have so many plants. Here in Germany, only 3 plants per person have been legal since April this year, so I need a few large plants rather than several small ones. I want to fill a 3 x 6 meter greenhouse later and I wanted to do that with 6 plants. How big would you choose the plant containers?
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 I think that's what I'm going to do. Is there a reason why you are using PVC pipes instead of PE pipes? I was thinking of using PE pipes with screw connections so that I can dismantle the setup in the fall.
How many water changes during a run do you do? I understand more water volume gives great stability, my system runs 40 gallon but I find myself doing water changes at minimum bi-weekly
I just top off.... new water when I transfer the plants in for the end of veg to the 21 day defoliation... then 1st water change around day 25 of flower to flower nutes.... thats about it until the flush
Hey bro, love the videos. Thanks for posting the free education. I'm just getting into growing and I'm planning my first hydro system. I really think I'm going with RDWC and a robust set up like you and a few other channels build. Question, do you use all food grade buckets? Is there a concern for BPAs or anything leeching into the plant, and if so, do we consume it if we smoke it?
I do use food grade,but the concern is only with cleanliness and longevity really... non food grade is just more porous, so it gives bad bacteria and things like that a better place to hide and makes it harder to sterilize.... best of luck on your grow!
Excellent video. And killer rig. What dosage do you use of Hydroguard considering you don’t change the water every week and start fresh with beneficial bacteria?
I have a bubble snake for making compost teas. I wonder how that would work instead of air stones. I just ordered a set of buckets for my first hydro grow.
@@thewell-roundednovice8852that’s what I was thinking. What had me thinking about the bubble snake is because it’s pvc, round and lasts forever. It’ll also put the bubbles out around the walls of the bucket, thought that may be a benefit due to the roots settling in the middle. But if if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Appreciate the content.
Let her fluctuate! 5.8 is optimal however certain minerals are absorbed better in the lower 5s and low to mid 6s. I honestly stopped chasing 5.8 and my ladies were still on point.
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 Btw thx for the fem seed video. Maybe i make some in the future and sell them. If its get legalized here i can just drive in 1 hour to the netherlands and can get clones there and even make seed to sell maybe :D
To get plants big enough to flower in those areas it takes around 2 months veg.... then however long flower takes... around 5 months total, or a little less
Bro, do you have free electricity? If not you need to test Trichoderma Harzianum. I`m using Trianum-P in rdwc and no need a chiller, dehumidifier etc. anymore.
This is a good system except the res in right in the middle where when your plants get big you can't really get to it. Also no water change could lead to high levels of salts. PPM is total particles, EC is the conductivity and you need both to determine what your talking about. PPM can drop and EC spike. Your setup and key points otherwise I found right on.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on RDWC.
Hit the nail on the head with respect to how important the water temp, airration, ph and ppm. PPM and ph for people that have small res tanks is horrible thats another big factor. Great video. Oh and dehumidifying also a big one. Excellent video. Definitely professional.
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I know a guy that doesnt pay much attention to water temps. had a few mold problems in his days.
I would love to try this style but my power goes out 2-3 times a year unfortunately (high winds), this style seems like a power outage would be catastrophic?
This has to be the best compilation of tips for dwc I've ever seen. DWC seems a little daunting but this looks pretty simplified to get you started. Sub very well deserved.
@@svrsxlt thanks!👊
Do you change your water when you flip to flower or do you just gradually change them when you adjust the water and nutrients
I only do 2 changes.... around day 23 of Flower to change to flower nutrients and then at the end for the flush
Proper nutrients is a key as well, hydroponics does not work well with organics, I've always heard clear nutrients are important. You don't want murky sludgy water. Good break down 👍
Agreed... i use gh for that reason(clean and not gunky)
I grew some good shit with floranova in rdwc. Only stopped using it because of cost
So are all the buckets connected together so it basically one big reservoir? How do the pipes under the gray buckets work?
I did a video on how this system all works togather... yes it's RDWC... check my 'builds' playlist and you'll see how and why I did everything
Man. A cooler isn‘t really an option for a homegrow environment with 1-2 buckets. I guess this video isn’t really aimed at me :(
One quick thing that I see so many people do. If you move your water chiller out of the room your ac does not have to work as hard. You are just removing the heat from your water and recirculating it back into your water and room .
