OK, got curious & looked up the
Stinkbud System.
SB & I differ on a few notable points.
SB veges plants before flowering, as opposed to my system which flowers clones immediately after they have developed a good root system. SB grows larger individual plants than I do but fewer of them. Instead of maintaining mother plants in a separate area, SB takes cuttings from his plants in veg growth. SB uses aeroponics, as opposed to my flood trays which support plants in pots of Fytocell foam media. SB uses CO2, I don't. We both use a dehumidifier and cooltubed lighting. SB 'cures' buds after drying; I don't find the step necessary.
Every grow op will be tailored to how the grower likes to work. My problem is that I don't like to work.
I've said it a million times in here, I'm a lazy stoner.
As one result of my slackness, I use flood systems with plants in pots of media because it's deadly reliable; aeroponic systems like SB's require power backup to the water pumps to get the plants through a power outage. I can safely totally ignore my op for up to 3 days at a time if I want to. A pump can fail but the media will hold up to 3 days' backup water supply. The water storage in the media obviates the need for a UPS to run the water pumps in my system, as well.
Aeroponic watering systems have one very serious Achilles' heel from a slacker's viewpoint- sprayers. Nutrient solutions have a lot of dissolved solids; it you atomise the solution, those solids fall out of solution and collect as nutrient salt crusts, in particular on the sprayer nozzles themselves. If you don't clean sprayers VERY frequently, they'll clog- this is an every day or every other day task- or you lose plants and have to buy replacement sprayers when they're too clogged to clean. However, I'm quite confident that SB gets better plant performance in flowering. Nothing beats aeroponics for getting oxygen to the roots. However, SB & I get similar yields per sq ft of grow op space.
SB takes clones from the plants he's vegging. SB vegges under a 250 and has 2x 1000HPS in the flowering area. Because I don't veg the plants I'm going to flower, I maintain a separate mother plant area. It takes all of 4 sq ft to maintain 10 mums. I use a 400HPS for mums but could probably use a 250. We're both using about the same lighting gear, with cooltubes mainly dealing with heat. I don't use CO2 because it would require aircon. The cost of the CO2 tank and CO2 management system are nutty kind of expensive and involve ongoing costs for tank rental and refills. Aircon is exxy to buy and run- for cooling my op, it'd take about the 1/4-1/2 the cost of running a 1000HPS. I'm pretty confident my op costs that little bit less to run.
SB is claiming 1lb every 3 weeks. I get at least 1lb, usually 1.5, every 2 weeks. Eliminating the veg step is what makes my op slightly quicker. Higher plant mass density, which is a key feature of straight Sea-of-Green growing, as I do, accounts for my better yields with the same lighting.
SB is a great grower and a skilled writer. His guide is to the point and well documented. He's much more energetic than I am!