Baywatcher's Basement Blowout

Thanks for the info.

Off for another day of demolition. We've decided that, after the new rooms are ready, I'm going to move the Purple Haze and POW over and he'll take charge of those strains -- this is going to be an aquaponics setup, so short and bushy is perfect.

Ouch. That was no damn fun at all. Two more walls and a couple of lofts to come down on Monday and then hopefully done with destruction.

Sounds like a Huge place.

We're going to be setting up the aquaponics stuff on Monday, I think he's finishing off the demo this weekend. I'm hoping to get this finished and get started on the basement re-build at my place. I'll get a pic of my flower chamber, there is literally zero floor space left.

In related news, I'm considering switching to a deep water culture system with the rebuild. I am seriously tired of hauling dirt up and down the stairs. In the interim, I may switch to growing in pure perlite.

I only did one soil grow and after dealing with it all I was excited to switch to my hydro setup. Right now I'm really wishing I had more space again.

I'm looking for a point in your journal where there are pics of it, but all I see is guns, guns and guns So what kind of hydro you got going on?

I'm seriously considering starting a new journal since the title of this one is becoming increasingly misleading...

The last of the crazy-hard demolition is now done. If I ever meet the morons that built this 'recording studio' I will punch them in the nuts repeatedly. This single room (15 x 20 maybe?) has now taken a good 60 man hours to rip out because of the way they overlapped layers upon layers of screwed (both Phillips and Torx) and glued and nailed materials. They boxed in the radiator heaters with flammable soundboard, and built a false ceiling (badly) that enclosed the sprinkler system.

In comparison, we took down all the interior doors and walls in a couple of adjacent spaces to open up a 60 x 25 space in about 2 hours, because the guys that built it knew what the fuck they were doing and didn't put screws and/or nails every three inches.

The payoff at the end of this is rebuilding my basement. I've got my electrician friend coming by tomorrow to finalize putting in a new 100 amp subpanel and a 30,000 BTU 2-head minisplit for the two new rooms. I've already got a flipbox that will support up to 12 lights, so I have room to expand.

Ok, pics. Pic #1 is Hazeman P.O.W., 4 days from harvest. Love the colors. Pic #2 is Hazeman Rocky Mountain High. These are putting up a ridiculous number of bud sites. I don't have clones of it, but I have some more seeds that I may go with if I switch to DWC. It's pretty much the perfect plant for it.

Pic #3 shows my filled-unto-overflowing flower chamber.

Yay, thread renamed without losing all the messages. Best mods evar.

So, welcome to Phase II of my Journal. I have just ordered a 3 ton minisplit, and will soon be going from one (overcrowded) flower chamber to two nice and big chambers on a flipbox. The current flower area (see post above) will be repurposed as the veg area, and I'll be getting rid of my veg tent completely.

Short term, I am going to continue with the soil grow until I finish off all the dirt I have, then I'm probably switching to perlite instead of dirt. Medium-term (maybe even short-term if I can pick up the used system I'm looking at) I want to get the entire basement on a single sterile RWDC system running a continual harvest on ~500 ppm.

We're about to hit 20,000 views, thanks to everyone who has followed along this far.

Girls are looking great bay! I cant wait to see the new build out, it's gonna be awesome.

I've been running flood and drain trays for 5 years last month. I've only got the one 1000w for flower though I reAlly want to expand. It's over a 4x4 tray with a 45ish gallon res, and usually about 35-40 plants all flowering at differnt stages. I veg under floros for a week or 2 usually, then into flower they go.

Finished off the last of the serious demolition today, finally. To celebrate, I dropped 3 grand on a 3-ton minisplit.

After spending the last week doing nothing but intensive reading about deep water culture, I've decided that, instead of switching over everything at once, I should use the new flower room I'm getting as the DWC testbed. I can continue to grow continual in dirt (or perlite) in one of the new, bigger flower chambers, while I can do the DWC as a single-run. Trying to do a continual harvest with DWC looks like a recipe for disaster.

So sometime in the next month or two I'll grab one of these: https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/113094/GROW-UC6XL13.html

I'll build a scrog trellis on top I think, I need to get the system in place so I can get a feel for working space.

I gotta ask have you looked at a rail system at all? Like what superstoner and stink bud both run. It's an epic way to get large perpetual harvests, stinkbud pulls about a pound every 2 weeks. I have wanted to set one up for awhile but my ceilings are pretty low. I keep saying that once I have a climate controlled room I'm converting.

I am not familiar with it. Links?

This is the grow I'm using as my inspiration for the system. I have 7' ceilings, so a big-ass scrog will be more friendly than caged trees...

https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/grow4s-first-uc-run-12xl-8-gallon-7600k.32559/

I on my phone so a link will be a pain. Do a search for " harvest a pound every 2 weeks" or for "superstoner" he has a thread caled three stages of flower or something along those lines.

Will do, thanks.

So, Powdery Mildew has shown up. Amazon Prime should have a sulfur burner to me by this afternoon...

Nice fast shipping!

Amazon Prime FTW.

Did a 4-hour burn in my flower chamber and a 2-hour burn in my sealed veg tent. Hopefully that will be all that is needed.

I have to say, it didn't smell *nearly* as bad as I expected, and you couldn't really smell it in the rest of the house, so yay.

Most Excellent Grow M8.

Outstanding bud porn for sure.

Looking forward to the seeing the new buildout in action.

Many thanx for the share.

Peace and Great Grows

Asmallvoice

Thanks for dropping in Voice! I'm trying to gear myself up to begin the great Basement Cleanout of 2014 so we can begin work. This will 90% involve moving about 2 tons of used dirt into the backyard. The outside garden will like it, my back probably won't