You know I have a bunch of those Topsy Turvy Spice planters in the Garage of Wonders, right?And... Hang some of those upside down planters from the roof and you got all six sides...
Sent from Northern Colorado.
I need to correct myself, he was using 4k ceramic halide (retro whites) conversion bulbs. Yes the yield is a smaller, but the nugs are more dense and frostier. Im really not sure about how much less it yielded but i can tell you that a BHO run with the bulbs would be epic!@ODanksta: does your brother have more specific numbers? You said way more frost and since that's a large part of the eventual dry weight, the wet weight had to be much lower.
Perhaps a BHO run for both bulbs will show different results and it may be at least a good bulb for resin production.
It's like anything else, you have to put in the time to gain the skills. Each vertical grow keeps getting better, I don't know where the upper limit is.I tried the topsy turveys indoors.. it was ehhh. if I could redo my room..and put in a bunch of ceiling support beams so that the weight of the soil from the plants hanging from the ceiling were supported properly it would of been ok.. but I tried 1.. it did ok.. but the thing grew straight up anyways.. just did a U turn.. lol... it was ok. but not great. but.. I had a friend try it outdoors.. he hung them on tree branches.. and got a QP per plant.. hidden in trees.. but he had to do a lot of tree pruning to get them to have enough light.. to grow good.
Ive tried that, no bullshit, the problem is they drip way to much. And they kinda suck at that i hung a bunch at the hydro shop i use to run and they never really worked good at all maybe with tomatoes but that's about it. I tried peppers and they didn't work.And... Hang some of those upside down planters from the roof and you got all six sides...
Sent from Northern Colorado.
We're pulling over three # a light right now, we think that four per is a reachable goal as an overall average.What are you pulling per light? That is if you don't mind me asking, ive built cages like this for tomatoes outside, the problem that i had was i couldn't get inside the cage to pick the damn tomatoes. Now MJ is different, but is it a bitch to do maintenance?
Damn homie 3 to 4, is that off 1k hid? I read somewhere in this thread you were using 860 watts, I believe, im assuming that is 2-400 watt dimmable digi's right? But that's got to be 3 to 4, off the silo?. I haven't set my new room up yet but if your pulling that i might actually try this. What if you had four silos with a light in the middle. Could you let them fill in the middle too. Im sure you could, right?We're pulling over three # a light right now, we think that four per is a reachable goal as an overall average.
I built an access for people to get inside and do maintenance and plant training, but it's hard to move around in there because the bulbs take up the space. Getting those out of the way would make it much better.
This one first; I use water cooling as a replacement for AC, plus it cools my RDWC water and even dehueys the space for free. Oh, and it's 30% more efficient than AC for cooling, so I'm not sure where you get that I'm spending extra?I have another question, i have not seen your lighting set up. I think you are using glass tubes and icebox's. I don't like iceboxs and because of the whole chiller thing, i just feel that you using so much electricity, doesn't that offset the profit? That's the reason i like soil, no water chillers, pumps, rez changes or meters needed. And shit you in colorado isnt it suppose to be cold there..lol
Hell yeah! Thanks for responding! Damn i didn't know you have three rooms. Bare bulbs are best! And on top of that you using CDM! That's badass bro, sorry i didn't read that.This one first; I use water cooling as a replacement for AC, plus it cools my RDWC water and even dehueys the space for free. Oh, and it's 30% more efficient than AC for cooling, so I'm not sure where you get that I'm spending extra?
No glass tubes, it's bare bulb vertical. Lamps are 860W CDM, protected. Spectrum is pretty nice for HID:
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Two bulbs in the silo, stacked up the centerline. Just four plants up the outside... we're getting up to 1-1.5# now (the average is lower, but that's due to old problems still working their way thru the system) and we are working to get two apiece soon.
The Iceboxes are too small, so we upsized;
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That should work better.
Just to clear up any doubts about the efficiency of water cooling; I've been running three rooms with four of the above BARE BULBS in each one... all of them run twelve out of twenty four hours, and just one two Ton chiller has kept up with all three. Through the summer.