DWC?? advice for first hydro.

[stonrbashintime]

Gday everybody,

I have a fair amount of experience growing in soil and now have decided to try a cheap dwc setup.

50 ltr res
5 plants (vanilla kush, afghan kush, strawberry cheesecake, trainwreck and an unknown cross)
medium is a mix of clay balls and coco (all i could afford i wanted to go straight clay balls but ran out of money in the shop and the guy gave me the mix for free...
the water in my area is wayyyyy to hard to use ive killed a few plants and kinda hurt the TW and the SC as youll see in photos, so i am using distilled water.

Questions i have:

will the coco and clay ball mix be sufficient for this grow?
how would i go about fill a 50 ltr res weekly when i cant use my tap water? is boiling water effective?
considering im growing in coco/clay ive seen other grows where the plant were fed nutrient water to the roots constantly, is this correct?

the babies i have had a fair amount of roots and put them in the new sytem today.

any advice or criticism would be appreicated. cheers.

 

[PetFlora]

See my DIY Mini-Me F & D thread

 

[killermoats]

Deep water culture is awesome! The container should be filled up to the bottom of your net pot with nutrient water. I did not see an air stone in your setup? Air increases your Dissolved Oxygen levels and that keeps your roots healthy.

Your medium should work ok.

Easy and low cost ideas for the future-
5 gallon bucket 3.5$
6" 5gal netpot lid 2.5$
I use a cloner then load the rooted clones into a 4x4x4 rockwool cube. Cube gets shoved into the netpot lid. cubes are 1.5$ ea
Medium air stone 2.5$
Air line .30c ft
Air pump. Variable (I use 110lpm pumps(100$) to feed 12 sites.) Small pumps are cheaper.
So your about 12$ per site plus an air pump.