5400 watt DWC Newbie Grow. Check It Out

Grew 1 indoor soil grow before 6 months ago, I said screw it I'm going to try DWC on a somewhat large scale. 54 buckets, 4000w flower room, 1400w veg room. I will answer questions as they come. I love feedback. Let me know what you think. Ill take and post pics every couple of days so you guys can watch them grow.

4-9-11 Setting up the Veg room.




4-12-11 Added 15 Perma-Frost clones to the buckets.


4-21-11 15 Perma-Frost clones look to be doing good.


4-23-11 Couple days Later


4-27-11 Moved Perma-Frost clones to flower room to finish vegging for about 2 more weeks then start flower



4-28-11 BubbaKush x NL, Blueberry x NL, Spongebob plants Transplanted from soil to buckets, they look sad.

looking good mate but id kill the person whos been setting off those party poppers in your grow room lol

Thats bad ass. Whats your electric bill like??

Looks good so far pwn! sub'd

BeaverHuntr said:

Thats bad ass. Whats your electric bill like??

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It runs me about $270 for the flower room per month thats everything on 12/12, 108w air pump, 2 440cfm inline fans, lights. my veg room has an open door policy so there is no ventilation in there, just circulating fans and 108w air pump. Veg room runs about $125 on 18/6. electricity rates in my area are anywhere from 12.5-13.5 cents per kw/h. So about $400 a month all together average.

400 a month. great deal. well worth it. great looking grow.

Thanks for the comments, here are some more pics of the plants and setup.

5-2-11 - PermaFrost 20 days into veg LST'd




Setup (Flower Room)

Heres my veg room plants and setup pics.

Bubbakush x NL, Blueberry x NL, Spongebob. Looks like all is bounching back after the transplant from soil.



Veg room setup

This set up looks nice. I love it ..

vary nice looks amazing

Looking good!! Where did you get your buckets from? if they are just regular 5 gallon buckets where do you get the lids? I think i'll rather have individual buckets instead of having my plants share a reservoir

ThaConspiracy said:

Looking good!! Where did you get your buckets from? if they are just regular 5 gallon buckets where do you get the lids? I think i'll rather have individual buckets instead of having my plants share a reservoir

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Do you have a hydro shop in your town?? They sell them there and the different bucket lids with net pots..

ThaConspiracy said:

Looking good!! Where did you get your buckets from? if they are just regular 5 gallon buckets where do you get the lids? I think i'll rather have individual buckets instead of having my plants share a reservoir

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They are 5 Gallon homer buckets from the home depot with black duct tape around them, $2.48 each bucket and like $1.00 in tape for each. The lids are also from home depot they are in the paint department, they were $0.98 each, no tape for those, they are already black but you have to cut them out to size to fit your netpots. The netpots are from a local hydro store and are 6", they were like $1.10 each. It cost about $5.56 to build each bucket. If you goto a hydro store and buy the already made black buckets with the pre built netlids, it cost about $9.00 a bucket. I was just building so many of them that it was too big of an extra expense to buy the pre-made stuff, Although im sure it is well worth it to buy them pre-made. I think after it was said an done I had a little over $300 into all of the buckets compared if I bought all 54 premade it would have been almost $500. A little bit of DIY work saved me about $200.

Heres some pics of the buckets .

That's what's up.. I already have like 6 of those orange buckets and only using 2 to store water in so all i need now is the lids and some black tape.. Thanks +rep

Dame thats alot watts lets how it goes how much do u wanna yield

Im new to hydro, if I could achieve 25-35oz per month(about 1.5-2 oz a plant) I would be excited. Once I can tune it in and get used to the fertilizers I'm using it should be capable of 45-50oz's a month. Im trying to perpetuate everything and harvest 18 plants every month. 5 week veg and I generally try to grow 8-9 week flowering plants. Im sure I'll be sorely disappointed and probably get .5-1 oz a plant which would still keep me and my patients in the green, thats for sure.

That setup is sick bro! Very nice progress Ladiez look prettyful. Keep up the good work!! Rep to you

ide say you should be able to get alot more than 2oz per plant from that setup! ide be hoping for alot more lol

nice setup only things i wanna know is why the black tape (black does not reflect which means it will absorb heat) much better off using white tape! i always cover my black tubs with white tape!

the other thing is you need to get those lights alot closer! 12" from the tops max!!

what size air pumps are u using per bucket. ive just bought a 50Lpm 1 not sure its going to be enough for my 6x 50or80lt tubs :S might have to buy another 1 hehe

not being negative or anything these are just my thoughts

keep the pics comming!

Nice set up man. I was wondering were you got that air pump from?

Yeah its a beast! What is that designed for? A hover craft?