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My housemate and I wanted to build a high yielding vertical system for cheap, this is what we came up with.
First we built a grow room by dividing my bedroom into two. We put a wall up using only 2x4's, drywall and soundboard. Theres actually a fairly large room behind that wall, it's about 8x8 and also has a closet with sliding doors for cloning.
The vertical systems frame is a 56" octagon build out of 2x4's. It goes from the floor to the ceiling, nine feet exactly. This frame is wrapped in mylar, leaving only a small entrance at one side of the bottom to enter/exit. This system is based on heaths flooded vertical on RIU, but we found a much cheaper solution for piping. 100 feet of perforated black 4" tubing from home depot is $50 dollars. This tubing starts at the very top of the inside of the frame and spirals down to the bottom into a 30 gallon reservoir(rubbermaid). The water is pumped to the top by an Ecoplus 1267 with adjustable valve to control flow. The water then passively flows down the piping, submerging the roots on its way back into the res. Unlike Heath I don't run my pump 24/7, I have 36 watts of airstones in my res and run my pump 15 minutes on 30 off. Three 600 watts digital hps lamps are housed in three vertically placed 8" cooltubes. These cooltubes hang from a 40" ceiling fan that I got at home depot for 23 dollars, the top cooltube has a dust filter on it. Air is sucked through the cooltubes, and out of the room by a 10" inline fan and blown through a carbon filter that sits on my balcony.
Heres a video a friend made of my setup when I first built it. I know this will receive criticisms as it makes me sound very materialistic and money driven, which is not the case. This hobby is far more than a means of income and I was asked to include figures to make it sound interesting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCr2QNgQxTE
This thread is kind of jumping into the middle of the grow. We've got about 130 plants in the NFT system, plus another 25 on the ground in 5x5 pots with fox farms. Strain is one I crossed myself last year. It's blue dream crossed with a local San Diego indica called Hogsbreath. All seed are feminized and grown 12/12 from the start. Ill be choosing the best plants from this run as mothers and plan on using clones thereafter. I also just added 30 OG Kush clones to the system, they should finish at about the same time.
No AC, no dehumidifier. Room temps are around 75-80 with light off, and around 72-76 lights on. I run my lights at night to keep the temps in check. Humidity is between 40-70 at various times in the day. I always run the same thing in my res:Shitty San Diego Tap Water, the lucas formula full strength, Floralicious Plus, Hydrozyme, tiny bit of Cal/Mag, and SM-90.
Questions and comments welcome
My housemate and I wanted to build a high yielding vertical system for cheap, this is what we came up with.
First we built a grow room by dividing my bedroom into two. We put a wall up using only 2x4's, drywall and soundboard. Theres actually a fairly large room behind that wall, it's about 8x8 and also has a closet with sliding doors for cloning.
The vertical systems frame is a 56" octagon build out of 2x4's. It goes from the floor to the ceiling, nine feet exactly. This frame is wrapped in mylar, leaving only a small entrance at one side of the bottom to enter/exit. This system is based on heaths flooded vertical on RIU, but we found a much cheaper solution for piping. 100 feet of perforated black 4" tubing from home depot is $50 dollars. This tubing starts at the very top of the inside of the frame and spirals down to the bottom into a 30 gallon reservoir(rubbermaid). The water is pumped to the top by an Ecoplus 1267 with adjustable valve to control flow. The water then passively flows down the piping, submerging the roots on its way back into the res. Unlike Heath I don't run my pump 24/7, I have 36 watts of airstones in my res and run my pump 15 minutes on 30 off. Three 600 watts digital hps lamps are housed in three vertically placed 8" cooltubes. These cooltubes hang from a 40" ceiling fan that I got at home depot for 23 dollars, the top cooltube has a dust filter on it. Air is sucked through the cooltubes, and out of the room by a 10" inline fan and blown through a carbon filter that sits on my balcony.
Heres a video a friend made of my setup when I first built it. I know this will receive criticisms as it makes me sound very materialistic and money driven, which is not the case. This hobby is far more than a means of income and I was asked to include figures to make it sound interesting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCr2QNgQxTE
This thread is kind of jumping into the middle of the grow. We've got about 130 plants in the NFT system, plus another 25 on the ground in 5x5 pots with fox farms. Strain is one I crossed myself last year. It's blue dream crossed with a local San Diego indica called Hogsbreath. All seed are feminized and grown 12/12 from the start. Ill be choosing the best plants from this run as mothers and plan on using clones thereafter. I also just added 30 OG Kush clones to the system, they should finish at about the same time.
No AC, no dehumidifier. Room temps are around 75-80 with light off, and around 72-76 lights on. I run my lights at night to keep the temps in check. Humidity is between 40-70 at various times in the day. I always run the same thing in my res:Shitty San Diego Tap Water, the lucas formula full strength, Floralicious Plus, Hydrozyme, tiny bit of Cal/Mag, and SM-90.
Questions and comments welcome
