8k AC/DE Double Ended Grow

Hey everyone,
I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm a long time grower, been growing for a little more than 15 years but haven't been on the forums much until recently. Luckily when I was learning to grow, I had a very experienced person help me out for the first year and was able to answer all my questions. Since that first year I've learned a lot on my own from trial and error, and I have things dialed in really well now.

Well I just recently upgraded (about a year ago) all my rooms to double ended setups. I am really happy with them and have seen an increase in yield by about 15-20%. I run sealed rooms with ac, co2, dehums, etc, and I use a 66% fox farm ocean forest/33% perlite mix in 10 gallon smart pots on top of 4'x'4' trays, 4-5 plants per light depending on strain. I feed with botanicare pure blend line and i use orca as well.

Feel free to post and ask questions/comments!

So here's the room in the construction process.....

And a little more work done....

Almost done.....

Very nice. So 15-20 percent increase with those a/c d/e compared to your old lamps which were what?

Time for the girls! I am running all genetics from Darkheart Nursery. I have a mom/clone room at a different location where I have around 20 strains, so i cut all my own clones. The strains are....
-Boss Og
-Sour D
-3x Crazy
-Chem 4
-Stardawg
These pictures are from April 30th

The old setups were hydrofarm raptors with 1000w ushio hps bulbs and global green house digital 1000w ballast.

The new setup is AC/DE reflectors, ushio pro plus 1000w de bulbs, nanolux de ballasts

These pics are from May 3rd

how long do you plan on vegging those for?

It takes any where from 3-4 weeks depending on strain. I normally do just 1 or 2 strains at once but with this many strains it might be on the 4 week end. I get them about 3-3.5' tall from the ground and then flip.

Did you get the 3xcrazy locally?

The ones in the cups will be removed btw, they are just extras. I normally cut twice as much as i need so i can pick the strongest, most uniform ones. The extras will go to another flower or veg room or possibly made into moms. Unfortunately I don't have room for a veg room at this location. Some times i veg them in 2 gallon pots at another location and bring them here and then i only have to veg for 7-10 days but that veg room i use was full with plants vegging for another location

Yes, I got all the strains from Darkheart nursery. They drop cuts to a few dispensaries up here in nor-cal. Harborside oakland & san jose, RCP sacramento, organican santa rosa, berkley patients group in berkley, and i think one more location but i can't think of it right now.

nice setup my friend

^ Thank you!

Some of my moms

These are the shorter/bushier ones (kens gdp, 3x crazy, purple kush, etc)

^These are the taller/lankier ones (og, sour, j1, etc)

Well i am subbed for this looking great so far

707humboldt said:

Some of my moms

These are the shorter/bushier ones (kens gdp, 3x crazy, purple kush, etc)
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^These are the taller/lankier ones (og, sour, j1, etc)

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What og cut do you have? Ill check back in latter, have to go to lower lake for work today. God i hate driving to lake county.

I was just up in lower lake a couple weeks ago, helping a friend buy a truck. Funny, I said the same thing to him when he asked me to take him.

For og's I have boss and ghost. The kosher kush and sour d I have grow very similar so their in the same tray with the og's

Day 4 of veg... not much change, put on a little size. Topped them today

707humboldt said:

Day 4 of veg... not much change, put on a little size. Topped them today

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How many watts are you vegging under?