I can't wait for you to show your harvest. I got a vgarden a few months back and I am very happy with it. I never wanted to post pics cuz I am seriously paranoid. but I am so tired of hearing people complain about the money for one of these units. if you can't get the money together then move on, rotational growing isn't for you. Not everyone can play in this game. I get that most of us growers have a real DIY streak. Our drive to invent and pull things apart is something that makes us tick. So I understand why putting down so much money would seem completely counter intuitive.
Who the hell wants to blow lots of money on something with no proof. However, I have always thought that a rotating circle would be the best way to grow in terms of a footprint, number of lights and rezs. But I knew I wouldn't be able to build it myself, I am not an engineer. So I forgot about it. Months later when I saw the Vgarden I knew it was exactly what I had been imagining. But who has two grand lying around? But I coudn't stop thinking about it. Then I saw it in Sunk magazine and it was like I was being taunted! So I got my most trusted friends together, the ones who I trusted enough to know about my flat garden. They knew how good my grows were becoming but I was really limited by space. Then I showed them the vgarden pics. We talked about the pros and cons and then they all chipped in a little and we ordered it. The main reason we chose the vgarden over others, including the Colliseum and the Ecosystem is because of the footprint, the simple design and the cost. it was less than the other two by a lot. It was way less complicated than the ecosystem. Way less to go wrong. If you don't believe me, ask anyone who was crazy enough to put down 3 thousand on a barrell filled with speghetti tubing. My hydro store got one as a display model and they said after two weeks they still couldn't get it to work without totally cheating and watering the rockwool slabs by hand.
I picked it up at a shipping center. It came in two boxes and it didn't fit in my 4runner so I borrowed my friends pick up. None of my friends grow so the whole thing fell on my shoulders. I was very nervous at first but after a couple of weeks I realized we were ok. it was really when I saw how thick the stalks got so quickly that I knew it would work out. Within one harvest everyone walked away happy and now I have a vgarden sitting in my house.
Canadian Farmer - holy cow. Those pics were amazing, I almost had a heart attack. I thought I was pulling down sum yields? Wow inspirational man! It just goes to show what's wrong with the internet when people actually had CRITICISMS of your pics!!!! HAHAHA That's exactly why I never bothered to take pics of my grows. Why risk it so little kids can sit at home and say "it sucks" all day. I don't need to please haters, my jars of insane anti gravity meds are enough for me.
And please all the Vgarden haters, feel free to acuse me of working for your much hated company. Ya got me. Im also sasquach and I live at Area 51. Did I mention I have a summer cottage on the grassy Knoll?
For the gardener asking about cali clones. There are many that work great in the wheel, sensi star, GDP, G 13, Shiva skunk. I would stick with the indicas, not cuz of height so much but cuz of flowering time. if you are worried about height - then flower after 4 days.
Max - keep up the pics. Don't even respond to negative posts anymore. Or to anyone claiming they can build it for a couple of recycled soda cans. Just wish them luck and ask for pics of their completed project. (which they will never complete)
Soorry for rambling so much but I am seriously stoned off sum top grade meds. Blame it on the Glucoma and the Purple Wheelchair!
...and if you don't know, now you know.