This is a grow room, not a tent.... there's no way that I'm going to drill holes in my wall to run a chiller outside the room when I have a propane burner making heat in the room... my minisplit is oversized for alot of reasons
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 I mounted my chiller outside and it makes a big difference.
@@seawatchmakers 👍
70 /30 ...70% water 30%oxygen bubbles....flip that for soil..coco..peat..!
Thanks for these tips. I just started to grow in hydro and this video helped
Good luck.... build something cheap the first run... then once you know what you like, build something that will last
High🎉
So excited to find you. We been growing in happy dirt. Im buying air stones. Im binge watching your content. Running general hydroponic and great white. My first auto. 🎉😊🎉😊. Grandma growing medicine. Thank you so much.
Nice! Best of luck with all your new grow trials!
Great video! I'm a novice. Is that a propane tank I see? If so, what for?
@alansmart6588 yes... propane for the co2 burner
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 Thanks!
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Nothing about this is novice, its like a guy in a Bugatti saying he is a novice car driver. Nice setup though, like you gotta say wow, not novice.
great video! So, if you do not change your water, how do you balance the nutes in your water? For example, If plants are drinking more N than P or K and you keep feeding the same mixture every week, aren't your NPK levels going to be out of whack?
Seems to go fine.. so far so good
Precisely.. Years back I had a plant crush my lid and net pot falling into the bucket .
A support system is critical.
That was an awesome vid very informative I always luv seeing ur setup its Soo nice cheers growmie
Thanks! And happy holidays!
Thank you for reflecting your Mastery...I am inspired to incorperate this knowlege in my next run. ...I have a 1st time diy ebb and flow ..Rockwill blocks...great info at a level you teach even a caveman like me!! greatness I see😇
Best of luck on your run! 👊👊👊
A lot of good info!! I'm on my first RDWC run, wk 2 day 3 of flower plants are looking real good. I've been doing water changes every week we'll it kinda seems like a waste of water and nutrients I'm glad I ran across your video on resivor water, if the PH is stable I should be able to just mix up the top off res I have sitting next to the main resivor to the same PH an add it.watching your video is going to save me a lot of money in nutrients and water thanks for the Awesome help 👊
Good luck!
What a nice dog 🙂
@wildtrails5307 thanks!
Greetings from Germany :-) Your system is really mega cool. I am now trying to rebuild it. How important is the pot size for DWC? I would like to have plants about 2 meters tall. What would be the minimum pot size for that? Is this just as important as for soil? Do you use a separate tank or is the whole system the tank?
Pot size isn't like soil, but you need a bigger volume for bigger plants... your main concern with bigger plants is avoiding roots clogging the pipes and causing floods... I did some videos in my 'builds' playlist on how I constructed this system...
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 I've already seen the video where you put it together. The problem is that I'm not allowed to have so many plants. Here in Germany, only 3 plants per person have been legal since April this year, so I need a few large plants rather than several small ones. I want to fill a 3 x 6 meter greenhouse later and I wanted to do that with 6 plants. How big would you choose the plant containers?
@SuperArgman there's no downdlside to having bigger containers.. I would use the size containers that I have(20 gallon)...
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 I think that's what I'm going to do. Is there a reason why you are using PVC pipes instead of PE pipes? I was thinking of using PE pipes with screw connections so that I can dismantle the setup in the fall.
@SuperArgman I don't know PE.... pvc is the cheapest and easiest for me
Only the Best Growers wear Flip Flops 😂🌼
Agreed
I'm working on making my build now and this video gave me some good things to think about. thanks!
@@J_Quinn_Creates 👊
If I had what you had I would get the Bugatti of air dispersion, I can’t recall the name, but I would research that.
Air dispersion?
How many water changes during a run do you do? I understand more water volume gives great stability, my system runs 40 gallon but I find myself doing water changes at minimum bi-weekly
I just top off.... new water when I transfer the plants in for the end of veg to the 21 day defoliation... then 1st water change around day 25 of flower to flower nutes.... thats about it until the flush
Hey bro, love the videos. Thanks for posting the free education. I'm just getting into growing and I'm planning my first hydro system. I really think I'm going with RDWC and a robust set up like you and a few other channels build. Question, do you use all food grade buckets? Is there a concern for BPAs or anything leeching into the plant, and if so, do we consume it if we smoke it?
