Gamberro
Well-Known Member
So, I'm ahead of the gun on this because my 2nd system is not yet up, but for my third system, I have fallen in love with the vertical hydroponics idea. However, there's a lot left to say about the price tag, so here's the dealio: I'm making my own, and I need your help, RIU.
The specifications I want are a near-360º ScrOG. Imagine four separate walls which can be pushed together to form the room or brought apart to operate on the screen, each of these walls 7'X7' pieces of supported chipboard covered with fiberglass. Mission 2 is to somehow secure slabs of rockwool to the walls, then drip irrigation at the top of each rockwool slab to feed water and nutrients to the plants growing below. Half a foot out from the plants' medium, the screen is secured, meaning that the light/s suspended in the center (I'm thinking one 1000W HPS and one 600/1000W MH) are constantly 3-3.5 feet from the source of light. To aid in good lumen distribution, I'd have the lights' cords hooked up to a slow engine which would raise and lower the lights. I'm not sure about this yet, but I may dedicate the floor inbetween the walls to organic growing.
I have a couple questions about the design so far:
-would this be enough light coverage for the screens?
-how would I secure the rockwool slabs onto the walls? (small issue)
-how would I feed the feeder lines into the rockwool? Would it be adequate to just have one feeder line situated over each rockwool slab?
The benefits of this garden, beyond those garnered from the screen and large surface area covered with few lights, would include the benefit of having a small enclosed space in which I could experiment with those foliar-feeding foggers and inexpensively inject CO2.
The specifications I want are a near-360º ScrOG. Imagine four separate walls which can be pushed together to form the room or brought apart to operate on the screen, each of these walls 7'X7' pieces of supported chipboard covered with fiberglass. Mission 2 is to somehow secure slabs of rockwool to the walls, then drip irrigation at the top of each rockwool slab to feed water and nutrients to the plants growing below. Half a foot out from the plants' medium, the screen is secured, meaning that the light/s suspended in the center (I'm thinking one 1000W HPS and one 600/1000W MH) are constantly 3-3.5 feet from the source of light. To aid in good lumen distribution, I'd have the lights' cords hooked up to a slow engine which would raise and lower the lights. I'm not sure about this yet, but I may dedicate the floor inbetween the walls to organic growing.
I have a couple questions about the design so far:
-would this be enough light coverage for the screens?
-how would I secure the rockwool slabs onto the walls? (small issue)
-how would I feed the feeder lines into the rockwool? Would it be adequate to just have one feeder line situated over each rockwool slab?
The benefits of this garden, beyond those garnered from the screen and large surface area covered with few lights, would include the benefit of having a small enclosed space in which I could experiment with those foliar-feeding foggers and inexpensively inject CO2.