Choc, fair enough, you did mention a suggested watering schedule-my fault
well said, i really wish i could have talked to other growers 20 yrs ago, sure would have saved me a lot of $$$ and failed cropsOP: I've read this whole thread carefully. What I'm seeing in you is a guy with a lot of understanding "in theory" asking questions from guys who have experience. And then after you've asked for their experience, you still want "theory" to win. Nobody here giving you advice is selling you anything or getting anything for steering you toward or away from any concept. It's all intended to help.
Everybody experiments and you should too. But the reason that I post my grow threads from concept to sketch to build to grow is so that I have experts (like the homies in here trying to help you) throwing insight at me throughout the process.
On my builds my concept changed in some pretty major ways from start to finish based on the input of the growers in our community.
If you aren't sure who to listen to, you should be reading threads of your own choosing and finding voices that speak to you. What I do is go to a section I want to know more about (i.e. Vertical / Colosseum Growing) and then read the stickies or click on the column to sort all the views in the subforum by # of posts or # of views and then read them thoroughly.
Good luck with your grow and please post up your results so we can all learn with you.