shadownight
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looking for bigger buckets for dwc dont want to water as much does anybody know where to get some for a reasonable price ?
10 gallon buckets ?
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shadownight
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yea i prefer round containers they seem eazier to move i normally put six plants per light but i may start just doing two big plants
GBAUTO
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This is the GO-TO for DWC.
Best readily available container for doing DWC-I started in 5 Gal buckets with a 17 gal rez and they always filled up the buckets with roots. The 27g tote will grow monster plants with less care.
OldMedUser
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I've used Rubbermaid tubs for 16 years but just started two of the new ones made with plastic that stays softer in cold weather and got zero root growth and sickly plants. After a couple clones died in the one with 6 I put them all in pots of ProMix HP and have them vegging nicely in the spare bedroom with the other vegging plants. Never had that happen before with the older style tubs and I've done around 50 grows in those. Did everything the same as I always have with the same nutes and RO water so it had to be something in the plastic leaching into the water.
Don't think you can even buy the older style now and I was planning a four tub ScroG style perpetual grow. Bought a commercial 8 outlet air pump, light mover and all the stuff to build an 8x4 room attached to my regular grow room just for it. Veg and ScroG the tubs in the old room then wheel the tubs into the grow space on their own little dollies when there was room for them. If you have to wait a week or more for space to open up it's no big deal. Just tie down grow tips a bit longer until it's good to go.
The shorter tubs hold 30L/7.5USG when filled to an inch under the net pots and the taller ones that use the same lids hold 50L/12.5USG. Wish someone made food grade tubs like them.
Don't think you can even buy the older style now and I was planning a four tub ScroG style perpetual grow. Bought a commercial 8 outlet air pump, light mover and all the stuff to build an 8x4 room attached to my regular grow room just for it. Veg and ScroG the tubs in the old room then wheel the tubs into the grow space on their own little dollies when there was room for them. If you have to wait a week or more for space to open up it's no big deal. Just tie down grow tips a bit longer until it's good to go.
The shorter tubs hold 30L/7.5USG when filled to an inch under the net pots and the taller ones that use the same lids hold 50L/12.5USG. Wish someone made food grade tubs like them.
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OldMedUser
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Look like a pretty good system if I had the room to fit something like that. Something to think about.
shadownight
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maybe all give it a try one think i did not like about big totes was it made it more difficult for a rez change
TurboTokes
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I use a 1/6HP water pump to transfer and it takes about 30 seconds to fill the 30 gal lol
Joint Monster
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I KNOW! I bought Rubbermaid brutes for my rdwc, mainly because they seemed solid and were food-grade. Wish other buckets were more readily available.The shorter tubs hold 30L/7.5USG when filled to an inch under the net pots and the taller ones that use the same lids hold 50L/12.5USG. Wish someone made food grade tubs like them.
It was a big head-ache, did not end up working out. (I did keep them, and will be trying them out in a different way soon.)
The HDX's seem to be the go to for diy'ers! They WORK, what else can I say?!
OP, why are you moving your buckets?! Get a pump, inline or sub-pump and save your back! (Especially if you're going with anything larger than a 5gal bucket.)
OldMedUser
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Ever hear of a drill pump? About 10 - $15 at the local hardware stores around here. Uses standard garden hose fittings and can empty a 50L tub in a couple of minutes. Got to be careful getting it going or the torque will spin the pump around the end of the drill.
Ask me how I know.
Once it's pumping it's not hard to hold onto. Not going to pump a long section of hose up too high but you could run a garden hose a long way on the level or longer down-slope.
I just got a new one for $10 that cam like this one with no fittings. Then a few days later was wandering around a Home Hardware and they have one for $14 that comes with a male fitting on the inlet side and a fitting on the outlet side with a couple feet of tubing around 3/8". Worth more than the 4 extra dollars for sure if you have to buy the fittings and hose. I had that stuff laying around my shop.
For the end going into the tub I just used a piece of window screen folded over the end of the 18" piece of hose on the inlet side and secured it with a shiny new SS hose clamp. Keeps it from sucking in the roots or a small chunk of hydroton clay ball and busting the pump.
Ask me how I know that too.
shadownight
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never seen that kind of pump before it looks easy to use lol a wrist breakerEver hear of a drill pump? About 10 - $15 at the local hardware stores around here. Uses standard garden hose fittings and can empty a 50L tub in a couple of minutes. Got to be careful getting it going or the torque will spin the pump around the end of the drill.
Ask me how I know.
Once it's pumping it's not hard to hold onto. Not going to pump a long section of hose up too high but you could run a garden hose a long way on the level or longer down-slope.
I just got a new one for $10 that cam like this one with no fittings. Then a few days later was wandering around a Home Hardware and they have one for $14 that comes with a male fitting on the inlet side and a fitting on the outlet side with a couple feet of tubing around 3/8". Worth more than the 4 extra dollars for sure if you have to buy the fittings and hose. I had that stuff laying around my shop.
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For the end going into the tub I just used a piece of window screen folded over the end of the 18" piece of hose on the inlet side and secured it with a shiny new SS hose clamp. Keeps it from sucking in the roots or a small chunk of hydroton clay ball and busting the pump.
Ask me how I know that too.
OldMedUser
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Not so bad it would break your wrist but I just bought a 18" piece of clear plastic tubing from the hardware store and it is a lot more flexible than garden hose so put up little resistance to the initial torque. The drill runs in reverse when using it so I'm holding the drill in my rt hand and grip the front of the pump in my left hand with the thumb on the inlet fitting as that's the side it lifts from. Our drill has a high and low speed setting and it doesn't work unless it's on high.
vostok
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Ever hear of a drill pump? About 10 - $15 at the local hardware stores around here. Uses standard garden hose fittings and can empty a 50L tub in a couple of minutes. Got to be careful getting it going or the torque will spin the pump around the end of the drill.
Ask me how I know.
Once it's pumping it's not hard to hold onto. Not going to pump a long section of hose up too high but you could run a garden hose a long way on the level or longer down-slope.
I just got a new one for $10 that cam like this one with no fittings. Then a few days later was wandering around a Home Hardware and they have one for $14 that comes with a male fitting on the inlet side and a fitting on the outlet side with a couple feet of tubing around 3/8". Worth more than the 4 extra dollars for sure if you have to buy the fittings and hose. I had that stuff laying around my shop.
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For the end going into the tub I just used a piece of window screen folded over the end of the 18" piece of hose on the inlet side and secured it with a shiny new SS hose clamp. Keeps it from sucking in the roots or a small chunk of hydroton clay ball and busting the pump.
Ask me how I know that too.
does oil changes in Range Rovers a Breeze
yip you gotta hold that bitch FIRM ....lol
Great for moving Home Brew too
avoid using with your ACTT teas
this type of pump rips the fungi real bad!
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shadownight
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take it to the dome
OldMedUser
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Really? I wouldn't think it would hurt something like fungi. Damn stuff is hard to kill when it's somewhere you don't want it like toenails. Just a spinning wheel with square vanes on it inside.
Acoustic damage maybe?