naturalhigh
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hey man,..im mad tired but we have been going back and forth hrb,thunder, me for the last few pages on differnet designs..i ended up making on out of concrete blocks and 2 by 8 s..as for automated..you can still make the stadium auto by adding a 500 gmh pump...4 ten foot polly 1 inch lines going through the sides and then .30 each drip stakes... all you would have to do is run the water every 2 to 3 days... until they start to pee then your good... as for for runoff.. i have seen some roofing materal people have used..comes in like 10 foot sections with a inch raised lip on the sides...use that as a gutter ot colect your runoff and you can use also any setup .... hydro with coco..that would be the shit..or gro rocks..or fuck it ...even rockwool slabs..dam i just got an idea...run rockwool slabs done the sides with like 3 drippers per section...and open up the bottoms .. but then your going to be using a shit load of rockwool or hydroton....First I want to say sorry for posting this twice but I noticed this post should have gone here and not replied in my thread but here it is..
I just finished reading your journal and having read that after reading stinkbud's journal I have to say I'm feeling like a noob all over again, lol I am defiantly going to figure out how to use both systems as they both have the traits I'm looking for as far as work load and yield potential.
I do have some questions for you on that stadium setup tho, I noticed your bulbs were hanging vert and were exposed, did you experince any burn to your plants from the lights hanging that way, did the bottom row stretch? and once the top row gets to growing do you move the light up or down? i'm guessing down cause if you went up the bottom row would defianly stretch rite? and could you use cool tubes on the lights using that setup, and if so would you decrease the walkway, by how much? were your lights on a system to raise and lower, what did you use? Im going to build 2 tents for each room (8 x 8, an 10x10)but only have one rack in the veg room, to leave room for mammas.
and if anyone that subscribed to hbr's journal has designed some plans based on the stadium and an stinkbud's aero please fill me in, I am almost certain at this point that I want to do this hybrid sog stadium/aero using 4oo mh and floros for the veg, and 2 lk hps for bloom.
just off the top of my head I see it like this:
mammas under the 400, an aero cloner using the net cups and tops, transfer clones to 1gal bags with rocks (wash net cups to use again) to stadium rack shelves being some sort of gutter or channel that the bags can sit in and flood the gutter for 4 times a day?(<-help here) using floros over each shelve during veg growth(<-suggestions here welcome)
continue stadium setup in bloom, 2 racks 10' long and (<-what should my shelve spacing be here? and how many shelves per rack) with a 24" walkway?
shelves are gutters using same flood method to feed (I dont want to mix nutes and hand water every day! dont mind the extra work up front to make it more automated ) 2 1k, with cool tubes (<- is this even a good idea with a stadium setup?) and co2.
thats off the head and I am reformulating as we speak, thanks for your help and yes I will start a journal once I have everything nailed down and know what strain I'm using.
id say the best in one gallon plasic pots with soil and drippers..with channels to colect the run off...put a time one either a little bit everyday or soke them heavy every 2 to 3 days and you will be good..