I have plastic 10L jerry cans waiting to ferry the water up into the hydroponic system.
g'day Lofty,I like to get something done off my checklist every day if possible.
Yesterday I setup a RO water system (one of the cheapest I could find at £49 for a 450L per day system) and attached a 100L water butt as a tank and have started filling it up
This evening I installed the veg room floor. I used spray adhesive which worked much better than the stapler round the edges / double sided tape I'd used on the flower room floor previously. Anyway it's done
Now just waiting on these freaking blueberry seeds! We are 5 days down the line and 4 have popped but not made it above ground after being placed in the rockwool yet. The other 4 are just sitting there looking sad. Temp is steady and thermostatically controlled via a heat mat, they are in damp kitchen towel between 2 plates, using pH adjusted tap water... not sure what's going on :\
I'm considering popping some other seeds... maybe try 3-4x purple afghan kush using pH adjusted RO water?
VG 
) so I have most of the bits in place to make both 8x4 tents and the veg++clone+mother areas all fully operational already. As you can imagine that's a lot of stuff!
Heinsenburg 2.0So I'm getting there slowly.
Update on the seeds: The 4 Purple Afghan Kush seedlings are doing well. Only one Blueberry seedling survives but it looks great. The rest stalled after cracking and 4 didn't even crack. They then started to smell badly and turned to mush so I binned them. I think maybe my paper towels and rockwool were too damp? I had given the rockwool a shake after pre-soaking? Live and learn eh? That's why I'm not going for a full on 4kW grow immediately despite having all the bits in place!
Update on the grow room build:
Really starting to look amazing. Space has been maximised I honestly don't think I could have planned it much better. One thing I realised is that there's no way I'd have been able to start the grow and then build around it. Space up there is minimal once all the various bits and pieces started going into place.
I have one of the big 8x4 tents up now. I'm thinking I might put the second tent up soon too (or at least shove it in the attic waiting to be put up) as I don't want anything grow related in the main house once I get into full swing. I'm not someone to do things by halves (can you tell?
RO water system with 100L tank has been setup with an auto shut off valve to keep it full (plus another 100L of plastic Jerry cans to store water). Now have a 400W water pump ready and waiting to pump out of the RO tank through a hose into the attic.
I've also started working on the main tent's lights. Cut up, drilled and painted the steel frame for one of my lights which should cover a 4x4 area. I'm waiting for some power converters and resistors to arrive from the far east before I can get it all wired up though.
Have acquired most of the bits for the RDWC setup too. 17x 20 gallon buckets (I'm going with 8 plants vegged for 6 weeks in each 4x8 tent connected via a joint reservoir and a 225L top up res to keep the water level constant), netpots, pipes, pump and seperate water chiller circuit all here. Just waiting on some connectors to arrive from a local plumbing store and I'll get it assembled.
There are just a few little bits and bobs that need to be sorted over the next week and I think I'm ready for the plants to explode
I'll take some pics over the next few days
Not quite! I only have a handful of seedlings
Ha! Not a chance. With the amount of work and research you're putting in. I am confident that you are more than ready.as there's quite a chance that I'll f*ck them up on my first grow
Epic story.... hopefully you wont run into too many more of those situations!!Not quite! I only have a handful of seedlings
Today has been a bit of a nightmare! I decided to transfer my seedlings out of rockwool and into the clone king (basically a small aeroponic setup). That was always the plan. Once the plants are big enough they'll be transferred again into netpots in the full on RDWC setup.
So I tested the clone king... all seemed to work fine. I actually was sent 2 units by mistake so have a backups of everything (so I thought) in case of disaster. The clone king I bought came with a submersible 110v aquarium pump with a US 2 prong plug. I had a power converter all ready and waiting. Gave everything a wash, plugged it all in... all working fine. Ran it for 20 mins... great. Made up some weak nutrient solution (RO water, 200ppm, pH 5.8 ) and transplanted the seedlings into the clone king. Great! Got myself ready for work and thought "let me check on it one last time"... the pump wasn't working! Tried the other pump which was also dead. Figured it must be the 110v->220v step down power converter! That was the only bloody thing I didn't have a backup of! Scoured the internet looking for a power converter I could buy within the hour... nothing! Arrrggghhh, then I realised I was looking at things the wrong way round. I could just buy a freaking UK water pump! A quick google and I'd located a cheapo pond pump in a local DIY store which was already open. I checked the specs and it was supposed to have the same size water outlet (1/2") and similar flow rates so I ran out the door and bought one. Came back and found it didn't have a bloody plug attached! So wired it up... and then it won't attach to the clone king's nozzles which are waaay too loose! Apparently a US 1/2" is different to a UK 1/2" by about 1mm??! I couldn't wait for silicone sealant to cure so decided to use hot glue! Worked perfectly and managed to get it all up and running again within the hour. Wasn't even late for work
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