Omega Garden's Volksgarden rotary garden

[whereisjeff]

I can't wait to see how this grow goes... I stumbled across this website while trying to find more info on rotational gardens, NuPonics, the world most compact, efficient, Ebbon Flow Hydroponics system. Does anyone know anything about these rotating gardens? I want to grow with a rotation device in an apartment or condo, so finding something small is essential, anyone have advice?

[Harry Red]

This is so cool.

I've been waiting for someone to journal a rotor or a coliseum style grow.



Harry

[NEFARiOUS]

Awesommeeeee grow. The wheel of meds !

[PotPie]

I've been watching this for a few days and now I'm completely hooked. Count me in. I don't know who is more fascinated with this, the geek in me or the gardener in me.

PotPie

[swampgas]

This thing is way cool, it definately has my wheels turning.

[pan4gold49]

That is cool.

I would like to build one some time It looks simple.
You got me on the hook for this one.

Pan4

[nbk380]

^ if any one can you can pan4....i think it'll fit. i want the blue prints!!

[slicky]

Hello maxxiums,

thanks for the info of this VG machine as the details you gave out.

I am saving money for one of this machine.
I have a few questions to ask you.
---
For your 2nd round with 60 plants

do you put seeds or clones into the VG or you have to seed or clone first then you put them into the VG for vegetation?

1. how high is the plants when you put them in to the VG?
2. how tall are the plants when you put them into the VG?
3. how long do you veg the plants?
4. what happen to the roots of each plants? I can not figure where the root are at ???
5. how long for flowering or bud?

-thanks

Originally Posted by maxximus

If you have to worry about plant counts then this system may not be the way to go. You really are growing branches and not large plants, and you could say that all you grow in this system are buds, as there is very little waste.

The gram per watt ratio is pretty good so far, but I am really just getting my 'rotary legs' so to speak. I was looking for better last time out, and finding the right plant for the system is part of the process. 1st grow at .5 lb, 2nd at 1 lb, so at this rate of increase.......

IMO this machine is genius! I grew the first strain right before I got the wheel in a regular DWC garden. The final product was okay. And in time it looked better. However - the same strain in the volksgarden - perfect. It went from fluffy hazy in the DWC to OG Kush like density in the wheel. same exact plant. Hard nugs that were exactly what I wanted. Let's put it this way the collective I took it to (and it is the best collective in LA, ie the world) took one look at it and put it on it's top shelf because it was so frosty.
Completely covered in trichomes. It looked like velvet. That means that this wheel turned out some of the best medicine in the world. Patients even went online on the weedtracker forums to talk about how awesome it was.

Once I have the height, the nutes and the genetics just right - this will be a beast of production. I will be satisfied with two pounds but I will be pushing for three. Oh what a fun game this is. It is a nice feeling to walk into a dispensary and have the owners treat you like a rockstar because of the obvious and hard to find quality that you are bringing them.

Cheers,
Maxx

[maxximus]

Here are the pics from the first day of week 3 of flower.

I am still giving them CNS 17 bloom formula, though I am upping the
dossage now to around 420 mls. I am not adding anything else yet.
As you can see the plants have gotten very tall very quickly. This
is from 6 days of veg. Next time I will do 5. if some of them get
too tall and touch the tube I will bend them with fishing line. I
have already tested to see if I could be done and it is easy. You
just tie the string around the plant and then anchor it to one of
the empty spaces on the wheel.

The Mazar is budding faster than the hogsbreath. But both of these
strains are sooo much better than the last one i ran. As you can
see from the pics the canopy is finally filling out the way I had
hoped it would. Harvest should be much bigger than the last. I
see bud sites everywhere. Now the real test will be bud density
and frostiness.















This last pic is the air-con unit that is keeping the room between 75 and 85F

Cheers,
Maxx

[maxximus]

Originally Posted by BubbaKush

beautiful....i am intrigued with this grow...found a guy on craigslist with one new in a box for 1200... i am definatly going to get one when i can utilize it properly. i dont have a dedicated spot to put one....yet. you say its in a 5x5 hut, how much room do you have to work with and what are the temps like.....

