BooMer's 5000w Medical Hydro Cannabis Laboratory w/ C02 Generator & ScrOG

Cant wait to load a bowl and watch your vids. Loved the setup and all the detail you wrote about everything. Always great to read up on those who are working their ass off to do it right from the start.

Props, rep, and scribed as always.

Hope that knee is on its way for you bro.

Take care
Fred

I will say it again, this set-up is TITS man. I do like the idea of an exhaust fan that cycles a couple times during th elights out period though. Oh and I wanted to comment on this quote from your last thread "my bill is gonna b over $600/month easy im sure. " .. I your bill is under 1000 bucks then you know something I do not. Sorry man but mine is over 600 now with a medicl allowance.

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I will say it again, this set-up is TITS man. I do like the idea of an exhaust fan that cycles a couple times during th elights out period though. Oh and I wanted to comment on this quote from your last thread "my bill is gonna b over $600/month easy im sure. " .. I your bill is under 1000 bucks then you know something I do not. Sorry man but mine is over 600 now with a medicl allowance.

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I'd have to agree with you there... I am in Australia and my bill for this quarter will be over $600 and I am only running about 3000watts in total... It costs me about $2.63 a day to run 1 x 1000watt light at ....(18 hours) its cheaper on flower... Power,,, its a necessary evil.....
Subb'd... Laceygirl...

Beautiful set-up. Would copy you directly if my Pop would help me out with the wiring and safety proofing. Subscribed.

California prices are high. Last month I used about 2200 KWH, averaging about $6 a day, that was the March billing period on 3 weeks of 12/12

the clones did well for not doin a correct cutting process. (no cloning gel used) lost probably about 15 of 72 cuttings took. but i also took a few crappy small cuttings and didnt expect them to make it anyways. so i came out ahead for sure.

anyways i transplanted 36 rooted clones into the 6" rockwool cubes that have been soaked for a couple days in PHd water of 5.0 to bring down the alkalinity of the rockwool.

covered them with the algae covers and watered them with water phd at 5.5 with sum superthrive to help with the shock of transplant.


i do need sum suggestions tho. i am running the 755cfm fan to air cool noth my 1000w and 400w light hoods but they run 24/7 and the 10,000btu ac runs at 68 24/7 as well. but even with the air temp outside pretty cool, the room is heating up with accurate readings of 80-85degrees, and only a humidity of 20%

veg humidity is desired to b 40-60% ive read and temps i alwys want at or around 75degrees. so i gotta work on the air temps, but not sure if its worth increasing the humidty.

transplanted clones look great, this thing is moving quick! defn enjoyed your outdoor stuff man, what strain was that?

Drella said:

transplanted clones look great, this thing is moving quick! defn enjoyed your outdoor stuff man, what strain was that?

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thanks bro ure shit like i said was bomb.
it was whitewidow sativa

thanks man, so was yours. let me know which one you want, if any, for your setup!

oh ya the other thing i need to prob figure out asap is my mothering section. currently i have 5 sour grape mother plants in sunshine #4 soilless mix in only 3gallon containers. i was gonna use the bonsai mother method but im considering starting over completely with sum of the sour grape clones i have but do the mothers in hydro buckets. prob a DWC system but im not sure. so any suggestions wat the best easiest method would be id appreciate it. thanks guys

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oh ya the other thing i need to prob figure out asap is my mothering section. currently i have 5 sour grape mother plants in sunshine #4 soilless mix in only 3gallon containers. i was gonna use the bonsai mother method but im considering starting over completely with sum of the sour grape clones i have but do the mothers in hydro buckets. prob a DWC system but im not sure. so any suggestions wat the best easiest method would be id appreciate it. thanks guys

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Hey Boomer

The mothers I would keep in soil as they grow slower than hydro of any kind. Just use a lower wattage light ~400W and keep the plants trimmed and you can even trim the roots. If this is perpetual than you will be trimming all the time anyway.

On the fan setup and temps/humidity, I run a greenhouse (25'x 50') and we use swamp coolers and venting to keep the humidity and temps regulated. The humidity will cool off the room. If you are usingthe OD air to cool your lights then you mayu have a problem since we are having a Santa Ana these past days and in the summer you again will have the same problem. Try cooling your lights with your room air which is cooled by the AC. Vent it to the carbon filter and then vent to outside or you can get an ice box for the lights and just vent back into the room.

