JB's New Growroom with Graphics

Rottedroots

Rottedroots

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Hey JSB riddle me this. In your renderings can you tell me how far it is between COBS or are there no actual distances or measurements?? Let's say your planning and designing a six COB array and want everything on a ten inch center Can you extrapolate what length to cut the stock to complete the project or are they just "ideas". They sure do look cool in any event
 
JSB99

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Rottedroots said:
Hey JSB riddle me this. In your renderings can you tell me how far it is between COBS or are there no actual distances or measurements?? Let's say your planning and designing a six COB array and want everything on a ten inch center Can you extrapolate what length to cut the stock to complete the project or are they just "ideas". They sure do look cool in any event
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Thanks!


Right now they are just ideas, but the model is scaled to actual size. The cobs have 12" between them. I think that would cover the footprint of a single plant (2x2), but I can't say for sure.
 
JSB99

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Rottedroots said:
Hey JSB riddle me this. In your renderings can you tell me how far it is between COBS or are there no actual distances or measurements?? Let's say your planning and designing a six COB array and want everything on a ten inch center Can you extrapolate what length to cut the stock to complete the project or are they just "ideas". They sure do look cool in any event
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I'm still really new to COBs so the designs I have were from the last couple days.

But I would highly recommend you check out this thread.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/my-amare-hydroponics-hut-suncloak-grow.916789/

Big Smo's got some killer setups and knows a ton about this. He's been helping me out with all of this (as well as some others)
 
JSB99

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BuddyColas said:
Very nice. It looks like you have the 4x4 with 4 plants growing down well. I like bigger plants myself.

So on your drawings you have 3 reservoirs...wouldn't 1 be good enough?
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That was from my old grow. My new one will be just four plants in a 4x4. I'm with you. I like growing them out and natural. I've grown SCROG and had some great yields, but you had to work for the increase. Its true that what you put into it, that's what you'll get out of it. I could be in and out of there every hour, just tweaking things. Moving a light a few inches to the left, turn this plant a little so a leaf gets some light, etc...but that's not really my goal with this build. 4 plants is plenty for me. Yeah, I'll have a little bit less of a yield, but my back won't be killing me and I'll be able to leave it alone for a while and work on other things.

Hydroponics is very hands on and it takes a lot more of your time. You're tied to it. You can't just pack up and head out of town for a few days with it up and running. Anything can go wrong and it takes a quick response to avoid losing your crop. But at the same time, I believe I can make it dependable enough to not have to be right on top of it.
 
JSB99

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JSB99 said:
Hydroponics is very hands on and it takes a lot more of your time. You're tied to it. You can't just pack up and head out of town for a few days with it up and running. Anything can go wrong and it takes a quick response to avoid losing your crop. But at the same time, I believe I can make it dependable enough to not have to be right on top of it.
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That's for the noobs who are on the fence with going soil or hydro :-)
 
JSB99

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JSB99 said:
I had thought about that. It's a pretty easy setup, that's for sure. Do you just top feed them on a timer?
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As much as I really like my RDWC UC setup, I also like the thought of just doing something simple. I'm going to have to think about that and do some more research.
 
JSB99

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If I went soilless, I like the idea of using hydroton.

With coco, peat, perlite, etc...do you reuse the same mix for each grow?
 
JSB99

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I'm reading up on growing in 100% hydroton as an alternative to the DWC. I'll see if it sways me. I know I can't do soil because of the constant heavy lifting (bad back and knees).

bbl
 
Evil-Mobo

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JSB99 said:
I'm reading up on growing in 100% hydroton as an alternative to the DWC. I'll see if it sways me. I know I can't do soil because of the constant heavy lifting (bad back and knees).

bbl
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No till, you re -use the soil you don't lift anything once your pots are set :) I am loving it and glad I went this route over RDWC............
 
JSB99

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Evil-Mobo said:
No till, you re -use the soil you don't lift anything once your pots are set :) I am loving it and glad I went this route over RDWC............
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I've thought long and hard about this (Peter Griffin laughs in the background). I think I am going to go with an ebb and flow using hydroton and a bottom reservoir.

The RDWC UC would be so cool to build and see it work, but I think, after the initial excitement wore off, I would be stuck with this beast of a grow to maintain. Not to mention power, water, and time consumption. I think a fill and drain is going to be much easier, cheaper, and a ton less work to build and maintain.

So I'll probably start a new thread today after I modify my design. If any noobs out there want me to go over the DWC, in detail, for their own projects, I certainly will. RDWC UC is a bad-ass system, and the yields would be scratching at the ceiling for the amount you can get out of a plant. DWC has always been my favorite system and I always had great yields.

The couple pics I posted of my original grow were RDWC.

Anyways, I'll work on a new thread today...if anyone really cares (LOL)

Peace :-)
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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JSB99 said:
I've thought long and hard about this (Peter Griffin laughs in the background). I think I am going to go with an ebb and flow using hydroton and a bottom reservoir.

The RDWC UC would be so cool to build and see it work, but I think, after the initial excitement wore off, I would be stuck with this beast of a grow to maintain. Not to mention power, water, and time consumption. I think a fill and drain is going to be much easier, cheaper, and a ton less work to build and maintain.

So I'll probably start a new thread today after I modify my design. If any noobs out there want me to go over the DWC, in detail, for their own projects, I certainly will. RDWC UC is a bad-ass system, and the yields would be scratching at the ceiling for the amount you can get out of a plant. DWC has always been my favorite system and I always had great yields.

The couple pics I posted of my original grow were RDWC.

Anyways, I'll work on a new thread today...if anyone really cares (LOL)

Peace :-)
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Well I'll give you my two cents; having run RDWC for years, I switched to Tupur Royal Gold soilless media. I run it with dry hydroponic nutrient salts. They work like the business, very good at buffering both pH and EC. It happens to work very well in ebb n flood tables as well.

I'm getting excellent results with less finicky bullshit and a lot more consistency;
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JSB99

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ttystikk said:
Well I'll give you my two cents; having run RDWC for years, I switched to Tupur Royal Gold soilless media. I run it with dry hydroponic nutrient salts. They work like the business, very good at buffering both pH and EC. It happens to work very well in ebb n flood tables as well.

I'm getting excellent results with less finicky bullshit and a lot more consistency;
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Cool, I'm going to check out your thread!

Thanks Man
 
JSB99

JSB99

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ttystikk said:
Well I'll give you my two cents; having run RDWC for years, I switched to Tupur Royal Gold soilless media. I run it with dry hydroponic nutrient salts. They work like the business, very good at buffering both pH and EC. It happens to work very well in ebb n flood tables as well.

I'm getting excellent results with less finicky bullshit and a lot more consistency;
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Awesome pics, btw!!!
 
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