Are there any draw backs to rotating gardens?

[DOZEE]

i have 2 budduy totaly sold on them. but before thay buy , I want to find there flaws ... are there any?
how well do thay work?

[c-ray]

are you talking about omega garden...ferris wheel style gardens?
colis are superior

[DOZEE]

yes omega and Bpod are the ones my 2 buddys are going to buy unless i stop them...
boulth have c channels so thay dont drip from over head..
i have seen bouth on creigs list in bc .. I wounder why so many being resold?
then agian bc theres lots more growers per person then here in usa..

[DOZEE]

also why is a collisium better?
is it realy better than buckets ?
i know less space better to hide...l

[nuggdigger]

less chance for Murphy's law to apply,

I want to find there flaws
moving things eventually break, there is very few options for media, large plants don't do well at all, and the bigger a plant grows the closer it gets to the light reducing the overall canopy volume.


in the coli, you media options are practically limitless. As the plants grow, they grow parallel to the light and don't reduce the canopy volume as in the omega. The top is open, and heat still rises, so naturally the thing wants to cool out the top, and is easily cooled without air cooling with a fan below the light string. The coli plants are much easier to access for plant maintenance as you stand in the floor in the middle and work all around you. And for any wannabee hydro tech head;)...the coli can also function aeroponically, though its not my choice method. lol..
actually, right now its more like growing in ss4/perlite/verm and watering a hydro-organic solution. I use my garden moisture meter to tell when it needs watering..which is only once or twice a week. Hows that for laid back..lol
Growing plants in a coli is like growing plants in pots in many ways.



peace:hombre:

[Parabola]

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[DOZEE]

pics?

[c-ray]

http://verticallimits.ca/

[gisisi]

This thing looks to be aimed at a smaller grower.
Does anyone know how much these things cost?

gisisi

[gisisi]

the price is right there.

$129.99 per unit.

[trichome pharm]

Man, plant numbers alone and proper clone selection needed puts me off this motherfucker big time.
I can understand the appeal though.

Good luck

[nuggdigger]

the wall garden has fewer sites per mod..bigger hole sites able to handle larger pots.obviously this baby is designed for plants larger then sog style. I see great potential for the wall garden as a perpetual setup...each week or two introduce a new module..and each week or two harvest one:) Once again Ddoc has invented a superior product to the predecessor imo and I'm behind the times:rant:
The coli can be modified so that each module can be done perpetually but remember the levels are stacked..so plants are are at diff stages above and below each other. proper clone selection?...colis can run sats to indies and the full gamit in between..imagine one half full of blueberry and grapefuit..the other full of burmese and trippyvision. Maybe the yield is not jammerz..but the smoke isn't either. For sats the coli can give a relatively good gpw ratio too IMO, plant size needs to be managed as always. As far as plant numbers, feel free to run it as inefficiently as you want..the pattern also lends itself to every third hole..or wherever one feels led.
Here is a great link regarding the coli and setup.


http://www.aristabc.com/coliseum.asp


peace:pipe:

[gisisi]

Man, plant numbers alone

Each unit has 8 holes. Plant every other one, and you're running 4 plants per unit.

For the 10 unit garden, that is only 40 plants.
Not a tiny number, but not the 300 that fill a coli.

I am thinking of running 4 units, planting every other hole with a rooted clone of a 10 week sativa, topped.

Hang 3 600s down the center, run it like a coliseum.

I called arista today, and was told that is is designed to place 1 gallon pots in for hand watering.

When I asked if I could drill holes top and bottom, fill it with media, and treat it like a coliseum, she said yes.

It occurs to me I am jacking DOZEE's thread.

Please forgive me, DOZEE.

Maybe I should start a wall garden thread.

gisisi

[Green Supreme]

Sounds like drilling is an excellent plan. One of the great things about the coli not replicated in some designs is root space. Hard to beat the coli there. Peace GS