I would suggest no more than 18 pots per 55 gallon rez. My buddy is having me set one up like that under two 1000w lights. 9 pots under each 4' by 4' air cooled hood. It's what I felt was a killer combo. If it works out good, he'll have me do another one next to it so he can harvest 9 plants every 2 weeks...I'm one of his paid trimmers so it works for me to say the least. Cookies, Brownies, awesome weed and money...I want this every 2 weeks!!!
I use vasoline on all fittings when putting them together. I use it on the gromets, and the fittings going into the gromets, and putting on the hoses. Zero leaks.Its not just leaks in the system that make carpet a bad choice if you never have a leak....... Its what about the time when you want to rearrange the plants so the short one is in the middle and the tall ones are around the outside? The buckets WILL drip a little water on the floor no matter what you do. And sometimes the plastic fittings crack, your controller may overfill if a float fails and spills the entire reservoir worth of nutrient solution all over the floor too. What about when you want to hand water a plant that got some nutrient burn with some fresh clean water and you spill the half gallon on the floor when you trip on a mouse?
If the carpet was at least white to reflect the light that hits the floor from only having 6 plants using 1/2 of the space of the lights for the first 4 weeks of flowering then that'd be cool at least.
But yea, congrats on having NO LEAKS! We ALL still get a water spill -- eventually.
5 gallon buckets are retarded on an Ebb & Grow. Your plants wont ever use that much of a bucket. I grow mine 4 feet tall and they barely use half of the 3.5 gallon buckets......... All you'll do is promote water loss and waste nutrients really. Most people using 5 gallon buckets have purchased them from Lowes or Home Depot because they are cheap and in stock. They are most certainly NOT the best or proper bucket for E&F unless your going to veg them for a few MONTHS before flowering (which, some people for outdoors would, but not on indoor Hydroton E&G)
With respect to Grow Elf's system, it's cute and new and whatever, but this is the cap thread, not other companies. Everyone who posts on RIU about grow elf always has a very low post count and I think its more trolling for good publicity than anything. Most new people are asking questions, rather than sucking a manufacturers dick right off the bat.
no not one. i haven"t had a flood, failed float, clock malfunction, or the dreaided leak.
sorry if my rag comment was hash, but maybe i spend more time managing plants then i spend posting. im not selling anything, im a consumer passing on info about good equipment. in an industry that takes advantage of as many people as possible, selling shit products im simply trying to pass on good info for fellow growers. not sucking their dicks as you put it. i dont know when you got so angry, but i remember you asking about the brain part of the growelf back in april. sooo, you with your almost 900 posts sounds as if you are growing your post count not plants. maybe im wronge. sorry, if im wrong. i will work on pics and post count asap.
i have cut back roots on small plants, only iin my ez cloner. only as an experiment, and it was on a round of grape ape. the results were... the plant i cut stoped growing until the rooots started to grow again. this took about 3 days. i did this because my veg plants were not ready to move to flower yet. so this worked to slow the growth, to pause them to some exstent. hope that helps. how big is the top of this plant?
36 plants under 4000w of light is the same ratio of lights to plants as I run now. 3.5 gallon buckets work the best, space em 9 per, veg them for 3 weeks under a 1000w lamp. My reservoir for these 36 plants is 55 gallons, and I have to top it off by about 10-15 gallons towards the end of flowering when they are drinking a lot.
