Yea those fucking multi-thousand dollar systems make me shake my head too.
You know - it's been a few years but I remember seeing a system almost exactly like that - the creator called it the "space shuttle" and claimed 2lbs/month on each fence post off a 2kw system.
Nice setup there generic.
Thanks. I'll be dropping five Burmese Kush (in rockwool bits) into the fence-poster in a day or three. Gotta pick up some bleach and do a full sanitization of it to remove any pathogens and any nasties from the production of the materials. I'll take some pics along the way with my phone cam. It's better than nothing. Just waiting for a more solid root bed under my clones before I move 'em in to the fence post...
Trying to sort out my feeding schedule as it is going to be much different than our table. Since the fence post is enclosed we'll have much less (almost none) evaporation and it will take much longer for the top of the pots to dry out a bit so I'll probably hand-feed for the first two weeks to establish a solid feel for what it likes.
I'm thinking I'm gonna start at 5 or 6 15-minute feedings a day and bump it up or down depending on how the plants/roots like it. They'll be topped at least twice, trained out wide and flat for 3-5 weeks, flipped over to the bloom room, placed under the trellis on the old table, and my finisher will be busy as heck tucking and training for the first three weeks. As we move deeper into the rotation he'll end up converting to the fence-posters as well once I have it dialed-in. Finally, after twenty-some years, we'll get rid of that big ugly plywood table aka "room humidifier" and we'll be self-contained in fence post from beginning to end.
Or at least that's how the plan goes. I'm sure reality will be VERY different!
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Re: Shiny new gear:
The local mom & pop grow shop is trying to sell "The Terminator" a store-built 12 site aeroponic/flood & drain behemoth for just under a grand. Light(s) extra. Same schtick about multi-Lbs every month.
It's turning yellow from sitting in the window for the past two years. If he'd price it around $450-$500 it would sell and he'd still put a few bucks in his pocket. I guess he figures that it doesn't eat much, it's paid-for, and eventually some noob will come along and buy it. He's probably right.
It's kind of funny, in a sad way, because he has ONE plant in it. Some rhododendron <sp> or some other easy-to-grow houseplant and it's barely alive. He's got this HUGE monstrosity chugging along flooding and fogging and looking all cool with valves and floats and yadda yadda yadda and way down there at the end is this one little tiny washed-out sprig of pale green hanging on for dear life.
Since my state has gone medical it's gotten really fun to watch. Lots of "only used for one grow" gear available on the cheap as 95% of the growers in this state have 2 years experience or less. Lots of folks shooing the wad on all new gear, discovering that it ain't all gravy, and before you know it they've got it listed in the paper for a dime on the dollar. Some GREAT deals to be had if you don't need it today...
Since I've completely lost the topic and will probably get spanked I better shut it down so...
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Stay green all!
-GenEric
