1.8KW apartment grow - multiple strains

As the title says it :

1.8kw ( 3x 600w ) flower room + 250w hid veg tent

So here goes the layout of the room :

VEG
4 x 4 x 6 Grow Tent
250w HID lamp ( 35000 lúmens )
2x 110cfm exhausts ( cool tube + ambient )
1 oscillating fan

FLOWER
3x 4 x 4 x 8 spaces available
3x 600w HPS ( for each space )
1 324CFM for 1 600w HPS
1 612CFM for 2 600w HPS "inline"
12.000 BTU Split air conditioning
400w dehumidifier
2 oscillating fans

Method of Growing :
Pure Perlite Hempy Buckets

Nutrients :
Finishing the Advanced Nutrients Sensi Line, moving on to General Hydroponics Flora series.
CalMG = Folicon 22 ( Made in Italy )
Voodoo Juice
Rapid Start
OverDrive

I had to finish the room so quickly i barely got any pictures of the bulding process, im actually still finishing some electrical details.

But before i start from the beginning here are some current pictures of the flower room :

Here just before turning on the third light ...


And this one from a angle that barely shows the plants under the last activated lamp ( will take more soon ) :

So, i had a small grow that got overtaken with root aphids and i had to pretty much start from a couple treated clones only and scratch.
On that matter a lot changed on my life, and i finally got to set up a "larger" grow the way i wanted it : dedicated room for it.

So i had this to start back in September :

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy learning how people grow their herb inside their homes. I feel like one of those looky lou people that go all around looking at model homes...

You are enjoying the "growing season" as in your grow room size is getting larger and larger as you go... Imagine what your grow space will look like in 15 - 20 years...

On October this was the deal over here :

Final Phase said:

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy learning how people grow their herb inside their homes. I feel like one of those looky lou people that go all around looking at model homes...

You are enjoying the "growing season" as in your grow room size is getting larger and larger as you go... Imagine what your grow space will look like in 15 - 20 years...

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Thank You for the words ! Lately i fell that growing is my biggest passion in life, i really want to dedicate myself to this plant !
I can only dream of how it will look ...

More pictures from October :



And from here on is when i really started working hard and projecting / implementing the new room design that veg tent was part of my old small setup, the last remaining part of it.



These are all Trainwreck ( Green House Seeds ) or OG Kush ( Royal Queen Seeds )
I had also in the tent :
G13 Skunk ( Mr Nice Seeds )
White Rhino ( Nirvana )
AK 48 ( Nirvana )

First Veg pic in the new setup / tent :



By this time i had finally got a hand on a couple new seeds :

Cookies Kush ( Barneys Farm )
Red Dragon ( Barneys Farm )
Blueberry ( Dutch Passion )
Green Crack ( Humboldt Seeds )
ChemDawg ( Humboldt Seeds )
Tallryder ( Earth Seeds )



Transplanting to the final hempys ( I now use cups -> Final Hempy )





Starting to flower the trainwrecks and og kushs clones :

And finally, December pictures :

The older clones have been flowering for 18 days and the younger ones for 5 days.

Couple more pictures :



I will start talking more about my pictures and plants now.

My veg tent looks like this right now :


1 Trainwreck Clone
1 Og Kush Clone
12 planted seedlings
1 young seedling

From here on i will try to organize my journal ( and room, i haven't had time for anything in the last month ).
Comments are very welcome.
Keep on growing.

looking good i'll be following you

420Barista said:

looking good i'll be following you

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Thanks, ill try to update on a weekly basis.

Great work! I think you may have convinced me to try and run a hempy bucket. I got a big bag of perlite handy.

MichiganMedGrower said:

Great work! I think you may have convinced me to try and run a hempy bucket. I got a big bag of perlite handy.

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Thanks ! I gotta say, the hempys have surprised and amazed me, everything i read about them and hidro i am now seeing in front of me and loving it !

I gotta say, right now i am worried i may need CO2 and i'm not using it right now.
My whole grow is inside a bedroom, since i use a mini split A/C i leave the door and window closed. I enter the room 2 3x times with lights on when there is no work to be done, and when there is work i enter and leave a lot ( every other day is work day fyi ) .
My plants seem to be doing fine, i got a couple minor light bleachs, but moving the lights further up stopped this.
What do you guys think ?

I also use 2 carbon scrubbers on the cooltubes, there are no outside exhausts from my growroom.

condo_grower said:

I gotta say, right now i am worried i may need CO2 and i'm not using it right now.
My whole grow is inside a bedroom, since i use a mini split A/C i leave the door and window closed. I enter the room 2 3x times with lights on when there is no work to be done, and when there is work i enter and leave a lot ( every other day is work day fyi ) .
My plants seem to be doing fine, i got a couple minor light bleachs, but moving the lights further up stopped this.
What do you guys think ?

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I run a ventilated room with multiple exhausts and get the light bleaching a bit under my 600 HPS lights. And it slows when I raise the lamp a bit. but it seems to come when I under or over feed or because of other environmental factors.

But I guess with the co2 raised these issues could go away.

So I have babbled for no good reason it seems as I have the same question as you.

When i used to only run one 600w in a tent, with no A/C and my window open, i still got light bleaches so i'm not so sure i really DO need CO2. Right now i'm dialing in the new room, the CO2 in question would be out o necessity and not because i'm trying to improve something. But like i said, plants seem to be fine, entering 3rd week of flower and everything seems as it should, or at least i think so.
I'm guessing your room does fine too ?