1badmasonman
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Hello fellow riuers i am the 1BMM aka the badman mostly known around the club 600 (The Best Thread on RIU!!) and the outdoor threads. I am currently winding down from one hell of a outdoor season and finally getting around to my ritual indoor winter grow. My "cave" as i call it is a 2x4 constructed room 13' long 7' wide and 6'6" tall tucked away in the back of my basement. I have been experimenting with many diffrent styles of growing over the years and have always wanted to do a Sea of Green.
For this grow i have started beans from several strains: Blackberry Kush, Mango, Salmon Creek BB or Kush?? "its bag seed" from some fire outdoor cali, Dog Kush from my buddy dst of the Breeders Boutique, A mystery bean from a mixed pound of cali bud of Headband-Green Crack-OG Kush-Tha Purps and Purple Kush. Shit was a nice blend up of goodness so the mystery bean is one im excited to be growing. Island Sweet Skunk also bag seed from a Colorado med dispensaries gear, DNA Lemon Skunk, and last but not least 2 JDB Romulan clones from a gigantic vigourous pheno that my guerilla partner and i really liked from our outdoor 2011 season.
At the moment my grow room is 95% reconstructed to its OG condition. I have upgraded my wiring as im in an old house and heavy voltage on old wiring noids me out. Ive added GFCI outlets to all recepticals running my lights and put a few other safeguards in place as far as electrical goes. Ive stopped using puss ass extension cords and made up some 12/3 heavy insulated cording to supply the power to the room where i need it. A note of caution here. It is not ideal to run your ballast from an extension cord as it draws more amperage to deliver the power to it. If you must run your power from another room to your grow room, use the heaviest cording you can find. It will keep the amperage managable and your cord cool. Wimpy orange cords will get hot running a 600 watt hps and may cause a fire running a 1000 even on a short leash of 10ft. And this is just my opinion/experience here. It alsways better to be safe than sorry.
For the lights this grow i will be using 2 1000 watt hps. One a digital ballast from a local grow shop, and the other an Agro-Star magnetic. Suprizingly the magnetic Agro is very quiet compared to my 2 600 watt magnetics which i surmize is an issue of quality construction. Cheapo ebay magnetic ballasts got a loud ass BUZZZZZZZ and we cant be having that. This is a stealth room as i am not a legal grower. Im an outlaw. I would love to be legal but my state is one of the most anti in the union and Med pot is a joke to the powers that be here. However, I dont give a FUCK. I have been an anxiety disorder patient for the better part of my adult life and put on many pharma drugs that i had horrible side effects from. I suggested to my physician many times that i found marijuana to be a remedy for my ailments only to be scoffed and snubbed. As a result i quit cold turkey all pharma meds, told my doc to go fuck himself and now (I) manage MY disorder with pot. I have not had an anxiety attack in almost 2 years now. Thankyou Mary Jane
Getting back to the grow now.
As i mentioned before i have some 600 watters. I love my 600's and the club aswell
The problem is i have a 6'x7' footprint for this grow and a custom made coolhood/reflector i made last winter which can handle that area. My old lights however proved to be a bit weak for the area that the hood covers hence the reason for upgrading to 1000 watts. I am currently using my 600's to veg the seedlings along to there next transplant under MH bulbs. I made the mistake of buying some horrible cheap potting soil to start my germed beans in and the plants hate it. So they will all be transplanted soon.
The medium for this round im going with roots organic 707 mix. Ive heard real good things about this soil and having grown in many mediums im keen to the goodies within and 707 is packed with good stuff. Infact if i had more time id like to add to it and make super soil. But the clock is ticking and all of this is really to get my outdoor strains lined up for the 2012 guerilla patch. Im usally in mid flower of the indoor crop this time of year but im running behind.
For nutrients im going to use FF line. The roots soil should do the job for the most part. I will only be vegging clones for a week max before flowering the hole lot of them so it FF as needed.
