4000W Grow Room Set-up

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Old in the Way

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Thanx for posting this. About those controllers.........please. VV
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They are from Cutom Automated Products

The first is The Temp DNE. Control heating/cooling/exhaust functions via 20'tstat probe (mine sits right in the canopy of my plants)
Day/Night Funtions-Mine are set to cooling-year round....one runs the 8"main room exhaust-set to come on at 77f and go off at 74f during lights on. At night the photocell switches to the night setting to come on at 74 and go off at 71f. This makes sure the room exhaust only runs when it needs to expell heat.

I have a second one for lights on-this runs a room a/c to back up my central air in flower. It is set to come on at 80 and go off at 77 (only when the exhaust can't keep it in check you know)

Thwe other is a-Adjustable Recycling Timer. Because I root cuttings in plugs then hang the plug in the Aero-vegger the ART controller allows me to water for as little as one second and run up to an eight hour off cycle-i have to water the plugs about ten seconds every 6 hrs or they end up over-watered.

BTW-The Temp-DNE controllers were my best investment yet.

Hope that helps.

PS-I haven't heard from TheFaux since I PMed him a couple bud pics.:roll:

-OitW
 
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mowogrow

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man what you have going i cant express how happy it makes me feel to just look at those sexy buds i mean sexy!! bro your a genius i love the grow i love everything!!!!! you just put the smack down on my little (2 plant could be 10) grow. i wanna do a s.o.g but it seems difficult maybe thats cause im always baked....def have to watch the rest of this hey check youtube and look at the tennessee pot cave tour and tell me that wouldnt of been fucking sweet!.....+rep bro!
 
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Old in the Way

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dpjones
subscribed +rep
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KroniKFouR2o
nice set up man
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Tyvm

Single White Pistol
HA! This is great! I'm so stoked on this grow!
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'Preciate it.....

mowogrow
man what you have going i cant express how happy it makes me feel to just look at those sexy buds i mean sexy!! bro your a genius i love the grow i love everything!!!!! you just put the smack down on my little (2 plant could be 10) grow. i wanna do a s.o.g but it seems difficult maybe thats cause im always baked....def have to watch the rest of this hey check youtube and look at the tennessee pot cave tour and tell me that wouldnt of been fucking sweet!.....+rep bro!
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Please don't ever use the "G" word with me again...I am a newbie at this shit, just practicing what the experts preached (with the simplest set-up I could figure out to do what I'm doing)...always get advice from reputable, experienced members...thats the best advice I can give.

SoG is no problem as long as you can propagate on schedule, don't be intimidated.....grow baby, grow. In fact if you have room for 10 plants then you should move 2 clones to flower every 15 days-if you have a Mum and that shit will be perpetual mini-sog--more than enough smoke for one person.

And as far as always being baked........
I get up at 5-6am every day and smoke before the sun is up on most days....sog is designed with stoners in mind.:bigjoint:

Ya I have seen the cave....lol, not in person but you know what I mean :weed:

-OitW
 
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Old in the Way

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beennoobed
subscribed n relax he was giving you props...
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Yes, and i appreciate it....but Genius, come on.....

so 1k-hps over 1 4x8 bed? n how man plants per bed?
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Yep but I (the newbie that I am) after seeing how my trial runs were coming along made some adjustments. Now I only use 6x4 of the 8x4 tray in order to maintain 40w/ft2. You can best see this in the wide shot where the newest plants are consolidated in the center of the tray.

I usually take 144 clones (4 trays of 36) each time I cut. From there the best or surviving 120 go to the EZ cloner for a 4-7 day veg period. This short veg period allows me to cull out rejects and weaklings before they take up valuable wattage in flower. From there the best 96 (12 rows of 8-6"pots) go to flower.

