Chicken shack rdwc madness.

[Numboard]

Alright guys, first off heres my old fail thread:
http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=2870819#post2870819

Now on with the new.

I had a budget of 1200 heres what I came up with
Heres the place:

As you can see, this was a chicken shack at one point. It was full of crap literally.

Standing in the door.

I decided to go with a 5 gallon bucket "undercurrent" Rdwc.
Here is a old quick sketch of the plan.

I decided to instead go for two 6 bucket systems in each room, accompanied by a res bucket.

 

[Numboard]

Pt 2.
The lights came.
Three 400watt econo hood,balast,bulb. They also shipped me some metal halide conversion bulbs for each. Good since two go in flower one in veg.

Later that day hit up lowes and the hydro shop.

The two bottles of the same size are ph 7.0 meter calibration solution and ppm calibration solution. The smaller bottle is rooting compound. It was after we had already bought all the tubing that we decided to abide by that "undercurrent" rdwc system voting to replace the skinny tubing in favor of 1 1/2 inch pvc with rubber grommets. Bullnose passthrough half inch fittings are super pricey 2~ bucks a piece. to expensive after revisiting the charts. I also decided to save money by buying quarter inch soaker tubing to use as airstones. Super cheap and easily replaceable. They work quite well.

Onto some room fabrication.

I plan on dividing the rooms with panda plastic. Still need to get that. Also going to use much more light above the mini clone hut two 4ft t8's More to come!

Also quick q, Will that airpump (eco plus 3 65 lieter/min) be enough for 14 buckets? Not including the res that doesn't have to have aeration, The extra two are for the two mommy buckets that are going to be isolated from each other and from the rdwc systems.

 

[Technique]

that air should be ok i think, the more the better really

cant wait to see this rocking!

 

[Iron Lungs]

great looking set-up man! you are def. on the way to having a great room rocking out some beauties!!!!

 

[Numboard]

My train wreck seeds arrived today.
Promptly ripped that badboy open and plopped those seeds in water.

 

[tricky1]

 

[Zen Master]

lookin good

 

[Vegan]

so far so good

 

[Numboard]

So, A while ago I ordered samples of general hydroponics bio line.
After ordering them i read that they shouldn't be used int recirculating or dwc systems because of algae bloom. I promptly called them back to cancel my order but it was after hours so i left a message. couple days later they arrived. Wondering if any of you know which ones I might be able to use. I don't think all of them have algae.
(I hope that makes sense)

 

[Riddick]

great start, looking forward to updates.

 

[Numboard]

Aight. So, The original plan was to use some rubber grommets to get a water tight seal between the pvc and the bucket. Lowes being lame as always charges 2 bucks per grommet. needing two per bucket adds up. We decided to use generic pvc fittings instead. This brought the price per bucket pass through to about 1~ dollar.

Hooray its water tight!
Yes I am hand cutting out each blasted gasket by hand. Ill be drilling some small holes in each end cap to act as a root screen.

 

[Numboard]

Seeds are in cubes now. Still no sprouts.
Quick question on water.
My ppm out of the tap (wellwater) is 92 ph is 6.66
Should I drop the hundred bucks on a r-o or save it?

 

[Zen Master]

your tap PPM is 92? thats great quality, assuming its not nasties that make up the 92 and just some calcium most likely.

if you bubble it overnight in a trash can, see if the PPM's drop even further, if so, I'd save the money from an R/O as you'd be in great shape.

 

[Numboard]

your tap PPM is 92? thats great quality, assuming its not nasties that make up the 92 and just some calcium most likely.

if you bubble it overnight in a trash can, see if the PPM's drop even further, if so, I'd save the money from an R/O as you'd be in great shape.

Actually, It seems as though my meter cant be calibrated with he General hydro ppm calibration solution. I have a hanna hi 98129 and you can only calibrate it with their proprietary solution. Thanks hanna.
Ill get that stuff and report back.

 

[lolraymond]

I've been trying to design and set up a room like this. Maybe I'll just copy some of your ideas! Hahah, that setup is lookin' so good. I'll be watching. Good luck!

 

[Numboard]

First babies

I have a couple posts scattered around looking for help.
Could really use the input. heres some links.
Meter calibration help: http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=64430&page=6
gen hydro organic nutes: http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=125743&page=10
Also these just came

 

[Numboard]

Well the sprouts are now seelings

This is what they're in

Started feeding them a very very diluted veg
bioweedbiomarinebioroot

 

[still2big]

Aight. So, The original plan was to use some rubber grommets to get a water tight seal between the pvc and the bucket. Lowes being lame as always charges 2 bucks per grommet. needing two per bucket adds up. We decided to use generic pvc fittings instead. This brought the price per bucket pass through to about 1~ dollar.

Doing something like this myself soon, what is that red stuff in the pic?

 

[Numboard]

Doing something like this myself soon, what is that red stuff in the pic?

sheets of rubber that lowes had for 2 bucks each
used the copper tubing as a die to cut washer shaped circles out to use as a gasket for the buckets.

 

[Craven_au]

Or you can just use 1'' Tap Washers