Vert set up...don not want to self water...Ebb and Grow?

Hey RollitUpperclassers,

I am working on a vert garden and am faced with a watering dilemma. I do not want to water by hand and was wondering if the Ebb and Grow systems pump is strong enough to handle a vertical set up. Here is a breakdown of my room and shelf dimesions:

Room Dimensions 6L x 5W x 7.5H

5 Shelves per side (20 shelves total) 15" separation between each shelf totally enclosed style vert set up.

Shelves highest point is 6' but will have 48 buckets (12 per wall) in the room at maximum capacity.

I have a Clone and Mother room that is in a bathroom to be one day...some day possibly never but I have that under control.

If anyone has any help or knowledge they can provide that would be great. I will start a journal once I am up and running and would love any and all feed back or questions.

you just got lucky I ran almost the same vert design you are talking about wiht a ebb and gro/ drip check it out I think it was called "dukes mini vertical monster" or just look thru my threads. I'm way to lazy to give you all the details but ifyou got ?'s just shoot. IMO your room is too small mine was 5x9 and it made it impossible to access the back half of the plant leading to many problems

it probably could handle it, try getting the strongest pump you couldfind...

Just received this from my hydro guy as a response to an email I sent to him guess this answers my question... I know the room is a bit small but im working on a creative
shelving system all on wheels each line will be
1 2 1
2 2k 2
1 2 1 x 4 rows for a maximum capacity of 48 plants.

Each cabinet will be 6.5 feet tall with the double shelves being 4 ft wide and the single cabs being 2 ft wide.

I will be working with my grow guru on the drip system and will update as i go... thanks for the replies wish me luck!!!!

This companies service is amazing I salute and support Growco tenfold!!!!

This is the email I received from Growco....

Hi, vertical gardens are not very popular for us at all, so it's hard to make a good recommendation. As you mentioned, we sell the Cage, and get good feedback on these, but it's a big system. On the Cage company's website, they've got a little modular vertical system that looks pretty nice, but it shares one thing with the Cage that I don't particularly care much for. They're both "run-to-waste" type systems, not recirculating systems. This means your nutrients are only being used once, then they go down the drain. It's a commercial approach, and it actually works great because you'd never get any kind of root funk growing in the system. The drawback is the price of the nutrients, which may go up by tenfold.

We've got a couple of customers that make their own vertical soil gardens, by building a rack on wheels system that they can roll 4 of them into a big square with the vertical lights hanging in the middle. This approach seems to work really well, and I suppose you could modify it to be a recirculating drip system if you're a "do-it-yourself" kind of guy. Myself, I'd use coconut hull fiber for a growing medium and some kind of troughs that the individual containers sit in, then have it drain into a separate reservoir for each vertical shelf system. It wouldn't be to hard to build this system.