40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip

Renfro said:

Sounds awesome. You can have a tent to test strains and other such good times. I am so stoked about my tent breeding experiment. Just something cool about that small space, I have never grown in a tent before and it's pretty cool for things such as this. I haven't even opened it in 3 days, just look in thru the window to get readings off my co2/temp/RH meter. With the reservoir outside the tent I can check PPM, pH and topoff without even opening the tent. I am gonna see how long I can go without opening it aside for applying the STS.

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I learned to grow in a tent with an a/c hood and carbon filter, inline fan-passive air intake. I just use them for veg nowadays, but they are awesome and come in handy. When you're in my situation and already taken up most of the space in basement and can't really build out another bloom room, a tent will be perfect for an extra flower light.
Wanted to ask how do you like the DE lights? I saw that dude say you need up to 7ft of head room which is not the case and overkill but how far do you have them away from your plants? On my next grow which my friend and I might do in a empty 4 car garage, I trying to figure out which lights to go with. I'm leaning towards 630cmh but the hps lover in me wants to grab the de 1000watters and fucking blow the place out!

Dividedsky said:

Wanted to ask how do you like the DE lights? I saw that dude say you need up to 7ft of head room which is not the case and overkill but how far do you have them away from your plants?

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I love my DE lights. My plants get pretty close, sometimes closer than I like but at 2.5 feet they work really good so long as you keep air flowing between the canopy and the lights. I have 8 feet to the bottom of my floor joists, the trellis rigs are 5 feet tall and you can see in the pics how close they are. The best lights I have ever had by far. I recommend the Sun System ballast for your DE HPS. The Nanolux ones I started with had an extremely high failure rate. The Phantoms I have are good too but I like the sun systems better. They seem a bit brighter with the same bulbs compared to the Phantom. Gavitas are nice but for me even their compact units are too tall with the ballast on the reflector, waste of vertical space. Also I want my ballasts to not be up by the bulb, it's too hard to change a dead ballast mid run.

When you think about the DE HPS just think 20% stronger and you cant air cool the reflectors. Other than that the only reason to have them 7 feet above the plants is if you are running a commercial grid where all the lights overlap and hit the plants from all angles.

Renfro said:

So here is the tent, day 1 of 12/12. Just potted the clones yesterday and they had their first 12 hours of dark yesterday.

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There is a GG4, will be the pollen donor if things work out, a kandy kush, a purple punch, a LV Lemon Skunk a couple wedding cakes and a couple durban poisons. Wasn't able to get a triple nova in this round.

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Sorry I missed a few days of class, this is your led test grow?

Renfro said:

I love my DE lights. My plants get pretty close, sometimes closer than I like but at 2.5 feet they work really good so long as you keep air flowing between the canopy and the lights..

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Ya I would run a mini split... you can definitely get the de lights closer than most people think. I just got my 1st mini split this year. Now I couldn't imagine growing without it, wish I got one years ago. I have a 24k btu daikin mini split to cool 4 1000s. I'm thinking of adding a 630 cmh/dual lamp/hood 315 to the middle aisle of grow room.
I'll be pulling up a seat and following your grow, I love the setup man! It's awesome checking out grows like yours because you always find something new that you can incorporate into your own garden. I would like to get something about half the size of your room going for my next flower room -that is in the garage I mentioned. 9-10,000 watts of hid. Just have to get my electrician buddy in there to check it out because it's a detached garage, but it does have power and hooked up to house fuse/electrical box.

OneHitDone said:

Sorry I missed a few days of class, this is your led test grow?

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I had plans to try the LED as a row end light but after seeing how big it is and how far it needs to be from the plants I decided to use it in the tent project.

Enjoyed reading through this thread, props on the grows man you definitely have a ton of skill. The techniques you use are clean and efficient, I learned a few things, much appreciated. Sub

Renfro said:

I had plans to try the LED as a row end light but after seeing how big it is and how far it needs to be from the plants I decided to use it in the tent project.

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Does LED has to be farther than the HPS from the plants? I thought it was the opposite way.

augusto1 said:

Does LED has to be farther than the HPS from the plants? I thought it was the opposite way.

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Depends on the LED, I know that I have been able to get plants pretty darn close to HPS. Some of these LED lights are just so bright but if you can turn them down you can run the closer. It's all about the right light for your situation. I have buds hanging 8 inches away from 400 watt HPS bulbs on the row ends, no problems, but with the cobs I have they would be too close.

ounevinsmoke said:

Enjoyed reading through this thread, props on the grows man you definitely have a ton of skill. The techniques you use are clean and efficient, I learned a few things, much appreciated. Sub

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Glad to have you along for the ride and thanks for the complementary observations.

Some day 33 pics of room A:

Renfro said:

Some day 33 pics

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You have such a clean setup man, that room is huge, suprised you didn't paint the floors white with some killz, would have tied the room together. Still looks sick and I probably wouldn't have painted it after doing all the work putting a room together like yours. Shit gets tiring after a while, and I only have a bloom room that's a quater of your size. Haha

Renfro said:

Some day 33 pics of room A:

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Very nice work, brother.

I want to be like Renfro , when I grow up

Here are some day 4 shots of the tent:

As always nice, what size of HPS do you have in the tent, might have mentioed it, but I missed it then...

Mellow old School said:

As always nice, what size of HPS do you have in the tent, might have mentioed it, but I missed it then...

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The tent is running the cob light I got from cobkits. It's 480 watts, currently dimmed, probably around 70%.

Oh okay, just thought since I saw HPS, and thats quite some light for the tent. How much does 1 kilowatt cost in your area, here I pay 40 cents, sadly that put a limitation on me plus other circumstances...

Mellow old School said:

Oh okay, just thought since I saw HPS, and thats quite some light for the tent. How much does 1 kilowatt cost in your area, here I pay 40 cents, sadly that put a limitation on me plus other circumstances...

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Ouch! Then you should definitely PM me for energy saving ideas. I have tons of them depending on the scale of your goals. You saw my post in the other thread, right?

Yep I did, will write later mate, have a good day people...

Well done renfo , great journal