Hi,
Just found the site and forum.
This forum looks like it could lift the heritage after overgrow.com, nice
I have a suggestion for a grow system/setup, that I find has huge advantages.
-= DWC (Deep Water Culture)=-
It might be slightly less efficient than aeroponics, but there are at least several advantages.
1. Less expensive to establish (though it's no issue here)
2. Less noisy
3. More reliable
4. Easyer to move around
5. Easyer to expand
6. More flexible
The 3. point gives you more freedom. You don't have to check on your garden every day to assure that the water jet pump is running. A malfunctioning jet pump could mean dissastor for a grow.
I had a defect airpump in my DWC once, and the whole garden went a week without air (I use a big centralized airpump for the whole garden), and it was no big problem. You can even go away for several days without worrying.
Also, you don't have to worry about leaky water hoses, cause alle the water is in the containers.
I have been down for a year now because we just have moved, but I'm starting up my garden again now. I'll take some pictures over the weekend to show how it works. I have just started a few weeks ago, so I don't even have a full scale flowering going on yet. Infact, the place we lived before, where I had the system setup the first time, I only went through one flowering cycle before we had to move
. Even thoug I'm not an experinced grower, only used commercial organics liquid fertilizer (with som B'cuzz bloom added) and, as mentioned, the airpump went dead on me, I harvested 250g of beautiful stach from an old 400W HPS. I use ScROG cause I think it's the only sencibell way to grow. You can control alle the vegetation, and all of your budsites gets full light exposure.
One big advantage of aeroponics is that chainging water is easyer, witch gets an even bigger advantage when you have a huge grow going on. I use a submergable pump to empty my DWC (70 liters) containers, so thats not such big a hazzle.