My latest Vert garden

I am missing exactly where you add the water to each bucket?

ttystikk said:

I am missing exactly where you add the water to each bucket?

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If you go back to post #25. Look at the top picture that shows the plants that I had just lolipoped. You can see 2 black 1/4" water lines coming into the top of the buckets. I just drilled two holes on opposite sides of the buckets, just big enough to get the line through. And once I pull a few inches of line through it and stick it down into the rock a bit they don't move.

GrowBros122 said:

Those are pretty big but it wont yield 7lbs maybe 3-4 that's still good for low plant count..look at these plants going they are 5-6 foot and vegged for months and will probably only yield close to half p each

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A half pound on an indoor plant is very respectable.

how big is your res? where is it situated in relation to the pots? i was trying to figure out how you feed and recirculate your solution. do you pump the solution into the pots and then it gravity feeds back in to the res? or you have more than one pump? can you please tell me what kind of pump you have as well?

also, what brand of ballasts and bulbs do you use?

Also, do you use an AC?

2x 5kw rooms on a flip flop might need around 2 tons?

Just trying to get a clearer picture of the set up, thanks @PKHydro

Im late to the party....did you say you think dry weight will be around 6-7 lbs on these? How many total plants are in there? sorry for making you rehash the info.

a senile fungus said:

how big is your res? where is it situated in relation to the pots? i was trying to figure out how you feed and recirculate your solution. do you pump the solution into the pots and then it gravity feeds back in to the res? or you have more than one pump? can you please tell me what kind of pump you have as well?

also, what brand of ballasts and bulbs do you use?

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Hey man, sorry, I wasn't ignoring ya.

My res is a big tote, I want to say like 80L (20gal). But I only have 10-12 gallons of nutrient solution recirculating at a time. The res is sitting on the floor(not concrete) outside the grow room, right on the other side of the wall. And then I have a 55gal barrel of fresh water sitting above that on a bench, with a float valve in my res. So when my res level drops it is constantly being topped up with fresh water. I've found a sweet spot with my pH levels so my res will drift from 5.7 to 6.0 every night, which I'm totally fine with.

If you look at some of the pictures that show the buckets, you'll notice they are on stands to raise them up off of the ground. This is to allow gravity to drain the water back into my res. I basically set it up so that the bottom of the buckets, are level with the top of the water in the res, if that makes sense. Easy way to do this is hook everything up, fill your res to operating level, then raise and lower your buckets. Once you hit the height where you are no longer getting water flowing back into the buckets, and instead is slowly draining your golden. If they're set too high though, I've found you can have problems with air locks and things not draining.
My pump is just a little submersible from the hydro shop. I was using a 1056gph (gallons per hour) but it failed one day and the shop only had a 850gph pump so I picked that up and it seems to work just as good. I can get the name brand of the pump if you wish.

I'm honestly not sure of the name of the ballasts I'm using, they are just your basic magnetic ballast, nothing fancy. And for bulbs I go with just a generic Phillips bulb for like $40 that I can switch out frequently.

This is a low dough grow show my friends. No fancy equipment, No AC. I have filtered intake air coming from a crawlspace under the house, and a 12" exhaust fan pulling all that hot air out.

Mid summer my temps get a little warm but the rest of the year my environment is stable and easy to control.

FilthyFletch said:

Im late to the party....did you say you think dry weight will be around 6-7 lbs on these? How many total plants are in there? sorry for making you rehash the info.

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Better late than never they always say!!

Yes 6-7 dry pounds. And there are 4 plants in the 12x12 room. I know for sure I'll hit at least 6, I'm hoping for closer to 7 this round.

A chicken wire/mesh light shade around them bulbs will allow you to sleep at night ....lol

nice pics

You know i could never get used to the idea of having to work around a metal "silo" so to speak @vostok. I have a wire grid that runs above the plants that I tie most of the branches to. Everything gets supported pretty well, so I don't really worry too much about anything falling on a light and burning. And if I forget a branch and it does start to lean over onto a light, I'll either catch it soon enough or the branch will snap completely and end up on the floor.

I sense that you dont have nutrient temp issues. Its just a guess though.

PKHydro said:

Hey man, sorry, I wasn't ignoring ya.

My res is a big tote, I want to say like 80L (20gal). But I only have 10-12 gallons of nutrient solution recirculating at a time. The res is sitting on the floor(not concrete) outside the grow room, right on the other side of the wall. And then I have a 55gal barrel of fresh water sitting above that on a bench, with a float valve in my res. So when my res level drops it is constantly being topped up with fresh water. I've found a sweet spot with my pH levels so my res will drift from 5.7 to 6.0 every night, which I'm totally fine with.

If you look at some of the pictures that show the buckets, you'll notice they are on stands to raise them up off of the ground. This is to allow gravity to drain the water back into my res. I basically set it up so that the bottom of the buckets, are level with the top of the water in the res, if that makes sense. Easy way to do this is hook everything up, fill your res to operating level, then raise and lower your buckets. Once you hit the height where you are no longer getting water flowing back into the buckets, and instead is slowly draining your golden. If they're set too high though, I've found you can have problems with air locks and things not draining.
My pump is just a little submersible from the hydro shop. I was using a 1056gph (gallons per hour) but it failed one day and the shop only had a 850gph pump so I picked that up and it seems to work just as good. I can get the name brand of the pump if you wish.

I'm honestly not sure of the name of the ballasts I'm using, they are just your basic magnetic ballast, nothing fancy. And for bulbs I go with just a generic Phillips bulb for like $40 that I can switch out frequently.

This is a low dough grow show my friends. No fancy equipment, No AC. I have filtered intake air coming from a crawlspace under the house, and a 12" exhaust fan pulling all that hot air out.

Mid summer my temps get a little warm but the rest of the year my environment is stable and easy to control.

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Inspirational.

I'm setting up something similar.

I'll be back and forth with ?s for ya, thank you so much for the explanations!


I didnt think i was being ignored, just thought maybe you'd see the ?s in your thread versus PM, no worries brah!

pinner420 said:

I sense that you dont have nutrient temp issues. Its just a guess though.

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Middle of summer my nutrient temps tend to be on the warm side. I was using ice jugs last year, along with more H2o2 treatments, and flushing once a week instead of every 2 weeks. This is only a pain in the ass for a month or so. Then it usually cools back down.

a senile fungus said:

Inspirational.

I'm setting up something similar.

I'll be back and forth with ?s for ya, thank you so much for the explanations!


I didnt think i was being ignored, just thought maybe you'd see the ?s in your thread versus PM, no worries brah!

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Right on man,

I'm interested to see what you come up with for a design. Feel free to ask whatever, I'll do my best answer!

Harvest day! So today is day 63, and the girls are getting the chop. The wife and I picked them clean last night, and tonight I chopped and hung them. Just wanted to share some pictures.

BEFORE:


AFTER:


HANGING:

Pushed it all tight to that wall to give me space while I work. I space it out when I'm done chopping and all cleaned up.


And these are some pictures of my other room, these girls are beasts. These are the ones that I trimmed up heavily on the bottoms and small middle shoots.

Great stuff everywhere I look! Gorgeous plants, awesome harvest! How fast do you get the room turned around?

Thanks buddy. My turn around time is about a week, week and a half. Once everything is trimmed and dried, the room and the hydro system gets a cleaning and then the next plants are brought in.

Lifes a garden dig it! That one lookes like shes got about 40 or more ozs on her. Impressed. Trees rule.

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