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Trick my Pod - The complete Aeroponics primer
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This might be redundant but I will ask anyway. Regarding the shurflow pumps rated at 4 and 5.7 gpm each. Isn't this only 240 and 342 gph respectively? Maybe the calculation isn't as simple as multiplying the gpm by 60. Please help me I thought we needed 800-1050 gph? I am going to build a 4x8' aero under 2 600w hps in cool tubes, btw. ANy advice. I will finish reading the thread over the next couple of days but I need to ask my questions before I forget. - Cheers
You wouldn't happen to know a formula that will work to allow me figure out what I need from a pump for a certain amount of nozzles? I am excited to get started with this method but my lack of experience with plumbing is prohibitive. I've done several soil grows under different lights with varying soil mixes. I may do an ebb and flow with an additional ultrasonic fogger (to get my feet wet) next but aero is where my heart leads me as far as indoor goes. I have done too many thought experiments for aero to ignore the awesomeness of it. Those of you already pulling off huge nugs and giant beautiful roots are my heroes.
Does anyone have any data on SOG g/w, plants/ft, g/time? I would really like to see some of that yield data peeps.
Does anyone have any data on SOG g/w, plants/ft, g/time? I would really like to see some of that yield data peeps.
SweetNightmare
Active member
If your gunna do something that big man get one of those 1/2 hp inline pumps a 4x8 aero is pretty big... and the 1/2hp is what they use in the 60 site ones i think...
Is that 1/2hp inline pump going to be quiet? After remeasuring my space I think a 3' width will be more manageable. My mommas are slow going so I think I still have another 20 days before I make cuts, time is on my side here. I will be SOGing Red Diesel (we will see how it handles this) and a couple of different Kush crosses. Am I kidding myself thinking more than one variety can be managed in a single Pod?
I have a sure flo dia pump that was pictured and the damn brushes have worn out. JYI the brushes supply power so the stator? will turn. Does anyone know where to find replacement brushes....couldn't find it through shur flo?
oldbubbler
Member
Is this bloke (Pod Racer) still around? I appreciated some advice a year or so ago when I was gonna convert from Bubblers to give aeroponics a go - due to a combination of circumstance, butt laziness and wariness of messing with something that works good for me (the bubblers) I never got around to trying it.
However, a mate of mine is getting in the game and I've convinced him to let me use him as a guinea-pig and seeing as I'm funding start up and providing the product he don't have much choice in it anyway.
So on aeroponics if Pod Racer or any other guru cares to offer an opinion.
We're gonna have a 6m shipping container all insulated and dressed up by the time I finish with it with probably 6 x 600's in a single row and a plant under each - yes we're going tree style as I always do in 8 week cycles. Now I know what i'd get in bubblers from past experience but I've always had this thing for air in my roots, more air, plenty of air and this is why I'm still fascinated by aeroponics. I look at my healthy plants and healthy roots at harvesting and even though they'd put plenty to most to shame I still see aerponics roots that'd put mine to shame so I KNOW I can do even better and I won't rest until I give this a try.
What I'm thinking is a 6m long 300mm pipe and pumping that up - think the pipe's big enough width wise? I could go to 450mm but the weight (not to mention the expense) of the damn things is prohibitive - one's I've looked at go from 4mm to 6mm thickness from 300mmm to 450mm so you end up nearly doubling the weight.
Now I'll say it won't stop me if 300mm isn't appropriate, I'd just prefer to run with them than try to lug a 450mm monster into the joint. I also have this vision of just hosing the pipe out when cleaning and I can carry the 300mm myself to my cleaning station but I'd need an ox to drag the 450mmm so I'd have to come up with an in-situ cleaning scenario which I'd rather avoid.
So in a long winded way 300mm dia - good enough to aerponic a plant that will end up around 1m+ tall?
Any response is an appreciated one.
However, a mate of mine is getting in the game and I've convinced him to let me use him as a guinea-pig and seeing as I'm funding start up and providing the product he don't have much choice in it anyway.
So on aeroponics if Pod Racer or any other guru cares to offer an opinion.
We're gonna have a 6m shipping container all insulated and dressed up by the time I finish with it with probably 6 x 600's in a single row and a plant under each - yes we're going tree style as I always do in 8 week cycles. Now I know what i'd get in bubblers from past experience but I've always had this thing for air in my roots, more air, plenty of air and this is why I'm still fascinated by aeroponics. I look at my healthy plants and healthy roots at harvesting and even though they'd put plenty to most to shame I still see aerponics roots that'd put mine to shame so I KNOW I can do even better and I won't rest until I give this a try.
What I'm thinking is a 6m long 300mm pipe and pumping that up - think the pipe's big enough width wise? I could go to 450mm but the weight (not to mention the expense) of the damn things is prohibitive - one's I've looked at go from 4mm to 6mm thickness from 300mmm to 450mm so you end up nearly doubling the weight.
Now I'll say it won't stop me if 300mm isn't appropriate, I'd just prefer to run with them than try to lug a 450mm monster into the joint. I also have this vision of just hosing the pipe out when cleaning and I can carry the 300mm myself to my cleaning station but I'd need an ox to drag the 450mmm so I'd have to come up with an in-situ cleaning scenario which I'd rather avoid.
So in a long winded way 300mm dia - good enough to aerponic a plant that will end up around 1m+ tall?
Any response is an appreciated one.
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HairlessCaveApe
Active member
Coleman coolers make great aeroponic root chambers. Why go an build a cooler when ya can just go on out and buy one at any sportin goods store? They even have handles on each end. Plunbins fairly easy to run in and out, and theyre insulated. What more can you ask for? I use the 10 gallon ones for root chambers and a 20 gallon one for a rez.
HairlessCaveApe
Active member
oldbubbler said:
Are those mm's plane or with peanuts? If ya do go tree style with aero ya mite wanna do some lst'in too, theyl get massive. It shure would be a great way to keep your plant numbers down. Im doin Lavenders at the present under 600's, aero flower only, for 8 weeks, with a 2 week bubble root and a 2 week bubble veg. I do 4 to a cooler. They go in at about 11" and finish at 36" in 8 weeks. I usta do Sugar Shacks 4 at a time under 400's that started at 7" and finished at 25" in 45 days. Sory bout the " but I dont know nothin bout them m+m's! Unfortunately None of these TAG guys seem to be around any more. I wish they were because I could have used the help. I actually stopped TAG growing because of that, I just couldn't get tips and I am not trying to spend then next year or two trying to learn through trial and error. I will start back up when I have the space to grow a full production grow AND a TAG grow at the same time to learn from. Right now I am using E&F, and reading all I can about TAG. When I have space I will fire it up while I am still producing dank E&F nuggies.
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Great thread... very inspiring.
ILikeCheetos
Member
Is the POD Racer still around? Is TAG still alive? Last useful info I can find on the interwebs is 2008. Any new info out there?
E&F is Ebb and Flow, or Flood and drain. It is completely different than TAG.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40637
http://www.icmag.com/gallery/data/500/15138image019.jpg
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=70262
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40582
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40637
http://www.icmag.com/gallery/data/500/15138image019.jpg
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=70262
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40582
