"The Stinky Earl" A Perpetual Vertical System in the Works.

**disposition84** · 02-18-2011, 01:12 AM

Gotta give respect where it's due when designing aero systems and these two guys had shit figured out. Stink bud had a good perpetual setup going with simple cheap design, gotta love that! Earl, another hydro guru loved to design systems that work for him instead of the other way around. So using inspiration from stink buds systems, and an earl-esque spray manifold and delivery method, I figured it only appropriate to find a cute name to give the system. Hence The Stinky Earl was born. Gotta also say thanks for all his hard work to Heath, if it weren't for his spectacular vertical hydro designs I would have never fell in love with the idea.

My plan is to have 4 of these units in a square pattern around the 2x 600w bulbs in a vertical fashion. This should allow me to have a smaller harvest every 2 or 3 weeks depending on finishing time of the strain. I haven't run this system to completion yet, but feel confident that things should go rather smoothly. An individual system cost me about 150 for everything, which I don't feel was too steep given the amount of parts I had to purchase to put it all together and given the cost of some vertical systems I have seen. It's also pretty versatile with the types of clones I can use being able to utilize 2" collars, 2" net pots, as well as 3" net pots. Checking the PH/PPM is as simple as unplugging one of the 6mm grommets and spraying some nutes into a cup.

Some future upgrades for the next versions to come:
- Cooler for reservoir (cooler waters plus convenient drain spout)
- Better access to reservoir via installed door of some kind
- Optional valves for turning manifold into drain pump as well for flushing/new nutes
- 3" to 2" pvc adapters installed into reservoir lid to act as "support" for aero beams

Ideas and suggestions welcomed

The first strain up is Pineapple Express, which will be followed up by Blueberry x Bubblegum and Chisel, followed up by Blue Dreams and Hindu Kusch for the first few rounds.

Enough talk here's pictures of what has begun so far

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**disposition84** · 02-18-2011, 01:22 AM

Pineapple express clones were transplanted and are going directly into flower under a 600w hortilux hps, and a 600w sunagro? convertible MH. They're living in an ambient temp of 74* and reservoir temp of 68-72* water. Being fed ph 5.8 700ppm of Dyna-gro bloom, protect, and cal mag. Never used dyna-gro so if any of you dyna-pros out there wanna give some advice it'd be much appreciated. So far everything has been a breeze, nutes keep everything super stable and besides a small bit of lollipop ping, super cropping, and topping things are pretty
much set for the next 7 weeks of bloom for these girls.

I had accidentally left the pump unplugged for about 12 hours one day when I was making some adjustments and this caused some browning to the roots. The new roots are all whiter than the PVC they're sitting in.

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**disposition84** · 02-21-2011, 11:11 AM

Thanks man, it'll be a lot more interesting once things get perpetualized

**Kevdogg5555** · 02-21-2011, 05:50 PM

very nice work there dispo; A suggestion you already might of considered is to maybe but a reflector on the tubes; I see a lot of lost light that could be more focused on your babies.

**disposition84** · 02-21-2011, 06:42 PM

I had thought about that but going to hold off until everything is exactly as I want it. Gonna
try a few slight differences on the next module to go next weekend. Still taking things apart
at times to check out how things are going inside the tubes. Once everything is where I want
it that's definitely on my list of things to do. Thanks for the input!

**quietguy420** · 02-21-2011, 10:49 PM

Mad scientist kicking hydro ass as always =D

**micmart3000** · 02-22-2011, 06:52 AM

Beautiful design!

Sub'd

Cant wait to see how it turns out!

**disposition84** · 02-22-2011, 09:41 AM

Round two clones will be ready in about a week, ended up with 4x blueberry x bubblegum, 2x Chiesel, and 2x Alaskan Thunderfuck. Was a bit hesitant to mix 3 strains in one system, but well see how things go and hopefully it'll just leave me with that much more variety.

System is roughly a week and half into first round.

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