If you dont cool the lights they will just heat that room up and then your reservoir will get hot. For the closed room with CO2, you can run a little hotter than 75 but I wouldnt let the relative humidity go much higher than around 50%. Check out SOGs grow for a sealed room system.

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subscribed boomer...love your grows...o and your wife

That is one hell of a setup youve planned out for yourself much props. Im in for this one. subbed

i like the bonsai mother method because you can trim the roots before you transplant her back into the same pot. and i want to see you pull it off. but if you want to turn some of the sour grapes into mothers, its all good!

Cant you make continuos cuts of the vegging plants?

I really like Shrubs' idea of scrogging his mothers to get the best cuttings possible every time.

So today i added 6 more sour grape clones onto the veg table into the 6" rockwool cubes. just as backups and ill keep the 36 strongest SG clones and dump the remaining 6.

I also picked up a 40gallon rez for the veg table just to hold my nutes and will eventually add a drip system for it as well to make shit easier for me.

I hookedup my reverse osmosis machine and flushed it for 45mins then began filling up my rez. the PPM were 25-35 depending when i took the measurement and PH was 7.5

I mixed up 20gallons with the veg recipe im using and PPMs were 1035 and PHd down to 5.8 and gave each cube 1cup of feeding.

Still not sure how often to water the cubes so if anyone can help me out id appreciate it. im just keepin it moist for now at least since its by hand.

Also fed the same nutes to the mother plants since the feed includes, bud candy, root excelerator, great white, vermi-t blend, sensi grow A & B, cannazym, and magical. figured itd help my root mass with the additives in this feed for the mothers rather then just the sensi grow a and b.

im thinking about takin another round of cuttings from the mothers already since its been a few weeks and now that the mothers have been under the 400w MH lamo theyve grown so much i need to trim them back. ive alredy FIMmd two or three times and just pinched the stalks and they got lanky and long in the mid range and starting drooping so i had to put support stakes up.


Now for the new plan; everyone has been tryin to tell me to stick with one single strain but for my flower room ive got two 4'x8' hydro tables and underneath each theres a 70gallon rez that will operate alone from each other. so if im having to feed and control two different rez then i mite as well just do two diff strains (one strain per table so two diff strains total) and i can now do my true perpetual cycle; harvest one tray every month, keeping the trimming workload down and fresh smoke supplied constantley. and allows me to stay up with the high demand in the collectives i donate to. but its just a thought goin thru my mind and i like a challenge. i already have two seperate notebook journals to keep detailed notes of everything i do everyday in the garden and tasks that need to be done and developing a calendar grow cycle for the next crops. so adding one more journal for an additional hydro tray and feeding schedule wouldnt be any diff then the two im already doing. anyone else got a better idea plz do tell

im gonna get u guys sum pix and maybe a new video soon as well but prob just pix until things really take off then ill get u guys a new video. enough rambling for the night, between the bud and oxy im passin out lol.

so i decided that since the temps here in so cal are only most likely going to be getting hotter that i need ti change my veg room to adapt with being a second floor bedroom with only 10,000btu tryin to cool the room and the aircooled vents only use the outside air to cool the hot lamps, basically my point is the 10k btu ac wont cool the room as low as i need it and the aircooling is only as effective as the temp outside really. so i plan to slowly adjust the veg room down to a 18/6 photocycle instead of the pushpush 24hrs/day on schedule. this will allow the lights to shut off cool down and the ac clear up the room and lower the temp so when the lights come bak on 6 hours later the room can attempt to maintain 75degrees. also part of the scheduling strategy is turning the lights off at the hottest peak hours of the day which most likely is 12pm-6pm and also gives me time to get in and work on the room in the morning before the lights go out. so hopefully this adjustment will make a difference. only other way would be to upgrade my portable AC unit which i mite do one day since its my gfs old one we didnt need anymore so the growroom is its new home.

that's sick that you'll have two tables, with two independent rezy's for different feeding amounts. i love harvesting once every month, it's awesome! Hit up SomeGuy15 for how often to water, he's got the hydro down!

yeah, it's gonna start getting hot as hell, here in cali, so we gotta rethink our lighting to keep things chill!