ropeadope69
Active Member
Hey all,
I am new to the scene here, and I am trying to design a home built hydroponic setup. Last year in school I was part of a team that came up with a conceptual design for converting a warehouse into the ultimate self-sustaining growing environment. It was a pretty clever design using tilapia to produce fish poop, which was then pumped through an aqua-ponics type setup to provide plants with nutrients. If anyone is interested I can tell you more about our setup (we did a rather detailed technical analysis). I am not about to convert my basement into a tilapia farm, but it did leave me with an interest in experimenting with an indoor grow setup. Ok, now I will stop talking like an engineer....
I have a little 4'x8'x6.5' room in the back of my basement that I want to convert into a grow room. I am going to be primarily growing bud in there, with the possibility of some other stuff too. I really like the idea of using rockwool cubes with a dripper setup to keep the plants fed. However, I have not been able to find a clear explanation of how much flow you want through the dripper, and how often/long you want to run the pump for? My other idea was to use a more "gravel-ish" medium and allow for continuous flow around the roots.
My second question is one of logistics. Using clones to grow smaller plants (sea-of-green) is attractive because of the reduced plant height (i want to grow both sativa/indica and pure sativa strains) The only problem is, I dont want to buy another light to dedicate to mother plants, nor do I want to dedicate another part of my house to mother plants. (and a sativa mother, would be a big mutha fer) Also, since I don't need to have pounds of pot laying around (predominently a personal use guy here) is it even worth it to go the clone route, or should I just germinate seeds, and grow them out of rockwool. Would the standard rockwool cubes even be large enough to sustain a fully matured plant. (I am still trying to get a good handle on what the actual size of these plants will be) One final point is that I would like to harvest seeds from one flower as I dont forsee myself growing bud continuously. It will more than likely be a rotation of crops, switching back to pot when I need to replenish my reserves.
Sorry for the stupidly long post, but I had a lot of stuff to get out since its my first post!
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!!
I am new to the scene here, and I am trying to design a home built hydroponic setup. Last year in school I was part of a team that came up with a conceptual design for converting a warehouse into the ultimate self-sustaining growing environment. It was a pretty clever design using tilapia to produce fish poop, which was then pumped through an aqua-ponics type setup to provide plants with nutrients. If anyone is interested I can tell you more about our setup (we did a rather detailed technical analysis). I am not about to convert my basement into a tilapia farm, but it did leave me with an interest in experimenting with an indoor grow setup. Ok, now I will stop talking like an engineer....
I have a little 4'x8'x6.5' room in the back of my basement that I want to convert into a grow room. I am going to be primarily growing bud in there, with the possibility of some other stuff too. I really like the idea of using rockwool cubes with a dripper setup to keep the plants fed. However, I have not been able to find a clear explanation of how much flow you want through the dripper, and how often/long you want to run the pump for? My other idea was to use a more "gravel-ish" medium and allow for continuous flow around the roots.
My second question is one of logistics. Using clones to grow smaller plants (sea-of-green) is attractive because of the reduced plant height (i want to grow both sativa/indica and pure sativa strains) The only problem is, I dont want to buy another light to dedicate to mother plants, nor do I want to dedicate another part of my house to mother plants. (and a sativa mother, would be a big mutha fer) Also, since I don't need to have pounds of pot laying around (predominently a personal use guy here) is it even worth it to go the clone route, or should I just germinate seeds, and grow them out of rockwool. Would the standard rockwool cubes even be large enough to sustain a fully matured plant. (I am still trying to get a good handle on what the actual size of these plants will be) One final point is that I would like to harvest seeds from one flower as I dont forsee myself growing bud continuously. It will more than likely be a rotation of crops, switching back to pot when I need to replenish my reserves.
Sorry for the stupidly long post, but I had a lot of stuff to get out since its my first post!
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!!