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You know....the whole time I grew alone , I was always lookin for total automation...anything that could make my life easier to allow me to enjoy my real life in the real world , or at least free up enough time to pursue more portfolio endeavors.....
Krusty buckets wore my ass out for almost a decade , but the yields and rewards far outweighed the constant maintenance and fear of total crop failure on a day to day basis from a seriously fast hydro setup .....then.....
Heath talked me into runnin ebb and flow buckets in perpetual flip rooms to increase harveys per yr with less headache and maintenance and the shit practically ran itself for almost 5 yrs......win win for less time in the rooms and more time to spend with family.....and then...
Blue Haze talked me into runnin coco with my mom plants for faster and more cuts than I could `ve ever imagined about the same time Heath was workin on his lil vert setups with mega cuts , and the lightbulb went off.....then the remodelin began......
Vertical racks with coco #5 smartpots fed once a day dtw with a bigass pond pump and proper head pressure to supply equal flow and pressure to all plantsites via control valves on each level as the pressure decreased.....talk about maintenance free for almost 3 yrs......and finally...
Started readin bout blumats at a Euro site Heath hooked me up with back in the day and I was totally awestruck by TOTAL no strings attached , no bells and whistles system......nothing .....
Just gravity fed cones/emitters/sensors in a loopfield that did ALL the work for the grower and all that was needed was a rez elevated above the level of the sensors to provide constant down pressure to prevent em from gettin outta sync.....
after a month of doin research I bought couple hundred of the new maxi`s that had just come out and all the deck/balcony and patio kits sustainable village had in stock at the time for the smaller cones and it was on .....
2 weeks later my close bro got popped and I killed 8 rooms and shutdown 4 locations with all shit put in storage that`s been like that goin on 4 yrs now....moral to this story Greenmatter is...
I`ve preached blumats for several yrs now and have many many gro-bro`s killin it with em , but the one thing that concerns me bout the racks gettin constant pressure on the cones when they`re all at different levels is the different pressure placed on cones that`ll most definitely need watched and dialed as they acclimate to where they sit in the pods.....
Possibly multiple smaller elevated rez`s designated to each level daisy chained and tied together with the main rez on the floor pumpin juice up to each individual rez on a timed feed basis with the overflow poopy talked about so each rez can maintain full pool and keep continuous constant pressure on the cones ftw.....
Anyways..guaranteed..blumats are the last setup I would`ve ever run cuz they`re the culmination of my grow career lookin for the ultimate maintenance free K.I.S.S. setup that pumps out da dank as if they were growin in my old krusty buckets but without all the headaches and time involved to keep em alive...
Why would anyone wanna go though what I did for 30 yrs outside and inside beatin my head against the wall for the bigger better deal , when all yas need is buncha blumats ta set and ferget....
Ain`t rocket science....Sunday Bubba and coffee wake and bake over....got da munchies .....mmmmm breakfast....
Peace....Freds....
...
Krusty buckets wore my ass out for almost a decade , but the yields and rewards far outweighed the constant maintenance and fear of total crop failure on a day to day basis from a seriously fast hydro setup .....then.....
Heath talked me into runnin ebb and flow buckets in perpetual flip rooms to increase harveys per yr with less headache and maintenance and the shit practically ran itself for almost 5 yrs......win win for less time in the rooms and more time to spend with family.....and then...
Blue Haze talked me into runnin coco with my mom plants for faster and more cuts than I could `ve ever imagined about the same time Heath was workin on his lil vert setups with mega cuts , and the lightbulb went off.....then the remodelin began......
Vertical racks with coco #5 smartpots fed once a day dtw with a bigass pond pump and proper head pressure to supply equal flow and pressure to all plantsites via control valves on each level as the pressure decreased.....talk about maintenance free for almost 3 yrs......and finally...
Started readin bout blumats at a Euro site Heath hooked me up with back in the day and I was totally awestruck by TOTAL no strings attached , no bells and whistles system......nothing .....
Just gravity fed cones/emitters/sensors in a loopfield that did ALL the work for the grower and all that was needed was a rez elevated above the level of the sensors to provide constant down pressure to prevent em from gettin outta sync.....
after a month of doin research I bought couple hundred of the new maxi`s that had just come out and all the deck/balcony and patio kits sustainable village had in stock at the time for the smaller cones and it was on .....
2 weeks later my close bro got popped and I killed 8 rooms and shutdown 4 locations with all shit put in storage that`s been like that goin on 4 yrs now....moral to this story Greenmatter is...
I`ve preached blumats for several yrs now and have many many gro-bro`s killin it with em , but the one thing that concerns me bout the racks gettin constant pressure on the cones when they`re all at different levels is the different pressure placed on cones that`ll most definitely need watched and dialed as they acclimate to where they sit in the pods.....
Possibly multiple smaller elevated rez`s designated to each level daisy chained and tied together with the main rez on the floor pumpin juice up to each individual rez on a timed feed basis with the overflow poopy talked about so each rez can maintain full pool and keep continuous constant pressure on the cones ftw.....
Anyways..guaranteed..blumats are the last setup I would`ve ever run cuz they`re the culmination of my grow career lookin for the ultimate maintenance free K.I.S.S. setup that pumps out da dank as if they were growin in my old krusty buckets but without all the headaches and time involved to keep em alive...
Why would anyone wanna go though what I did for 30 yrs outside and inside beatin my head against the wall for the bigger better deal , when all yas need is buncha blumats ta set and ferget....
Ain`t rocket science....Sunday Bubba and coffee wake and bake over....got da munchies .....mmmmm breakfast....
Peace....Freds....
...
for that!
I like drippers because I water to I get anywhere from 5-15% run off, 3 times per day in veg and 5 times per day in flower, this flushes the coco, washing excess salts out and keeps my ph stable. = more control.