And that pretty well covers the intro to this grow. Im going to go get some pictures up here now of the room and the progress. But first i need me a joint
For this grow i have started beans from several strains: Blackberry Kush, Mango, Salmon Creek BB or Kush?? "its bag seed" from some fire outdoor cali, Dog Kush from my buddy dst of the Breeders Boutique, A mystery bean from a mixed pound of cali bud of Headband-Green Crack-OG Kush-Tha Purps and Purple Kush. Shit was a nice blend up of goodness so the mystery bean is one im excited to be growing. Island Sweet Skunk also bag seed from a Colorado med dispensaries gear, DNA Lemon Skunk, and last but not least 2 JDB Romulan clones from a gigantic vigourous pheno that my guerilla partner and i really liked from our outdoor 2011 season.
At the moment my grow room is 95% reconstructed to its OG condition. I have upgraded my wiring as im in an old house and heavy voltage on old wiring noids me out. Ive added GFCI outlets to all recepticals running my lights and put a few other safeguards in place as far as electrical goes. Ive stopped using puss ass extension cords and made up some 12/3 heavy insulated cording to supply the power to the room where i need it. A note of caution here. It is not ideal to run your ballast from an extension cord as it draws more amperage to deliver the power to it. If you must run your power from another room to your grow room, use the heaviest cording you can find. It will keep the amperage managable and your cord cool. Wimpy orange cords will get hot running a 600 watt hps and may cause a fire running a 1000 even on a short leash of 10ft. And this is just my opinion/experience here. It alsways better to be safe than sorry.
For the lights this grow i will be using 2 1000 watt hps. One a digital ballast from a local grow shop, and the other an Agro-Star magnetic. Suprizingly the magnetic Agro is very quiet compared to my 2 600 watt magnetics which i surmize is an issue of quality construction. Cheapo ebay magnetic ballasts got a loud ass BUZZZZZZZ and we cant be having that. This is a stealth room as i am not a legal grower. Im an outlaw. I would love to be legal but my state is one of the most anti in the union and Med pot is a joke to the powers that be here. However, I dont give a FUCK. I have been an anxiety disorder patient for the better part of my adult life and put on many pharma drugs that i had horrible side effects from. I suggested to my physician many times that i found marijuana to be a remedy for my ailments only to be scoffed and snubbed. As a result i quit cold turkey all pharma meds, told my doc to go fuck himself and now (I) manage MY disorder with pot. I have not had an anxiety attack in almost 2 years now. Thankyou Mary Jane
Getting back to the grow now. As i mentioned before i have some 600 watters. I love my 600's and the club aswell
The problem is i have a 6'x7' footprint for this grow and a custom made coolhood/reflector i made last winter which can handle that area. My old lights however proved to be a bit weak for the area that the hood covers hence the reason for upgrading to 1000 watts. I am currently using my 600's to veg the seedlings along to there next transplant under MH bulbs. I made the mistake of buying some horrible cheap potting soil to start my germed beans in and the plants hate it. So they will all be transplanted soon.The medium for this round im going with roots organic 707 mix. Ive heard real good things about this soil and having grown in many mediums im keen to the goodies within and 707 is packed with good stuff. Infact if i had more time id like to add to it and make super soil. But the clock is ticking and all of this is really to get my outdoor strains lined up for the 2012 guerilla patch. Im usally in mid flower of the indoor crop this time of year but im running behind.
For nutrients im going to use FF line. The roots soil should do the job for the most part. I will only be vegging clones for a week max before flowering the hole lot of them so it FF as needed.
And that pretty well covers the intro to this grow. Im going to go get some pictures up here now of the room and the progress. But first i need me a joint
1BMM
lol. This time around im going to keep a eagle eye on the nanners on the dog. Everyone else who grows it out seems to get full plump seedless buds but mine where completely polinated and seeded quite badly. {I also had a room packed full and could not physically reach all nanners} However the smoke was incredible and a standout for sure. I would love to get the dog stable enough to grow it outdoors some day.