well I'm not the best at growing sites, I honestly suck at it.. but I also rarely ever buy traffic..
But IMO you would need to have some half way decent connections with some TGP's that can send traffic to do it in a day. But if you set up a site with good trades, buy about 30k in traffic sent to you at 5k a day. You should have a site bigger than 10k within a week assuming your site is productive. However that assumes to know how to trade and you keep your galleries updated.
Also Choker's system has to have generic descriptions such as "Teen gallery" and so on.. so I think it would be a little bit harder to build one up like that. His system would probably be best be used in conjunction with your own Thumb preview galleries at the top of the page. You could use
Remote Thumbs for the top galleries and set Chokers galleries up in category lists at the bottom.