Vertically Challenged :)

[Seamaiden]

Just. Wow. You've got this system pretty much dialed in.

 

[Desertboy]

Just. Wow. You've got this system pretty much dialed in.

It's more bumbling than dialled lol, I added some support there's 2 bud box yield shelfs (The white mesh) which is 1.2m and below is green plastic mesh which you can only just see if you squint lol.

Will train them over the next few days I think stretch is largely over and was not that bad to deal with :)

 

[Desertboy]

Ticking over :)

I had to lean the net forward to get access and need to sort the empty bit out plants need to trained back in but lights went off on me.

I fucked up I should have put the net up 1 week before! I mostly got it sorted but a week before and it would have been perfect basically when you restack with an empty pot put the net in then!

 

[Desertboy]

It's starting to stink in a way that only people who have grown Blue Cheese will appreciate lol ;)

 

[Mr Bee]

Ah man thats aewsome des.those wee stackin vert pots are so cool.iv been trying to find em online for a while but i cant find em.any help would be appreciated bro.
also are u on another forum under a different name?

 

[Desertboy]

Mr Bee I should probably have mentioned it before lol, the brand is vertically-challenged (I stole the name for my thread as it's an uber cool name lol) and the pots are called Doublers which is just also plain excellent lol.

I also go under the name Tutu as I like pink dresses ha ha ha.

 

[youngjigga]

very sweet set up bro. just 1,daft thing! mate that tent floors manky as hell.lol. u might get bugs or mold etc. mine gets dirty but every week i bleach it down with ona bleach.anyway
peace.
great luck.not u need it like.looks amazing.

The first 9 are under hps now I will veg for 3-4 days then I will pot them into the vertical pots, another 6 are showing roots I will wait till I get another 9 rooted then pot up the same as these. The first wall will go in a few days before the 2nd one, I want to harden them off before they go into the verticals so we can use the 400w straight away, now need to make decision HPS or MH I do have both lamps to hand.

Having 2 walls staggered will give me more idea on perfecting veg time the key to doing well in something like what I have is getting the veg time spot on and this will be different strain to strain lol. Defo the key to good results will be growing clones of the same plant in 1 wall mixing different plants in walls would be less than optimal I'm sure. I'm pretty certain to get 2g/w in a circle you will need to grow the same strain several times to perfect the technique.

Yes we do need to clean the tent out lol, the bigger plant is the mum, the cloner is refilled as I have several friends I'm supplying clones to so they can run this system as well in different forms, one is going full circle, 1 making a wall and 1 is building a microgrow with a 250w hps and 6 planters.

The decision to go organic with soil was easy I ran out of coco, perlite, vermiculite and fytocell. Buying compost today is going to be uber fun :) I can already imagine the looks.

And yes my heated prop overheated so I cut the plug off and use it as a tray only now

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[youngjigga]

That looks cool

I keep light levels very low where I clone I only use 2 11w CFL lamps which is probably why I haven't seen slime in the aeroprop but I do have long cloning times 14-18 days where as when I did use a 250w hps originally I was seeing roots at day 7 and well rooted by day 11/12. I do find you never get any yellowing at lower light levels and obviously it's cheaper to to run.

I have a separate box I clone in and run the sprayers 24/7 I only use the aerocloner in cold weather if I clone over summer I normally use a glass of water on the windowsill with 90-95% success rate.

My heated prop thermostat failed and it over heated itself which is maybe why it was $15 lol you get what you pay for.

I also have one of these props but I never us it was >$120 but is actually crap never got anything to clone in it yet.

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I will try it again for starting seeds only for veggies, the propagators that come with it are very poor quality but it takes standard sized props so easy to replace.

 

[Desertboy]

very sweet set up bro. just 1,daft thing! mate that tent floors manky as hell.lol. u might get bugs or mold etc. mine gets dirty but every week i bleach it down with ona bleach.anyway
peace.
great luck.not u need it like.looks amazing.

I cleaned the tent since the first pics lol it's not dirty anymore although there is a few leaves on the floor which came off during scrogging (I bent the shit out of these lol because I was too late adding the net)

 

[Desertboy]

I lost 2 plants due to dripper failure, organic nutes + drippers == blockage having to hand water which is rather difficult lol. Gutted to have a whole in the middle and top should have been on the watering better. If I rotated the plants and light I could have got easy access to hand water to end or if I could open the side vents on the tent.

Bud is nicely forming now was going to restack but I think it would do more harm than good right now. I would recommend anyone else who uses this system to dripper feed with hydroponic medium and feed that's what I will do next time I run this.

The tent honks to high heaven but outside the tent you cannot smell a thing got to say loving these rhino filters.

 

[Desertboy]

Might use some pk13/14 I've already decided to never use these nutes again and not bothered about organic, next time definitely hydro dripper from day 1.

I'm using a relatively low volume of medium so it's essential to water and feed daily this feed performs fine in larger pots but seems to be lacking punch in smaller pots.

Light to plant distance is 15" and I could pull back another 8" yet but I was going to add another net to stop the plants collapsing into the light as the weight of the bud develops.

 

[Trickiebush]

Still got my eye on this one bro.. very outta the box..

 

[Ninjasmoker]

@Desertboy did these ever finish mate ? looking really nice on the pics :)

 

[Dunge]

The lesson from this thread is, "don't do this".

This setup prevents adaptation and response to the plants needs.
I was ready to see it work, but had my concerns.
Thanks for the show.

 

[Ninjasmoker]

The lesson from this thread is, "don't do this".

This setup prevents adaptation and response to the plants needs.
I was ready to see it work, but had my concerns.
Thanks for the show.

How'd you know it didn't work? Could be plenty of other reasons why the journal hasn't been updated man ..

Any update @Desertboy

 

[Desertboy]

How'd you know it didn't work? Could be plenty of other reasons why the journal hasn't been updated man ..

Any update @Desertboy

Sorry I missed the thread I'm active in the UK growers thread and I get like 30 alerts a day so I pay no attention to them any more.

They were at a friends house and they got ripped by nasty bastards remember lads Lesson No.1 never tell other people you know. I'm setting another one up with the same system at a different location, sort of the same way I'm going semi circular, I vegged these 4 for clones which took about 10 days from rooted toothpicks.

These plants would be too big too flower now.

The cuts will all go into to compost these plants were coco but with summer coming I can't be arsed with pythium problems

 

[Desertboy]

The lesson from this thread is, "don't do this".

This setup prevents adaptation and response to the plants needs.
I was ready to see it work, but had my concerns.
Thanks for the show.

I learnt 2 things
1. If you want something doing do it yourself
2. You need to water these every single day so drippers would be ideal but with summer coming will stick to hand watering. I've seen a hack on another site for hand watering these which I will steal.

I have seen these run successfully so I'll just keep hammering at it till I get the results I want.

 

[Desertboy]

Theses are mostly compost but there are a set of coco in there GG4, GSC and BC 12 days into flower. I curved the grow so it's 1.6m along the curve using a 400w lamp.

 

[WhoopDeeDoo]

 

[Desertboy]

The watering is done through the black hose which tee's in picture then tee's again in between the planters to deliver water to 4 stacks evenly I have another one set up for the 2 stacks of coco which is fed separately so I can use 2 different feeds.