36OhBuds
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Hey guys, so I decided to do something kind of different with my journal. I'm starting this at mid Pre-Grow, the tent, lights, seeds, buckets, etc are all put together and I'm ordering the rest of supplies later this week.
I know when I was getting started putting together my first indoor grow there were a lot of questions that I had about what to get, where to get it, how to go about putting together the entire grow and what not. I'm new around here but hopefully this thread will shed some light on those topics for others. I'm going to explain briefly about each part of the grow and what not.
This is a medical grow, personal, so hope I do well cause I hafta smoke it all
Let's break down the grow:
Tent (Pictures are with the lights on -- stealthy and CHEAP!)
36x20x62 Grow Tent Dark Room Hydroponic Box By Gyosupply, Gyo-1001
The tent is going into a closet that measures approximately 7 feet wide, 68" usable height, and 22" usable depth for stealth. I found a tent that fit pretty perfect, and I can buy a veg tent for my second grow halfway through this one to get some plants ready to move into the flowering tent once I have my light patterns down. It was $62.00 off Amazon with Prime and as far as I can tell, it's pretty sturdy, doesn't leak light (the zippers don't really close PERFECTLY at the top and bottom in the front but there is a piece of mylar fabric as a flap that I'm going to attach something to so that I can velcro them all the way closed. I doubt light could get in, but light barely sneaks out if you are sitting on the floor. It's literally a pin hole so I'm not worried about it.)
Lights
GE 6500k Cool Daylight 26w CFL x up to 8 (Starting with 2 or 4 for the first part of veg)
GE 2700k Warm White 26w CFL x up to 8 for flower as supplementals
240w Blackstar LED with custom spectrum:
8 - 460nm Blue
4 - 430 Blue
6 - 6500k White
40 - 630 Red
20 - 660 Red
1 - UV 380nm
1 - IR 730nm (I think 730)
Found the CFL lights at Walmart. I think the 6500k's were in boxes of 3 and were $8 or something and the 2700k came in a box of 6 for $11. I'll probably go back and get 6 more of each just to have extras.
For the socket, I bought a clamp light from Home Depot that's rated up to 660w and plenty of amps but not for the clamp or the shield. I unscrewed the ceramic socket, took off the shield and now I have a high quality ceramic socket to use with my lights. I may buy a $30 reflector to use with the CFLs, not sure. I then bought some of their white splitters that have the same rating. Theoretically, I could fit like 24 of these CFLs into one fixture on a ton of splitters, but I'm going to limit it to 4-8. Probably four, with the configuration you see in the pictures below.
Seeds
Nirvana Bubblelicious Regular x 10 (germing 3 probably)
Nirvana Snow White Feminized x 1
Buckets
I've got two all black 5 gal's and an all black 3 gal. I wanted to see if the 3 gallon would accomodate this space so if I get two females off the Bubblelicious seeds I'll put one into a 3 gal and one into a 5 gal and put the fem Snow White seed into the other 5 gal.
Supplies I'm Buying This Week
Phresh 150 CFM filter
Technaflora Nute Starter Kit (not using this early obviously but want to have them for when I need them)
Black airline tubing
Air pump
PH/PPM testers
Moisture content meter (going to attempt to create a very scientific curing process for indoor grown marijuana_
4 inch inline fan since tent is so small, only need 25 CFM to exchange once a minute
Power strip with built in timer (or maybe just a power strip, and a timer, but this seemed convenient)
Small desk fan for breeze to strengthen branches
I'm also in the air on medium. I'm probably going to use Coco chips, but I'm interested in using gravel as well. Totally open to input here. I see a lot of people use Hydroton and I don't know why I'm opposed to it, I just don't like the idea of it for some reason but maybe I'm just being really REALLY stubborn.
Rockwool cubes are cool but I'm not into PHing them so I'll probably use starter plugs or find something at the garden place in town to see what they have for that.
So finally, here's the rest of the pictures, lights on. The first measurements are outside the room before, and then inside about 20 minutes after lights on. Haven't done a full day test yet because well, without a fan it's kinda pointless I think.
Before lights on
20 minutes later (it says it's dropping still so I think with time the humidity will be perfect and controllable and have a thermostat in the room I can adjust because nobody lives in it right now)
And some pics of lights on
Hoping to crack seeds next week.
Anybody got tips on eye protection? That LED is flipping bright. Got a couple pairs of Oakleys/Maui Jims but the Jims aren't good vs the LED.
Go!
