Help me save this Garden!! Shed remodel.

My girlfriends uncle and aunt have been growing for about 4 years now. And they have no idea what their doing. They have recently, in the last week or two, asked me to personally help them remodel and pretty much redo their grow setup. New strains, new lights, more lights, AC, and a bunch of other basic must haves.

This is basically a grow journal to document from the beginning of me helping them, to the end, the finished product.

At any time please add any tips or advice or anything from your point of view that you think would help. All comments are encouraged i want to hear what you guys, and gals, think would help.

When it started out it was just a tiny little shed on the side of their house. They were growing NYCDiesel from seed that they had purchased while in amsterdam.
The first crops came out pretty funky, real airy long nugs, had seeds in it, but it smoked good in joints.

Fast forward to now, they are using a good size shed. Have tons of spider mites, the temps are 100 in the middle of the day, plants are all falling over and dying slowly. They were using shitty soil from orchard. Water wasnt being phed, wrong amount of nutrients applied.
Basically they were doing everything wrong.

In the last two weeks i've starting making changes little by little.

We are now using Roots Organic Soil

Got rid of the shitty strains in the veg room.

Added three plants to make into Mothers. Gods Gift, Kushberry, and Qleaner backcrossed with Querkle (a strain i crossed)


Removed all the dead leaves and lower plant matter from most of the plants, especiall his Sour Grape mother plant that we will keep.


Brought 5 two foot t-5 bulbs and 2 four foot t-5's to add to the veg room.


Took 30 clones from my plants outdoors (15 wonder woman, 15 qleaner)


And cleaned up the grow room pretty well. Dead leaves, cleaned out trays, etc.



By this weekend we shall hopefully have the AC unit installed so we can get the temps in the 70s hopefully.

So thats where i'm at. Its looking like this is gonna be a lot of work and time and money but i'm confident that we can turn this shed into a profitable grow for them.

I'll have some more specs up next time i go over there.


Once again at any time chime in and add your 2cents please

this is awesome. only thing i see is you should mount the flouros onto something like plywood and put chains on the back so you get the light closer to the plants and they dont stretch. cant wait to see the final outcome

move the plants and bleach everything... I have heard spider mites are tough to completely get rid of once there in.

Keep in mind you are going to want air coming in, and your exaust emptying the space 3 times per minute. So a 2000 cf room you would want a 600 cfm exaust fan.

Until the heats down your fucked, thats very hot.
More specs on the flowering area???

oh, and obviously the NYC D went hermie.... probably from stress

rocknratm said:

Until the heats down your fucked, thats very hot.

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Hats why he has an AC on the list

Yup i told them that the first priority is to get the ac unit in there and get that temperature down at the least below 80 for now.

After that we will focus more on the extermination of the spider mites.

And we will definetly be gettin those lights closer to the vegging girls.

We got the ac system set up so the temps are now between 65 to 70 where we wanted them

Turned off the 1000 watt bulb in the flowering room until we clean the room spotless and get all the circulation issues taken care of.


Ill be going over to visit the garden in two or three days will post some pics and have more updates then.

Yay I have been waiting on some updates here. Glad the ac is in and running well.

Damn its been a while since i started this, havent been a lot of changes.


Going over tonight to set up some lights for the veg room and transplant some rooted Kings Kush clones. i will take pics tonight and have a nice update soon.

Just got back from the grow shed.


Plants are showing a bit of powder mildew, gonna get some SM-90 tomorrow to eradicate it. Once its gone going to be spraying weekly with neem oil to keep it away.




All of the Qleaner clones that we made are looking awesome. Very nice short and bushy. We set up a 6 lamp 4ft t5 hangning light today, and tomorrow wer're going to clean out the shed spotless. Wipe it down with some water and bleach and then fog it with some pyrethrum.
Gonna keep one sour grapes for a mother plant and we have a god's gift mother from Harborside Oakland.


Gonna set up more t5's around the sides to add more lumens in this biatch.

So i just got back from my ladies uncles house.

Today we set up t5's around the sides of the plants to keep them well lit so they stop stretching like they used too. all his buds were falling over completely previosly becuase he had such a shitty amount of lumens for his plants in veg.




Also got some fungicide to get rid of the powder mildew. onces its gone we'll start spraying with neem oil weekly.



this bushy ass one is gonna be the Kings Kush mother plant.


and this is one of the Qleaner mother plants.


so far they look like their loving their new environment. gonnna repaint the inside of the shed sunday and wipe it down with bleach and probly fog it. Things are started to head in the right direction!

hopefully in the next two weeks we'll have some plants startng to flower.

that's a nice looking grow room. definitely subscribed to see how this turns out

Was over at the house again tonight. The Qleaners are really starting to take off now.


Heres one of the candidates for the Qleaner mother.


Gods Gift mother plant.


I have been trimming off all of the lower growth (lolipopping) to keep pest away and to force all the energy to the top of the plant, will give it better air flow also.

This is a must for me.



Ez-Clone Filled Up with OG Kush, Deep Purple, Agent Orange, Violator Kush, and Hindu Kush. Plants came from favorable outdoor plants in my garden.



Did some LST with floss and duct tape on one of the Qleaner Mothers.



next week we will start flowering!!! wish us luck.


btw Powder Mildew is getttin kinda bad we have to take care of it this weekend.

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good luck my friend. sorry to hear about the powdery mildew. that stuff can be a bitch.. i hope you contain it.
subed up. happy growing.


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Thanks for joining the party^^^

ya the pm is starting to piss me off. on the next monday i'm going over there and eradicating that shit.

*instead of spraying bottled syn fungicide.. just use mother nature.. she woops ass 100%.. google some compost tea fungicide recipes, filter, put in bottle, spray for 2wks straight, and no more fluffy white pests


---btw.. im high.. just here to troll ..

*subd

its ok we're all trolls deep down.


why else would we be on here.


thats for the advice bro i'm gonna check it out.

powder mildew sucks....theres some stuff called exel lg that works really good and its safe to spray up to the day of harvest, its clear and dosent leave any residue behind.

Sub'd! This is pretty neat stuff you got here!