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Quote Originally Posted by TheGreenFog
even with a CFL grow, you are going to have to figure out a way to ventilate, so why not just get an HPS and ventilate that?
Yep. You do have to wonder where the break-point is where an HPS is too small to be practical (and I have my doubts about the 60 & 75W HPS units) or a CFL too large to justify its existence compared to a near-sized HPS or MH. I think that point is somewhere around 100W for CFLs. I've seen 300W single unit CFLs and just wondered "why?" (edit: I say the same thing when I see a BMW X5 or a Porsche Cayenne, too... )

I went and saw some of your stuff over at GC and your set up looks very nice. I like the SOG & it's definitely nice to have a harvest every couple weeks. Welcome over here, man. We need more people who know their stuff...and actually post it.
Thanks much. I'm an Overgrow refugee, still looking for a place to settle. Been flopping around several dope forums lately, and I'll tell ya, if assholes had wings, some of these (unnamed) joints would be international airports.

I've been trying post the cloning & SoG bits I have on GC over here on cannabis.com; I've uploaded the images, but I can't work out how to embed images inline with text on this forum. IMG tags appear to be disabled. The IMG button is missing from the WYSIWYG text editor. Those two essays make much more sense with the images embedded in the text instead of appearing at the end of the post in a clump.

a disaster waiting to happen if the grow is left alone for a couple days at a time.
eek, poor you!

I am always torn on a performance v. reliability issue when I think about my op which runs 8" x 8" pots of loose rockwool floc. Each pot of rockwool will soak up about 2L of water, enough to get through 2 lights-on cycles without a pump run (i.e. water pump failure). I know there's no possible way as much O2 gets to roots in rockwool than in other systems like drip, NFT, DWC, aero, etc etc.

However, the other, higher performance systems are often highly prone to disaster unless babysat. DWC can kill plants if there's a simple power outage lasting more than a few hours, due to lack of air pumped in the nute buckets. If I built a DWC, it'd have an uninterruptible power supply for a PC as part of the plan!