Indoor continual harvest setup

repvip · #1 04-23-2008, 10:34 PM

First grow using real equipment. Running two rooms, one veg one flower, 400w HPS and 400w MH. Flower room has a 4ft light mover, neagative ion generator, intake/exhaust system. Veg room has intake/exhaust system which recirculates between the flower room, CO2 generator. Have a small cabinet for clones, but may discard and move into veg room soon.

So.. kind of similar to a Mr. Al B Fucts setup actually.. god bless. Plan on having roughly 10 mothers in the veg room. 36 cuttings every two weeks (two clone buckets of 18, straight to flower room for sea of green after rooting, about 25.. hey so I suck at cloning right now

it is getting a lot better though. Hopefully harvest every two weeks at 25 plants... possibly 12.5-25oz every two weeks.. we will see.

Right now I'm still in the seedling stage and looking for those plants with excellent genes to make mothers. Seeds have been a hassle.. I can't wait for a uniform crop. As a side note my last order from Nirvana was seized at the border (not seized--they open and check, take the seeds, send what's left).

repvip · #2 04-23-2008, 10:38 PM

Not sure how to comment on those pics.. but you can make out what is what for the most part. Temp is around 80F most of the time. Veg room about 75F when lights on.. lifhts off not sure probably 65F..

Ionizer is hung from the ceiling of the flower room. CO2 generator on the floor of the veg room.. The clone cabinet has 1 of the clone buckets being tested right now.. need to make sure it's reliable. Rockwool is ok... but I'm lazy.

Growing a few different strains.. Lowryder #2, Ganja Dwarf, Dutch Dope, all my skunk red hairs were male (wtf!), afghan big bud, and thai x skunk. If I ever have to get seeds again it will for sure be something feminized.

So.. I only have one question really.. Do you think CO2 supplementation will really help? Personally, I think it is.. but I haven't seen many ops with it. Oh, and of course and advice would be great.

Also, is there anywhere in the US to get Fytocell? Stuff sounds amazing.

repvip · #3 05-01-2008, 09:49 PM

Well, not sure if anyone is following along, but thought I'd post an update with some pics. In the pics you can see the 3-5 large flowering females--they have been flowering for three weeks. They are 'Ganja Dwarf' from AMS seeds and I have to admit I thought they would be dwarfier. Admittedly, I could have vegged them shorter, but still.

In the corner I have my first SOG batch of about 25 including ~8 Big Bud's from AMS and 1 skunk red hair (male difficulties) and the rest good bag seed. You can see the lower 1/3 plant material has been removed in anticipation of flowering. About 4 males have been removed already, the rest showing no definitive sex yet, except the shunk red hair, which is an interesting story. It was cloned from a hermaphrodite mother plant, but appears to be all female now.... These have been flowering two weeks. They are way behind the ganja dwarfs because I didn't veg them, and also the ganja dwarfs are an "autoflowering" plant, like Lowryder--they genetically picked to mature fast.

The other 5-6 plants are mother rejects, all of which are Dutch Dope or Indoor Mix from AMS seeds. I have 6 big, healthy Dutch Dope mother plants just waiting to get back in the groove of things since being sexed.

How long should I wait after determining the female sex in 12/12 and moving the now mother to 24 veg before cloning for SOG purposes? I'm guessing two weeks?

repvip · #4 05-01-2008, 10:07 PM

The iphone takes ok pictures, but what the hell I grabbed my digital and took some better ones.

I moved the CO2 generator from the veg room into the flower room two days ago and can already see a difference.

SomeGuy · #5 05-02-2008, 01:31 AM

Looking Good!! Getting mothers is the hard part I think. I hope to have a few chosen for fall. I wanna try SOG on a really small scale.. Harvest 3-4 smaller plants or 2 medium every 3 weeks. Well see...LOL. Its a lot of work. I have harvest starting next week though and then it will be somewhat consistent through summer

WOOOHOOO.. Happy growing! Looks like you are on the right track for some happy returns.

repvip · #6 05-04-2008, 09:21 PM

Thanks SomeGuy! Agreed it's a lot of work--like a regular job sometimes! Just trying to be patient now... should really be seeing some explosive growth in the next two weeks.

It's funny how many problems you encounter when doing this! Now I'm having humidity issues (can you tell me camera lens was fogged up) from the Cap-1 CO2 generator, which also has a pilot light that I forgot about which obviously emits light in the flower room

need to think of something for that.... Getting a dehumidifier soon.

repvip · #7 05-10-2008, 12:12 AM

Oh the difference a few days can make

These are just some closeup pics of the Ganja Dwarfs. Have about 2 weeks left; 3 max.

I started using molasses about 4 days ago and.. if you scroll a few posts up and compare.. there has been a huge difference in bud growth.

SomeGuy · #8 05-10-2008, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by repvip

Oh the difference a few days can make

These are just some closeup pics of the Ganja Dwarfs. Have about 2 weeks left; 3 max.

I started using molasses about 4 days ago and.. if you scroll a few posts up and compare.. there has been a huge difference in bud growth.

ya molasses does some good shit...LOL I just chopped one... Oh man.. Im so high I dont even know whats going on... Dont forget your towweel

keep going man.. what, another 4-5 weeks you think and they are done?

#1accordfamily · #9 05-10-2008, 02:55 AM

cool as cereal

repvip · #10 05-10-2008, 09:53 AM

Hah! Someguy you are hilarious! I've been chopping off nugs here and there, testing the water

I'm impressed with the ganja dwarf so far!

4-5 weeks sounds about right for this first harvest of about.. 5 plants

The continual harvest is still getting up and running.. there are about 25 plants in a SOG that have been flowering for about 3 weeks.. here is a pic

Also, I've just transplanted another 25 clones from my clone buckets (pic below), which will immediately go into the flower room. It took about 2 weeks to get decent roots on the clones. I expect to move clones into the flower room every 3 weeks at first to see how it flows..