Yeah, Dirt! That Cheez looks tasty - and abundant!
Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
- Thread starter StinkBud
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There's always room for one more! I look forward to seeing your grow room develop and your Stinkers flourish!
greenthumb111
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Dago you rock!! What a haul. You nailed this grow on the head. That romulus looks dank. We will be expecting a smoke report from you.
Dirt what can I say, you've done it again. Great looking grow.
openhorizon
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Check page 75 Chaos, it has it all. I just finished reading the thread.
NewHiddenGrower
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The system is good, but no stinkbud's system does not blow every system away. I have 3 600 watts on a light mover with 25 buckets DWC and i yielded 5 LB off Master Kush from Nirvana.
Stinkbud is the most simple system out there for a new grower though! I started out with it. yield 14 oz each unit without Co2 and with 600watt HPS only.
So you can compare. Each unit needs 1 600watt for 1 pound avg. So 3 lights = 3 Pounds. You also dont have to worry about a sprayer clogging or the pump failing.
I have 25 buckets with 3 600watts and i get 5 lb. So you see? DWC is better than small aeroponic set up.
NewHiddenGrower
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So you got 1 pound and 6 ounches from 1 system? or 2 system?
westmich
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Check just a few pages back for an updated PDF.
Thank you very much. Got it.Hey StinkBuddies,
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This is a good design but, It has a major drawback:
- AC Power. If you lose power, you have minutes to deal with how to feed/water your plants. They will die quickly.
With Ebb and Flow systems you have plenty of time and can hand feed. Murphys law says this will occur.
UPS systems die quickly trying to fire up those timers and pumps every 5 minutes so, that is not practical.
Generators? No thanks. That's for huge commercial grows.
Flood trays and tanks. Simple. Many plants in 4 inch pots moving from Prop-Clone to Veg to Flower areas and time zones.
Use Co2 and stay on PH and PPM readings and you'll be great. Three areas, Three time zones with the CO2 in Veg and Flower areas.
If possible, 3 homeboxes and 1ea 2 ft HO rig, 1 400 LED from haightsolidstate.com for Veg and their 800 for flowering.
Yow.
- AC Power. If you lose power, you have minutes to deal with how to feed/water your plants. They will die quickly.
With Ebb and Flow systems you have plenty of time and can hand feed. Murphys law says this will occur.
UPS systems die quickly trying to fire up those timers and pumps every 5 minutes so, that is not practical.
Generators? No thanks. That's for huge commercial grows.
Flood trays and tanks. Simple. Many plants in 4 inch pots moving from Prop-Clone to Veg to Flower areas and time zones.
Use Co2 and stay on PH and PPM readings and you'll be great. Three areas, Three time zones with the CO2 in Veg and Flower areas.
If possible, 3 homeboxes and 1ea 2 ft HO rig, 1 400 LED from haightsolidstate.com for Veg and their 800 for flowering.
Yow.
Yeah - power is critical. You actually have quite a bit of time should a pump fail or the power go out... once the root mat is formed, it can hold water for quite some time. I have mistakenly left my pumps off for a couple hours with little more than a little wilting - they all came back. One of our Stink flush methods actually cuts the water off for 12 hours before filling and final flushing with Sweet. To keep the system alive while the pumps are not working - simply raise the front up so water is retained in the post. You can hand water down the end of the fence post until power returns or the pump can be replaced. Even easier than hand watering your ebb and flow should pumps fail.
I consider myself lucky - as I have yet to have a pump fail in production. I even had to evacuate my house for a week due to fire - and still got in a healthy harvest with power outages, etc. We take the risk in this system as the returns for growing with this method are excellent. Your ebb and flow is certainly a safer way to go!
If you are really worried about pump failure and still want to go aero: Use two pumps on two different cycle timers. Set both to water 1 on 10 off. Start the second pump 5 minutes after the first pump. The pumps will alternate irrigation duty producing the desired 1/5 cycle. Should one pump fail, 1 on / 10 off will work until the second pump can be repaired or replaced.
And we never have to clean hydroton! I ebb and flow too - but I hate rinsing and cleaning hydroton!
All systems have disadvantages... My buddy who only grows in pots with soil, thinks the ebb and flow is too reliant upon electricity! He thinks my Aero room is downright crazy!
Nice - let's see some pictures!
dagobaker
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i have 2 systems under each 600 hps in a 4 x 4 area
this was one system so i consider it 300 hps used.....
lets be honest though.....im still new to growing this system
with co2 i have had 15///12.5///12.5///22 oz my last 4 runs
ill be harvesting 2 more systems in 3 weeks with different strains and i will see how much i can yield
i think it will take a year to totally tweak my system with the best genetics since the system and nutes are perfect
might like to experiment with the new 5 band led 350 watters this fall
BIGTIMEROOFERR
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dagobaker
stink has three systems under three 1000watters
and your saying you have two systems under two 600watters is this right?????????
oh yea nice harvest
stink has three systems under three 1000watters
and your saying you have two systems under two 600watters is this right?????????
oh yea nice harvest
dagobaker
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here is a pic of one of my 600 hps with 2 units under them
(dont mind the bud in the middle..i was finishing some hempy 1 gallon plants before the new plants took off...free light lol)
i yielded 22 oz from 1/2 of what u see
if i keep up with this unit u see there is no reason i cant yield 40 oz total from it
this unit is about 2 weeks into 12/12....see the plants starting to flower
my romulus is about a 10 weeker
ps.....ive raised the light about 8 inches since i took this......damn things grow like crazy when u give the veg nutes for the first 2 weeks
greatest system on earth
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dagobaker
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ive always learned that light equals bud...........but..........at what point is that overkill?.........i dont think u need a 1000 watter for each stink bud system...its 4 foot long and 2 to 3 foot wide with the growth......
a 1000 hps will easily light a 5 by 5 but in reality a 6 by 6 area.......i dont have mine air cooled......so i could not do that
i have 6 stink bud flower and 2 veg units (still building) being used as sog flowering units under 2600 hps watts.......and i think its enough
i was curious about stinks yield from the 2000 watts to the 3000 watts......i know he said the bottom buds were much fatter
a 1000 hps will easily light a 5 by 5 but in reality a 6 by 6 area.......i dont have mine air cooled......so i could not do that
i have 6 stink bud flower and 2 veg units (still building) being used as sog flowering units under 2600 hps watts.......and i think its enough
i was curious about stinks yield from the 2000 watts to the 3000 watts......i know he said the bottom buds were much fatter
To fit my room I am gonna make 3 units with 3 rails 42 inchs long with 6 sites per rail. What size pump should I use? Will the 396gph pump still be fine cause there will be 18 ez clone sprayers vs the 14 in the orginal design.
Been trying to read through to see if someone else has done already but only at page 100 so far.
Got the Veg Unit up and running for a week now and I love it.
Been trying to read through to see if someone else has done already but only at page 100 so far.
Got the Veg Unit up and running for a week now and I love it.
