Yoda's Recirculating bubble Buckets

I have been growing since last November.
It is a tile shower stall. So , no on more height.

Thanks!

 

Hey budslinger im going to follow this guide for my next grow with scrog, but im doing a setup with 6 buckets, ive been thinking of a manifold design for them, how critical is the length equality for proper filling of the buckets?

 

Got an issue with the water level being higher in one out of the four buckets. One of the buckets runs about 2" higher than the other three. It's a four bucket recirculating system using 5-gallon buckets and an 20 gallon resovoir. System is built just exactly like Budslinger's design. Only difference is I added a 2nd airline to each bucket.

The water pump is a 250gph in water pump. I was thinking about switching to an external pump to help keep water temps down.

Any help or opinions would be appreciated.

 

Only a couple things would make you water higher in one bucket, first would be your floor is not level, I know too obvious right? Second your drain line is clogged so you bucket can't drain as fast.

Even with an inline pump much of the heat load will go into your solution.

 

This is the pump. www.dchydro.com For the price it seemed like the way to go. My total resovoir size I figure to be 28 gallons or so. I'm thinking tha something has clogged the return line so it 's not keeping up with the other return lines. I guess I need to stick my arm down there and see.

I'll try putting some insulation on top of the cover. Right now it's taped with aluminum tape. I put reflectix insulatin around the outside of the resovoir and used left over foam floor pad around the outside of my black buckets.

The water temp is around 78.5 degrees with air temps 79-84 degrees. Basement location and rest of basement is in 70's at the most. Would an in-water water pump raise water temps? With all the water flow and dual air lines in each bucket do I need to worry about 78 degree water temps?

BTW thanks for the thread. Between you and Rumple I decided to give this a whirl.

 

Would this manifold setup work well for even circulation (filling) for 6 buckets? with all lines from the T's to the buckets the same length

 

Hi Bud, I got another question if you dont mind. Do you add your nutrients in the rez, or in a seperate bucket or something, and then pour it into the rez? And if you are mixing in the rez, I assume you have to let it circulate for a few minutes to get an accurate ppm measurement?

 

the length of your line is irrelevant you need to make sure your recirculating pump is not to fast or control the output with drippers

Dude lol always mix your nutes someplace other then your res... when your happy with the new batch of nutes then you add it to your res

if budslinger says different do what he says
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Oh my bad, was that a stupid question? Because it seems to work just fine if you know how much nutes it takes to put the ppm where you need it. It also seems easier than mixing up two (or more) batches of nutes to fill the rez. I'm glad I was able to humor you though. peace.

 

This is a very good question...i use to ph my water before adding to a bucket for a long time..then i found that for some reason i'd have a ph fall...now i dont ph my water .I think its best to adjust at the rez...When filling i make 4 gal batchs ..it is easyer and i know exactly how much food to add . GL

 

really?

I have an extra 15 gal barrel i use to mix in
first I add the water, then the nutes, then adjust the pH then I add to the res

to be honest when I'm mixing a new batch of nutes its because I am replacing the old nutes with fresh. other wise I'm just topping off with reg pH adjusted h2o

 

My water out of the tap is 6.8...when i add nutes it falls to 6..if i pre ph my water before adding ...the ph in the bucket falls into the low 5's..and im all for the less things i add the better . I really think it depends on what nutes one is useing and how well things are checked.

 

With Bud's design of the RDWC, the rez doubles as the controller. In larger systems people will add there nutes to the controller, they dont make up tens (or hundreds) of gallons of nute mix and then pour it into the system. (me assuming again) If they do, that just seems like too much work.

 

Thanks alot BUDSLiNGER, that really clears up alot of questions I had. If you get a chance check out my new journal. #2 in my links. peace.

oh by the way. Do you just follow the directions on the bottle for hygrozyme or do you use it differently?

 

[quote name='BUDSLiNGER']i wouldnt worry about that water temp..especially with good air bubbles..
seems high though man..I cant figure out why..im in a basement also...

Slinger thanks for the reply dude> BTW +rep for the great thread!
I'm still running a higher water level in only one bucket for some frigging reason. The plants look great so I'm not going to worry about it right now. I can't feel anything clogging the return line so who the f**k knows?

I had to do a res change a few days ago because of a lot of shit clogging the pump and also floating in the water. Not sure what it was I'm thinking algae. I had a clear water level sight tube on the front of my res and I rempved it and replaced with some black hose to keep light from entering the res through the clear hose. So far after 6 days the water still looks good. Water temps are up to 80 now though. I just switched my ballast up to 800 watts so there's more heat in the room now.