So I had a few requests for a journal of my small scale stealth perpetual soil grow. The beauty of this is that all growth stages happen simultaniously so i can document it all at once. So here goes with some details...

I grow in soil - mostly my own home compost that I sterilize in the microwave. This is mixed with perlite worm castings, a dash of guano, bone meal, dolomite, egg shells, and Biotone - a mycorrhizae additive. All my water is dechlorinated tap water.


Clone chamber - 2 23w CFL 1'x2'x2'

I've been cloning in oasis floral foam - it gives good O2 and breaks apart easily as the plant stem grows larger. Each of the containers on the rt side has 4 clones in it. For the first week or so I keep a humidity dome (clear cup with some holes in them). Some take longer than others, but I've been getting nearly 100%.
Once roots appear, they go into small soil containers with my soil mix. Those on the left side have been in soil about 1 week.

In the back, I've just built a small aerocloner (8 clones) that I'm giving a try. No results yet.

From here, they go either to my veg chamber or multiple clones rooted clones will go straight to the Flower chamber.



Veg chamber - 4 23w CFL 2'x2'x3'

On the Left is dear old mom. Center has been in soil for about 3 weeks. On rt, about 5 weeks. I LST with coated copper wire.



Flower chamber - 2 150w HPS in air cooled hoods. 2'x3'x3.5'

Pots shown are 1.5 gal. size. My next round of plants will be in 3 gal containers to provide space for either 1 large (veg ~ 6 weeks) or up to 5 smaller clones. Each pot spends 2 weeks at each of six positions within the cab. Each is also rotated every 2 days to provide even lighting. Again, branches are trained down to an even canopy

A plant starts at position 1 - on the left side of the door, cycles in and around and ends up at position 6 at the left side of the door. I wanted easiest access to the plants that will require the most attention.

Next we'll look at each current occupant....

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Currently the flower chamber has several hold overs from my previous system (the clone and veg, formerly clone/veg and flower) I had a 150 in addition to the 4 23w CFL. Heat and vertical height became limiting factors. So I built this flower chamber from a set of utility shelves. The shelves themselves went together in about 4 minutes. I created panels from reflective coated foam to case in a space, then covered the outside with a cardboard box facade

So our current occupant at position 1 is 2 clones, about 3 weeks old, 1 week into flower. I label each pot with the date it went into flower just to for reference. sometimes I like to let a plant go a little long - these are a Grapefruit x Hash plant a friend brought back from BC a few years ago. I like this strain to go 12-13 weeks if I can. I've had this line of clones going for about 4 years now.



Position 2 also has 2 plants. Both put into flower after about 2 weeks of rooting


We'll skip to position 5. She's been in ~ 9 weeks...



And last but not least, at number 6...
She'll come down completely in a week or so. I've snipped a few samples. As always, very nice.....

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Great Setup. Keep Up The Good Work.

thats cool setup nice and compact

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I gotta hand it too ya. You got a lot in a very small amount of space. It is all very sealthy aswell. Have you figured out what your average harvest will be every 2weeks? This is really getting my brain turning. Keep up the good work. I will be watching. Please keep us updated.

KM

In my pervious setup, during the non-summer months (heat was an issue) I could pull 1-1.5 oz every 2 weeks pretty easy. I need to better fill the available space with bud - as you can see currently, there's alot of open space between alot of those buds - space that should be filled with MORE BUD.

So I'm hopeing that with my new set up, optimized for heat and light, grow them out longer and more space etc... that I can pull out 2-3 oz per cycle.

I've always hear of the old 1g/watt thing, but I have no idea if that concept translates in a perpetual grow.

I'll post more as I get everything ramped up a bit more...

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i just chcked out this thread as because of an invitation from a pm.
i must apologize first because im stoned and do not wish to read the entire thing at one time. but i did skim over the pages and it is a pretty good setup. Id be happy to have the equipment running for a personal grow. However I do think that i see some things that may help this setup run more efficiently once i go and read the entire thread to see all the details.

how many watts are you running in your flowering room? it looks like 2 400watt hps w/ reflectors. If you could reduce floor space to get the clones colas closer together , then that would better utilize the light that you have by focusing more of it directly upon the clones.
just saw that you like to leave them going a bit long, im supposing for a more stoney buzz....... if you focus your light more you will pull more weight and trichromes out of your plants.

more pictures please

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First, a shot of the next plant in line to go into flower. It will get transplanted into a 3 gallon container and moved in a few days.

A couple of shots of the hoods - Each is counterbalanced with a weight hung from the top with nylon cord and eye screws. I move them where I want and they stay there...

Lastly bud shot of the next in line for the chopping block. Still a ways to go...

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