Looking great brother those roots look nice and happy now. So what’s different what did you learn. How can we prevent this from raising again everyone using a small dwc system can benefit from your findings
That is a great question. For anyone reading this and is interested in doing a single bucket dwc here's some tips I have learned so far:
1. Every aspect of your grow environment is key - room temp, water temp, humidity, light, airflow.
2. Wrap your buckets with some kind of reflective foil tape, preferably multiple layers, Black buckets (store bought or painted) hold on to heat in the rez. The reflective tape will reflect heat NOT light so make sure everything is sealed up good. You want the rez temps between 60-68. If you're using hydroguard or Z7 it'll be alright if your temps get a little higher but not much and do not let them stay there. ROOT ROT WILL SET WITH HIGH REZ TEMPS. Once they do, it is a bitch to remedy the situation. If you do now want to run a chiller then frozen water bottles are a must. In a RDWC water temps are easier to control
2. The small the grow area the faster the heat builds up higher room temp higher rez temps.
3. Smaller volume of water faster it heats up. More volume, slower it takes( but more water, more nutes etc.)
4. Keep air pumps out of grow room to prevent hot air pumped into the rez.
5. A good exhaust fan. You don't want your plants sitting in hot stagnant air nor do you want your fan circulating hot air. Again rez temps.
6. Unless your are using an organic tea, Store bought organic nutes do not work in dwc it will give you problems.
7. Do not let your basket of media touch the water. Over saturation will drown your seedlings. You only want the bubles to slightly splashing the basket to promote the roots to search of water. I'm sure there is more but I'm at work and can't think of anything else right now.
