Solomon, shut the fuck up, dear god. You're the most hypocritical troll I have seen. Yes I called you a troll. Omega was simply spreading word of a system that works great, yet you turned it into a pre-school slap fight. I say pre-school slap fight, yet omega retains his maturity, and respect, while meanwhile, everyone thinks you're an immature 17 year old. I'll start off with this, showing almost half of this threads posts are from yours truly.
First of all, improve your diction. Your punctation and grammar are that of a 10 year old. Secondly, improve your maturity level. I already know you're gonna reply with a long post with no periods, but full of insults. Third, take a step back, and look at what you've been saying. You've basically been arguing against laws of physics, and mother nature herself.
You sit there and say you could match the system for 50 bucks, yet you feel you don't have to prove anything. Since omega actually has experience, YOU are the one on the plank, having to prove to us that you can beat the gardens
efficiency. (BTW, you'd spend that 50 bucks on a 150W HID) The reason I bolded efficiency was because that's what everyone is arguing about here, efficiency. And it's not as simple as watts per gram, or yield per square foot. It's all of them, factored into 1. And before you tell me to "do the math", I hope you understand what a formula is, and what variables are.
The reasons the Omega is great.
Even IF you had the
same exact budget, trying to match the yield per sq. foot, you would bankrupt yourself on having to have a
sea of HID's. Not only would it require a room the size of a living room; the cost of ventilating that room, as well as monitoring the temps and humidity would be more than
triple the cost of what it would take to maintain the Garden, which provides self-sufficient aeration anyways. The light distribution is close to perfect; So even if we gave you
double the money, you'd still be struggling to try to come in at even
half the watts per gram -- and that's assuming you had some sort of efficient way to reflect your sea of lights. So it seems as if even if we gave you triple the money, you'd have a full-time job trying to even come close to the same yield. You notice I have you beat, and I didn't even start to go into the increased growth due to the rotation.
Also, you've been sayin vertical grow, but what you mean is horizontal. Yes, the plant grows vertically, but the whole set up is horizontal.
That's vertical gardening.
Please, do us all a favor, if you can't fully read and comprehend my post, and reply maturely, just don't even bother.