you are both so hot! i just can't make up my mind. i'll be back after a few more shots of tequila!
You can put an ebb & flow overflow fitting between the tailpieces with the screen just above the turface level. Just in case the tailpiece clogs the it would return to the bucket.
Even when I ran coco and my tailpieces clogged I still never flooded. Do it Dabs.
omg I'm happy I stopped in here to take a peak... lol
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But wouldnt that be right in the center where your plant is?? I like the idea though.
doesn't need to be centered in the container, close to the edge just inside where the upper meets the lower bucket
These plants were in my Mother Keeper system 1 week ago... they got so big I moved them to the veg room and soon they will graduate to the flower room.
This is a GDP seedling that was put in this system last night... I will update photos of this plant so we have a reference point for how awesome this system is.
The goal moving forward will be to limit myself to 9 or less "mothers" and use the other 6 sites of this system to pre-veg. I also plan to see if discontinuing top-feeding so frequently keeps my mothers manageable.
Sick man!! Love it!
Do you need any support on the iinside of the bucket to keep the lid from bowing or any of that shit? Im sure you lose some strength by drilling the holes in the lid.
I and others have transplanted coco into turface... my biggest complaint is the extra rinsing needed to remove all the coco before reusing the turface, I am officially in 100% turface... clones-harvest... but still fighting fungus gnats from my coco days.
I thought I would need support but so far so good... I planned on building a 3/4 inch PVC cube with holes in it so it would flood and sink. These totes are designed to hold a lot of weight and this probably wouldn't work with a lesser tote.
Question I had about this system;
First let me explain my understanding;
Top off res is elevated. There is a tube running from the bottom of this res to a float valve in the control reservoir. This allows water to flow from the elevated res to the control reservoir as the plants drink water.
Question 1;
Why do you have a clamp as your on off valve on the hose leading from your volume res to your control res; If its not connected to the float valve, then what is?
Okay, so during the pulse feed, the pump in the control res starts sucking all the water in the system (each bucket is connected to the control res, and has the same water level as the control res because of the float valve, controlled by the volume reservoir) and pumps it to the top of the plants. This essentially takes most of the water from the system and puts it in turface containers, until it has the time to work its way through the turface, through the tailpieces, back into the buckets.
Question 2:
because the water level in the control res drops as the water is pumped into the top containers, this would open the float valve and allow a flow of water to enter the ppk system from the elevated res. Given that I have never run a ppk, i dont know how long it takes the top containers to drain, but is it hypothetical that too much water would be added back while the ppks drained, essentially lessening the air gap and/or overflowing the system.
Not sure if i understand exactly whats going on. Help!