I do use food grade,but the concern is only with cleanliness and longevity really... non food grade is just more porous, so it gives bad bacteria and things like that a better place to hide and makes it harder to sterilize.... best of luck on your grow!
Excellent video. And killer rig.
What dosage do you use of Hydroguard considering you don’t change the water every week and start fresh with beneficial bacteria?
2ml/ gallon
Great job of explaining the important Keys to success! Awesome setup too, very impressive! Nice doggy too!
Thanks!
Love your video's my friend... soooo, at what point do you put your plants in your system ?
When I get the old ones out of the way...
I have a bubble snake for making compost teas. I wonder how that would work instead of air stones. I just ordered a set of buckets for my first hydro grow.
I'm guessing stones are better since they make smaller bubbles which make the water higher in dissolved oxygen
@@thewell-roundednovice8852that’s what I was thinking. What had me thinking about the bubble snake is because it’s pvc, round and lasts forever. It’ll also put the bubbles out around the walls of the bucket, thought that may be a benefit due to the roots settling in the middle. But if if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Appreciate the content.
Awesome video. I dont want to spend more money, but i know i gotta. 😂
Check out the 'top-fed' coco-perlite videos.... in my playlists... its a great way to get into hydro really cheap and easy
Been doing rdwc (undercurrent) for 10 years and this man is spot on. Very well planned and executed sir
Thanks! I though about what I was going to say for a while before I made this video
Too much oxygen, look up the research papers.
Of course... of course
Man I wanna revisit rdwc. Had ph swings running uc roots fought slight root rot
Takes a run or 2 to get a system dialed in... then they run themselves when you know what to expect
Can you share a list of all of the components in your system? It looks awesome and I would like to integrate some of it into my setup. Thanks
Check out the 'builds' playlist
Thank you
@@thewell-roundednovice8852
Great info. And nice setup, Doc 🤘
Thanks!
fking awesome bro !!!!!!!
Great info. And nice setup, Doc 🤘
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Awesome video Bro. Well explained and spot on. I even picked up a tip. I generally target 5.8 ph throughout. I am gonna bump it up during flower.
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Let her fluctuate! 5.8 is optimal however certain minerals are absorbed better in the lower 5s and low to mid 6s. I honestly stopped chasing 5.8 and my ladies were still on point.
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its chop day today for me lol. merry christmas nov and fam!
I'll be trimming all day! Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
dude, youve got such a dope setup its so clean and simple
Thanks! 👊
Where did you get those 3 way fitting for the trellis
You can check out my 'Building out the grow room' video in my 'builds' playlist,,,, but it's all 3/4" emt pipe with "MakerPipe" fittings
Awesome room. If they leagalize it in germany i want to build somthing similar. We will be might allowed to grow 3 plants :D
Hopefully they will!
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 Btw thx for the fem seed video. Maybe i make some in the future and sell them. If its get legalized here i can just drive in 1 hour to the netherlands and can get clones there and even make seed to sell maybe :D
@@TheBaerserka nice
I love the way your setup is structured.
Thanks!
Great Video! 🤙🏻
Thanks!
dwc king!
Haha
what are you total times for runs? from start to fin? awesome videos!
To get plants big enough to flower in those areas it takes around 2 months veg.... then however long flower takes... around 5 months total, or a little less
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 thank you for the quick reply! and what was the total dry weight from a single plant? :)
@@gnarlykill6373 at least a couple ounces
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 ounces ?????? i would have thought pounds bro 🤣😂😅
Felices
fiestas 😋🚣
Et tu tambien, mi amigo!
Nice man looks good 👍🏽
Thanks!
@@thewell-roundednovice8852 anytime 👍🏽
Bro, do you have free electricity? If not you need to test Trichoderma Harzianum. I`m using Trianum-P in rdwc and no need a chiller, dehumidifier etc. anymore.
Electricity is a huge expense.... im inclined to invest in solar soon
I hope you mean 68 fahrenheit? and not degrees? 68f is about 20degrees which would make sense... (at about 5:08) Otherwise, very educational video!
Yep... 68° F.... the education system definitely let me down(I wish I operated in metric)
They still say degrees though