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From personal experience, being a step-parent can be a very complicated and difficult road to navigate. You love your spouse, but can clearly see the negative affect the "child" is having on the parent.

If you can drop the tent temp by opening it by a quarter, it sounds to me like inadequate airflow when tent is fully closed.

I'm in my third auto grow since changing from soil to dwc. I've been seeing consistently later flowering in seeds from the same lots that I've grown before in soil. Current grow is 2 Blue Dreams from Atlas. Day 43 with 18/6 and pistils have just now shown on the left one. I've just been...

I understand now. I was thinking I could eliminate 1 pump but there won't be adequate flow with the chiller restricting it plus the temp differential which is what Mumbeltypeg was originally trying to tell me. So then I would only need a smaller filter for the chiller loop using 2 pumps...

I'm starting to wonder now if my idea will even work. I think maybe it's a hybrid system, not a true undercurrent. I plan on draining from near the bottom of the buckets into the bottom of the res. Then pump from the res through the chiller and then waterfall into each bucket. My thought is...

No concerns with temps, I just prefer to adjust intensity rather than raise and lower fixtures for as long as possible :D

I like the idea of a larger foot print.

I'm in a small tent so no concern with loss. In the early part of this grow, so room for height isn't an issue for now.

I was just curious in general terms.

I'm going to be draining my two buckets through 2" pvc in a short, straight line to my res. Do you think this will be adequate to keep up with the flow directly from the chiller through 3/4" lines?

With ppfd being equal, is there any disadvantage to having led lights farther from the canopy?

Impressive!!

Thanks, I appreciate that. I enjoy problem solving particularly with outside of the box solutions. The water bath chiller works well and could be adapted for RDWC, I simply lack the necessary space in my closet. I'm using 3 of the Mars ts-1000. Down the road I'm thinking of upgrading, but I...

Too late now, already got the chiller in today lol. Money isn't an issue. I'm single and retired. I don't drink, no motorcycles, boats etc. Growing for me is a hobby and entertainment that I really enjoy.

Thanks, that makes sense after thinking about. So I'll need 2 pumps then, one to circulate to the chiller and the other to the buckets. Would I be correct in thinking they don't need to be the same size?

Thanks for your reply! I have a 2x4 tent shoe horned into my small bedroom closet. I'm using 2 Hydrobuckets that hold 4 gallons to the bottom of the root plug. These are the only reason I got into DWC. With the the side reservoirs it's never necessary to lift the plants up to do maintenance...

I'm planning on possibly upgrading my DWC system to recirculating when my current grow is finished and have a few questions. I'd like to reuse anything I have now if possible. I have a cooler I want to use as the reservoir. Are there any pros or cons to having an insulated reservoir? I'll be...

I'm in a second run of their Blue Dream Auto. First was a single and I'd give it an 8, nice well behaved compact plant that produced 230g. This run doing two to see what other phenos might show. So far, at week 4, one looks like she's going to be a major stretcher even prior to flower :(. Have...

Very interesting information in these PDFs! I know I don't have anywhere near the reservoir capacity for my canopy size that they recommend. Since it's early in my current grow I'm considering a new strategy. I think I'll try doing straight RO water add backs until my PPMs drop to between 65...

At first I thought the only thing volume would affect would be temp swings. After thinking about it, I realized I wasn't taking into account a living organism in the equation. The plant is taking a smaller percentage of dissolved solids out of 26 gallons than 3 gallons.