Large Medical Grow

[drbucket]

I'm helping set up a large medical grow op for a collective of around 75 patients with serious illnesses (mostly cancer patients).

I'm not going to be there to help run it, only to set it up.

They want to run around 16000W. Electricity and space are no problem, as they are in a warehouse.

I've got a 16 x 16 or bigger space available.

I was thinking about doing a run to waste with coco and 5 gallon grow bags in a 4x8 flood table for each 2000W. Maybe 32 plants per table.

Res management would be easy, and I would just have a drain controller that would drain the waste solution out of the system.

Anyone of you lot have thoughts on any better systems? Would flood tables work easier with just hydroton?

It's a lot of coco for these people to have to dump every time. I suppose you could reuse the coco..............

What would you use for such a system?

[blackguard_rogue]

I would certainly do flood tables with just hydroton, a hydoponic solution as it may be easier to automate and keep clean for a operation of that scale.

If you are new (based on the scale of your operation I presume you are not), I would go soil based. Otherwise I would go flood tables, hydroton clay pellets, I seem to get good results for large scale operations with that. I get quicker yields, but I had to install a paging device that emails me if any anomalies happen, pumps fail, PH is out of acceptable parameters or breaches in security. I have to be close by to fix these if needed.

If you are more than a one man operation you can delegate this better, but if you are an only man operation I would suggest installing these monitoring apparatuses.

If your strain is stable and small (mostly Indica, Northern Lights), this should be a breeze for you.