Build your own-DWC Bubbleponics,Drip System Cheap

UPDATE- TWO 18 Gallon Roughnecks hold all my plants now. One 5 inch airstone in each as you can see in the roots pics. 3 plants are 5 weeks and the other six plants are going into their 3rd week this Saturday. I am taking best care of the oldest three which all happened to be fems. The oldest will veg for 3 or four more weeks so 8 or 9 weeks of veg for them and 6 or 7 for the younger plants.

Great job Highlife...they are looking nice...love the root mass, nice and healthy

the roots are like a bowl of noodles when i put my fingers in them haha

man roots and plants look great. how big is your room? How often you change your res? And you don't check your ph daily? Only when you change res.

koolhand77 said:

man roots and plants look great. how big is your room? How often you change your res? And you don't check your ph daily? Only when you change res.

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My room is 2ft 10 inches by 3ft 7 inches and it is like 15ft tall. Truthfully I never have checked the ph. I only add more water if the nutes are too strong and have never had problems where i needed to read the PH. I will change my reservoirs to just water when it is a week before flowering time so then I can just add in the bloom nutes to the water when it is time to flower. My 5 inch airstones help keep it clean along with no messy nutrients. I will usually add a gallon every 2 or 3 days to each reservoir i keep the levels really high then they go down fast then right back up because my plants are thirsty hoes!

nice setup I have half of the shit now all i need is the rubbermaid tub !

Highlife,

Are General Hydroponics Maxigro and MaxiBloom and koolbloom organic nutrients or inorganic nutrients? I am going to be using a lil bit of h202 and its not compatible w/ organic nutes. Just wanted to check before I purchase. Thanks man, ill be starting my grow journal once my clones root. Your DIY is awesome, keep growin' DANK!

They r NOT organic. you will be fine. I am using h202 to get rid of browning slime in my tank I really think to be caused by my ph up and down solution. In between res changes I only use a tiny bit.

thanks koolhand good lookin out, ill be picking these up today then.

Update- Cleaned Reservoirs wow what a tedious task to empty and clean two 18 gallon tubs but there was barely any residue thanks to maxigro powder ad the 5 inch airstones. I have trimmed and broke off so many leaves that are too low or dying these things are humongous. Fresh water and 1/4th tsp per gallon of maxibloom was added because I am going to put the plants in the dark for 24 hours to simulate the winter change then they will be on 12/12 lighting to flower and this is when I will add a bit of KoolBloom to my maxibloom mix. :0

Just look at the roots of this indica, (indicas have much bigger roots than any most sativas), This is the same plants roots shot from both sides. Wish i could hold it up and get a full pic of all the roots hanging, just need a third hand.



Here is from left to right, one indica-big roots above-, three sativas with chopped tops, two small hidden rooted clones, and one more indica on the rights end.I have 5 other plants in another 18 gallon rthat are all tall sativas.I also have 6 clones in a little bubblecloner I made as well.

wow unreal man very nice. I went into floweing 3 days ago. changed the res and left it just phed water For 24 hour darkness then added 1/2 maxi veg and 1/2 maxi bloom to equl 1 tsp for 1.5 gallon of h20. then today I topped off with 1/2 strenght maxi bloom and then going to change res couple days and go full strengh bloom. Plants recoverd nicely sick ass growth. After the 24hrs of darkness those ladies lifted up thier skirt an showed me nice white hairs. It was awesome.

nice grow aeroponics is the best for indoor IMO

beautiful setup love this post i will def give you rep on this, i was reading quite a while trying to find out what setup i should run this setup is by far the most easiest for me since i am building my setup in a closet the size of the closet would be (3 1/2 ft wide) (9 ft tall) and (depth is 2ft) im wondering if a 10 gal rough neck would be good enough to squeeze in my closet also would like to know how much nutes to add per gallon i get kind of confused when you were typing about the nutes you added you said you added 1/4th per gallon of maxibloom without concentrating on the ph what was your ph to begin with? With the maxi gro and maxi bloom i would have to add 1/4th of powder to every lb of water am i correct? how do you know how many lbs of water you have?
and also did you add 1/4th per gallon of maxigrow while veging? im new so bare with me i been up for 3 days trying to get all sorts of information which was mixed till i stumbled upon your thread. would you happen to have any pictures of the closet size you have your setup in so maybe i can get a idea of what i am going to do with mine it seems we have almost similar closet space yet yours is a little bigger thanks for taking your time to read my post.

so far what i purchased i will make a list
maxigro
maxibloom
hygrozyme
mylar
4 timers
3" pots ""might switch to 6''
rockwool
clay pelletes
ph up and down
ph tester
6'' air stone and 12 inch
bubble with heatmat for germinating

that is what i have so far until i get some more money to spend on my grow room i will be buying 400 or 600 watt hps cool tube then the rubbermaid. so what do you think about what i have so far should i buy more nutes or is this good enough?

funny, i just built one of these a few weeks ago, and found this post today. I have 2 air stones and 8 2.5 inch cups. you have 5 plants in yours? man 8 is gonna be pretty crowded. how high do you fill your res???

high life, i just started growing DWC im gona have a 5x5x8 flower room with a 1000watt Hps with 500cfm exaust fan air cooled hood without a inline fan at first i think im gona use 3 18 gallon tubs. 3 plants in each, Im gona need sum advice ill let u kno whats up. but heres the plants im gona use as mothers.. the burns are from baking soda.. i dono y i did that. but they are growing healthy now. Im using gh 3 part nutes 80ppm water the purp piss is at 480, gdp 280, grape ape 280
Purple Catpiss.

GDP

Grape ape

when first putting in a clone into the dwc, how often do you hand water the plants? Also how much water do you feed each individual clone? I know that i am not to get the rockwool cubes saturated.

So can someone tell me how often to hand feed my clones and how much water do i give each one? I have heard 2x daily in 12 hr intervals is best. What do u guys/gals say?

I raised purp piss to 600, grape ape to 400, n gdp 280 still. they are all doing good.. but when i have to top them off to normal ppm is it to strong for the plants? for example when it raises to 610 n i add more water.. does that mean i should make the nutes less strong.

TheGoods217 i just made sure the clones were rooted well b4 i transplanted them and i didnt hand water at all and the roots came out.

thanks salad, im still waiting on my clones to root.. its been 2 weeks w/ no luck, hopefully i get some soon..

highlife,

i have finally grown some roots out of 1 of my clones, now its time to start the DWC.

i have the same nutes as you and will be using a 10 gal rubbermaid for one plant. i know its prolly overkill but whatever, its at my house and ready to be used.

q's for you: what level nutes do i use? do i follow the instructions for cuttings, which is 1/4 teaspoon per gallon? or do i use about 30-40% of what they recommend? how exactly did you do yours? also i remember you saying that the nutes ph balances the water itself to the desired range. Was the water u were using distilled, tap, filtered etc.?

thanks, this is my first attempt at hydro, im soo stoked.