Dims for the VG are 4 foot and 31 inches so i have 6 inch clearance of either end, and I have 2 foot plus on the open side of the VG so its ideal. temps from 75 to 85F with the air-con.

Cheers,
Maxx

[maxximus]

Originally Posted by whereisjeff

I can't wait to see how this grow goes... I stumbled across this website while trying to find more info on rotational gardens, NuPonics, the world most compact, efficient, Ebbon Flow Hydroponics system. Does anyone know anything about these rotating gardens? I want to grow with a rotation device in an apartment or condo, so finding something small is essential, anyone have advice?

Hey jeff, welcome.

You gotta be careful about the different rotary gardens, as they may look the same, they are not all built the same. Have a look at the install video earlier in this thread and see how easy and simple the Volksgarden is. In this case simple is good. The VG is not the first design that Omega has made, more like the 6th, and its sweet. You don't want to be used as the R&D lab for a start up in my opinion.

Cheers,
Maxx

[maxximus]

Originally Posted by slicky

Hello maxxiums,

thanks for the info of this VG machine as the details you gave out.

I am saving money for one of this machine.
I have a few questions to ask you.
---
For your 2nd round with 60 plants

do you put seeds or clones into the VG or you have to seed or clone first then you put them into the VG for vegetation?

1. how high is the plants when you put them in to the VG?
2. how tall are the plants when you put them into the VG?
3. how long do you veg the plants?
4. what happen to the roots of each plants? I can not figure where the root are at ???
5. how long for flowering or bud?

-thanks

Hi Slicky,

For me it's clones for the Volksgarden. Veg them in the VG. You are getting close to real time here so you can see that different plants react differently to the rotation and in flat land as well of course, so dialing in the veg time is part of the process, and when you change plants like I am doing every time out you may need to adjust for optimum performance. Numbers of plants are going to make a difference as well as when plants are crowed they compete for light making them grow taller. This was a 6 day veg and if I keep running this plant I will adjust to 5 days veg next time and see what I get them, and go to 4 possibly after that.

Roots are in a root medium holder that attaches to the slots in Volksgarden. If you go to the Omega Garden dot com site at the bottom of the VG page there are links to details assembly pics that should help.

Flowering is sped up some what in the VG due to plant proximity to the light and also the rotation I believe, but it's still pretty close to the usual time for whatever strain you are growing, though veg time is close to eliminated.

Cheers,
Maxx

[slicky]

Hello and thanks for the reply.

Wow this is hitech stuff and it is very intererst to see and experience to get the max result.

is there anyway I can contact you privately by email? I can not talk or ask and discuss here freely because webmaster & moderators constantly monitor.

I have some very interesting thing I would like to discuss with you if it is possible.

thanks

Originally Posted by maxximus

Hi Slicky,

For me it's clones for the Volksgarden. Veg them in the VG. You are getting close to real time here so you can see that different plants react differently to the rotation and in flat land as well of course, so dialing in the veg time is part of the process, and when you change plants like I am doing every time out you may need to adjust for optimum performance. Numbers of plants are going to make a difference as well as when plants are crowed they compete for light making them grow taller. This was a 6 day veg and if I keep running this plant I will adjust to 5 days veg next time and see what I get them, and go to 4 possibly after that.

Roots are in a root medium holder that attaches to the slots in Volksgarden. If you go to the Omega Garden dot com site at the bottom of the VG page there are links to details assembly pics that should help.

Flowering is sped up some what in the VG due to plant proximity to the light and also the rotation I believe, but it's still pretty close to the usual time for whatever strain you are growing, though veg time is close to eliminated.

Cheers,
Maxx

[maxximus]

Hi Slicky,

This site does allow for private messaging.

Cheers,
Maxx

[slicky]

hello

I tried to reply to your private message but it does not allow me to do.

it said i need 25 post before can access private message

thanks