jimmy.d
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Whats shakin, Blades
Figured Id make a grow journal for my current 7000w medical garden from start to finish, for anyone thats interested in following along on the journey.
We'll start with the basics. its 7000w of hps, batwing shades, digi 1000w balasts. 12" inline exhaust fan hooked up to a can 150 carbon filter, run by a thermostat and humidistat. Got a 10" inline fan bringing fresh airinto the room, also hooked up to the thermostat and humidistat. so when it gets above 78 degrees the fans both kick on and the 12" fan scrubs and exhausts out, and the 10" fan brings fresh air in until the room is back between 75-78 degrees. The humidistat is a back up incase the humidifier shits the bed and fails. If it gets too humid the fans kick on and cycle the room air until its all groovy again.during weeks 2 of flower through harvest, I'll have a can filter 100 hooked up to a 6" inline fan running 24/7 in the room scrubbing the air to Keep odors under control when the exhaust fan isn't running.
No a/c and no co2 this run. its winter and cold outside, so a fresh air room will work just fine until summer. I am putting in a/c before summer and co2 as i will need it but its not a necessary expense right now.
I have a personal production license allowing me to grow 147 plants and my friend has a license for 25 plants. this is a collective garden, of 172 plants, which we call, Guerrilla Gardens.
we are going to run 170 plants, in 2 gallon pots, sea of green style, promix cut with perlite for a medium, GH floura series nutes with bioroot, Florablend, koolbloom for supplements.
Now i know there going to be some immediate questions and criticisms about the set up so I'm going to address those now.
you may be wondering why we've built all that shit outta wood to hang the lights off of? why not just hang everything from the roof?
well the roof is 12' tall. it would be a huge pain in the ass. The fans would blow the lights around and it would just make things more difficult adjusting the lights unnecessarily. Im going to figure out a better way but for now all the wood actually came from storage shelfs that were in the room. we just took them apart and used what was there, recycled all the wood, screws and material, and built something thats functional but not as aesthetically pleasing. we have yoyos attached to the lights so we can adjust them from the framework we built with ease. raise and lower them without the need of a latter in a room cram packed with plants.
Also the frame work allows us to run all our wire up above nice and neatly and any additional ducting. we can move the lights around easily any which way as needed throughout the grow if were not getting even light distribution, and we can run and additional ducting up top and out of the way if need be. we can hang thermometers and anything else we may need so when we thought about building this frame work, from a functional point of view it made sense
weve just about finished building the room. in a week we should be off to the races! if theres interest in this grow journal, i will keep posting updates. Feel free to ask any questions you may have!
cheers
JimmyD
Figured Id make a grow journal for my current 7000w medical garden from start to finish, for anyone thats interested in following along on the journey.
We'll start with the basics. its 7000w of hps, batwing shades, digi 1000w balasts. 12" inline exhaust fan hooked up to a can 150 carbon filter, run by a thermostat and humidistat. Got a 10" inline fan bringing fresh airinto the room, also hooked up to the thermostat and humidistat. so when it gets above 78 degrees the fans both kick on and the 12" fan scrubs and exhausts out, and the 10" fan brings fresh air in until the room is back between 75-78 degrees. The humidistat is a back up incase the humidifier shits the bed and fails. If it gets too humid the fans kick on and cycle the room air until its all groovy again.during weeks 2 of flower through harvest, I'll have a can filter 100 hooked up to a 6" inline fan running 24/7 in the room scrubbing the air to Keep odors under control when the exhaust fan isn't running.
No a/c and no co2 this run. its winter and cold outside, so a fresh air room will work just fine until summer. I am putting in a/c before summer and co2 as i will need it but its not a necessary expense right now.
I have a personal production license allowing me to grow 147 plants and my friend has a license for 25 plants. this is a collective garden, of 172 plants, which we call, Guerrilla Gardens.
we are going to run 170 plants, in 2 gallon pots, sea of green style, promix cut with perlite for a medium, GH floura series nutes with bioroot, Florablend, koolbloom for supplements.
Now i know there going to be some immediate questions and criticisms about the set up so I'm going to address those now.
you may be wondering why we've built all that shit outta wood to hang the lights off of? why not just hang everything from the roof?
well the roof is 12' tall. it would be a huge pain in the ass. The fans would blow the lights around and it would just make things more difficult adjusting the lights unnecessarily. Im going to figure out a better way but for now all the wood actually came from storage shelfs that were in the room. we just took them apart and used what was there, recycled all the wood, screws and material, and built something thats functional but not as aesthetically pleasing. we have yoyos attached to the lights so we can adjust them from the framework we built with ease. raise and lower them without the need of a latter in a room cram packed with plants.
Also the frame work allows us to run all our wire up above nice and neatly and any additional ducting. we can move the lights around easily any which way as needed throughout the grow if were not getting even light distribution, and we can run and additional ducting up top and out of the way if need be. we can hang thermometers and anything else we may need so when we thought about building this frame work, from a functional point of view it made sense
weve just about finished building the room. in a week we should be off to the races! if theres interest in this grow journal, i will keep posting updates. Feel free to ask any questions you may have!
cheers
JimmyD
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