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IWS Trident: Advanced Flood & Drain Systems
The original IWS Flood & Drain grow systems are still extremely popular, decades after they were first developed. Improving on a design that has proved itself over that time-scale wasn't easy... But the team at IWS have gone and done it! The IWS Trident features an array of design tweaks and upgrades that accelerate performance without over-complicating the system.
You now get fabric inner pots and larger outer containers with built-in pot stands and 'tie-back' holes (used for training plants). These containers also feature moulded 'root rods' giving the root mass 'something to grab onto', and assisting with overall root development.
How the Trident System Works
Precision Nutrient Delivery
Nutrient solutions are pumped from the FlexiTank to the IWS Control Unit based on a precise schedule set by the user. The Control Unit, equipped with an attached minute timer, regulates the flood and drain cycles, allowing for fine-tuned control over nutrient delivery. As the control unit fills, nutrients are fed into the Trident outer containers, ensuring a thorough and even distribution from the bottom up. The bottom-up filling design ensures that the root zone is fully saturated, promoting healthier root development.
Fabric Inner Pots
The system is equipped with fabric inner pots, which deliver higher levels of aeration and, additionally, act like filters, preventing debris from clogging up pipework and keeping everything running sweetly.
Root Rods and Tie-Back Rings
Inside each outer pot, root rods elevate the inner fabric pot above the base, creating an air gap that maximizes oxygen availability. These rods guide roots that extend through the fabric, giving them something to latch onto, thus preventing them from reaching and potentially blocking the return pipes. The outer rim of the pots is equipped with tie-back rings, allowing growers to train plants for optimal canopy spread and light exposure during the vegetative and flowering stages.
Enhanced Irrigation
The IWS Trident utilizes high-quality 25mm pipework and upgraded pumps, capable of handling large volumes of water efficiently and effectively. This ensures rapid nutrient delivery to up to 48 pots, making the Trident suitable for both small and large-scale operations.
Summary
- The result of years of testing and development by the team at IWS
- Includes fabric inner pots to increase oxygenation and prevent blockages
- 25mm IWS Pro pipework for faster, more efficient nutrient flow
- Sizes available to suit any grow space
- Available with 16 litre or 25 litre containers (both with built-in stands)
- Incorporates ‘root rods’ into containers, assisting root development
- 'Tie-back' holes each container provide points to train plants from
- Nutrients flow from underneath the inner containers, rather than the sides
- A modular system — easy to adapt and expand
- Precision timing (down to the minute!) with the IWS F&D Minute Timer
- Ideal for use with hydro or coco-based growing media, like 60/40
- Simple, easy to assemble and requires no tools
Contains
All kits contain the following:
Control unit (brain bucket)
Inner cloth pot
Trident outer pots (16 litre / 25 litre)
FlexiTank
Remote timer
25mm fittings and pipe
How To Use
- Slide the legs into the body of the FlexiTank.
- Screw the pipe connectors into the top of the FlexiTank using the rubber washers to from a tight seal.
- Then screw the ‘fill’ and ‘drain’ pipes onto the pipe connectors, so that they sit outside the tank.
- Take the second length of ‘fill’ pipe and connect it to the pump.
- Then drop the pump into the tank, so that it sits at the bottom. Connect the pipe to the ‘fill’ fitting that sits on the inside of the FlexiTank.
- Next, screw the short 'return flow' pipe to the inside of the FlexiTank, so that it's on the same line as the ‘drain’ pipe.
- Connect the ‘fill’ and ‘drain’ pipes to the relevant fittings on the controller bucket (brain).
- Turn your outer containers upside down and push the rubber grommets into the centres. Push the fittings (either tees or elbows) into the grommets, using a dash of the supplied lubricant to ease them in.
- Lay your system out and cut your pipes to the right lengths, so that you can connect the containers up to the controller bucket (brain).
- Connect the power cable from the pump (that's sat at the bottom of your FlexiTank) to the power socket on the controller bucket (brain). There's a hole at the top of the FlexiTank that's used for this exact purpose.
- Connect the IWS Minute Timer to the brain.
- Place a fabric inner pot inside each container.