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Lol, thanks bro..........pretty Thomas Edison's device would work, whereas the jury is still out on mine (but I've got my fingers crossed :) ).
Looking good Bobby! Your work caught my eye on the UC vs Aero thread, I love your DIY colli so much I think I'm building one. :D I have a GroBot so I think your design is the best way to start LP/NFT and convert to HP. What I wanted was a bare bulb 1k around 4 trees in a UC/RDWC and a quick-zero veg SOG running off 1 GroBot controlled res. A half size version of your setup is perfect and doubling it later on is easy if needed. Do you think a single 1k would work in a 3 level version?
fill the thing up & run it already :-)
less data & more green leafy things...
Yeah, I don't see why not - that being said, the more lights, the more efficient it is and the more even the lighting is throughout the canopy - better to have more small lights than fewer large lights, all else equal.
I got rid of my 1Ks when I designed my new setup, so I can't take any light readings for you, but if you can get light readings off of a vertical bulb, I can give you the dimensions of both my 4" base setup and my new 3" base setup and you can work from there - that being said, I'd recommend the 3" base if only use the (1) 1K bulb - however, if I was gonna run 4 1Ks vertically in my cooltube, I'd have stayed with the larger 4" base diameter.
If you're handy at all, there are a lot more options open to you - if I knew when I started what I know now, I'd definitely do a fair number of things differently (and save lots of money).
Kdog, you're about a half year late on your recommendation.
Had 10 clones in the system for the past couple of days and they didn't die, so I filled that motherfucker up today - have lights 1 & 3 (from the bottom) on at 75% intensity, so 900 total watts going.
76F, 63% RH, CO2 @400-600PPMs, 5.5pH, 300PPMs.
Some of the clones are better than others, so I'm hoping for a two week veg before I start flowering - still debating whether or not to be a screen in there..........decisions, decisions.
EDIT: took pics today but want to wait to make sure all the clones live before I post them :)
Still haven't put plants in the E&F setup (aside from a short test); been focusing 100% on getting the octagon setup so the veg tent has taken a backseat.
Cloner wasn't a temp issue, was simply not 100% clean, which is murder for those things.
Just ran in and checked, plants seem to be doing fine, so I'm good on cuts for the moment - definitely looking for those strains, but one or two of each should be fine to let me get setup for next run.
Kaiser, I'm as unhandy as they come and I got it setup - it's really pretty easy, but there are much better ways to do it than the way that I did - it really depends on what you're looking to do - what's your *final* plan for your setup? I.e., what are you looking to accomplish?
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