Tripp's hillbilly flooded tube copy

for sure, trim the lower 1/3-1/2 of the plant so its bare. you wont be dissapointed. since your actually doing a SOG, just vertical, you dont want wasted nutes/light energy going to the lower popcorn buds... just the sweet colas!
i did 2 sogs b4 i learned that lesson....

also, all the cuttings make nifty clones, hint hint

dude I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have that website to the penn. company that sells the euro soil pipe...
please please please please give it up !!!!!

https://keithspecialty.com/dwv.gasketed_sewer_main.htm


soil pipe, in the US, is called gasketed sewer pipe you can find it at just about any plumbing supply house, tho they might have to order it from a warehouse.

Hey Trip, liking what you are doing here. I am a coco grower but got into vert on this latest grow of mine, also inspired by, Heath and my good man, Jigfresh. Sub'd and gonna follow you through.

Good luck for it!

Peace, DST

pulled up a chair, gotta see this, looks great!!

Had a small problem yesterday...apparently the larger plants on the top row caused a backup and a leak from one of the top sites. I pulled a rather large hermie and found the roots were almost 4 feet long, pic is included and yes the roots are touching the floor. I know that I vegged much too long and using the wrong strain only compounded the problems. The entire top tube is a large overlapping root mass...I've never seen anything like it. I had to switch off my large pump and am running the small one now to keep the flow down. My next grow will use my smaller clones and try to keep everything uniform at the start like the original. I kept vegging for so long in the beginning because I didn't have nearly enough plants to fill the tubes...but I am getting there. The hillbilly cloner on the floor was homebuilt off another thread...working nicely. I'm done with soil for good.

wowsers on those roots, lol....

Here how to adjust the flow without changing the pump. Put in the bypass. Here is how I accomplished this based on his principle using the plumbing stuff I had laying around

shitty picture sorry but just jack in a t-fitting then a shutoff valve to a 90 back to the res. I thought a picture should have been worth a thousand words.

Hi trippgordon good to see your system is working so well (maybe too well! lol) you might benefit from a more indica type plant on your next grow.

The picture is of one of my bypasses (same as pinner tried to show) I use on most of my grows. The extra benifit of the bypass is it not only controls the flow rate but also adds dissolved oxygen when it is bypassing.





heath

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just for being Heath Robinson

lol no shit.

Heath Robinson said:

Hi trippgordon good to see your system is working so well (maybe too well! lol) you might benefit from a more indica type plant on your next grow.

The picture is of one of my bypasses (same as pinner tried to show) I use on most of my grows. The extra benifit of the bypass is it not only controls the flow rate but also adds dissolved oxygen when it is bypassing.

heath

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Thanks for stopping by! I'm going to add the bypass to my large pump this coming week, the pic is much appreciated. I switched to 1.2 ec with ionic bloom and did some trimming. No more leaks but I want to add a screen as suggested in an earlier post. The pics are from yesterday, its quite a jungle in there and the buds are forming quite nicely. The purple wreck are very stinky already and apparently the short plants that I thought were kush are northern lights, very well suited to the tubes. I took a pic of some sativa plants hitting the roof, and some bcseeds g13 buds from my final soil grow. I ordered from them before hearing about all the negative reviews but they sent me the beans. I want to try this strain in a custom bucket vertical next.

i have a good question, for either heath or tripp....

how long of a straight, level run of pvc, say 4" ID, can i have before backing up occurs due to lack of fall in the pipe/root clogging?

kind of a general question, i know, but im planning a flooded tube grow, and I dont want to build something that looks nice, but starts leaking/overflowing from plant sites like a screen door on a submarine when im 3 weeks into flowering.... not critical, but id like some insight from someone that has already walked this path, you know?

IAm5toned said:

i have a good question, for either heath or tripp....

how long of a straight, level run of pvc, say 4" ID, can i have before backing up occurs due to lack of fall in the pipe/root clogging?

kind of a general question, i know, but im planning a flooded tube grow, and I dont want to build something that looks nice, but starts leaking/overflowing from plant sites like a screen door on a submarine when im 3 weeks into flowering.... not critical, but id like some insight from someone that has already walked this path, you know?

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I think you could easily use the original dimensions and have no leakage. I checked every pot recently and my culprits were the leggy plants that I let veg for almost 4 weeks. If you start with indicas all fairly uniform I honestly think you could have a very fast running system and not get close to leaking. Another thing is one of my leaks came from a site hole that I tilted out a bit too much....my next build will have them all upright-no tilt. Make sure you sharpie a solid black line on the top of the tubes and line them up with the tabs on the 45's...you will have about 2 friggin seconds to line it up before the glue sets!....this will keep all the sites straight and give you a nice level system. my 2c

IAm5toned said:

i have a good question, for either heath or tripp....

how long of a straight, level run of pvc, say 4" ID, can i have before backing up occurs due to lack of fall in the pipe/root clogging?

kind of a general question, i know, but im planning a flooded tube grow, and I dont want to build something that looks nice, but starts leaking/overflowing from plant sites like a screen door on a submarine when im 3 weeks into flowering.... not critical, but id like some insight from someone that has already walked this path, you know?

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even tho you didn't want an answer from me

as far as the lenth goes you wouldn't want it to be to long
the light can only cover so much area
(even if you use a 1k watts light)
the tube would have to tapper off at some point

lol sorry t5.... ill take insight from anyone, never too many heads in a brainstorming session.

light isnt the problem. the problem is my available space. i dont have enough square footage in a box shape to justify building a coliseum.
or rather, the space i have available isnt really suited for the coliseum design, the footprint is too small, and bacause of this, im thinking major heat/bleaching problems. the tighter footprint cuts the radius down on the coliseum, which shortens the distance from plant site to lamp

having just said that... the idea hit me like brick falling from an airplane.

i dont have to build a coliseum at all.

i could just use a corner.... with vertical drains going to the lower levels... just have a dam before the drain to keep the tube flooded!
id have to space the drains out a little far from the last plant site on each level to allow for root growth though.
what do you guys think?

IAm5toned I cannot really picture it. You may want to try creating a picture with Google Sketchup.

trippgordon, why did you glue the pipe together? The reason to use SDR 35 is that it provides a leak free seal with no need for glue. There is a silicone lubricant that makes joining them easier.

Dont forget to post the final weight & GPW.