1badmasonman
Well-Known Member
Hello my fellow RIUers. Been dabbling in the production of my own supply for awhile now. This will be my first ever journal.
This is going to be a long ongoing journal as I am starting over from scratch. I will be covering topics such as grow room construction, raising up a mother to clone from, and my cloning procedure.
As you will see in my pics im pretty good at building stuff, but im still a rookie at growin MJ. I have gained a ton of experience from RIU and thanks to all.
Please feel free to post in my journal, I enjoy the conversation and pointers. Please just keep it positive.
So heres the room and equipment details.
Room is 14 ft long by 7 ft wide by 6 ft tall.
Lights: 2 600 watt HPS/MH. And a 4 bulb T8 floro hood.
Ventalation: 190 cfm inline carbon scrubber for exhaust. 160 cfm intake can fan.
Growing style this round is goanna be a cross between an ebb&flow and dwc. In a sog or scrog. Havent decided yet.
A little backround, this is my 3rd grow from seed. I had a devastating bummer 6 weeks into flower on my 2nd grow where a pollen sac busted somewhere in the garden and heavily seeded all my plants. To anyone who follows DST's Club 600 you may have heard me ranting and venting. To make a long story short i made the decision to start over from scratch and do some upgrading on my grow room.
I got rid of all my plants and clones to a couple of buddies of mine to make room for the construction of my new and improved room. One thing i didn't have in my old space was an area to clone,veg, & keep my mother plants. I had the room basically divided with a tarp and it wasnt very effective at keeping out the light from the veg side. I was also having some heat issues that needed to be addressed because i had all my intake and exhaust in the flower area.
Step1 was to gut the room and remove all equipment and mylar. I was real worried that any left over pollen could infect future crops, so i did a real through cleaning.
Welcome to my man cave.
I built this room to try and make it appear as a plain old wall at the end of the basement. The door is actually just a framed out sectoin of the wall that slides out of the wall. When its closed its screwed shut. Cant ever be to careful.
Heres a look inside.
Just got done plywood sheathing the ceiling. My last grow i just had reflective insulation on up ther which didnt buffer the noise of all the equipment running from the upstairs very well. Not to mention the constant smell permiating the floor boards lol. This should be much more effective.
This is my new addition to the room, the clone/veg/mother room. As you can see ill be using The 4 bulb T8s in here. I use 2 warm white and 2 cool white bulbs. One thing i like about this light is the ability to put it right on top of the plants without burning them.
These 2 exhaust fans are from my first grow ever in a kitchen cabinet. I plan to used these to echange the air in the CVM room to exhaust to the flower room where the carbon scrubber will filter it out of the house.
Mylar up in the CVM room.
Hanging the lights.
I hung the lights using some heavy duty salt and pepper masons string line.
This is my diy light raising and lowering rig up that i stole from an urban grower video.
Once i got the light where i want it i use some vicegrips to hold it there. "The Brakes".
I built this space to fit the light hood with about 1" play all around.
The fresh air intake.
And up top the exhaust all wired up and ready for action. This room is complete.
Moving on to the flower room.
The fresh air intake pulled from a room upstairs.
And this is the exhaust ducting that i framed into the ceiling of the room. I also ran the exhaust ducting so its hidden very well outside of the room. I ran it so it will dump into my chimney stack and out the roof.
The flower room equipment.
I had to cut my vertizontal hoods down so i could fit them side by side. They still throw the light just as good.
What up peeps. This is the only complaint i have about mylar.
Flower room all mylared out and light hoods up.
The 190 cfm carbon scrubber exhaust to chimney stack.
I put my ballast's up high because im going from soil to a hydro set up. Better safe than sorry. I noticed the magnetic ballast runs alot hotter than the electronic, so i mounted it where the exhaust can help cool it.
My diy version of the ebb&flow. still under construction. I should be able to build this set up for under $150.00 vs $1500.00 from a hydro shop. My systen is gonna be diffrent in that i will be growing dwc style with aquarium pumps in each bucket. The nice part of integrating both methods of growing is the ease of changing feedings from the main reservoir. Also Ive read somwhere in the bubbleheads thread that letting the roots get an O2 air bath promotes faster growth. Which can be accomplished by draing all buckets into main res. I still got alot of work to do on this system. I will be updating the progress.
And last but not least heres my last 3 seeds of BC puprs. Im hoping to get atleast 1 female out of the 3 which i will be growing into a mom to take cuttings from.
Just a couple days old here.
Start of the veg cycle. Im not really keeping track of the age here because im going for a mom. They are however 2 weeks from seed here.
Right now im vegging under just one of the 600s with this bad ass bulb.
I had to reuse just a little of the soil from my last grow. As you can see ive got some seed that must have fell in the mix from the last heavily seeded grow.
Thats all for now folks. I havent took pics in a few days now so ill post a couple later today.
