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Yea, those rockwool cubes make me nervous.. lots of potential for problems. See, I just try to stay away with rockwool... that's why aero appeals to me so much. No medium needed!
Looked at those the other day ;) Nice efficient set up Cana
awesome grow man
Just got done putting up the nets...And flipped to 12/12 let the show begin.
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Looks awesome, man! You've got 4kw in there?
Homie I ran this exact same system in my backyard shed circa 1996!
Was at the local Hardware store and seen these, Thinking about trying them out with my next run. have the plants sitting on top of the channels, run a pipe along the top with spray nozzles pointing down on to the roots ? have the run off going onto a rez, then pumped back up to the gutters . I been thinking up this ideal for a while going to have to build it and see what happens.
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I have been running this type of system since 1986. I attached rain gutters to the sidewall of my commercial greenhouse. Three rows on each side, 110' each. They drop 4' over the length of the run. I grow lettuce, basil, peppers, and melons in them. They use up what was just unused space in the greenhouse and the cost to run them is minimal. The produce I sell from them virtually covers my yearly operating expense for the entire greenhouse.
I made lids for mine out of sheets of corrugated plastic. You can get 4'x8' sheets from most plastic suppliers and simply cut them into 4"x8' strips and then use a hole saw to cut holes at whatever spacing you want. I have found the 1.5" rockwool cubes are all you need and they cost less than the 3"!View attachment 365722
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First picture is the lettuce I grow, second is basil, third is yellow and red ghost chilies, and the fourth shows the whole system attached to the sidewalls. I have grown just about every type of plant imaginable out of these except for root veggies. No photos of cannabis but it grows just as well with this type of system.
Nice build Cana. Do you know/remember the brand of those gutters with the guard? I want to use something like
those for drainage on the bottom of DIY coco beds. Thanks
Now that's a beautiful system you have going there, wow I am amazed the whole set up clean and neat and well organized. if you can provide any more info on this set up please feel free to post. How are they feed? is the system on the floor suspended in the air ? Thanks for the tips and sharing
Do you use different nutrient regimens for different plants, or are they all on the same stuff?No flushing since it's running all the time, nothing ever builds up above the level I want to run my nutrient at. Taste is every bit as good as possible. I sell out of what I grow every single week and could sell a lot more if I had the space. No need to raise or lower the gutters but the taller the crop, the lower they need to be to the ground. I place the peppers and melons in the bottom row. The melons run out and down the floor along the sidewall and the peppers grow up until they hit the plastic, about 6', and then I start topping them. I have run much larger versions of this right on the floor of greenhouses and grown tomatoes and English cucumbers for 9-10 months at a time.
I make all my own nutrient due to better quality, more control, and of course lower cost. I can easily go through 1500 gallons of food/water a day during the summer in this greenhouse.
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