Sometimes a few more rejects pop up and those are moved to the ends of the other trays along with retired mums for my head stash, but i don't devote any of my 6x4 production space for them--where the light is concentrated....btw my rails only use a couple feet of their 6' length. The movement of my rails is designed to cast light at different angles to better penetrate canopy....not to expand the usable area of the 1kw lamp.:peace:

-OitW
 
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beennoobed

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Circus peanuts, squirrel nuts and marijuana.....my kind of candy store.
Thanks for the kind words. I am loving my work too......puff, puff, aagghh cough, agghh......exhale. mmmmmmm loving it indeed!


lmao, puff puff pass maannn....:bigjoint:

and i was thinkin what u said about not using the whole 6'rail, i was like hmm,thats waisting ur precious 1k-hps over the entire 4x8... but nice move using it over 4x6 wit 96 nicely grown clones.... grow baby grow
 
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Old in the Way

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and i was thinkin what u said about not using the whole 6'rail, i was like hmm,thats waisting ur precious 1k-hps over the entire 4x8... but nice move using it over 4x6 wit 96 nicely grown clones.... grow baby grow

Today 11:23 AM
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Ya, at first I set-it up thinking I could slam the 8x4 full of 144 clones.....and I did the first couple of batches. It didn't take me long to see it was to much to ask of the 1kw lamp....growth was even across the tray-thanks to the perpetual movement of the rail, but I could see they were stretching more than I liked-especially on the ends. It also worked out to be only 31watts/ft (+,-) with time lost when the light was at the other end.....yadda yadda.

After I learned from a couple mistakes I saw the center 6' of tray was doing very well so I decided to only focus the light on the center 24 sq.ft. And because the best coverage from the lamp spans 2.5' from center my rail moves between the stops which are set about 18" apart. Its almost a slow rocking motion because of how little the lamp travels. But it really helps penetration which can be observed by watching the shadows on the hydroton....its sooooo pretty.

In order to tweak the op to take advantage of this newfound knowledge I bought a 4th lamp.

My intention was to have 2 lamps over the first tray when they are real small and go back to the 144 clones but put only 72 in every 15 days....so they would spend 30 days on tray 1-under 2kw then be moved to tray 2, and then 3 to finish 72 at a time....and harvest every 15 days.

I realized I was kind of forcing it by doing this. For instance filling the tray with 144 clones means no room for error or my head stash, or trial runs of new strains........so long story short the 4thHPS is still in the box and I will be getting 4-6x4 trays to replace my 3-8x4 trays in january. This will put me back on a 15 day harvest and I can easily do 96 per tray--104 if I really want to squueze 'em in. Hope to get to about 8 lbs a month like that-about 15-20grams dry per lollipop.:bigjoint:

We'll see

I would make these changes sooner but with the holidays coming my schedule of every 20 days means I have a week out of every 20 days when I don't have to babysit clones--once they root they are in the aero-vegger and are on an automated waterign schedule.....besides ph management its almost like I get one week off every three. Once i go back to every 15 days it means the work is 7 days a week 365 days per year. No travel, no holidays, no skiing:-( (oh shit maybe I will wait till May to go back to every 15 days--can't miss the winter entirely)


lmao, puff puff pass maannn....
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Oh, my bad, did I bogart that doobie.....lol
 
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beennoobed

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well u seem to have things planned out nicely,
so 96 per tray n 48 of them get get cycled every 15days, 4 trays so 4 harvest every2 months(+/-) and u hope 4 8lbs every 15 days or all 4 trays?? sry im a bit confused
 
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Old in the Way

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beennoobed said:
well u seem to have things planned out nicely,
so 96 per tray n 48 of them get get cycled every 15days, 4 trays so 4 harvest every2 months(+/-) and u hope 4 8lbs every 15 days or all 4 trays?? sry im a bit confused
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96 per tray, 3 trays, 96 clones to flower every 20 days, 3 harvests every 60 days (every 20-21)

I hope for 4 lbs per tray, First harvest is in the works-looks like I should be close to my goal but I doubt I will get 4 this run. But the first tray is my trial runs of all strains so they are maturing over the course of a 2 week period and some did not perform as well as others
When I add a 4th tray I will keep everything the same except I will be on a 15 day schedule (4 harvest every 60 days/8lbs a month, now I am hoping for 12 lbs every 2 months--due to the fact I have only 3 harvests in that time)

Ultimately the goal is 1800 grams every 2 weeks from 96 plants about 20grams, 3/4oz per plant

I think with 96 of these its possible.



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