What do you all think? Peace out. 1BMM
This is going to be a long ongoing journal as I am starting over from scratch. I will be covering topics such as grow room construction, raising up a mother to clone from, and my cloning procedure.
As you will see in my pics im pretty good at building stuff, but im still a rookie at growin MJ. I have gained a ton of experience from RIU and thanks to all.
Please feel free to post in my journal, I enjoy the conversation and pointers. Please just keep it positive.
So heres the room and equipment details.
Room is 14 ft long by 7 ft wide by 6 ft tall.
Lights: 2 600 watt HPS/MH. And a 4 bulb T8 floro hood.
Ventalation: 190 cfm inline carbon scrubber for exhaust. 160 cfm intake can fan.
Growing style this round is goanna be a cross between an ebb&flow and dwc. In a sog or scrog. Havent decided yet.
A little backround, this is my 3rd grow from seed. I had a devastating bummer 6 weeks into flower on my 2nd grow where a pollen sac busted somewhere in the garden and heavily seeded all my plants. To anyone who follows DST's Club 600 you may have heard me ranting and venting. To make a long story short i made the decision to start over from scratch and do some upgrading on my grow room.
I got rid of all my plants and clones to a couple of buddies of mine to make room for the construction of my new and improved room. One thing i didn't have in my old space was an area to clone,veg, & keep my mother plants. I had the room basically divided with a tarp and it wasnt very effective at keeping out the light from the veg side. I was also having some heat issues that needed to be addressed because i had all my intake and exhaust in the flower area.
Step1 was to gut the room and remove all equipment and mylar. I was real worried that any left over pollen could infect future crops, so i did a real through cleaning.
Welcome to my man cave.
I built this room to try and make it appear as a plain old wall at the end of the basement. The door is actually just a framed out sectoin of the wall that slides out of the wall. When its closed its screwed shut. Cant ever be to careful.
Heres a look inside.
Just got done plywood sheathing the ceiling. My last grow i just had reflective insulation on up ther which didnt buffer the noise of all the equipment running from the upstairs very well. Not to mention the constant smell permiating the floor boards lol. This should be much more effective.
This is my new addition to the room, the clone/veg/mother room. As you can see ill be using The 4 bulb T8s in here. I use 2 warm white and 2 cool white bulbs. One thing i like about this light is the ability to put it right on top of the plants without burning them.
These 2 exhaust fans are from my first grow ever in a kitchen cabinet. I plan to used these to echange the air in the CVM room to exhaust to the flower room where the carbon scrubber will filter it out of the house.
Mylar up in the CVM room.
Hanging the lights.
I hung the lights using some heavy duty salt and pepper masons string line.
This is my diy light raising and lowering rig up that i stole from an urban grower video.
Once i got the light where i want it i use some vicegrips to hold it there. "The Brakes".
I built this space to fit the light hood with about 1" play all around.
The fresh air intake.
And up top the exhaust all wired up and ready for action. This room is complete.
Moving on to the flower room.
The fresh air intake pulled from a room upstairs.
And this is the exhaust ducting that i framed into the ceiling of the room. I also ran the exhaust ducting so its hidden very well outside of the room. I ran it so it will dump into my chimney stack and out the roof.
The flower room equipment.
I had to cut my vertizontal hoods down so i could fit them side by side. They still throw the light just as good.
What up peeps. This is the only complaint i have about mylar.
Flower room all mylared out and light hoods up.
The 190 cfm carbon scrubber exhaust to chimney stack.
I put my ballast's up high because im going from soil to a hydro set up. Better safe than sorry. I noticed the magnetic ballast runs alot hotter than the electronic, so i mounted it where the exhaust can help cool it.
My diy version of the ebb&flow. still under construction. I should be able to build this set up for under $150.00 vs $1500.00 from a hydro shop. My systen is gonna be diffrent in that i will be growing dwc style with aquarium pumps in each bucket. The nice part of integrating both methods of growing is the ease of changing feedings from the main reservoir. Also Ive read somwhere in the bubbleheads thread that letting the roots get an O2 air bath promotes faster growth. Which can be accomplished by draing all buckets into main res. I still got alot of work to do on this system. I will be updating the progress.
And last but not least heres my last 3 seeds of BC puprs. Im hoping to get atleast 1 female out of the 3 which i will be growing into a mom to take cuttings from.
Just a couple days old here.
Start of the veg cycle. Im not really keeping track of the age here because im going for a mom. They are however 2 weeks from seed here.
Right now im vegging under just one of the 600s with this bad ass bulb.
I had to reuse just a little of the soil from my last grow. As you can see ive got some seed that must have fell in the mix from the last heavily seeded grow.
Thats all for now folks. I havent took pics in a few days now so ill post a couple later today.
What do you all think? Peace out. 1BMM
Im so broke duck tape cant even fix me. lol. No seriously and ive got like a fucking truckload. The soil that is haha. will post updates soon peeps. As my dad used to say Keep your zipper up!. Laters
