i like your cooler idea for rez...i may have to use that idea of this new venture of my own volks garden....how many gallons is tthat..and do you have that auto topped ? or u fill it up every other day? also when you first started how offen did you water..like only once the first 3 to 4 days and how much do you water now? could you give me a first 3 weeks of your watering times and your thoughts regarding the water dripping?
thanks budd and looks good...
no prob omen,
that res is 10 gal, honestly i wish it was 12. i found that anything bigger than this is a waste because i have to toss all those expensive nutes every week or so. the thing that sucks is that the top will only open 45 degrees because of the hoses. would have been better if i could have ported into the back instead of the top. maybe down the road i will try to remedy this problem.
i just fill it up every couple days with plain RO maybe 2-3 times throughout the week.
i haven't been writing it down exactly but for the first week, i usually just manually plug in the pump when the RW gets pretty dry, i would say about 3 days
the second week i started getting busy so i put it on two daisy chained timers one on 45 min and the other on 12 hours. this fed it every other day for 45 minutes.
the third week i went to once a day, which is where i am now. because i put that dehumidifier in there now, it is drying out to the point of just being damp in 24 hours so its perfect, when the get bigger and are thirstier i might have to go to twice a day.
as far as dripping, i have none internally. it does drip on the outside, especially with my double cube technique, and it really makes me mad because the RW cubes stick out about 1" farther than the flood table. if the damn table was an extra 1.5" then it would all go back into the table, but ut doesn't. it drips on the floor. I have been thinking about extending the table by an inch or two somehow. i guess this is what the wicks are for, but they dont work with my double cubes.
