DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow

DaGambler said:

the legit business venture that i have in mind will probably run about 35-40k start-up costs. (renting / leasing) that's the goal. if i can hit that mark then i'll shut things down ... and give the legal enterprise a go. I'd have to feel real real secure just to grow again for my own pleasure. but to each their own.
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I hear that I gotta get some major debt paid down so Im just gonna say fuck it and run for about 2 years Im not trying to get greedy

2 weeks into Flower... the "Urge" finally became unresistable. I went into a Rage and quickly topped (or 'supercropped') the tallest and lankiest plants. i can't stand having an uneven canopy. i also started putting risers under the shorter plants... cheap 1 dollar tuppeware type containers (put under the buckets) that boost the plants from 3" to 10" off the ground. Well worth a dollar apiece. And i raised up the plants 'at the ends of the runs' in order to get a bit of a stadium effect going - i'd rather the light be hitting the plants than the walls.
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You are my hero I hope my crop looks half as good !!Its hard sleeping at night knowing whats going to happen when my girls start to flower!!!

JACKMAYOFFER said:

You are my hero I hope my crop looks half as good !!Its hard sleeping at night knowing whats going to happen when my girls start to flower!!!

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heheh. funny stuff man. i'm happy for you. it sounds like ur first major crop. it beats being kept awake at night from paranoia, i would guess. once you've harvested a couple crops i'm afraid to say you will probably start to see what isn't there, rather than what is. least, that's the habit i seem to have gotten into. but i'm deffinitely following ur grow.
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Time to double down

Just took a look at your last pics...

Real nice work man... I wish my shit was that neat...

Everything looks super healthy...

So I just skimmed through, but did I hear you mention the words heat & ac..

Have you considered using a radiator to cool your op? as user SOG is doing...

I think it is a brilliant way to cool a sealed room...

Anyways... back to trimming the Oz of the day...lol....

Oh I meant to ask you... what is the reason why you chose not to go perpetual?

Cheers Bro..! Keep up the GREAT work!

GypsyBush said:

Oh I meant to ask you... what is the reason why you chose not to go perpetual?

Cheers Bro..! Keep up the GREAT work!

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dang it. guess i'ma have to work a bit harder to earn the title
'King of the Perpetual Grow'

my op is very much perpetual bro. i'm currently looking at a 73 day average turnover time. ie; i flower for 63 days... then have 10 days to harvest, transplant the clones into the flower room, veg for a few days, then flip to 12/12 again. i take clones the day before (or the same day) that i flip to 12/12. the clones are vegged in a separate room.... this time it will be 5 weeks under flouros... then 4 weeks under the 1k HPS.... then transplanted into the 6k flower room. I'm currently transitioning from 5k to 6k in the flower room. i'm looking for 5 crops a year (5 x 73 days equals 365 days). If all goes well with the new 12" inline fan... i'll no longer have to worry about 'cooling' the op at all... air conditioning free flower room is the goal. You can see both rooms of the perpetual grow up and running in the YouTube video in my signature... though sans the 1k HPS i'll be adding to the center of the clone room. Currently i have 192 'mommies' and around 238 clones. Both are at Day 17.
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DaGambler said:

air conditioning free flower room is the goal.

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I have never used an aircon in any of my grow rooms and one of them a few years back was 8400 watts during flower. We never had any major heat issues and had a massive yield.

Your garden is looking amazing bro so keep up the good work.

Cheers

M Blaze said:

I have never used an aircon in any of my grow rooms and one of them a few years back was 8400 watts during flower. We never had any major heat issues and had a massive yield.

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thanks Gypsy and M for the kind words. That 8.4k would of been something to behold. Feel free to provide a more detailed description of that setup

Okay, so here is the current setup after i stopped using A.C....