Hey guys, so I decided to do something kind of different with my journal. I'm starting this at mid Pre-Grow, the tent, lights, seeds, buckets, etc are all put together and I'm ordering the rest of supplies later this week.
I know when I was getting started putting together my first indoor grow there were a lot of questions that I had about what to get, where to get it, how to go about putting together the entire grow and what not. I'm new around here but hopefully this thread will shed some light on those topics for others. I'm going to explain briefly about each part of the grow and what not.
This is a medical grow, personal, so hope I do well cause I hafta smoke it all
Let's break down the grow:Tent (Pictures are with the lights on -- stealthy and CHEAP!)
36x20x62 Grow Tent Dark Room Hydroponic Box By Gyosupply, Gyo-1001
The tent is going into a closet that measures approximately 7 feet wide, 68" usable height, and 22" usable depth for stealth. I found a tent that fit pretty perfect, and I can buy a veg tent for my second grow halfway through this one to get some plants ready to move into the flowering tent once I have my light patterns down. It was $62.00 off Amazon with Prime and as far as I can tell, it's pretty sturdy, doesn't leak light (the zippers don't really close PERFECTLY at the top and bottom in the front but there is a piece of mylar fabric as a flap that I'm going to attach something to so that I can velcro them all the way closed. I doubt light could get in, but light barely sneaks out if you are sitting on the floor. It's literally a pin hole so I'm not worried about it.)
Lights
GE 6500k Cool Daylight 26w CFL x up to 8 (Starting with 2 or 4 for the first part of veg)
GE 2700k Warm White 26w CFL x up to 8 for flower as supplementals
240w Blackstar LED with custom spectrum:
8 - 460nm Blue
4 - 430 Blue
6 - 6500k White
40 - 630 Red
20 - 660 Red
1 - UV 380nm
1 - IR 730nm (I think 730)
Found the CFL lights at Walmart. I think the 6500k's were in boxes of 3 and were $8 or something and the 2700k came in a box of 6 for $11. I'll probably go back and get 6 more of each just to have extras.
For the socket, I bought a clamp light from Home Depot that's rated up to 660w and plenty of amps but not for the clamp or the shield. I unscrewed the ceramic socket, took off the shield and now I have a high quality ceramic socket to use with my lights. I may buy a $30 reflector to use with the CFLs, not sure. I then bought some of their white splitters that have the same rating. Theoretically, I could fit like 24 of these CFLs into one fixture on a ton of splitters, but I'm going to limit it to 4-8. Probably four, with the configuration you see in the pictures below.
Seeds
Nirvana Bubblelicious Regular x 10 (germing 3 probably)
Nirvana Snow White Feminized x 1
Buckets
I've got two all black 5 gal's and an all black 3 gal. I wanted to see if the 3 gallon would accomodate this space so if I get two females off the Bubblelicious seeds I'll put one into a 3 gal and one into a 5 gal and put the fem Snow White seed into the other 5 gal.
Supplies I'm Buying This Week
Phresh 150 CFM filter
Technaflora Nute Starter Kit (not using this early obviously but want to have them for when I need them)
Black airline tubing
Air pump
PH/PPM testers
Moisture content meter (going to attempt to create a very scientific curing process for indoor grown marijuana_
4 inch inline fan since tent is so small, only need 25 CFM to exchange once a minute
Power strip with built in timer (or maybe just a power strip, and a timer, but this seemed convenient)
Small desk fan for breeze to strengthen branches
I'm also in the air on medium. I'm probably going to use Coco chips, but I'm interested in using gravel as well. Totally open to input here. I see a lot of people use Hydroton and I don't know why I'm opposed to it, I just don't like the idea of it for some reason but maybe I'm just being really REALLY stubborn.
Rockwool cubes are cool but I'm not into PHing them so I'll probably use starter plugs or find something at the garden place in town to see what they have for that.
So finally, here's the rest of the pictures, lights on. The first measurements are outside the room before, and then inside about 20 minutes after lights on. Haven't done a full day test yet because well, without a fan it's kinda pointless I think.
Before lights on
20 minutes later (it says it's dropping still so I think with time the humidity will be perfect and controllable and have a thermostat in the room I can adjust because nobody lives in it right now)
And some pics of lights on
Hoping to crack seeds next week.
Anybody got tips on eye protection? That LED is flipping bright. Got a couple pairs of Oakleys/Maui Jims but the Jims aren't good vs the LED.
Go!
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hehehehehe I should read first, but pictures get me excited, and those are some healthy flowers you have their. Yeah man I am excited for you and to see how that Bubblelicious does 
Why yes, yes I am.
