Yea, I don't want to put up pictures of a full grow room. It's always been above my risk-tolerance.
Starting the cut down in a few days, going to make a few changes to the room. The room (not the UC) needs fine-tuning, especially in regards to the humidity. The room is sealed tight (40 lbs of LP lasted me 1 week of veg + 70 days of flower heh). I thought I could take care of my fungus gnat problem, but apparently they can smell vegetation a mile away. So i've begun cycling in pyrethrum in a fogger and
neem oil right on the root mass, a long with sticky-traps, once a week during res changes. I don't think i'll ever get rid of the gnats, but I should be able to keep them under control. I've never grown trees before and I never had fungus gnat problems during flowering so this is definitely a learning experience every cycle.
The water chiller requirements for a UC system is considerably less than using MPB tubs. It's a huge difference when the tubs are sitting on concrete vs elevated in the air.
I was hoping to get away with only a 7 day veg time in the UC/MPB system, but it seems like yield is considerably higher when you veg in the DWC systems. I have a separate mother/veg area so I was hoping to keep my flowers room constantly going with little veg time, but it seems like a good 14 day veg in the DWC system is ideal before going 12/12.
Of course, this is all separate of the UC/MPB system. DWC and growing trees is a learning experience.
My first run in my MPB was .9gpw and has been increasing ever since. Certain strains will let me easily go 1.1gpw. However, my yield gets bumped up a lot due to my side buckets that get one side of light. Those fuckers yield 1/3 to 1/2P per bucket heh.