Interesting. Did you have a big pump for lots of head pressure? I'm running something smaller than 100gph for 14 tub sites in that room.Thanks a bunch for all those great info nuggets ttystikk!As far as the inline filter goes it pretty much just constricts the water flow kinda like putting your thumb on the end of hose so you can spray the water further and in a much more wider coverage area to give the return water more contact with the open air. Super low tech.
Ah so this pump just runs the one outlet, then?
Yup, all it had to do was push water from my collection res slightly up hill through 1/2 pvc for around 20' to the control res where that had the inline filter. I had a cut off valve right before the control res so I could feather the flow or turn it off if need be. It worked great but it leaked(other parts of the system, maninly the 5 gallon buckets and the uniseal/pvc junctions) pretty badly and I never really got it humming like I wanted to. If I ever try it again I am totally going to use hose and not pvc.
If you scroll up you'll see I'm using 1" flexible line. It's a lot more versatile and forgiving. I use 1" irrigation fittings for inline connectors, bulkhead fittings, elbows, tees and caps. Cheap! I also use 1" inline with a 1/2” tee fitting and that's for the 1/2” lines to each tub site. Everything is built to be modular to the point where I've changed configurations dozens of times and haven't needed to cut a line to fit in I can't even remember how long.
Many moons ago I Used to use filters exactly like yours in my outdoor gorilla grows I had black poly pipe running way up hill in small creek gravity did the rest those filters are bulletproof they lasted several years...
You have never dealt with diatomes, your gonna need a little more than that if you ever have to deal with it. Brown Algae. Not every grower is plagued or blessed with the same water quality. The only way I was able to defeat it was with uv sterilizers and pasteurized chlorine.
I've heard of it but you're right, the water here does not have such problems. In fact, my local water quality is some of the best in the country; EC is .05 with no iron. That's why there are so many breweries and distilleries in northern Colorado.
Not just Northern CO. I've got great water here in the middle, and don't forget about Coors in Golden.
True story, even if most of them end up in the Denver metro area and they stay the hell out of our hair.
One of the first YouTube videos I ever watched of yours H was you explaining how to beat pythium using the inline uv water filter
I never had to go NUCLER and implement such a system and just run AG fungicide and works great and w/o a chiller. I guess OK is blessed with good water quality like CO.
Pearly whites a shining
I've always wanted to custom design and build a straight waterfall system. Once the water is oxygenated it can travel around the root zones. Air stones have to break water to supply oxygen and to many roots in a bucket can somewhat hinder that. I did a tutorial back on YouTube 3 years ago and since than a few people have copied my original design and made there own videos with better production graphics and such.
I have always kinda wanted to cut a nice slab of root booty meat off one of my girls after harvest & then toss it in a crock pot with a nice hunk of smoked sausage and a couple purtatos. Cook em till they are nice and soft then break out the Gludens and NOM NOM NOM. I bet they are decently tasty.
I've been doing it like this for 5 or 6 years now. I like everything about it; low parts count, infinitely reconfigurable, cheap parts available everywhere, the smallest orifice in the system is 1/2” making clogs rare, cold coil for active cooling goes in the control bucket, one pump runs it all, even the sound of all those little waterfalls makes a soothing Zen gurgle that makes me happy anytime I hear it.
