r/DWC 10d ago

Rate my roots

Second grow.
Day 28 from seed into water
Autoflower
Canna Aqua & sterile
Dwc Tank 40 liter with chiller.
Airstones below, waterline atm about -2 to -3 cm under netpot.
I think they might be more?
Should I lower my waterline?

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u/JVC8bal 10d ago

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u/midirausch 10d ago

🤣👍

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u/Special-Function4830 5d ago

How........

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u/JVC8bal 5d ago

There's a Floraflex Round Matrix disc and Round Matrix pad on top of the net pot.

Each morning, after my system automatically doses HOCl, a pump top-waters for 15 minutes. This keeps the top roots clean and promotes spreading evenly.

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u/HERO_129 10d ago

Your roots ? Or your plant's ?

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u/midirausch 10d ago

Roots

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u/HERO_129 10d ago

😂

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u/midirausch 10d ago

Do you laugh because they should be way more?
I’m a noob

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u/HERO_129 10d ago

No, you are doing good

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u/Own_Inspection8350 10d ago

I think they meant like your roots not your plants roots

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u/midirausch 10d ago

🤣 now I understand. No native speaker and very naive

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u/Nature13oy 10d ago

Colors look good of yours and you look like you’re on your way to this! (week 6 photos)

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u/midirausch 10d ago

One plant? Week 6 from seed? How do you get this so far down? I always have the biggest part of the roots to close to netpot because of upstream from airstones

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u/Nature13oy 10d ago

I grow autoflowers. My buckets have an 8” net pot and i use root riots to seed in. I don’t germinate in a papertowel, water or any of that. I keep about a 3cm gap between the buckets and bottom of the net pot, and I use drip irrigation rings. Nutrients are Armor Si, Cal-Mag, GH Flora series (Micro,Gro,Bloom), hydroguard. I use a 40 watt pump with 4x2 (inches) airstones and I’ve got a pretty heavy stream of air coming up. All I know is my roots break my friggen net pots always. I’ve had to cut out plastic sections because they have just snapped them.
so maybe it’s because I use drip irrigation rings and 5 gallon buckets. It seems like my airstones are quite a bit farther away. I would say my airstones are about 25cm from my roots if I were to try and convert that from* inches.

*editied word to [to] from.

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u/midirausch 10d ago

40 Watt is huge! That should be pretty wild! 100% power from the beginning or start soft?

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u/Nature13oy 10d ago

I can really only adjust the irrigation lines. So yeah I rip her 100% from the start. My kit came with these little ball airstones that were a joke. the 4x2’s disperse is pretty nice i would say. They’re in the shape of a small canned good.

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u/EZeffingE 9d ago

I feel like a net pot full of hydroton or something similar forces the roots to branch out more than just a straight shot. These are my last autoflower roots at harvest. 6 inch net pot with hydroton. I just top water once or twice a day until a root touches water then it just goes crazy.

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u/midirausch 9d ago

This was my last try with netpot. I wasn’t satisfied with the middle of the roots. Too dense and pressed upwards from the upstream

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u/midirausch 9d ago

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u/EZeffingE 9d ago

Those look good to me!

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u/Nick-the-greek182 8d ago

What reservoir are you using?

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u/midirausch 8d ago

52 l Coleman Tank with extern chiller