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Drugs Taught Me Metric!
Ah - Good to be back.
First off- this is my 3rd grow "room" or "cab". I started with my old Stealth Dresser, needless to say that wasn't enough.
My second cab was bigger, standing closet thing purchased from Meijer, and I upped the light to a 400w hps.
For some reason that didn't seem to be enough for me either. I then moved from my bedroom to the basement. There is an old canning room it looks like, about 8' x 8', cement walls on 3 sides and a framed wall/door on the 4th. There was a window in there as well but I blacked it out and put trash bags over it. I framed up a divider wall, making it 4'ft deep and splitting the room in two. That gave me 2 rooms- the flowering room I made 4'x4' and the Veg room about 3.6'x4'.
In the flowering room I have 400w HPS right now.
In the Veg room I have a little over 200w (CFL's / 2-70w HPS)
The Exhaust I have is like a 400cfm centrifugal (Y's from each room).
The Carbon Filter I made myself from ducting, fence/screen, Carbon rocks ordered off ebay.
The Veg & Flower room both hold 10 plants.
Veg room has 1 Reservoir, 10 plants in 1 Reservoir.
Flowering room has 2 Reservoirs, 5 plant spots per Reservoir.
The plan is to have 5 mother plants in the veg room.
As needed- Clone 5 total plants (1 from each kind).
When rooted & ready, move to flower room.
Since there are 2 Reservoirs in the flowering room, 1 month will be one batch of 5 plants in 1 Reservoir and the next month would be the other Reservoir. Then just keep rotating to have a 5 plant harvest each month (should be no less than 5 Ounces: thinking more around 8-10).
I almost forgot to add:
Attitude Seed Company is the M8RFKn shit!
The 5 plants (all germed and growing):
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1.) Barney Farms - G13 x Haze
2.) Barney Farms - Violator Kush
3.) G13 Labs - Pineapple Express
4.) G13 Labs - Thai Super Skunk
5.) Open (but will be filled with a dupe for the time)
The Reservoirs and plant location setup I made from parts at local hardware store. A 7' long - 4"w x 4"h square white vinyl post. Some PVC fittings, a few hole saws, All-Purpose PVC glue, Square post End caps, Caulk Seal for the End Caps, 1/2" intake hose & 3/4" overflow hose (black), a few male metal/brass threaded fittings to fit hose to PVC, some measurements and a little time. It seems to be working so far. I got plenty of air pumps so I put a air pump in each Res. The water pump pumps in through 1/2" and the drains are all 3/4". I tried to locate the drains so it would draw water over each plant and recirculate. The intake goes through the center and should fill evenly to all parts of each square post where the plants sit.
The main reason I went to this new setup is the whole bucket/air pump shit got to be too much work for my lazy ass on a consistent basis. Lugging the buckets & dealing with the plants each time... just seemed like there is an easier way. Now I have 3 easy to handle Reservoirs that control a total of 20 plants. I have 3 pumps, 1 for each Res. and a forth pump for Res Changes. I just fill a 5 gallon bucket up from the spicket down stairs, mix the nutes and then pump it from bucket into Reservoir... SOOOO much easier.
I also switched from GH to Advanced Nutrients Sensi 2 Part for this grow. I am going to run with the Hype and see how it works. So far the plants look great and I am digging the easy two part.
Figured I would post this because I am always curious to see different setups and systems. Sry if I rambled too much- let me know how it looks or if you've done something similar and ran into problems... maybe I can avoid them...
Here's the Pics:
First off- this is my 3rd grow "room" or "cab". I started with my old Stealth Dresser, needless to say that wasn't enough.
My second cab was bigger, standing closet thing purchased from Meijer, and I upped the light to a 400w hps.
For some reason that didn't seem to be enough for me either. I then moved from my bedroom to the basement. There is an old canning room it looks like, about 8' x 8', cement walls on 3 sides and a framed wall/door on the 4th. There was a window in there as well but I blacked it out and put trash bags over it. I framed up a divider wall, making it 4'ft deep and splitting the room in two. That gave me 2 rooms- the flowering room I made 4'x4' and the Veg room about 3.6'x4'.
In the flowering room I have 400w HPS right now.
In the Veg room I have a little over 200w (CFL's / 2-70w HPS)
The Exhaust I have is like a 400cfm centrifugal (Y's from each room).
The Carbon Filter I made myself from ducting, fence/screen, Carbon rocks ordered off ebay.
The Veg & Flower room both hold 10 plants.
Veg room has 1 Reservoir, 10 plants in 1 Reservoir.
Flowering room has 2 Reservoirs, 5 plant spots per Reservoir.
The plan is to have 5 mother plants in the veg room.
As needed- Clone 5 total plants (1 from each kind).
When rooted & ready, move to flower room.
Since there are 2 Reservoirs in the flowering room, 1 month will be one batch of 5 plants in 1 Reservoir and the next month would be the other Reservoir. Then just keep rotating to have a 5 plant harvest each month (should be no less than 5 Ounces: thinking more around 8-10).
I almost forgot to add:
Attitude Seed Company is the M8RFKn shit!
The 5 plants (all germed and growing):
--------------
1.) Barney Farms - G13 x Haze
2.) Barney Farms - Violator Kush
3.) G13 Labs - Pineapple Express
4.) G13 Labs - Thai Super Skunk
5.) Open (but will be filled with a dupe for the time)
The Reservoirs and plant location setup I made from parts at local hardware store. A 7' long - 4"w x 4"h square white vinyl post. Some PVC fittings, a few hole saws, All-Purpose PVC glue, Square post End caps, Caulk Seal for the End Caps, 1/2" intake hose & 3/4" overflow hose (black), a few male metal/brass threaded fittings to fit hose to PVC, some measurements and a little time. It seems to be working so far. I got plenty of air pumps so I put a air pump in each Res. The water pump pumps in through 1/2" and the drains are all 3/4". I tried to locate the drains so it would draw water over each plant and recirculate. The intake goes through the center and should fill evenly to all parts of each square post where the plants sit.
The main reason I went to this new setup is the whole bucket/air pump shit got to be too much work for my lazy ass on a consistent basis. Lugging the buckets & dealing with the plants each time... just seemed like there is an easier way. Now I have 3 easy to handle Reservoirs that control a total of 20 plants. I have 3 pumps, 1 for each Res. and a forth pump for Res Changes. I just fill a 5 gallon bucket up from the spicket down stairs, mix the nutes and then pump it from bucket into Reservoir... SOOOO much easier.
I also switched from GH to Advanced Nutrients Sensi 2 Part for this grow. I am going to run with the Hype and see how it works. So far the plants look great and I am digging the easy two part.
Figured I would post this because I am always curious to see different setups and systems. Sry if I rambled too much- let me know how it looks or if you've done something similar and ran into problems... maybe I can avoid them...
Here's the Pics: