This is my first everything. I am pretty good at making things and built this grow tent out of 2x3's and panda film. If I had to do it again, I would buy a grow tent because the whole door thing is a pain in the ass. I have a stick on zipper and light shines right through it so I cut a strip of panda film and tapped it on the right side of the zipper so I can still open it. Also I have seen some grow rooms for under 200 dollars and with the panda film, wood, tape and screws this room was about 120 dollars. I have people coming over after christmas so, I will need to take this down. Im not sure how well it will go back up so I am going to think about getting a real grow tent.
Ok for the goods. I have an 8" raptor hood with a 600wt hortilux eye bulb. The size of the hood is HUGE and with the 8" fitting it makes it hard to turn the insulated hose up to the fan and filter. I might think about getting a 90 deg elbow to save some space when I get a grow tent that is 4x4. After that I have a 8" sunleaves windtunnel fan that I made a mdf box for it and put in soundboard foam on the inside walls. This fan is great. It takes 142 watts and is pretty quiet. I noticed other fans use double the watts. I then have a phresh filter that is 8x39. So far no smell at all from the one auto syrup plant in flower. This filter is huge and heavy but totally worth it. I have a lumatek lk600 wt ballast outside of the tent. Inside the tent I have a small ocilating fan on 24 hours a day along with the windtunnel fan. The small fan uses 22 watts. So for my total set up I use 804 watts when everything is on. I started from seed from an attitude purchase I got 10 months ago. I have 5 SLH, jack herrer, syrup, grapefruit krush and the super sour seed did not germ and some other seed came crushed flat! Sounded good too. I started this grow on sept 6th and they have been into flower for 4 days now. Im looking to get this all done before christmas and dried into jars and tent down, everything. Wish me luck. I over nueted them 2 weeks ago but they seem like they are fine now and growing everyday. They are in 5 gallon pots and I last week I watered them 3 red cups of water and that lasted for 6 days. Should I use less water and water more often? They are in ffof with perlight and peet moss and I feed them the fox farm 3 pack of luquid nuets. I need to get the solubles or whatever they are called soon. I just wanted to share how happy I am with my set up(aside from the tent) and how many watts everything is using. My tent is 5.5x4 and 8ft in height. I reduce the 8" insulated hose to 4" and vent it out the gas only fireplace. With the 600 watt bulb and my house temps are around 73 deg my room gets up to 76. 79 is the highest I saw when the house was 76 deg. I was affraid of the 600's heat but it is easily managed by my set up. Hope this helps someone out with what equipment to purchase. Happy growing.
Ok for the goods. I have an 8" raptor hood with a 600wt hortilux eye bulb. The size of the hood is HUGE and with the 8" fitting it makes it hard to turn the insulated hose up to the fan and filter. I might think about getting a 90 deg elbow to save some space when I get a grow tent that is 4x4. After that I have a 8" sunleaves windtunnel fan that I made a mdf box for it and put in soundboard foam on the inside walls. This fan is great. It takes 142 watts and is pretty quiet. I noticed other fans use double the watts. I then have a phresh filter that is 8x39. So far no smell at all from the one auto syrup plant in flower. This filter is huge and heavy but totally worth it. I have a lumatek lk600 wt ballast outside of the tent. Inside the tent I have a small ocilating fan on 24 hours a day along with the windtunnel fan. The small fan uses 22 watts. So for my total set up I use 804 watts when everything is on. I started from seed from an attitude purchase I got 10 months ago. I have 5 SLH, jack herrer, syrup, grapefruit krush and the super sour seed did not germ and some other seed came crushed flat! Sounded good too. I started this grow on sept 6th and they have been into flower for 4 days now. Im looking to get this all done before christmas and dried into jars and tent down, everything. Wish me luck. I over nueted them 2 weeks ago but they seem like they are fine now and growing everyday. They are in 5 gallon pots and I last week I watered them 3 red cups of water and that lasted for 6 days. Should I use less water and water more often? They are in ffof with perlight and peet moss and I feed them the fox farm 3 pack of luquid nuets. I need to get the solubles or whatever they are called soon. I just wanted to share how happy I am with my set up(aside from the tent) and how many watts everything is using. My tent is 5.5x4 and 8ft in height. I reduce the 8" insulated hose to 4" and vent it out the gas only fireplace. With the 600 watt bulb and my house temps are around 73 deg my room gets up to 76. 79 is the highest I saw when the house was 76 deg. I was affraid of the 600's heat but it is easily managed by my set up. Hope this helps someone out with what equipment to purchase. Happy growing.
