So the nuggets are dense and doubling in size every few days, the trichomes are cover the plants and they are sticky.
The Girls are thirsty, I'm topping them off every other day with 1.5 gallons of nutes, at this point I feel like all i'm doing is mixing nutes in the reservoir.
By the time I switch over season two to the grow room, i'm going to increase the size of my reservoir to 10 gallon so I can spend less time mixing.
I'll be flushing out the buckets in 2 weeks to give the girls fresh water for the final 2 weeks!
My Burp bucket project worked out great. Thanks to several youtube videos those videos are much appreciated!
I made a few modification to what I saw online.
so here's the parts list:
(1) 3.5 gallon Menards Bucket
(1) Gamma Bucket Lid
18" Black Irrigation drip tubing
12" Fish tank air hose
(2) Fish tank check valves
(1) tee for air line
(1) small fish tank pump
I started out modifying the input, most of the videos I saw had a hose with a check valve just poked in the lower part of the bucket with pin holes and end tied off.
What I did is I took the black tubing and circled the bottom of the bucket, then I took a small drill bit and drilled holes through the tubing about every 2 inches to disburse the air all the way around the bucket then I used a tee to connect the 2 ends of the circle and connected that to the tube entering the lower portion of the bucket.
the next change I made was instead of having a short hose poke through the upper portion, I drilled a small hole and hot glued the check valve inside the bucket with only the top of the valve sticking out of the bucket.
After you get all the hoes and check valves in snap on the Gamma Lid, Tighten it up and turn on the pump. I added the hoses going into the water so you could actually see that its working
I plugged the pump into a smart outlet and set it to run for 20 min 3 times a day, so no need to manually burp your nuggets while they are curing.
You'll also need to put a 62% boneva 2 way pouch in the bucket with the nugs to keep the humidity correct and optionally have a small hydrometer to verify, I'm going to mount one on the lid to be able to check it without having to open the bucket. unless curiosity gets the best of me....
Nice set up for a first grow! Good choice on going DWC, it’s a great way to learn. I’m my opinion, it’s no more complicated than going with soil.. DWC makes it easier to control and interpret all variables when you have any issues, not so much with soil. Good luck!
@Ezzjaybruh, Thanks!
I have done hydroponics for vegetables for years, just getting around to branching out to cannabis.
I agree on DWC, I've done about every other hydro system and DWC is hands down the easiest.
The only thing different I've done is add the auto fill to the bucket system, after researching it appears cannabis goes through water like crazy.