My attic grow room construction

fureelz said:

Hey bryant check my thread on how I clone... I've had success with those brown peat things but its alot easier to regulate water in the rockwool. and if you trade they can be put in either hydro or dirt

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Thanks Fureelz. I did think about going with the rockwool. I just knew more people who used the rapid rooters and had good success with them. Hell, my brother for years used just vermiculite. Sometimes just plain dirt to clone in. He stopped using root hormone too.

But I liked your cloning thread. Very easy to follow.

Kro0ks said:

sikk cant wait to see it done

keep uss posted peace

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I can't either, lol.

WOW! looking good m8! been watching this since you started and thought you was just talking bollucks, but you have the proof with the pics weldone! I grow in the loft geto style does not look so good but its insulated the fuck out of in the winter my house was the last house with snow on the roof LOL if youu going to do it do it right! congratulations on your new room I know how much work you have put in trust me! and its going to be well worth it in the end

9inch bigbud said:

WOW! looking good m8! been watching this since you started and thought you was just talking bollucks, but you have the proof with the pics weldone! I grow in the loft geto style does not look so good but its insulated the fuck out of in the winter my house was the last house with snow on the roof LOL if youu going to do it do it right! congratulations on your new room I know how much work you have put in trust me! and its going to be well worth it in the end

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Thanks man. Yeah, alot of blood and sweat. We had a frost a couple days ago. My roof got frosted above the grow room. So I think I'm in good shape.

nice bro i just built an additional grow room in my house. its fucking great. your spot looks like its gonna be a mean one. and to boot the main issue i was worried about was paying an assload for electricity. but i looked into my lights and to run my 600 and 400 hps. they cost an extra 8-20 a month. which aint bad. keep pics coming. i was pumped to get mine up and running. the spot i built is a 6 by 6 room with cool air running into it for the summer. and a heater for the cooler days. i put a sun supply 10 600 watt hps up and its going good so far. the extra room allowed me to tie down all my plants .

well fucking worth it in the end brutha. i went from 6 plants to 45 now. i started 60 but 13 were flowering and some were male or just in the way. the ones that werent strong were killed off.

Not a problem man, I can't wait until you have some stinky flowers in there!! I just cloned 4 more off of that mother! She is now in 18/6. Yours doing ok or did you try some new ones?

WOW, that is a beautiful job you did there. Best of luck

Ohh you should be aght

So I have been planning an attic grow for awhile now and came across this thread 3 days ago and decided to model mine after your room. I Think Im going to make a thread in the next day or two to get some feedback. Ill leave a link here to it when I do and we can swap ideas. Im trying to figure out the how much pot I can actually grow up there. I already have the insulation up (except the shiny stuff) and have the A/C connected. I need to figure out what kind of exshaust fan I needand how I want to set up my lights. I have 2 400 watt lights and 1000 watt light and am trying to figure out if I should use the just the 2 400's or just the 1000 watt or all 1800 watts. I have 7 white widow clones now and am going to be making 1 a mother so I will have plenty of clones. Anyways I thought I would let you know and thanks for taking the time to make a thread and take pics because it helped me out a bunch. I'll keep you posted!

aww man you back in hospital?

very nice. plus rep for ur hard work

simple grower said:

aww man you back in hospital?

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No, no problems with the knee. I think I'll be ok on that for awhile. I just don't really have anything to update on. I mean, the plants are fine and my clones seem to be doing well. And the room is pretty much done except for the flowering room, I still have to install the curtain. I think I'll do another update this weekend.

I never really planed on this being a journal. Just a way to show people that an attic grow room can work if the right steps are taken and not half assed. You can't just put a grow tent up in your attic and think that you'll be fine over the the summer months or even the winter months.

Thanks for tuning though.

smokeh said:

very nice. plus rep for ur hard work

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Thanks man. It's still a work in progress!

aww man we dont get to see you flower i wanted to see the sink up and running the flower room done but i know your busy so thanks for nice attic setup.... you could always throw a web cam up there for us hahaha have fun man

Very nice grow room! I'm curious how your a/c will deal with the heat when the temps get hot this summer. What type of climate are you in? Here it gets around 120-130F in my attic in the summer. I'm contemplating an attic grow space but it may have to be an 8 month per year flower room...

