LEFTHAND said:Hey pepper
instead of guessing to be safe.
take your tables set your overflow where ya want it.
plug fill hole..
fill tables with hydroton..
fill table till water drains out the over flow, making sure your measuring the water carefully..
that will tell you how much water you need to fill your table. then time that by 3 and that will give you your res size..
do the same with the other table. and there ya go a res that you will be safe with..
LH
Pepper said:Ok thanks, will do that today today is play day :hubba:
LEFTHAND said:have fun pepper... also b4 u modify any tubs or anyting put water in them to see for any leaks.... no need putting the effort in and filling to ind a leak....
good luck stay safe..
LH
DonJones said:Pepper, just a though that you probably have already covered, but aren't you taking a big chance on damaging roots when yo pull the plants out of DWC and try to put that root ball into a tank filled with hydroton?
Most of the hydro growers that I know say not to disturb the roots after they get nearly full grown and to certainly NOT be trying to put them into some kind of medium after being in DWC. They just keep each table separate so they can just switch the lights and nutes without having to handle the roots. Never having tried what you are doing, I don't have any personal experience but it doesn't seem cool to be stressing the roots like tha when they are that mature.
If you have a way around it, I'd like to hear it. No one that I know tries to switch hydro systems in the middle and they try to not transplant more than once, and most of them don't really even transplant at all because they sprout and root clones into cubes or disks of a medium like rockwool or Oasis foam or the various peat products and then just sit the cube into the hydro pot filled with medium so the roots aren't even handled or stressed.
Good luck man. It sounds interesting.
Pepper said:There is nothing wrong with taking plants from 1 hydro unit and putting them into another hydro unit, or different hydro system I transplant plants in hydro all the time with no problems.
Its just like gowing in soil were the plants are started in small pots then transplanted into larger pots, its no big deal.
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