1200w Stadium "stinkbud" spinoff SOG Critical mass and Critical Sensi Star

I have done a modified SOG a couple times in aero 5x5 fence posts, basically a stinkbud system but didnt do perpetual and changed it to top drip the last time. I tried vertical 12/12 from seed last time in coco, didnt much care for coco or going from seed everytime. Hydro is my thing. I like the idea of vertical so i'm gonna try to change my stinkbud pipes into a stadium. I have the two old tubes that i used and they are on 10in centers. I am going to add another net pot inbetween so that they are on 5in centers, that works out to 15plants in each of those pipes. For numbers sakes i'm going to put the other 4 tubes on 6in centers total should be about 78 plants.

I have some undetermined's still. I have searched the web and havent found too many hydro systems like i'm trying to build. Anyone have an idea how far down each step should be? And is 3 steps going to be enough? Again for numbers sake is why i didnt want to do anymore than 3 tubes on each side. I think i will have 10-12 moms to produce that many clones. My other question is do you guys think i should put the pipes that are on 5in centers at the top or bottom of the stadium?

Will be back later to make some additions to the thread but appreciate any insight you can give on the above questions.

I went and got measurements of my "space" its 5.5ft wide, 6.5 tall and 10ft long. The room is actually about 3-4ft wider but thats where the door is. After some quick measuring, a little cutting i have a rough idea of where i'm going to start on my "stairs". If i make the down steps 10in and the out steps 6in it comes out to about a 55degree slope. Is that going to be enough slope w/ two 600's sitting in the middle? I remember reading about how much pitch it needed but cant remember what people were suggesting and cant find it anymore. I might kind of turn this into a journal, i started my seeds 9(Mr. Nice Critical Mass) about a month ago and have been taking pics as i go along. Only 6 survied, i topped a couple moms and i'm trying to clone them in rapid rooters. I fell asleep on starting the Delicous Critical sensi star and she(Fem) is only about 4-5 days old, have to check the calendar on all my dates. Anywho i'm going to try to get some pics up on photobucket and be back w/ something to showoff

I think you have a very interesting plan. I can't wait to see the set up.

The first pic is how it will look from the end, still cant decide if i want to do 3 or 4 levels... 2nd pic is the CM at roughly 10days old. The one on the bottom is darker green and more vigourous i attribute it to the soil. All the others went into straight light warrior after hatching, that one got 50/50 Light warrior and ocean forrest. Its been ahead of the game ever since.

Here they are at 26 days. Again you can tell how much faster the "#1" is growing. It looks almost twice as big as some of the others at this point

And here they are last night, day 36. I have numbered them 1-6 since i started taking some clones to try and sex them. Top one in the first pic is 1 "The monster" then 2 and then 3.

And here is 4,5,6 at day 36.
3, 4, and 5 hadnt been topped yet in the pics. I went ahead and topped them last night and put the tops in the rapid rooters.

Looks like i'm having some issues w/ the girls in the OF, anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? Just using water straght from the tap. Gave them another drink today It had been 4-5days and they were getting pretty light

Also anyone care to comment if 55degrees is enough slope?

What are you trying to accomokish? Idk anything about vertical and trying to learn? Whats the inspiration or model you're trying to mimic?

Well those pics are just of the "moms" I did them in dirt because i thought it would be easier. But i havent had much experience w/ dirt so i'm not sure whats going on w/ them, grow shop told me i had a month in OF before i needed to start feeding them.

My system i'm wanting to build is going to be a top drip/nft deal. Go over to the hydro section and checkout the stinkbud thread thats what i'm doing basically but top drip instead of aero and i'm going to make it in a stadium so i can go bare bulb vertical. I Havent had much luck finding anything online similiar to what i'm going to do, sure its been done just got tired of looking, thats why i posted up here.

Couple pics of my clones i took a couple days ago, i'm trying to get all the boys/girls sexed

Well i went out to the room tonight and cut 3 more clones. 2 from the #1 and 1 from #5. I really hope 1 is a girl, its structure is awesome and has great vigor, even a little stinky in veg. The room has been seeing a high of 75 but we had a cold front today. I'm suprised some of my cuttings havent rooted and i'm getting a bit worried, i went ahead and turned on the heater because my high today was 72. Set it on 80 so hopefully everything will take off when it warms back up.

Here is a pic of my cloner i built out of my very first aero grow. I had two plants in it in 3in net pots, just cut a bunch of 1 7/8 holes for the 2in neoprene inserts. Gonna do aero clones and rapid rooter clones.

Been a while since i posted anything up...

On the 19th i transplanted 3CM clones.

On the 20th i transplanted another 2 clones and i put the clones of 2,4,1,6 under a CFL on 12/12 to sex them. I watered the big 1-6 pots and they are starting to get some weird stuff on the bottom, check out my pics and let me know what you think...

Man this picture adding stuff is jacking me upppppppp. How potheads ever get this right is beyond me!! Up above are pics of my plants w/ issues. The others (if they show up) are a couple clones and then all the ladies and gentlemen under one light.

Here is pics of half the setup, haven't cut the holes in the tubes yet, also think i'm going to chop the pvc bottom below the tubes off a little. Setup is pretty tall like it is.

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I didn't read it all yet, so I'll save most comment for once I do. But I wanna say first I've been a big fan of Stinkbud since 08, and have thought about, and drawn up designs for a system like yours many times, so seeing it build is very exciting to me, and I can't wait to see it progress!

Glad to have you Thunder!!

Hope i can get some help from the good folks of RIU along the way, ive never done a journal and figured this would be a good way to look back and say i should do this or that next time. Anyone care to take a look at those leaves and let me know what i'm needing. I went ahead and fed them about 1tbsp per gallon of Fish emolsion(sp) its a 5-1-1. Ive never grown in dirt so i'm a little lost!! Cant have my moms slowing down or dying on me before i even get a good batch of clones... After a little reading i'm considering adding some eposom salts to my next watering, probably be about 2-3 days from now.

Thundercat said:

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I didn't read it all yet, so I'll save most comment for once I do. But I wanna say first I've been a big fan of Stinkbud since 08, and have thought about, and drawn up designs for a system like yours many times, so seeing it build is very exciting to me, and I can't wait to see it progress!

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I'm subbed up... gonna check it all out in a minute. Looking forward to watching this progress.

You should stick the link to this journal in your signature... make it easier to find for the other folks out in RIU land.

peace

EDIT: I would put the 5" centered holes in the bottom. They are the ones you will focus on the tops, so if they are close it's ok. The top ones will focus more on the milddle of the plant so might take more space to get the most from them.

I suck at soil, so I can't tell you about the moms, sorry. Hydro is my thing too.

Being one that started in hydro, soil growing was a bit of a challenge to me. I still do hydro along with a pro mix HP Coco mix. What ppm are you feeding your moms at along with the Ph? I'm loving the aero set up also. I'm still learning like you but I'm sure I can help you with s something.

The moms hadn't gotten any feed until a couple days ago, I thought maybe they were getting hungry. Didn't make it out to the room tonight so not sure if any more leaves have been effected or if it helped. I haven't adjusted ph, whatever FFOF comes at is what I've got.