My first grow! Updated daily. 400 watt Ebb and Flow - White Berry

sooner the pics r up the more reps you'll get btw im subscribed til finished n harvest.

Hi Beennoobed. Thanks for your interest in my grow!

I am impatiently waiting on the mail delivery today.

Just got my TDS pen in the mail. Says factory calibrated but I will be double checking it weekly until I trust it. My tap water is 75-80PPM. Pretty good. Hooray for good water.

Thats good tapwater doog.Mines 40 and i checked my rain water buckett and its 10ppm.Cant wait till you get the rest of the stuff on the list bet your stoked seeing a plan coming together.I just got some blueberry clones from a friend and he says it smells real sweet in his flower chamber.

Big props to HTG supply. I got my light via UPS today and it was very well packaged and high quality. 55,000 blue-enhanced HPS lumens in a 6" cooltube ready for the 5 sq. ft tent.

Oh yea the tent. I have not put it together yet but it showed up today too.

Pics in awhile... Stay tuned.

Here are some pics of my new light Tent goes up tomorrow for a test with light on and a tolel hung up with 1 end in a bucket to simulate plants. Want to see wht temps and humidity I'm dealing with so I can exhast appropriatly.

I need to add a decent camera to my list of needs

yo doog, u ride dirt bikes? that pic of urs is a sign for a dirt track but im ssuuuure u knew that

The light and ballast look like they'll do your plants some justice. what fan did you say you're using for your cooltube?

doogleef said:

Just got my TDS pen in the mail. Says factory calibrated but I will be double checking it weekly until I trust it. My tap water is 75-80PPM. Pretty good. Hooray for good water.

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you are soo lucky! my tapwater is 350-400 ppm!!! SUCKS it is because it is city water supplied by a underground system. Not a well. Def dont waste any money on filtering if your watar is that perfect!! congrats man! Im glad to see everything coming together for you. keep it up

doogleef said:

Here are some pics of my new light Tent goes up tomorrow for a test with light on and a tolel hung up with 1 end in a bucket to simulate plants. Want to see wht temps and humidity I'm dealing with so I can exhast appropriatly.

I need to add a decent camera to my list of needs

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SMART MOVE. Def do the test run. you temps are going to shoot up to about 95 in small area with that 400w. Depending on what fan u get it is def controlable. Ive seen a growzilla with you same ballast and same bulb running X2 in a spae you size. Dont be overwhelmed by the heat cause its gonna get hot. just my .02 Good luck bro

Hi fellas,

I plan on cooling the cooltube with one of these:


I will get it this weekend if possible. I may have to wait until next weekend to get one. Waiting would be OK as I do not plan on using the 400W for a couple of weeks anyway. I do plan on using it for veg but will use daylight CFLs to start so my seedlings don't get fried.

I just got my seedmat delivered. That should help speed up germination and clone rooting

Time to put up the tent

You might want to look into somthing more then that because it is going to be a good amount of heat. I would get a small 4inch Can-Fan or a small vortex. those are good but they dont pull or push very hard. Def not as hard as an inline fan would

As long as I don't have too long of a duct or a filter on the end (which I don't) it should work ok. If there were any back pressure at all then, yea, I would need a centrifugal fan rather than this axial. I will need a centrif fan for exhaust though if I want to use a carbon filter. I have seen some cool DIY fans made from Stanley work fans ($54.99, comes with 2 outlets on it and a 3-speed switch)) that look good. I have also seen some DIY carbon filters but those are a little more iffy on quality. I am not growing skunky stuff so maybe a DIY filter will work for me. I will cross that bridge when I get there.

Very happy with my tent! IT has 3 passive rectangle vents in the bottom 2 -4" vent holes and 4 6" vent holes. Nice little rack in the top for hanging stuff and velcro straps placed strategically inside to help secure fans, ducting etc. Very cool. Here's the pics as promissed. Also a pic of the seedmat and TDS meter. More later

u missed my question doog! lol which tent is that again

Sorry bout that

It is a darkroom knockoff. No brand name. Ebay $99 with ship. 36"x20"x62".

No Seeds today Been 5 working days so I was not expecting them just yet.

did you get a ph meter?

No PH meter yet. Next Friday.

I am glad I went with the cooltube. I tried a test run with no ducting or fan on the cooltube. Just a fan in the tent moving air. It got to 112F, 20% humidity in about an hour It looks like sunlight in there. .

Good thing I have a few weeks to get ducting and a fan before I put that bad boy in production.

Yeah if you are going to have an HPA of anything above 250watts you're going to need some sort of exhaust. Your cooltube will keep that tent the same temp as the surrounding air for sure. Let us know how the seed delivery goes

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You might want to look into somthing more then that because it is going to be a good amount of heat. I would get a small 4inch Can-Fan or a small vortex. those are good but they dont pull or push very hard. Def not as hard as an inline fan would

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Go Bigger. Your gonna want more then one of those home depot duct fan. They are good but weak They dont build up enough pressure. You can find a 400 cfm inline fan from www.htgsupply.com for pretty cheap. you can then put a speed controler on it for another $25 and be able to turn it down when you dont need it as cool, up when you do. You dont have to have a filter, to have a nice air setup.