*Vertical* 2,000watts = 6lbs!!

Thanks for all the encouragement. I am not ready to move from the comfort of soil. I hope this will inspire others like myself to take on the move to vertical.

The pictures at the beginning of the post are just examples of other verticals set ups that have inspired my building. Although the bigger picture is of a set up I consider to be less efficient because he is using 3 (1000) watt lamps and still only getting 6lbs.

The Room that we built here is 8x8 enclosed and with fixed shelves that are not on wheels. Again the last person to do this room got 6lbs from 34 plants.

Ok I'm back lets start with the shelving. Originally in the GB setup he put in 2 level of shelving, with 32 plants total to achieve the standard 6lbs.
The more and more reading I do suggest that achieving higher yields would involve more plants. So I added a 3rd shelf after installing them the first time, that means some of the pictures are a bit confusing.


Primed and Painted the wood panels for shelving.


Put up brackets for shelves with shims to angle them slightly for the drainage system.

Bolted tight to the studs on the wall.


All the shelves are up the first time but will be taken down and moved around to make room for one more shelf.


Caulked the shelves so that the water will run down into the drainage points. There are drains in 2 corners opposite of each other.

Super cheap looking I know, but what works... works!


Up next: Adding in the Cooltube

damn bro, props to you, get this shit going! looks and sounds killer!

This is how I set up my cool tube originally, the plans are changing. Since I am adding in another shelf with more plants I have decided to purchase a Can66 Carbon Scrubber for added security.

My original set up featured a hand made Carbon scrubber using the DIY Carbon scrubber for Dummies design.

Back to cool tube action!
Since my room is a perfect 10'x10' square I have 2 feet on each side of the smaller room to put equipment and build shelves for the ballasts and the exhaust system.
So far I do not have the ballast shelf built but this is where I keep them for now.

Here is the lovely cool tube. For my next room I do not think that I will be purchasing another 5ft tall cool tube. It is important to be able to control the direction in which your bulbs are going and using the long cool tube doesn't let you do this. For my next grow I will purchase (2) smaller cool tubes and connect them together, both pointing down.
Its ok for now because the room is so reflective that I doubt I could loose very much light in any direction. My room is also covered in poly from head to toe and this makes all the difference in the world.


The tube is hung with the bottom open and an exhausts tube leading out connected to a 465CFM blower attached to a home made carbon scrubber vented to an outside porch.
Here are more pictures so you get a better idea of how its set up for now.

In that last picture my idea is to remove the top shelf and place the new can66 in front of the A/C and vent out through the hole that is tapped on top of the A/C.

good works....very learning.....thanks for your details and sharing (love your list posted with a nail....in the last photo)

Hmm. Nice setup. I wonder how much weed I would get with my 6 1k bulbs? I think I might try a set up like this in the summer. Looks defenitely interesting. How long did you say you veg the plants before you set to bloom? are you vegging 24 hours? and for how long are you vegging? Again very inspiring! Thank u 4 posting! Happy Growing mate!

looking killer.

Mother fucking fuck shit I am so mad! I had my friends take care of my plants a few months ago while I went out of town and they killed them all but promised me to get me some good strains. I got Sour Diesel and they replaced my AK... now their males... I'm so mad I'm seeing colors. Not only do I loose the awesome strains I've had for 5 years but I've wasted so much time with these thinking they were ok.

Why me... why me... why me!!!!!

Sorry guys I needed to vent... I will continue to post on the construction of the room. and other useful relevant info. I am just severely depressed that I will have to buy seeds and wait a very long time before I can start my grow again.

Can anyone recommend a good vendor?

WHYYYYYYY!!!

oh man...that blows....sorry to hear that....walk on man! walk on!

Can someone help me identify if these plants are hermies or males HERE

GreenLight said:

Can someone help me identify if these plants are hermies or males HERE

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looks hermy to me.

What do I do now FDD? If I castrate them can I leave them with the others or no? Are they allowed near my moms?

OMG how strange to feel like such a noob... this has never happened to me.

fdd2blk said:

looks hermy to me.

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Wow!! looks awsome!!! very enveous!! im sold on the idea and will try it out next time i order seeds!! its a great idea, thanks for sharing you two!! i just thumbed through the fine print but how much $$ total minus the building materials was that project??

GreenLight said:

What do I do now FDD? If I castrate them can I leave them with the others or no? Are they allowed near my moms?

OMG how strange to feel like such a noob... this has never happened to me.

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you gotta kill them.

Me and the husband are crunching #s to put together a price list for everyone. Just keep tuned for that info.

jay cas said:

Wow!! looks awsome!!! very enveous!! im sold on the idea and will try it out next time i order seeds!! its a great idea, thanks for sharing you two!! i just thumbed through the fine print but how much $$ total minus the building materials was that project??

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the rooms looking good bro, looks like you put a lot of effort, ill be tuned in i'm hoping for a big yield!

I hope you get through this crisis soon... i'm looking forward to seeing results from a vert grow. Also the cost of the set-up once you've finished crunching those #'s.

OK guys I'm back on point FDD is the MAN! for fixing my post and I am getting friends to send me clones ASAP. From what I have seen my AKs and Rhinos seem to be fine and dont show any signs of pollination. We watch over the girls enough that we caught this on time. Also Sour Deisel has been known to have a tendancy to hermaphrodite. This is also what I suspect because not all of them hermied just the smaller ones that I could not replant into bigger pots for lack of space. Acording to my friend who grew these before me he had the same problem and pinched the nut sacks and the plant grew fine with no seeds or male parts. WHOOOOO!~ lets hope this can happen to me or I loose like 12 plants! I have new photos to share and the rest of my construction comming up. The #s will be done soon.

this looks effin sweet. i had though about this style of grow a while back but im slightly limited in space. i bought a 4.6' X 4.6' X 6.5' grow tent. can i do one in this space? im using soil and two 600w'ers. amazing setup though. i wish i had that kind of room. renting sucks ass. how do you make one of those tubes btw?

Becareful out there... pinching nut sacs may not solve the problem, particularly with 12 plants.