1BMM's CAVE....

Hello my fellow ganja enthusiast's I am the 1BMM of the club 600. I have been dabbling for a few years now in growing my own stash. And to date have been doing just fkn great.

My Indoor & Outdoor have been finished for a few weeks and im gearing up for the cool winter months. My grow space is 8ft X 13ft X 6ft. I will explain with pics as we go along. For this grow i will be attempting a DIY Ebb&gro/DWC Scrog. I have 15 buckets and a 55 gal res. And a backup 45 gal. 3 600 watt hps/mh and a 1000 watt juice sucker. I think ill be sticking with my 600s.
This is a project i started last winter but have yet to use, perfect ect...

I admit ive probably spent more building this motherfucker than i could have bought one for. But hey half the fun is building the better mouse trap ayyy. I have kicked around many ideas for my winter grow as i have a few difffrent setups to fuck with. Ive decided to finish what ive started from last winter. The ebb&flow/dwc/scrog A few pics to come. Be back soon. Peace 1BMM

sweeet, cant wait to see the cave explode

Glad to have you here Las my man. Im kinda slow at getting this lil gig under way lol. My life is fkn crazy I got 3 boys and a dog thats an asshole lol. Joking hes the shit.

Alrighty First before i get into this long winded post. I need to get stoned


The indoor drying. MMM not quite ready yet but im itching for some blue widow.


Just a taste. Smells killer. A blueberry kinda nutty wood smell.


Ohh yeah I know how to roll it up. My fav way of smokin.

Ahhhh much better Welcome one and all.

This is my hydro setup. DIY 2nd time putting it together and my first grow in it.


The flower room. Main reservoir and controller.


The plumbing from the main res to control unit. I used electrical conduit for my hose. Just because it was about $25 cheaper than the rubber. As i said i started building this setup a year ago. For some reason i thought using larger diameter tubing would help the flow of gravity even out faster. A theory but its an upgrade to the "on the market" ebb&grow or flow or whatever the fuck hehe. So anyways the plumbing parts are a lil more pricey but it does work efficently and fast. ok onward.






And the future garden. This will be a DWC for the most part. I will be using the ebb&flo method as a means to drain the garden and keep ph/ppm in check on a daily basis. Eventually i will be employing auto timed switch valves and shit. First i got to get the system leak proof.

Last night i did a small test flood of approx 20 gal of water and the main res sprung a leak.

Np prob this shit seems to be working. It makes a fucking mess though.


Ive tried rubber grommits but just cant keep it sealed. so this shit gorilla glue. !!! DO NOT GET ON HANDS AFTER TRIMMING WEED>!!! lol i had resin coated glue sealed hands for 2 days. Shits hard to get off. GAS & engine cleaner to get off of ya.

Be right back 1bmm

hey man about that you use the setup you built, ive been waiting for things to start. well im subbed for the whole grow.

Alrighty Im feeling pretty good about the leak fix. I applied the glue as directed to all plumbing fittings in the res/controller/DWC buckets. Just the Ts and plugs.

Firrst going to test the main res for leaks. I have on/off valves inline with the main res to the controller unit/ controller unit to the buckets.

Here goes nothin.


Filled up to just around 55 gal. And so far so good. Not a leak or drop in sight.

Good now time to check the connect to the controller.




Having the res slightly higher than the controller will mean that the main res should always be dry unless checking ph/ppm as necissary. Having the larger tubing really moves the liquid fast as you can see. Gravity has all the power here.


After filling the control bucket to capacity i shut of the valve from the main res to wait for leaks. NONE fucking awesome. The shit in the bottom of the bucket is the expanding gorilla glue. Sloppy stuff. But so far effective.

Aight let see if the many many buckets are water tight.






So far so good.

Cutting both valves on to max em out and see.




Working just as i planned. YES


So fucking stoked. All buckets are near full and water tight. SO FAR. Going to let it sit for the night to be sure. It took about 20 minutes to flood the garden to be. Thats not to bad in my opinion. No leaks and im ready to bring in the lights and ventilation equipment. Got a few more kinks to work out.

I The controller will always be filled with unused nutes and shit which is fine if im in veg. Switch lids and presto a extra cloner with hid lights. Otherwise ill put a small aquarium pump in to blow the extra 12 gal into the buckets and shut off valve 2.

This way all nutes are in the garden where needed. The controller is crucial in that this will be a scrog garden. I cant look in to the buckets once scrogged. so i will be measuring testing and timing flow rates for quite some time to get down the feedings. A root mass grows less will be needed.

I will need all the advice i can get from the elder DWC hydro peeps lurking.

