stevewinthrop
Member
Alright boys and girls, I just gotta show you my deep dark secret.
My background goes back a few years, I've been a designated caregiver for a patient up here for a while now, and I've grown in just about any style you can think of... Soil, coco, aero, dwc, nft, ebb n flood, flood tables, etc. I just happen to have a patient with a high requirement (most of the plant is turned into a thick crude oil. see phoenix tears for more information). I tried this same vertical setup as a test run with just a standalone wall and a 150w hps... Seemed to work great! Much faster than any other method I've tried.
Now I have 3 walls squeezed into a 4x4 area, with 1000w of light. Due to the method in which we process the medicine (using the whole plant, leaves/stems/buds) I've never actually had any sort of measurement to my success... At least not in bud weight.
Of course we aim for mostly bud in this system, but there has never been a need to weigh any of it, since it is immediately turned into sludge after harvest/drying.
Now to the growroom.
First we have my mother room... There were bigger mothers in there, but for now I have my ak48 mum in the 5 gal bucket (she was about 6 feet tall a month ago), and 5 new mothers, just topped and starting to put out sideshoots (strains are Matanuska Thunderfuck, Purple Urkle, Durban Poison, NYCD, and a local strain named 'slappy'). They are under a 2 foot, 4 bulb T5 from htgsupply.
Next is one of my cloning shelves. I use rapid rooters and standard cloning powder, with a 99% success rate in this shelf... I recently constructed a 16 site aerocloner, but i'm still looking for a home for him... At the moment it's under a bare bulb sitting on the floor. I take 22 clones every 2 weeks...
Next is the veg area, I have 2 shelves like this, each with a 15 site shallow water culture... I only veg the clones for 1-2 weeks, and the only reason I do this is because I've found that if I do not give them at least a little vegetative time, I end up with very little roots, which in the end = very little bud. They are sitting under 2 42 watt CFL's (one warm, one cool). There is a little single outlet variable output air pump powering a bubble ring. I feed them a little bit of N, and some Biobizz root juice.
Here is the aero cloner... Took maybe 10 minutes to put together out of parts I had lying around... Still needs a home tho! (the clones are looking terrible because i accidently hit the power switch on the pump last night, and it hasnt pumped for about 20 hours).
On to the flowering room!
As I stated before, it's a vertical aero/nft. Only reason I add the /nft, is because when the tubes are full of roots, the misters can only shoot so far, and it generally ends up running down the back of the tube, but for the first few weeks of flower, i see EXPLOSIVE growth. The system includes 15 vertical tubes, each with 5 plant sites, as for right now it is only hanging on 3 of the walls, because I have yet to engineer the swinging door for the 4th wall.
I am running a 600 watt hps (higher up) and a 400 watt light (lower down). The total grow area for the tubes is 5ftx3.5ft per wall, giving me 57 watts per sq foot on each wall.
She is powered by a 4000gph waterfall pump, and it dumps into a 25 gallon rubbermaid, and recirculates, I empty and replace water every week to minimize sprayer clogs. It is my first time working with this powerful of a pump, and I have to say it's done several things that I didn't expect, including eat an entire filter bag, and shit it into my lines. Luckily I have a 200 (i think) micron filter at each PVC end, so cleaning it wasn't too much work.
It's been running with no plants for about 3 weeks, and these plants have been in here almost 2. These ones are just test plants, with no veg time, and very little roots, but they seem to be catching on now, and are starting to bud fairly prolifically.
Now for the pictures.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to speak up!
-- steve
My background goes back a few years, I've been a designated caregiver for a patient up here for a while now, and I've grown in just about any style you can think of... Soil, coco, aero, dwc, nft, ebb n flood, flood tables, etc. I just happen to have a patient with a high requirement (most of the plant is turned into a thick crude oil. see phoenix tears for more information). I tried this same vertical setup as a test run with just a standalone wall and a 150w hps... Seemed to work great! Much faster than any other method I've tried.
Now I have 3 walls squeezed into a 4x4 area, with 1000w of light. Due to the method in which we process the medicine (using the whole plant, leaves/stems/buds) I've never actually had any sort of measurement to my success... At least not in bud weight.
Of course we aim for mostly bud in this system, but there has never been a need to weigh any of it, since it is immediately turned into sludge after harvest/drying.
Now to the growroom.
First we have my mother room... There were bigger mothers in there, but for now I have my ak48 mum in the 5 gal bucket (she was about 6 feet tall a month ago), and 5 new mothers, just topped and starting to put out sideshoots (strains are Matanuska Thunderfuck, Purple Urkle, Durban Poison, NYCD, and a local strain named 'slappy'). They are under a 2 foot, 4 bulb T5 from htgsupply.
Next is one of my cloning shelves. I use rapid rooters and standard cloning powder, with a 99% success rate in this shelf... I recently constructed a 16 site aerocloner, but i'm still looking for a home for him... At the moment it's under a bare bulb sitting on the floor. I take 22 clones every 2 weeks...
Next is the veg area, I have 2 shelves like this, each with a 15 site shallow water culture... I only veg the clones for 1-2 weeks, and the only reason I do this is because I've found that if I do not give them at least a little vegetative time, I end up with very little roots, which in the end = very little bud. They are sitting under 2 42 watt CFL's (one warm, one cool). There is a little single outlet variable output air pump powering a bubble ring. I feed them a little bit of N, and some Biobizz root juice.
Here is the aero cloner... Took maybe 10 minutes to put together out of parts I had lying around... Still needs a home tho! (the clones are looking terrible because i accidently hit the power switch on the pump last night, and it hasnt pumped for about 20 hours).
On to the flowering room!
As I stated before, it's a vertical aero/nft. Only reason I add the /nft, is because when the tubes are full of roots, the misters can only shoot so far, and it generally ends up running down the back of the tube, but for the first few weeks of flower, i see EXPLOSIVE growth. The system includes 15 vertical tubes, each with 5 plant sites, as for right now it is only hanging on 3 of the walls, because I have yet to engineer the swinging door for the 4th wall.
I am running a 600 watt hps (higher up) and a 400 watt light (lower down). The total grow area for the tubes is 5ftx3.5ft per wall, giving me 57 watts per sq foot on each wall.
She is powered by a 4000gph waterfall pump, and it dumps into a 25 gallon rubbermaid, and recirculates, I empty and replace water every week to minimize sprayer clogs. It is my first time working with this powerful of a pump, and I have to say it's done several things that I didn't expect, including eat an entire filter bag, and shit it into my lines. Luckily I have a 200 (i think) micron filter at each PVC end, so cleaning it wasn't too much work.
It's been running with no plants for about 3 weeks, and these plants have been in here almost 2. These ones are just test plants, with no veg time, and very little roots, but they seem to be catching on now, and are starting to bud fairly prolifically.
Now for the pictures.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to speak up!
-- steve
