RDWC i believe is what its called

[Billy Burroughs]

im not a hydro guy at all but a friend of mine runs this system and he uses 2 pumps one to flood and one to drain i think he mainly uses the drain pump for rez changes not real sure on this though i plan on setting up a system like this as soon as i can afford to buy the equipment know what i mean ill just end up buying the pieces and parts and build it myself theres no way im paying what is it 600 bucks ebb n gro wants for that 3 gallon pot thing pfft i want 5 gallon pots my buddy runs 4 plants per each bucket im planning on running one plant in each one doing this method this way id be willing to bet you could grow some massive plants and get some awesome yields any feedback or helpful info would be great

u use the 5 gallon buckets kinda like in dwc but its set up on an ebb n flow system so whatever this kinda system is called im a fairly new med grower have yet to pull down one harvest soon enough though and am in no huge rush to switch over to hydros but as soon as i get a spot that i can set up a hydro setup and once i get a few harvests under my belt using the dirt well soiless whatever

 

[ourcee]

ebb n grow.

buckets filled with some sorts of media, filled from the bottom, then drained back out the bottom back into a communal reservoir via a controller bucket with float valves.

simple DIY really, just get the controller bucket (unless you wanna DIY for that too... not hard, just time consuming and possibly minorly frustrating with drilling holes into buckets nothing a nice indica cant fix.

then just have your controller bucket "control" the height of the water with its float valves, you could make the buckets 20 gallons if you really wanted to, would just need a massive reservoir.

oh but just fyi, unless you are planning on vegging for like 3 months, I probably wouldnt fill a 5 gallon bucket with hydroton or the like (thats gonna be expensive) because its going to require SO much more water just to adequately flood, i.e. a giant reservoir (depending on your plant count obviously) if you just want to veg for a month or so then flower. there are LOTS of systems that have the smaller buckets. (I reallllly wouldnt be doing 4 plants per 3 gallon bucket though......)

unless you really do mean "monsters" the 2.5 or 3 gal pots should suffice for some trees.

 

[AchromicSkin311]

DIY is the way to go!! haha...I don't even have to run a controlling bucket...I have a 1/2" PVC Line that I made a "overflow" with...
I'm running a EBB Flow draining back to my res...but the downfall to mine is I have to have the buckets sitting above the res...where with a controller you can sit the buckets on the floor...but I had to do what I had to do with very little $$...haha

if you have any questions ill help anyway I can.
check my grow below for some images...

 

[ourcee]

I did that before too, raised buckets gravity draining back, meh, not my style. it works well on a small scale, however I did it with 100 buckets and it wasnt so user friendly. Might as well just do ebb/flow tables (what i'm starting to use now) and have less issues across the board. (so much more ease)

if you actually want a bigger yield, screw the whole gigantic tree thing and do a screen of green, top and tie down your plants under a screen then keep tucking all the new growth under it, get it to where its practically all budsites right below the chickenwire or whatever it is that you use. then bloom, keep tuckin for another week after flipping 12/12 then let it stretch through. you'll have a bigger yield per watt (most likely) if done properly. all while keeping your plant count as well as maintenance down.

you can run lower wattage lamps like 600w or so instead of 1000w doing it this way as well too. every budsite gets even light so every bud matures at the same time, you dont have a huge cola maturing while these lil larfy popcorn bullshit nugs down on the bottom of a big ole tree have what looks like a month left almost. my .02 anyways.

 

[whodi]

fuck a screen of green and hang your lights vertical.. grow those trees gigantic bro.. use 600's or 1000's whatever you want.

 

[Billy Burroughs]

fuck a screen of green and hang your lights vertical.. grow those trees gigantic bro.. use 600's or 1000's whatever you want.