My plan is to use locally available premium chem nutes.Jacks classic 20-20-20 with calmag for veg. And JC Blossom Booster for flower along with calmag. Trying to keep it simple and cheap. We will see how it works out.

Here is my veg cab/clone quarters within the cave.


Small & efficent. I have spent alot of time learning the cloning process. These plants here are 2 Headband & 2 DOG kush. Smaller but in big pots are the BW pheno2 & WW. And in the dinky 4" pots BW1 & Lemonskunk. They got scorched in the vert room and have bever been the same. Thinking im going to have to say goodbye to them.

Got a good stash of genetics to play with and cant wait.

Ill be fitting out this room big time so long as the hydro holds its bladder.

Gotta get some zzzz Peace

1BMM

MCP fucking ayy right... Gotta finish this thing ya know haha. How ya doing man?

hey glad every thing is water tight so far, and im good as i can be could be better but hey its life so i cant expect much. im tryin to get a grant for college and take some horticulture classes as well as biology, agriculture, and botany. ia m about to get 2 1/2 pounds of chron from my grower but i have nothing to do with it but sit on it i guess. its gonna be at least a year before i can smoke it so hopefuly i can keep it fresh till then, ive been thinking of just getting rid of it but you know how that is for me

Ahh that bud on the counter. It looks like mold but NO. Its lint haha. It fell on the floor as i was trying to retrieve it. The single 1 and only bud i snipped off whilst trimming. Just so you all know hehe. Peace and goodnight. for the 2nd time. lol.

i was gonna ask if it was mold, but know i dont have to.
peace and rest easy

Uhh i know MCP been there bro. Hey ill take it.

haha i didnt mean for free masonman.

No leaks nowhere. Not a drop

Got my ph up and down along with the Calmag plus today. I should be able to take 15 cuttings this weekendfrom the plants i have in veg. Once i get them rooted this baby will be rocking.

And speaking of rooting.

Heres Dog#1 that got snapped in half. Ohh no shes far from dead haha.

I think im just going to leave her in here and get a decent root system going. I added some FF tiger bloom to the res to counter some of the yelloing which usally happens just before you see roots. This was a top and has faired very well. Tops are a bit tougher to root.

Well gotta jar up all that bud from the finished indoor. To many things to do and no time to do it.

Peace 1BMM

I'll be along for the ride. It's going to be a good one I know.

glad to hear there is no leaks.

Glad to have you along JIG. Man am i glad to have you. Mcp too. Going to be a fun grow.

Jig out of your experience with DWC how big of an airpump do you think i will need. Well i know im going to need several. But per bucket.

Is one line in enough or do i want 2. Ive been shopping around and am def going for the monster 4 prongers I think. Any thoughts?.

Hey 1BMM

Im Subbed for this grow.......
You should show us some pictures of the "cave", LOL.

1badmasonman said:

Glad to have you along JIG. Man am i glad to have you. Mcp too. Going to be a fun grow.

Jig out of your experience with DWC how big of an airpump do you think i will need. Well i know im going to need several. But per bucket.

Is one line in enough or do i want 2. Ive been shopping around and am def going for the monster 4 prongers I think. Any thoughts?.

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I have one of these puppies: http://www.plantlightinghydroponics.com/18-watt-commercial-grade-air-pump-p-1584.html

This is more than enough for 2 - 5 gal buckets. When I ran the 2 buckets I only had one airstone per bucket I beleive. One line in for each will be fine. I use 6 inch airstones. And sometimes I use 2 little airstones with a T, splitting the one line. Whatever you decide should be fine.

One tip for you. Try to plan for the possibility of having to change the stones maybe once per grow in case they get clogged. Also on that tip... check to make sure they are working every once in a while. I messed up my frist grow by not realizing there was no air going in at all for about 2-4 weeks, not really sure how long.

However... that's the beauty of how forgiving DWC is. You can leave the plants sitting in still water with no air for at least 2 weeks with not much ill effects. It will just slow everything down. They can live without oxygen a whole lot longer than they can live without water. But you shouldn't have to worry about such things because you are getting good advice.

Hey 1BMM looks like a killer hydro set-up very nice work indeed, I cant wait to see it in action...
Good to see some familiar faces around here from the 6 This is gonna be fun grow to watch, Rock on 1BMM!

I'm def subed up for this all the way

EDIT: haha thought I'd throw another in lol

mcpurple said:

i was gonna ask if it was mold, but know i dont have to.
peace and rest easy

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For sure dude thats exactly what I thought when I saw the pic, if it was mold he would say something about it.... Its kool that even though Iv never met the MM I know he's not that kind of person