6200w grow. 14 different strains

Dividedsky

Dividedsky

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Looking at my 1st pic of the room from june 3rd and you can really see how room has filled out on clone side in just a week. It's crazy. Didnt really flip the lights till june 4 because of some issues.
 
colocowboy

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Man your shit is really impressive, this is what I would like to do. My wife trips out on the electric bill and I already excess on this hobby, only way I’m getting back to that level of control is to get unmarried or get in the industry. The way I set up uses passive evaporation since I desperately need the moisture anyway.
Again, wowed, totally impressive!
 
Dividedsky

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colocowboy said:
Man your shit is really impressive, this is what I would like to do. My wife trips out on the electric bill and I already excess on this hobby, only way I’m getting back to that level of control is to get unmarried or get in the industry. The way I set up uses passive evaporation since I desperately need the moisture anyway.
Again, wowed, totally impressive!
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Ya my fiance is really cool with it, she doesn't mind at all. The bill is nothing for what you get in donations for flower, (the bill does suck if you have a bad run, or shut it down for a month or 2). If you can grow really boutique stuff and get ahem, donations. You should be good to go.
 
colocowboy

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My herb was always in demand back in the day and I still get requests but I have to stay legit. These days I stay that way, I am actively seeking to legitimately enter the industry but it’s sketchy as I am a teacher in a small community so when I do it’s got to be a complete switch, I won’t be able to publicly do both where I live.
 
Dividedsky

Dividedsky

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colocowboy said:
My herb was always in demand back in the day and I still get requests but I have to stay legit. These days I stay that way, I am actively seeking to legitimately enter the industry but it’s sketchy as I am a teacher in a small community so when I do it’s got to be a complete switch, I won’t be able to publicly do both where I live.
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Ya I'm in the same boat. Its seems very hard to break thru into the legitimate market. You need a shit ton of capital. I know a dude who opened a rec dispensary and it cost alot. He had investors and no way he could of done it alone. That's why I like doing the boutique thing, I'm growing bud that blows any dispensary shit out of the water! I take care of my friends and keep it small where its doesn't seem like work and I can take care of everything myself. Once you're not able to hand water anymore, your grow is starting to get big.
 
jzs147

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Dividedsky said:
Got a new co2 meter last night. Good thing I did- I was getting off co2 readings latley + noticed my fans were drooping a bit. I feed near perfectly so knew it wasn't that. Popped a new autopilot co2 meter in my flower room and I was getting reading of 1700 to 1800 ppms at where I have my regulator dial set at. Luckily it was running for only a few days. Quickly got it fixed and plants seems happy.
I have to take more cuts tonite before plants are fully in bloom. Less than a quater of all the cuts I have taken have rooted but a few have died from what looks like stalk rot in the bubble cloner. I'm going to get my 25 site aerocloner and take more cuts tonite, maybe even take some soil cuts. Seed plants weren't really big enough to take 2 cuts and I was already taking so many cuts I thought fuck it and rolled the dice. I have to get cuts of the seed plants otherwise the seed plants genetics will be lost. Fucking hate having issues with cloners. I'm not going to throw them back into veg at this point, I have to much stuff going at the moment, so need to get more cuts and get all these cuts rooted!
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Just put it on a mechanical timer 15 mins on 15 off.
Thats what worked out. Water does not get to hot that way or 30 mins on 30 off.
 
Dividedsky

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So on my last run I rotated 1-1000w metal halide bulb thru all 4 of the of the 1000s in the room, I could tell plants seemed to dig it. So I bought another 1000w mh bulb this run. I have been running 2 -1000 mh over the clones in the 5 gal pots and can say I and the plant are really digging the mh in flowering.
The seed plants in the 2 gal plastic pots are under 2 1000 hps and have a lil bit of yellowing though that is probably do to them being a bit root bound but think the hps definitely stressed them out a bit. Didn't know when popping all these regs seeds that I would've ended up with so many females! I would've at least put em in 3 gal fabric pots. Think I might switch out the 2-1000 hps bulbs over the seed plants to 2/mh bulbs tonight. Might keep the 2 mh bulbs constantly rotating thru the lights in the flower room from here on out because I just love how the plants have been staying a nice lush green and they seem to be always praying under the mh's. Will still run hps though, each side of the room will have 1 hps and 1mh 1000w going, so 4000w of mixed spectrum and 630cmh in the middle. Would like to add another 630cmh to middle as well to really dial in the room. Also thinking about switching over completely to 630 cmh in near future, going to wait a few runs though.
 
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Dividedsky

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Thought about also- if I switched over to the 630cmh and ditched the 1000s, I could probably run anywhere from 6-9/630 cmh lights. 9 would be awesome!!! That would be a lot of lights though.
 
colocowboy

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I was contemplating switching to cmh, I used to run a pair of 430s (the old sonagro) with their matching mag ballasts but as the ballasts were dipping with age I wanted to see what tech was coming, at the time led was just moving out of “ufo” lights. So I had gotten an induction light, tricked oops, no where near enough ppfd and that light was expensive! Great for veg :|
At this point I’m invested in led, sometimes I think I should have went cmh as I sometimes miss my hps and I’m sure the learning curve between those is negligible.
 
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