My Grow Setup, Let Me Know What you think ;)

BrandonT

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six plants (white widow, super lemon haze, lowryder white russian, Sharksbreath, Barneys Farm LSD, and Lowryder/ ak47)

One 600W Metal Halide

One 600W High Pressure Sodium

A flow and drain system

15 Gallons Reverse Osmosis water Per Resevoir Fill, Running Into six large rockwool cubes (each seperate top feed)

A 240 CFM Panasonic Whisperline Fan Hooked Up With A computer cord

A Completely Mylar Covered Grow Room With 2mm Mylar Roll

A Micro Airstone for the resevoir with a large air pump from a 50 gallon fishtank

A Room Fan for Strong Stem Growth and Air Circulation

A Digital Ph Tester

A Digital PPM tester

Grotek Ph Up

Grotek Ph Down

Final Flush flushing solution for breaking down mineral buildup

Two High power Timers

For The Nutrients: DynaGrow Products (dynagro grow, bloom, protekt, magpro and also GH product: Floralicious)

First Week Of Veg
2.5 Grow
1.0 Protekt

(mls per gallon)
Bloom transition:
grow 3
bloom 5
protekt 5
Magpro 1.5
Floralicious Plus 1

Bloom:
grow 1.5
bloom 8
protekt 5
Magpro 1.5
Floralicious Plus 1

Ripen:
grow 0
bloom 10
protekt 5
Magpro 1
Floralicious Plus 1

Now For The Process

fill my resevoir with nutrients and water, 15 gallons Reverse Osmosis

Test the Ph and PPM making sure they are on target (first week veg 100-200 ppm), and the ph to 5.8

Set Up My Flood and Drain System (align 2 rockwool blocks beside eachother three blocks long) with the pump top feeding each cube with its own hoze for 15 minutes twice daily, at this time they will be smaller blocks untill they are a decent size and i will fit them into larger ones, the water will then drain back into the other resevoir.

Mount my Metal Halide Light Fixture, and lower to roughly five inches from plants (depending on the temperature i will test this first but my 240 cfm fan should keep this fairly cool)

Turn The Lights And Complete System On, setting the Timer for the lights at 18/6 and tthe timer for the feed system to 15 minutes twice daily (Right when the lights turn on, and roughly two hours before they go off)

Have This Repeated Daily Untill two weeks when i will change the Res and nutrients, which will now be more nutes because of plant size, set ppm and PH, and go again for the next two weeks

When they start drinking more and more ill start chaging the res more often, after fourth week ill change every week and a half, plus continue to change my nutes to the squedual

After the fourth week i will change to my 600 watt High Pressure Sodium

Forgot to mention i will top off any lost water to a line i will have marked for the 15 gallon line, and test the Ph/PPM of the water to keep it on target This Will Be Done DAILY

Im Going To Be doing the topping method for four colas and also Low Stress Training for a more Bushy Plant (bend the plant over and pin it to the rockwool cube with a hanger or something of the sort,(NOT A LEAD OR IRON HANGER, plastic) this will make it bush out alot more instead of get so tall)
Especially going to be topping the SuperLemon Haze as it gets tall!

keep my lights as close to the plants as possible without a high temperature(hopefully keep it around 80, with 60% humidity untill budd stage, Then ill get it to around 40% for budding)

hang out in my room whenever i can for co2, also am making a five gallon yeast and sugar/water co2 producer

I will tweek nutrients if even one plant is suffering, i want all the plants to succeed and because some are more sensitive, the others will have to pay with a little less nutrients, which i dont mind doing i will still have great results

for the last four days i will run only water and flush the plant with final flush mixed with sugar to get a nice flavored plant with tighter resulting buds

i continue to raise the PPM and nute amounts according to chart untill 2/3 of the hairs are orange, then i will harvest (different plants will harvest at different times, 1-2 week difference but im not worried about it)

One Day before harvest i will set it to 24 hours lights off to make the plant have massive streess and push all its remaining nutrients into its res production as it tries to protect itself

i will then harvest, make hash with trimmings/lower buds using a bubble bag, throw out the rest of the trim. , i will dry the buds on a line in a room with a dehumidifier and a fan on the buds, then put them in a cardboard box for a few days, then put them in jars to complete drying for a few weeks, opening the jars once a day to let in fresh air

That is my complete guide, let me know of anything else i might have missed, or any opinions you might have that might help me out to make this an even better op

Also any questions about anything i will be happy to help anybody out
 
You should really post this in the Grow Room Design section aswell for maximum input :D

A fan with a can filter or phresh filter perhaps. remember smell is one of the top reasons people get into trouble.


Other than the smell issue i think looks good :D
 
its in an upstairs and its winter right soon where i live it gets up to -35 degrees you cant smell anything in the winter from my experience so i dont think it will be much of a problem, and i will post in grow room design i havnt actually seen that section yet
 
I don't think hanging out in your room for added co2 would really do much but
hurt your eyesight. My local hydro shop had some kind of homebrew co2 blocks
that you can hang above your plants that consistently put out co2 for only 25/each.

I picked up two for my room just for the fuck of it, but don't have the funds to get
a co2 ppm monitor to tell weather or not they're actually adding anything to the
environment. But for the cheap price figured it was worth a shot.

http://co2bags.com/index.html

Also, be careful running that many strains in conjunction, timing out the flush could
be difficult but doable. I assume you've checked the finishing times and made sure
they're all about the same? Hopefully you don't get some really tall and really short
plants in the mix or you might have issues with the light height from the plants and
either the tall ones being too close and burning or the short ones being too far and stretching.
 
I don't think hanging out in your room for added co2 would really do much but
hurt your eyesight. My local hydro shop had some kind of homebrew co2 blocks
that you can hang above your plants that consistently put out co2 for only 25/each.

I picked up two for my room just for the fuck of it, but don't have the funds to get
a co2 ppm monitor to tell weather or not they're actually adding anything to the
environment. But for the cheap price figured it was worth a shot.

http://co2bags.com/index.html

Also, be careful running that many strains in conjunction, timing out the flush could
be difficult but doable. I assume you've checked the finishing times and made sure
they're all about the same? Hopefully you don't get some really tall and really short
plants in the mix or you might have issues with the light height from the plants and
either the tall ones being too close and burning or the short ones being too far and stretching.

you know i thought about this but my grow room is in my room, therefor ill be in there often so maybe it will help; also i have looked at the heights they are all sort of similar but to keep them the same hight im going to top and LST them to make sure they stay fairly seperated, whats golden about my tray that there going to be set in is that i can put the shorter ones farther away from the taller ones and still have the hozes running to them directly, so they get light without being shadowed by the others
 
As far as the CO2 goes, if your room is completely sealed, no leaks, hanging out in your room will raise the levels up significantly. I have a 6x7x7 tall room, fuzzy logic controller from CAP, and after 10 mins of being in there with the door closed, my levels are up to 2500 PPM, which is a lot higher than you need.
 
As far as the CO2 goes, if your room is completely sealed, no leaks, hanging out in your room will raise the levels up significantly. I have a 6x7x7 tall room, fuzzy logic controller from CAP, and after 10 mins of being in there with the door closed, my levels are up to 2500 PPM, which is a lot higher than you need.

rightonn ill keep that in mind, thanks good to know
 
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