I just removed the intake hoses from the vents placed through the floor ... and hung the intake hoses toward the ceiling to pull the warmer air. The 6" intake vents have a screen as well as a cheap air filter on the outside. They just pull air from directly below the house.



i've been running this way for several days now... the temperatures are staying the same as it did with air conditioning. The (2) 400+ cfm fans are pulling enough air to keep the 5 lights cool that are now running. The humidity is also much better than it was before and stays down around 50 percent. with this working fine... i'm awaiting a 1000+ cfm fan so that i can add a 6th light, spacing two out in the center of the room. I do believe i was wasting quite a bit of money on a.c. But i will also have to run my ozone generator a bit more... and i'm going to have to consider using carbon filters over (or before) all 3 exhaust points.
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Just saw the video for the first time...Damn nice and professional....Thanks for the look inside

DaGambler said:

thanks Gypsy and M for the kind words. That 8.4k would of been something to behold. Feel free to provide a more detailed description of that setup

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That pic of your overall setup just looks amazing.

The 8.4k setup was nothing special really, it just had 2 big ass charcoal filters and that was it. It was basically the same setup as our last Jack Herer grow but with more lights.

I got a question for you Im planing on running three 600s with one 6in fan to cool the hoods the intake from that fan will be on one side of the attic pulling from a vent the exhaust going out the other side of the attic out a vent....Do you think that will keep things cool enough in the summer? and will the cold winter air be too cold for the lights?.....Im also going to have another 6in fan hooked to a carbon scruber on a temp controler

I also ment to ask how loud it is inside and out side when all your shit is running

Smokiethebear said:

I got a question for you Im planing on running three 600s with one 6in fan to cool the hoods the intake from that fan will be on one side of the attic pulling from a vent the exhaust going out the other side of the attic out a vent....Do you think that will keep things cool enough in the summer? and will the cold winter air be too cold for the lights?.....Im also going to have another 6in fan hooked to a carbon scruber on a temp controler

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a 400+ cfm fan should cool those lights well enough... but the question is how you will climate control the rest of the room. if you are growing -in- the attic you might be in for a real fight in the summertime. if so, then try just leaving the intake side of the first bulb unattached... so that it cools the room as well. Fresh air will still be pulled in the intake vent ... and pushed directly out the exhaust vent from the ducted lamps. Just exhaust through the carbon filter non-stop via this method... and one fan alone would do the trick. That's if your attic doesn't get ridiculously hot.
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"The Urge"...hilarious. OCD at its best! Any new vids lately?

Smokiethebear said:

I also ment to ask how loud it is inside and out side when all your shit is running

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the fans use insulated ducting... and are attached to the ceiling/outside with insulated box 'flanges'. the ballasts are located remotely under the house... and i have placed r30 insulation all around the skirting. You'd have to be within 7 feet of the house on the noisiest (back)side ... to be able to hear any type of 'humming' at all. You could literally be touching the house on any other side and still not hear anything. i don't hear anything when i am inside unless i am standing right in the flower room.
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Old Frog said:

"The Urge"...hilarious. OCD at its best! Any new vids lately?

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this isn't the first time that you seem to have spotted my true nature

if i do another video... it won't be until this crop is nearing maturity. how goes ur garden? i havn't seen any updates lately in my subscribed list... hopefully it didn't get bumped off somehow.

(EDIT: oh, shit... guess i get to be one of the first to see the new you !!)
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You have a beautiful room my friend...

I guess I used the wrong terminology...

I was wondering why you choose to harvest all at once, instead of a staggered harvest... like say every 2 or 3 weeks...

Just curious...

I've been pulling a few girls every day...

In fact, I just posted some pre-trim pics... of today's catch...

Cheers Bro!

Wouldn't ya know it, gonna summer-grow after all...

GypsyBush said:

You have a beautiful room my friend...

I guess I used the wrong terminology...

I was wondering why you choose to harvest all at once, instead of a staggered harvest... like say every 2 or 3 weeks...

Just curious...

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Too much work too often lol.