[d1ff1Ko1t]

Hi there fellow growers! Since the first time ive seen a colliseum (a couple of years ago), i was fascinated by it, but always thought it was a bit pricey. So i started to make my own design, trying to improve its flaws too since i was at it. Well the biggest flaw is the price, but hey that's why i'm making my own. The second flaw is that u cant move the plants closer to or away from the lights. The third one is that u have to grow the same strain and ur clones have to be the same height in each cup so they stretch at the same rate. After a couple of failures i finally managed to build a system that eliminates all 3 of these flaws. Back then, i was pretty bad at cloning, so i had a hard time to keep a continuous flow of healthy clones into my system, but even under these circumstances i managed to pull 9 lbs in 8 weeks. I honestly think the system is capable of more, i'd say up to 12 lbs. I used this system for about a year, but then i was out of the growing scene for a couple of years. Now i'd like to build one again pretty soon and i'm asking u guys' help to make it even more efficient. There is lots of room for improvement still, opened to suggestions So here is the rundown: I was using 2 x 1000W HPS. the system had 6 poles hosting 40 plants each = 240. The poles were filled with hydroton and drip fed from the top. Each pole was standing in a 3 gallon bucket that was connecting back into the reservoir. Each bucket was sitting on a dolly with WHEELS, that i made out of 2x2s i had laying around and bought the wheels from home depot for about $7 each. The pole u see on the pic is made of COROPLAST, a type of vinyl plastic that comes in 4 x 8 feet sheets and is used in signmaking, pretty easy to get and very cheap, about $8 a sheet. It kind of looks like a sheet of cardboard if u look at it from the side, but its a ridgid plastic. Its very easy to work with. So i took 1 of these 4x8 sheets, cut 1 foot off (because i had low ceilings) and bent it into a hexagon shape and taped it together. After that cut out the 40/240 holes, fitted the little netcups in,then set it in the buckets that r connected to the res, fill it up with hydroton put the plants in and i was ready 2 rock. As long as i have strong clones, no need to veg in my opinion, u can move the plants as close to the light as u want (specially if u have cooltubes), I can have a different strain in each pole, i can have poles at different stages of flowering as long as i have a couple reservoirs. As they grow i could move them further away from the light, keeping them at optimum distance, eliminating stretch!!!

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some more pics

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and some more

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and the finish product

[TEERCSIdbREEDER]

what was your final yeild? did those two 100s pay off?

[*mistress*]

nice concept & garden... considered doing this w/ those tall, rectangular trash cans that are used for recycling & underneath bar counters. the slim profile & height provides lots of room for media.

beautiful!

enjoy your garden!

nice job there, 9 lbs off 2k?

[d1ff1Ko1t]

my yield was usually around 1.5 lbs per pole, 9 lbs per system, but like i said i used to suck at cloning. If i could have filled it up with healthy clones all the time, my yields would have been way more than that. i wouldnt use the 1000 watters again, they suck too much electricity and put out too much heat. On my next run i'll use aircooled 600's, that's the real deal.

[Pyrosin]

maybe a reflective top and bottom too thatd keep some lumens in

[d1ff1Ko1t]

thats not a bad idea, i was thinking about that too but with the 1000s all the heat would collect at the top, but on the other hand using cooltubes it wouldnt be an issue.