Would a Zip tower farm work with canabis?

growingforfun

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100k for the system and how much are you paying the person (s) who run it? Its gonna be a few full time jobs maintaining 2400 plants and another full time job inspecting and maintaining equipment.
Youll have to be constantly looking for weak links in such a long chain if you catch my drift.
 

pop22

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From what I see, yes it would work, with a limited number of strains that do well in SOG. But practical for canna? As someone else mentioned, that's a lot of plants to care for. I'd set up a system like this like a cleanroom also. Seal the room as tight as possible, install an airlock and a decontamination room. Remember, the tighter you pack the plants in, the faster disease, etc, spreads.

Seems to me when all is said and done, vertical systems like ttystikk builds would be more productive, easier to maintain, and much less expensive. And using LED strips or QB type boards, you could pack several large plants into a small area, a two sided light between screens, run a moderate power and run close to the canopy. I'm sure ttystikk has already thought out these and similar concepts.

But if you are going to run with this, we'd all love to see it in action and to prove us skeptics wrong!
 

ttystikk

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From what I see, yes it would work, with a limited number of strains that do well in SOG. But practical for canna? As someone else mentioned, that's a lot of plants to care for. I'd set up a system like this like a cleanroom also. Seal the room as tight as possible, install an airlock and a decontamination room. Remember, the tighter you pack the plants in, the faster disease, etc, spreads.

Seems to me when all is said and done, vertical systems like ttystikk builds would be more productive, easier to maintain, and much less expensive. And using LED strips or QB type boards, you could pack several large plants into a small area, a two sided light between screens, run a moderate power and run close to the canopy. I'm sure ttystikk has already thought out these and similar concepts.

But if you are going to run with this, we'd all love to see it in action and to prove us skeptics wrong!
Heh heh heh....
You know exactly what I was thinking.
 

OneHitDone

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The way I see it with prices coming down and market getting flooded having a streamlined growing process is only way you're going to be able to stay sustainable traditional growing methods are just too slow and Are not going to yield enough to support you or a family when the stuff drops to like $5 or $10 a gram which is going to happen in the future sure they'll be still be that small ritzy boutique market for that really high THC stuff but you're going to start see cannabis sold in stores like cigarettes
Brother, it's been $5 a gram for several years out west.
Where it is headed is probably more like $1 a gram
 

hybridcheef

Active Member
The way I see it with prices coming down and market getting flooded having a streamlined growing process is only way you're going to be able to stay sustainable traditional growing methods are just too slow and Are not going to yield enough to support you or a family when the stuff drops to like $5 or $10 a gram which is going to happen in the future sure they'll be still be that small ritzy boutique market for that really high THC stuff but you're going to start see cannabis sold in stores like cigarettes

you will never see weed sold in the stores like cigarettes. get realistic. there already questioning what legalization they allowed. there not gonna let it go to that.
 

OLD MOTHER SATIVA

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So i talked with the guys at Modular Farms and they are all for doing this. The base farm is 150k setup licensing fees ect another 50k But get this it comes with 240 zip towers each will hold 10 plants. They are telling me going seed to flower at 12/12 can yield an ounce a plant. so running 2400 plants at 28 grams each turning it over every 3 months....... I was surprised this is not some shabby crap people are using these for lettuces tomatoes peppers and all kinds of crops. It is completely automated. It even mixes the nutes automatically. They say it is like having an entire acre in a box.
200k...divided by 240..=833 $ per tower..dude,..i am sure you did not go for that...
= greed personified..
4" sewer pipe...heatgun..ingenuity...done..
 
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