Northern Farmer Stadium Grow , Vertical

Lol. I meant ebb and flow not dwc... Noobishness

I tried a stadium once with 36 plants. I screwed up big time. I got decent yield from 24 of them, but the 12 on the floor just didnt do anything worthwhile. The design idea is to keep every plant site about 3ft away from the light with a 6 ft wide area with 6ft tall ceilings. This helps reflect the light right. Then the lights are hung in the middle at 2ft intervals. You make a wind tunnel by blowing air through the stadium from one side to the other, much like is done in a hoop greenhouse.

I failed because I tried to hang lights like northern farmer and grow too few plants with a longer veg. You have to get a short finishing plant that grows a single stick and pack the crap out of the room to get this design right and it must be 6ft wide and 6ft tall. IMO the only logical conclusion is to run two side by side because when you put 200 plants into one room, you mind as well have another doing another 200 right? I can't justify that because smaller numbers = legality for me.

Damn only 3k of lights in there? Thats badass. I would love to do that

my GOD that amazing now thats what I'm talking about

This is similar to what I'll be doing. Hope my yields are even close... I'll be happy either way... but great job... +rep

Obviously this is an amazing setup. So, what can we learn from this.

1) Growing large numbers of very small plants is optimal.

2) Cannabis probably grows well with 2,500 Lumens / square foot.

3) Growing along the natural sphere of light emitted by a bulb is good.

4) It is hard to do #3 on a flat surface.

5) Allowing light to scatter naturally while surrounded by plants has the same area coverage as multiple lights.

The main drawback of this design, and it is pretty damn monumental, is that the guy has over 200 plants which IIRC is punishable by at least 5 years in Federal prison. And I do believe large numbers of small plants is 75% of the reason for the great yield in these setups.

Using fewer larger plants, this system probably wouldn't be nearly as productive. But, there may be ways to carry some of these concepts over to such a setup.

Just One question (for now) how does the light get to the back of the plant? (the side of the plant that is up against the wall) Whit the plant growing towards the light wont it be heavy on One side?
Anyone have a link to the Northern Farmers article?

RickWhite said:

Obviously this is an amazing setup. So, what can we learn from this.

1) Growing large numbers of very small plants is optimal.

2) Cannabis probably grows well with 2,500 Lumens / square foot.

3) Growing along the natural sphere of light emitted by a bulb is good.

4) It is hard to do #3 on a flat surface.

5) Allowing light to scatter naturally while surrounded by plants has the same area coverage as multiple lights.

The main drawback of this design, and it is pretty damn monumental, is that the guy has over 200 plants which IIRC is punishable by at least 5 years in Federal prison. And I do believe large numbers of small plants is 75% of the reason for the great yield in these setups.

Using fewer larger plants, this system probably wouldn't be nearly as productive. But, there may be ways to carry some of these concepts over to such a setup.

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very good point. The number of plants seems to be where the yield comes in.
200 plants is scary, even if the feds have backed off a bit!

There is no back of a 14" tall plant. That is why the setup works so well, with larger plants I don't think one would get the same results - I think they would have one good side and one side that is dead branches.

And the Feds have only backed off legal grows. 200+ plants will land you in prison for a long time.

i anyone is interested... i am about to start a grow journal for a smaller opp than this but the exact same setup.. 7 days time...
i have 17 seeds from serious... 11 reg chronic and 6 fem AK47.. these are being grow out to select the "perfect mother" hopefully one from each strain,

the grow will be 48 plants stadium style... 2 1k lights 24 plants per side... 3 rows of 8
if i can get one mother from each ill have one side for each strain..

i will also have a larger tent which will have the mothers (keeping a few incase original clones dont root) and t table to veg the new clones under cfls while the original plants flower.

hope to get 1-2 ounce per plant... we shall see.
ill post a link in a weeks time when i start it.

thanks for posting this up

im going to school on this grow

no doubt....

any updates bro
thats a shit load of plants and bud hope you dont get busted good luck and great job

this thread is like 3 yrs old so probly no new updates

Bump...has anyone done hydro in this setup???

Ok going to bump this. I read through all 43 pages of that thread 3 times lol, definitely amazing grow. Brilliant operation. I have done something similar in the past, but much smaller. i now plan on doing almost same set up. 10x6.5x6.5 room, 3 planks on each side, and either 3 1000w or 4 600w havent decided yet.

What Im wondering, is that this guy has the front of the room wide open with a fan at the top. How the hell do you get away with an open set up? Wouldn't all that light leak cause hermies?? The biggest problem I see with this grow is cooling it. He lives in canada so it's a lot easier. But for Arizona not the same case. Anyone have any idea on that? I'm thinking of building the grow room inside a room. Having the actual room AC'ed, with the grow room sealed off except a small passive air intake at the bottom, and then ono the other side having a 10'' 875 CFM fan blowing out the top and ducting to out of the room. thoughts?

bear420 Ihave some questions about your stadium grow.What were the deminsions of your room,and how many lights were you using?If you have the time,I have a few more if you dont mind.where could i get the seeds you used for the strain of hash plant that got you such high yields?Last of all,what would you do now differently to improve your set up seeing how this was done awhile ago.

omegafarmer said:

looks like a lot of work - watering by hand? yuck!!! a lot of dirt to get rid of - hardly the best use of the light - but if you h ave nothing better to do then hunch over for hours at a time then woooo whoooooo have at it

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LOL you sound lazy, dirt is easier to work with then hydro. did you just complain about watering by hand? lol that makes no sense, thats the only bond you have with you plant is watering it get out of here with that negative shit.

hey hate to bring up and ancient thread. but i remember seeing measurements of this grow and how-to set up the shelves... can any1 send me the link? whats the dimensions of the shelving.... thanks!!