DWC questions.

[toasty]

G'day all.

 

I'm a complete newbie grower, planning to start a DWC grow sometime in the future.

I'm trying to think about how to make my setup. I need some basics first though.

 

I'm intending on ordering some quality seeds, sprouting them, and growing with a DWC.

 

All the DWC guides I've seen have been started from clones. Should I grow a mother plant and then grow with clones in a DWC? When you harvest a plant, is it killed, or can you just make it veg again by changing the lights back to 24/7 and change the nutes?

 

Thanks for any advice (and bearing with the newbie questions)

[Tom]

I'm a complete newbie grower, planning to start a DWC grow sometime in the future.

Personally I think that as a new grower you should probably use an easier system for your first grow then try The DWC for the second or third.

 

All the DWC guides I've seen have been started from clones. Should I grow a mother plant and then grow with clones in a DWC?

Nah, just start the seeds in rockwool cubes and transfer them to the bubbler when they are ready.

 

or can you just make it veg again by changing the lights back to 24/7 and change the nutes?

Yeah.

 

[Kelly_J]

Read Read Read Read Read, can't say it anymore man. DWC is the only way i have grow plants and i won't try another way. I'm so used to DWC and as a beginer, some way, some how i got the hang of it and enjoy the system and the way it runs.

 

good luck!

[Chato]

Hey Toasty, dwc is pretty forgiving imo. Hardest and most important part is keeping the water between 22-24, if you can do that the rest should be easy. all the best

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[pipeman]

yeah its a piece of piss. Someone will need to explain to me why dwc is so complicated. netpot with clay balls in the lid and an airstone on the bottom. Can't get simpler than that.

[Kelly_J]

as pipe said, very simple. but of course like everything can cause some problems. but you can overcome them after each grow.

[toasty]

Thanks for your replies and advice everyone I'm doing tons of reading on it, I'm going to take my time and make sure I get it right(-ish ) when I eventually get to grow . Just needed a little bit of help with those basic questions, since they're often left out of the more advanced guides.

 

Cheers again.

[Kelly_J]

no worries toasty, let us all know how you get along:)

[cranky]

HI

My first grow is now into 12/12 week 2. With lots of nice bud sites.

Im a hopeless gardener but my DWC SCROG set up is working good

 

A couple of things Ive picked up on in the last few months of growing...............

 

DWC needs good aeration, too little air bubbling will hurt your plants, too much wont, the roots need Oxygen to survive living in the nute mix.

A guide for the airpump output is 500-600 cc air per minute per 3.5 liters of nute mix.

 

Resivour temperature, as Chato said needs to be controled. I had heat problems

to start with. I ended up getting a 150mm axial inline fan from ebay, it sucks so much air out that my grow box no longer gets hot enough for the res to get warm.

 

When mixing your nutes DWC DOES NOT use full strength nutes

I use 1/3 strength and my plant loving it.

 

Dont do any gardening when your stoned Mixing up the ph-up and ph-down bottle creates work and panic that you dont need

 

 

I, like others dont know why some people think DWC is hard, although its the only type of indoor grow Ive done. It took me 2 attempts to get it going, but I think that no matter what type of hydro set up I started with would have turned out the same the first attempt. I can go away for the weekend and leave it without worrying about it ( one of the reasons I decided on DWC )

 

Kelly_j is right of course ....read read read.

 

I have about 60L nutes in a 80L container, at the moment only 1 plant in it but next grow Im expanding to 4 plants, this grow is the "experiment" to see if I could grow hydro it seems that I can...and if I can anyone can.

Good luck .....its a fun hobby to take up

[fsagertyaef]

temp is some ting i didnt know about shit ok whats the temp need to be in the nuit tank and can i just use a aquarinum heater or a good fan in case of cooling it off