hydro system for 3kw grow?

[Guest]

hi people

i'm putting together a 3kw grow. 5x600w over 60 sq ft. i've grown with this much light (and more) before. problem is what system to use?

i need

a - one single unified system.
b - as low maintenance as possible.
c - as cheap as possible.
d - fast grow rate required.

i want to grow medium-sized plants, 6-10 per light. i'm considering coco slabs but have never run dripper system before. is this a good idea?

any info from people who have exp of running set-ups on this sort of scale would be much appreciated. cheers guys!

 

[wantaknow]

i like to here this one too !i would like to hydro my room w 4k ,i was thinking ebb an flo tray

 

[Guvnor]

If you plan on using the coco slabs, i'd use aqua trays + drippers, run to waste.

You planning to stager your harvest or harvest all at once, see me, I'd like to have a perpectual running with numerous strains on the go. If you use one big hydro system under all your lighting, your restricted to running the same strain-otherwise all the different strains in the same system will be needing different nute resigmes-could lead to rpblems.

I'd stick 3x3 e+f tables under each 600, with different strains in each tray. But this set-up could be costly.
If your going run the same strain, id go with a recuirculating dwc or bio-buckets, quite cheap to set-up and give first class results.

best of luck
Guv'nah

 

[UNREGISTRD]

sounds similiar!

Well the cheapest EASIEST LEAST MAINTANICE hydro is Ebb/flow! AUTO PILOt it should be called! use 4x4 cubes, digital timers for the pumps,,Change your nutes every week used to do every 2 but found that every week is better!
go with 2 4x4 trays with 2 40gal res! or 1 4x8 tray from american agritech
and rock the lucas formula with GH nutes and only Koolbloom as a supplement and YES u can rock similar strains in the same tray OG, Bubba kush work great together!

 

[Babbabud]

Check out this thread. This ebb and flow system really yields and can be ran very simply. Yields are great and the plants become works of art to look at .

 

[Guest]

Ebb & Flow will be your best bet

 

[Guest]

thanks guys. ebb and flow it is then. if any electricians out there i'm about to start a thread on how to wire this grow. help!