Gamberro
Well-Known Member
Hello all,
I was going to post a grow journal but I got a little paranoid, this was a personal project and fell in a gray area. Please don't make the mistake of mimicking me, I did end up with a plentiful harvest but I would not do things this way again given any choice. The workload was... ridiculous. There's no other word for siphoning, refilling, and then re-nuting 32 8-gallon bins, some of which are well above eye level. Oh my did I learn a lot. Here's a YouTube video of the cell right before harvest: http://youtu.be/7nma7ZyT9r0 I'll put up a shorter video of them in vegetative later on.
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I wish I had taken more pictures of the buildout, the whole setup looked very impressive once I had built the shelving. The structure was built extremely sturdy, I hedged on the safe side considering at 8 gallons per bucket in 32 buckets that's 256 gallons of water, or roughly 2,048 pounds just in water weight. Add on the fact that I was often having to stand on the shelving units to reach the DWC bins and work both inside and outside the cell, and I wasn't about to take any risks.
This is what happens when you keep a messy grow room and ignorantly use a cooltube as a footstool.
As the plants grew upward I pulled them almost immediately through the screen. I ScrOG'd a lot in the past but at one point I realized the holes in this were way too small, and I used a pair of clips to open each hole up to 4 X its original size. I faced diminishing returns and a ridiculous amount of labor.
Ah, Gorilla Tape. I know it seems insane, but I also did use hemp line to secure the cool tube. The Gorilla Tape worked very well at supporting the whole cooltube and 1000W HPS apparatus, but I did have to strip it all and replace it at least three times that I can think of when the cooltube slowly slipped from its connection to the ducting. I built a frame on top of the cell which held everything in place.
Stealth was necessary. The carbon filter hung from the top of the cell supported by the cross-frame at the ceiling, and then I built a support board at the bottom to hold the fan. The ducting led to one of those dinky window fan units with the two blades, and the circumference on the openings in that fan happened to be just about the same as my 6" ducting. The window fan pushing air gave me a good cover for any sound or air push from the fan. I also usually ran that ancient AC on fan mode, simply because it caused a lot of dull noise and gave a cover for the din caused by the gigantic fan and 4 massive air pumps. This is a ~600 CFM can fan made by HTG Supplies, their prices are incredible on the things they make themselves and for carbon filters and fans they couldn't be beat as far as I could find.
Panda film was draped over the entire exterior. It effectively blocked and reflected light (although I don't believe too much in the utility of reflected light, panda film provides the ultimate sustainable reflectivity) and acted as vapor barrier, helping me create a very tight negative-pressure environment within the cell.
I was going to post a grow journal but I got a little paranoid, this was a personal project and fell in a gray area. Please don't make the mistake of mimicking me, I did end up with a plentiful harvest but I would not do things this way again given any choice. The workload was... ridiculous. There's no other word for siphoning, refilling, and then re-nuting 32 8-gallon bins, some of which are well above eye level. Oh my did I learn a lot. Here's a YouTube video of the cell right before harvest: http://youtu.be/7nma7ZyT9r0 I'll put up a shorter video of them in vegetative later on.
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I wish I had taken more pictures of the buildout, the whole setup looked very impressive once I had built the shelving. The structure was built extremely sturdy, I hedged on the safe side considering at 8 gallons per bucket in 32 buckets that's 256 gallons of water, or roughly 2,048 pounds just in water weight. Add on the fact that I was often having to stand on the shelving units to reach the DWC bins and work both inside and outside the cell, and I wasn't about to take any risks.
This is what happens when you keep a messy grow room and ignorantly use a cooltube as a footstool.
As the plants grew upward I pulled them almost immediately through the screen. I ScrOG'd a lot in the past but at one point I realized the holes in this were way too small, and I used a pair of clips to open each hole up to 4 X its original size. I faced diminishing returns and a ridiculous amount of labor.
Ah, Gorilla Tape. I know it seems insane, but I also did use hemp line to secure the cool tube. The Gorilla Tape worked very well at supporting the whole cooltube and 1000W HPS apparatus, but I did have to strip it all and replace it at least three times that I can think of when the cooltube slowly slipped from its connection to the ducting. I built a frame on top of the cell which held everything in place.
Stealth was necessary. The carbon filter hung from the top of the cell supported by the cross-frame at the ceiling, and then I built a support board at the bottom to hold the fan. The ducting led to one of those dinky window fan units with the two blades, and the circumference on the openings in that fan happened to be just about the same as my 6" ducting. The window fan pushing air gave me a good cover for any sound or air push from the fan. I also usually ran that ancient AC on fan mode, simply because it caused a lot of dull noise and gave a cover for the din caused by the gigantic fan and 4 massive air pumps. This is a ~600 CFM can fan made by HTG Supplies, their prices are incredible on the things they make themselves and for carbon filters and fans they couldn't be beat as far as I could find.
Panda film was draped over the entire exterior. It effectively blocked and reflected light (although I don't believe too much in the utility of reflected light, panda film provides the ultimate sustainable reflectivity) and acted as vapor barrier, helping me create a very tight negative-pressure environment within the cell.