oh ya going for trees here i got 2 1000w ballasts one switchable and one hps i was more less wanting to get a better idea on how this works so each bucket has an air stone in it and some sort of media like for instance i was going to use the clay pellets and baskets one plant in each bucket a local hydro store sells everything i need to DIY and im a total DIYer so ill be doing this one bymyself no way would i pay ebb n gro 600 dollars for one of these systems but only with 12 and only 3 gallons

so with this method how many buckets can you run on one system say i had a 55 gallon rez and like a 30 gallon for the other rez thinking about using either a trash can for my rez or a blue plastic barrel and going to use for the other rez thing ewhatever its called thought about one of them rubber maid rectangle totes that have the lid n all

for instance how mnay of these 5 gallon buckets can one of these systems run say with my main rez being as big as 55 gallon my brothers trying to talk me into buying a table n doing ebb n flow but this way seems alot better to me seems to be faster n give ya high yields i havent actually witnessed this this is all hear say and an eskimo will tell y anythng when hes tryin to sel ice in the arctic know what im gettin at which system is a better system to runn the rdwc or just regular ole ebb n flo on a hydro table i mean my brothers results are killler but the guy i seen with these buckets this is why i got so hot on em he claims he pulls 5 pounds out of 16 plants doing it this way all the same strain all an indica and all grandaddy purple now my expierences with indicas is they are very low yielding my brother vegd out his purple urkle for 4 months and still only got 2 ounces a plant and he typically pulls between 4-6 ounces a plant on a regular basis the bit of reading ive done on this dwc thing is very simple and seem straight forward

i wanted to know how many of these 5 gallon potas could i run on say one chiller and 2 lights one plant per bucket growing em out to trees ill be topping them twice maybe onle once im still kinda up in the air with this because it seems if u top em twice u can ever get em fast enough and only one if that of the tops tuern out worth a crap i dunno what im doing wrong but any help hered be nice as well

 

[narutonut]

if you really want trees...

if you really want trees...

Then you need to take those 5gal buckets and drill a ton of holes in one to use as the "pot" for your plants and then stick that inside another. If you are growing real TREES you will want 4-5 gallons of media around the plants roots to keep it from falling over. Nothing sux worse than coming home to find your 6+ foot tall trees all flopped over cause that 5 inch net pot didn't cut it. Just remember bigger plants = bigger heavier gear to support em. My 2 cents.

 

[Billy Burroughs]

unless you really do mean "monsters" the 2.5 or 3 gal pots should suffice for some trees.

oh ya i mean some monster trees the great state of nevada only allows me to flower 3 at a time

 

[Billy Burroughs]

and ya id set it up just like ur talking there ourcee u know exactally what im talking about anyways like i said above "trees" this is what im working with for room i got 8' x 6' x bout 6-7' in heighth from the top of the buckets itd probablly be closer to 6 feet but deffinatelly over and i can run 3 per card got 2 cards so 6 in all i run co2 in a sealed room and lol i can just imagine how fricking huge these could get like hacking through a blackberry briar however i do like this system i am a practical man as well and dont want to setup something i dont have the room for lol ive gotten the piss n vinegar out now and them babies have dropped so flash n flare aint my thing practical and afordable is more like it these days but ive never tried hydro always have wanted to but i dont want to run something that would be a full time job my other option is ebb n flo on a table with the resivoir underneath n all pain in the ass my brother says to do res changes fires up the ole shop vac but his shop vac dont hold 25 gallons n neither does mine for that much hehe but its another idea this hydro garden is in the talkin about it stage id say i got i pretty big pile of dirt to use up before i could validate spending more money on growing mediums lol i got like 6 35 gallon like rubbermaid tote things but not rubbermaid cause my momma didnt raise no fool so ya enough dirt for a good tears worth of growing esspecially with the small amount your allowed to have here

 

[Billy Burroughs]

Then you need to take those 5gal buckets and drill a ton of holes in one to use as the "pot" for your plants and then stick that inside another. If you are growing real TREES you will want 4-5 gallons of media around the plants roots to keep it from falling over. Nothing sux worse than coming home to find your 6+ foot tall trees all flopped over cause that 5 inch net pot didn't cut it. Just remember bigger plants = bigger heavier gear to support em. My 2 cents.

lol uh ok then i lied medium sized lol i couldnt imagine growing something that big and i think theres alot of work to my 5 footers my brother sent me some pictures of his hydro setup he has going on and after seeing how the roots are all tangled in this huge wad n what not i like how u can pretty much see how healthy your whole plant is the weirdest thing about his is he uses a table n does the ebb n flo with the controller deal in baskets with them red clay pellets and he kinda has them circled around and theres an open spot in the center somewhat but u can see the bottom of the table n what not with this huge wad of roots in the middle i always thought roots didnt like light i was told the roots kinda kill themselves off i dunno if what he has going on there is just some kick ass something or is it common with a hydro setup like this