Club Vert(600)

Dezracer said:

I really like the RDWC so far. I'm getting good a growth rate and it's simple to maintain which was the main goal so I'm really happy with things right now.

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dose your pots fill from the bottem dez?
that setup seems real simple,and i got most of that equipment now,hmm.

So i read the whole thread and love the idea of Vert scrog. What i was wondering is if many of you find you need to have access to both sides of your screen, for maintenance purposes, or can you get away with only one sided access?

genuity said:

dose your pots fill from the bottem dez?
that setup seems real simple,and i got most of that equipment now,hmm.

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Yeah the fill lines are about an inch up from the bottom creating a constant current down there so nothing can settle at the bottom of the buckets. It is very simple actually and all you need is some buckets, PVC, 1/2" hydro tubing with matching gromets, air pump, air stones, small water pump and net pots. The gromets and fittings can be bought at any hydro shop but can also be found at some hardware stores. I sat small water pump because there doesn't need to be any crazy exchange rate or anything since plants grow well in DWC anyway. Giving them some water flow just helps keep water temps and ph levels stabilized longer since there's a higher volume of water. I'm sure it does more than that but that's the main benefit I see.

Oriah said:

So i read the whole thread and love the idea of Vert scrog. What i was wondering is if many of you find you need to have access to both sides of your screen, for maintenance purposes, or can you get away with only one sided access?

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There typically isn't a need to access the backside of the screens as long as you can get to the front for tying them up and stuff.

Alright, thanks a lot.

genuity said:

thanks,so with you pump,you just run it to the top pipe system,and let it run down the pipes?
or do you got it filling the pipes up to a fill point?
do you have any dams/flow points,in your pipes?

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Yep. The pump runs 24/7 and just cycles the water from the tub to the top of the pipes and it just flows down. I have a few dams in the setup. They are there for 2 reasons. 1: for when the plants are young and don't have long enough roots to reach the bottom of the pipe. 2: if the electricity goes out having the water just drain out completely makes it so that I have to hand water quite often. With the dams if the elec goes out there is some water in the pipes just sitting for the plants to soak up slowly.

Dezracer said:

Jig's is simpler and I was going to do a system like that but wasn't sure about the roots clogging the pipe if I were to grow some biggin's so I went with the buckets. I know Jig has grown some good size plants in his so it most likely would have been fine

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Well I did clog my pipes once... and this last round I nearly clogged them. Not cool when you open the closet door and see water steady running out one of the netpot holes. paging Powdery Mildew... paging powdery milder.

Oriah said:

What i was wondering is if many of you find you need to have access to both sides of your screen, for maintenance purposes, or can you get away with only one sided access?

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I only have access to one side of my screen. I don't find any issues with it. One thing that helps it work is having 2" x 2" squares, so I can reach my fingers though and get a branch or something if I need to. With a smaller grid it would make that harder.

Sir Stickybuds said:

Anyone think I could barebulb a 600 in a vert 3x3? 6 feet - fan space for height. 465 cfm blower, already have equipment and am confined to this space. would I be better off going horizontal? Have a bake a round cooltube possible but lot of people say the glass will rob of lumens

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jigfresh said:

I don't know if you could get away with that. If you ran the bulb right down the middle of the space, it would probably light bleach a lot of the buds. And that's before you even think about heat (which will be pretty massive). Maybe if you stuck the light in one corner, but I don't see the point in that. I think if you are going to try bare bulb you will need the 6 feet of height to get the bulb far enough away to not cause heat or light damage. In my book bare bulbs are a luxury people with much larger spaces get to use.

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Samwell Seed Well said:

light bleach your kidding me right lol, mine are right down the middle, and doing great
1k's though

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Sir-if you tied your plants to a screen like jigs you could do it w/o a cooltube if you have cool passive air for the room.

jig-are you calling me luxurious? thems fightin' words.

Sam-your room seems a bit bigger than 3x3.

I will get some pics tonight of my new setup. until then heres the old one.


These are my favorite vert pics ever.....yeah jigfresh
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This is my new setup. It uses a 1000w bulb on a horizontal mover. 1 week into 12/12. Mostly DOG and Banana OG. I will be building another pipe setup like you see in the pic, on the opposite walls. It will be perpetual, harvesting once a month.

be intresting to see dog and banana og grown together

see,everytime i see that dwc vert,that jig did with that monster,makes me want to do that style of vert.
but then i see these pipes,and i know i can make a nice system.

dam strictly,that room is going to be full with dank buds.

Strictly... you could never be luxurious with irrigation pipe, lol. or a rebar footrest. Room is looking amazing though.

Genuity... The buckets are so freaking easy. I think thats why I didn't run them again, becuase I just have to do things the hard way and that grow was so easy. Wait... sorry... the hydro bit was easy... the training was a bitch. But if I did it again I would do it differently and not have it be so much work, and not lose so much of the actual plant from trimming.

@ SS - Nice system! I'm still envious of your grow room, rooms, or whatever you'd like to call it. Definitely a pimp setup.

@Jig - The rebar footrest tripped me out. SS is hard core like that though so he pulls it off nicely.

these info's are very basic.

Welcomes at RIU. We may not no much but we speek good.

Setup looks pimp keep at it !!!

I knew a dude named Farhad a long time ago. You wouldn't be using your name as your screen name are you? Also, nobody said we weren't offering basic info. There are some things people need to learn by doing as opposed to reading. Welcome to this thread anyhow farhad and if you stick around, I'm sure you'll learn a thing or two about vertical growing.

Any honest person will tell you that they learn something new daily and that they don't know half of what others may think they know or what they would like to know. I for one, learn new things every day and even though I feel I have a solid handle on growing, still have much to learn.

I'll be building a new room soon and moving my hydro systems into it. It will be much better than now though with a near 10' ceiling, LOL. Hopefully I'll be able to swing a two tier version of what I have right now so I can harvest 8 plants every 4 weeks instead of 4 plants. It will be a little more discreet than just having some tents sitting in my garage which will also be nice.

So you talked the wife into it then, eh? Lol. Nice work bro. Looking forward to it.

I just put my vertical bulb in the closet, plants are still under it though so not sure if it counts as vert. More like inefficient use of light, haha. Hopefully they will be moving to the tubes in the next week. Then it should be about 9 weeks till harvest. I'll be sure to post up pics and vids here. Pics and vids reminded me of boats and hoes, haha. From step brothers.

peace vert crew!!!

Tah Dah!! 4 weeks into 12/12 on the left side, and the right side just got in there tonight. I will be adding a bottom tier later, right above the res'. The plants on the floor are in 3"x3"x4" delta rockwool cubes, and they are doing really well. I have them on coco mat in the black cloning trays, really simple. I have to water them by hand, but if i had thought about it I could have put them on a drip system. Not too bad for plants I was going to get rid of. As for the pipes, I love the simplicity of just one pump that runs all the time. Make sure you have a back up on hand, and your good. I will be adding an air pump to the res' tommorow. Im hoping the roots look whiter with more air.


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oh yea,thats banging room.
that thing is going to be monster full.