4000W Grow Room Set-up

MisterNiceGuy said:

using gas to electricity converter?

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uh...a generator? lol

Generators are a whole new hassle, if you can stay on the grid without hassle you should. Unless your using solar power or some other green system.

You can buy a mini wind generator that produces 400watts for only 1 - 2000 dollors. Small price to pay for this i think

Sweet set up man, I can appreciate the work. How you guys get roots in 7 days is beyond me but hey its all good.

Pssst............mini wind generators are not effective at all for doing what you think they would. The power output spec is for maximum meaning if you had 10 mph winds 24 hours a day. Not only implausible but also not really feasible when you have it in a neighborhood or by a house that is blocking your wind.

research it..........its a very misunderstood science

MisterNiceGuy said:

You can buy a mini wind generator that produces 400watts for only 1 - 2000 dollors. Small price to pay for this i think

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400w isnt much, especially considering thats not constant, thats peak with wind. You would need some deep cell batteries to store the power when the lights are off, you couldnt run the lights right off the wind generator.

Maybe if you put 20 on your roof, but might as well get a bigger wind turbine for the price.

I own stock in my utility provider.....lets call my "on-grid" usage a utility stimulus package.......I am just looking out for my dividend

LOL. I just read about the wind generator. That is not a realistic solution. This guy is doing an amazing job

Old in the Way said:

I own stock in my utility provider.....lets call my "on-grid" usage a utility stimulus package.......I am just looking out for my dividend

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hahaha, nice.

I dont know why people get so worried, if you actually pay your bills on time you wont get busted by your power company. No one Ever gets busted JUST for using too much power.

Just be smart about it, dont tell people.....or move to Canada.

BCtrippin said:

hahaha, nice.

I dont know why people get so worried, if you actually pay your bills on time you wont get busted by your power company.

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I agree. You can run 4000w 24/7 and it's only about $300 per month.

I'm guessing about half of that wattage goes to veg (18/6?) and the other half is flower (12/12). That knocks it down to about $180 a month.

I wouldn't worry about power drawing attention. I'd wouldn't worry about anything really.

You seem very on top of your shit

well old man let me say.......inspiring and a very succinct read. now lemme ask, how much of a pain is your upkeep as far as all those darn drip nozzles to clean or do you leave them off? i'm retrying the rr in the dome because of you, thank you for the renewed faith. it is YOU who have helped me more than you know. "my friend" (grinns and laughs creepily)
quit screwin around and get those tutorials done. hippie

Damn guys........you see my first post today.

I had already gone out, gotten coffee and came back to get to work on the op today......6:45 am

Just finished my second 13 hour day in a row.....so hippie this bugs!!! lol.....

148 clones cut, pruned and moved 96 flowering girls from tray 1 to tray 2, potted and sent 96 clones to flower as well as 16 "B grade" mums-112 total

Changed all 4-70 gallon resevoirs, harvested and manicured another half dozen indicas.....all while taking pics.....

Thanks to all the kind words, sorry I haven't gooten a chance to pop in or say t.y. for your individual posts......you know.....lazy friggin hippies!

I may get new pics up tonight if not....manana......K!

-OitW

Damn hella clones.
I was just throwin around random shit people, but thanks for the comments on it.
Old man is doin a hell of a job, GO hippies!

bugsrnme said:

now lemme ask, how much of a pain is your upkeep as far as all those darn drip nozzles to clean or do you leave them off?

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No probs yet...I clearex or do a heavy solution h2o2 pumped through them whenever I clean the trays....(every few weeks) just as a preventative measure.

the drip tubes have no nozzle, there just an eighth inch feeder tube. I heard high quality synthetic nutes and supplements don't cake shit up as quickly as some others may and with no organics or solids of any kind I don't anticipate any problems.......

I will be going flood/drain after the new year (or when I have more time). I will be getting 4-6x4 trays to replace my 3-8x4s and hanging my fourth light and add one more res for the fourth tray.......The smaller trays will allow mw to flood drain with the existing 70 gallon resevoirs insted of purchasing the 115G tanks to flood the 8x4 trays (3-940lb tanks all in the same room of my 85 year old historic home is a recipe for disaster-the 70G's are only 560lbs each)

The saying "they don't build'em like they used to" can go both ways....

The thing I have had to do is embrace the discipline required to manage almost 400 drip tubes....when I was setting up I went drip because as an Old Nursery Man it was a technology I was comfortable with......oh how quickly that has changed....lol

-OitW

OK here are some much anticipated updates..........


Here are my mums after 20 days of growth....lots of cuttings to offer






Here is the clone zone all sterilized ready to go



Loaded with plugs......my secret (their upside down)



I make my own hole with a chopstick, this keeps the plug nice and tight around the cuttings......



A few of the mums getting ready for a haircut

You photos always make me smile

Since this is not the place for cloning 101 (you can see more detail on my cloning process in my journal--hit the link in my sig)

So after cutting each tray of clones they go in the adjoioning bathroom for a dark period of 6-12 hrs to help them adjust to the shock.......



Cut mums are stashed in the corner till I am ready to clean-up veg tray and set-up mums for the next traunch of growth



Oh the carnage

More updates coming.......just figure I will post them in order of the projects I have been working on...........This is all from last Tuesday............by tomorrow night i will bring you up to date including some harvest pics

-OitW

nomaninsf said:

You photos always make me smile

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Thanks noman, good way to start the day

Old in the Way said:

Thanks noman, good way to start the day

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and for me, a nice site to see before going to bed. you must be east coast... or a very very early riser

keep up the great work

After their dark period.

They all stood up tall for their photo op!



Hard to belive thes bitches just gave me 148 cuttings....they hardly look touched



Of course if it was clone cutting time--then it was also pruning time, transplant time, cleaning time, res change time, etc, etc.......

Over 32 hours in three days were required this week

nomaninsf said:

and for me, a nice site to see before going to bed. you must be east coast... or a very very early riser

keep up the great work

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East Side and I get up at 4:30 every day......sometimes as late as 5:30....when I am in "lazy hippie" mode

Here are my girls on tray1--they are being pruned up (day20) and being shifted to tray2 for Days 21-41 of flowering



Some more of tray1 prior to pruning....



As they are pruned up and moved to tray2 they start to look more managable



One by one....they go from this..........



To this............

And a few hours later.....voila.....tray2.......



More updates coming....if you like these then check out the link in my sig for my journal in the Hydro/Aero section of RIU..........