Hey all, I've been scanning through the forum for years now but just finally got around to making an account and posting.
A little about my situation- About 3 years ago I met an older man that had been cultivating in NY, CA, and back in NY for about 30 years. Obviously long before it became mainstream and legal. We started working together at our full-time machining job and became fast friends. Over the next year, he began training me on the cultivation side of his life, I think mostly out of his need for an extra set of hands, as well as his want to have a successor in the event of his death or retirement.
Fast forward a year, and I bought my first house. I was eager to set up my own room and with his training and help, i was confident to go relatively big. Not a closet at all but a 14x16x10' room with 4 hps grandos, running ebb and flow with rockwool and Vanilla Kush. I have had great success over the past year and a half or so, minus a few hiccups here and there. Nothing detrimental, but I did learn that this shit will survive 28° F temperatures, although obviously yield was about a third of what I was used to.
Currently I am running 3 rooms, a much shorter room with two hps 6's and an LEC 630 in between them and a top feed, and a much smaller room with a single hps grando also top feed I use to try out new strains. Currently Vanilla Kush is my tried and true, but I've recently started playing with Quantum Kush and just started my first experiment with Locomotion.
Unfortunately, my friend died in a car accident earlier this year and although he had taught me so much to allow me to swim rather than sink, I find myself with questions and no one to ask. I regularly go online to research and am also regularly met with conflicting information as most of you are probably aware.
Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and give a little background on what I have going on. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer or share what wealth of information I was so graciously provided from my mentor.
A little about my situation- About 3 years ago I met an older man that had been cultivating in NY, CA, and back in NY for about 30 years. Obviously long before it became mainstream and legal. We started working together at our full-time machining job and became fast friends. Over the next year, he began training me on the cultivation side of his life, I think mostly out of his need for an extra set of hands, as well as his want to have a successor in the event of his death or retirement.
Fast forward a year, and I bought my first house. I was eager to set up my own room and with his training and help, i was confident to go relatively big. Not a closet at all but a 14x16x10' room with 4 hps grandos, running ebb and flow with rockwool and Vanilla Kush. I have had great success over the past year and a half or so, minus a few hiccups here and there. Nothing detrimental, but I did learn that this shit will survive 28° F temperatures, although obviously yield was about a third of what I was used to.
Currently I am running 3 rooms, a much shorter room with two hps 6's and an LEC 630 in between them and a top feed, and a much smaller room with a single hps grando also top feed I use to try out new strains. Currently Vanilla Kush is my tried and true, but I've recently started playing with Quantum Kush and just started my first experiment with Locomotion.
Unfortunately, my friend died in a car accident earlier this year and although he had taught me so much to allow me to swim rather than sink, I find myself with questions and no one to ask. I regularly go online to research and am also regularly met with conflicting information as most of you are probably aware.
Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and give a little background on what I have going on. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer or share what wealth of information I was so graciously provided from my mentor.