Talking about the ac units, does yours have a drain on the back ?? I have three portable ac's in my house just for my house not for growing, and they all have drains in the back but only one of the ac's drains water, so i just hooked up a hose to it and ran it outside under the house. Just a heads up dont want water everywhere

Awesome, living just N of the 49, i was a little concerned about snow on my roof (or lack thereof) but thanks to your thread ive got it figured out, thanks alot for taking the time to post, there is a serious lack of info on the net about attic op but this is awesome.

cheers!

hey man, f'ing sweet room. I used the same foam board in my room with no issues so far. my room is 4x4x6 with a 400w hps (veg room is separate). i keep the hps and the exhuast fan that vents the heat out of the space on the same breaker. that way if i lose the fan breaker the light go out too. I'd rather lose my grow and have to start over than burn my house down. That shit is extremly flamable and i didnt want to chance a 400 watt bulb with no ventilation in an enclosed foam box.
very impressive room.

thats sick man props on your room i sure as hell hope i dont see it on DEA someday )=

Hulk Nugs said:

aww man we dont get to see you flower i wanted to see the sink up and running the flower room done but i know your busy so thanks for nice attic setup.... you could always throw a web cam up there for us hahaha have fun man

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I'll probably through in some updates on the room. Maybe some plant pics. Your journal turned out pretty nice. I can see the advantages of keeping one with problems and such. The plant pics still noid me out alittle. The sink sorry to say will be the last thing done. Just too much other shit pilling up because of the grow room construction.

greenplanetguru said:

Very nice grow room! I'm curious how your a/c will deal with the heat when the temps get hot this summer. What type of climate are you in? Here it gets around 120-130F in my attic in the summer. I'm contemplating an attic grow space but it may have to be an 8 month per year flower room...

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It's holding up pretty well. We've had some warm days here already. But it's not even july yet, so I can't truely celebrate just yet. My main attic got pretty hot a couple days. But they room only hit 85. I mentioned a few ideas a few pages back about opening up the access hatch from my office to the grow room. And the last resort of buying an A/C unit.

Hulk Nugs said:

Talking about the ac units, does yours have a drain on the back ?? I have three portable ac's in my house just for my house not for growing, and they all have drains in the back but only one of the ac's drains water, so i just hooked up a hose to it and ran it outside under the house. Just a heads up dont want water everywhere

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I havnt bought one yet. But i'll keep that in mind, Thanks.

wackthis said:

Awesome, living just N of the 49, i was a little concerned about snow on my roof (or lack thereof) but thanks to your thread ive got it figured out, thanks alot for taking the time to post, there is a serious lack of info on the net about attic op but this is awesome.

cheers!

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My attic trusses were constructed in a that helps with my issue with snow. My ceiling in my grow doesnt really touch the outside roof. You can see it the pics. We don't get snow really, but the roof will show frost on cold days. We've had one last frost of the year while the room was going. The roof was still frosted over in the morning when I went to work.

smokiedog said:

hey man, f'ing sweet room. I used the same foam board in my room with no issues so far. my room is 4x4x6 with a 400w hps (veg room is separate). i keep the hps and the exhuast fan that vents the heat out of the space on the same breaker. that way if i lose the fan breaker the light go out too. I'd rather lose my grow and have to start over than burn my house down. That shit is extremly flamable and i didnt want to chance a 400 watt bulb with no ventilation in an enclosed foam box.
very impressive room.

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Is your room located in the attic? If so I've love to see some pics. Yeah, the fact that the foam boards wanted to burn freaked me out alittle. You can see the areas where I thought it would be best to put up some drywall. My fan and light will be on the same circut as well. But thanks for looking out for me.

potisaplant said:

thats sick man props on your room i sure as hell hope i dont see it on DEA someday )=

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Gee.....thanks man. And thanks for the mojo....I guess. I see you've only posted a few times and maybe new here. Just alittle advise, we don't need to be reminded of the concequences here. I think about it enough already. Comments like that noid people out and then poeple don't post. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to come down on you or anything. I'm just trying to help people out really, just like everyone on here has helped me. And thanks for checking out the grow room. I here for any advise you might need.