Outdoor dwc

I'm not hijacking your thread but I want to show you what you can do with outdoor DWC. 5 plants, all on my deck. Never move them. I have to top off the reservoirs at least once a day. Once August is here it will be twice a day. Makes adding nutes simple though, just top off and add. You can see a couple DWC melons and my autoflowers too. If you need any advice I'll be happy to help.

The strains are from right to left (biggest plant is the DJs gold its7 feet counting the pot)

DJs gold
Chocolate mint OG
Champagne Kush
Green crack
G13 C99

Like the OP I use bricks on top of the buckets for weight since they get really top heavy and can topple

Outdoorhydro said:

Still growing and still too warm. The hole I have dug for this to sit in is in a raised bed and I believe raised beds are a few degrees warmer than if I dug down deeper.

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I wouldn't worry too much about the temps, I never do and have had great success with outside DWC. i had some algae issues and the plants seemed a little smaller than normal but I'm not really sure that was the cause. I'd avoid peroxide if it were me.

I took off a bunch of giant Shader leaves and sprayed it with a mildew spray, that's why it's white ish. Good growth overall.
Roots and definitely looking better than they were before.
I just built a greenhouse its going to be finished off in there and I'm digging the hole to place bucket in. I've switched to maxibloom by General Hydroponics and terpenoids booster by nutriplus.

Looking happier.

Nice. That plant has grown a ton.

I just read through this thread. Pretty fucking impressive, dude. Beautiful plant!

What kinda climate you outdoor dwc guys in?

This is the kinda crap i deal with in late june- july...and yes it feels like that lol.

PopeyeSpinach said:

What kinda climate you outdoor dwc guys in?

This is the kinda crap i deal with in late june- july...and yes it feels like that lol.
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I'm an hour south of Toronto Canada. Eh

Ahh much more mild there lol

I have always wanted to do a outdoor DWC with my Rainforest 66. Looks like a nice project!

The only way i think i could do it here would be to do RDWC. Keep a Reservoir in my basement and run the supply and return lines buried underground out to where the grow area would be.

I would probably need a chiller.

It would also require me doing some digging and probably coring two holes in my foundation wall. all of which I know how to do, and have access to the tools and equipment to do so.
Reservoir changes would be a bitch and it would probably take alot of nutrients due to the size of the system, ALOT of liters moving around..

Nothing soon, but its a someday possibility once laws change here.

Ya see^^^ ive barely thought about it lol

I think the best system would be to use a very large Chiller in rdwc. A much cheaper option, but more elaborate, would be to use a small used chest freezer and run a large copper coil through it and run the water through that copper coil.
There are several problems that arise of which I think one of the worst would be that it is heating as it goes through the system and Cooling before it goes back through. This would cause fluctuation in the pH and stem a lot of other problems from that.

Not if you bury your supply and return lines deep enough. I could bury mine 4- 5 ft deep if I wanted to as my back yard is 8 feet higher than my basement floor. Hence the comment i made about coring holes for supply and return lines.

Once you get down that deep it's going to be the same temperature year-round

I should have secured the electrical lines running to the greenhouse. My dog must have knocked the plug out and my air pump turned off. It's been about a week since, branches cut, newts changed, we're back in action.

I'm getting ready to try some outdoor hydro. I won't be doing dwc, but rather setting up some Home Depot totes for a Kratky method setup. You've shown dwc can work, now I want to experiment.

Looking good.

If these plants weren't so finicky I could turn a giant waterfall feature I have under construction on my property into a giant Hydroponics system. But it will get all kinds of Rainwater in the reservoir every time it rains, it prob get run off from the yard too...

Already have all kinds of 1" and 2" lines ran through it.

There will be soil grows behind it though, coming 2019 or 2020

Nice work, great looking plants. Here's a shot of mine today. Tallest is 8 feet, shortest 6.

Looking forward to see my Champagne Kush flowering in your garden, very nice looking report.

Here's pics taken today
First pic DJs gold
Second pic chocolate mint OG
Third pic Champagne Kush
Fourth G13
Fifth Green Crack