Goal: A modest 5 lbs. per crop, 4 crops per year.
Sensi's G13xHP, Serious's White Russian, and some freebie Durban Poison, White Widow, and Power Skunk (all three G13 Labs)
The Setup:
(4) 1000w HPS in 15' by 13' flowering room, using a 10' by 10' footprint (Two 5' by 10' areas)
(12) Flourescent T12 four foot two-bulb fixtures in the clone/veg room
(2) 6" inline fans for the Cooltubes, with an emphasis on climate control
(4) oscillating fans in the flower room, each corner
(1) UvonAir3000 Ozone Generator on ceiling
(1) DIY carbon filter with thermostat control for venting hot air in flower room
(1) 65 qt. Dehumidifier in flower room, Humidfier in clone/veg room
(1) space heater, portable a.c. if needed come summer-time (hopefully it won't be needed)
(1) Reverse Osmosis 100 gallon a day filtration system to combat ridiculous tap water
(1) 44 gallon rubbermaid trash can for reservoir with 330 gph submersible pump on hose with wand
(99) 3 gallon buckets filled with perlite and a 1" hole two inches from the bottom that is screened over
(12) 4 cu. ft. bags of perlite, each fills ten 3 gal. pots
(8 ) members of fauna (indoor animals including myself), for a combined total of approx. 1200 lbs. of biological CO2 supplementing organisms.
Assorted timers, extension cords, rolls of mylar, bags of Miracle Grow Seed Starting Mix, styrofoam and clear plastic cups for clones, Dip 'N Gro, General Hydroponics Bloom and Micro (Lucas Formula), M.G. for Tomatoes, Rooting Fertilizer, Neem Oil, Fruit Tree Spray (Pyrethrum), Safer Soap, Malathion, insect traps, micro beasties, H2O2, pH meter, buffer solution, pH Up, ppm meter, light meter, moisture meter, thermometer, humidity meter, couple rolls of romex wire, outlets, surge protectors, 100 amp two-pole breaker, insulated ducting, duct pieces, silver tarps, shelving, paint, caulking, rolls of foil tape, chains, balls of steel, low I.Q., wing and a prayer, etc.
Welcome To My Grow !!! I need some RIU Credibility / Rep ... so don't be stingy ye 'ol bastards !!!
Okay, so Picture 1 is just a shot of the seed/clone/veg setup in a 10' by 10'ish room. Primarily two shelves for plants with a total of (12) 4' two bulb flourescent fixtures. In pic you see a humidifier and a sample of how i clone: the blue cup with a clear cup on top for a humidity dome (though i actually use styrofoam on bottom and have to trim the top lip off the clear cup so that it nests inside the styrofoam one. I use M.G. Seed Starting Mix and Dip 'N Grow. Not pictured, but also in this room is, a 44 gal. reservoir up on a third shelf and a 100 gal. per day Reverse Osmosis system. A 330 h.p. submersible pump fills a water hose that goes into the next room.
Picture 2: (Flower Room) Be scared, be very scared. The scariest thing is that all 6 of these Romex strands (indoor romex) travel underground (w/o conduit) and up into the electric box where they are all connected to a dual pole 100 amp breaker (3 per pole). Aside from the power strip attached to each one, there is no smaller breaker between the 100 amp breaker and the equipment. This takes care of all my electric except for a cord that i ran in for the de-humidifier.
Picture 3: (The Money Shot) Four CoolTubes (two 6" and two 8") on 6" insulated ducting, 2 inline GrowBright fans (52 dB), a oscillating fan in 3 of 4 corners. The clones and mothers are on makeshift plywood still in 16 oz. cups over the awaiting Hempy Buckets (3 gal.) The ballasts are located under the house.
Picture 4: Close-up of watering wand on garden hose, takes about 10 minutes to water the 99 buckets.
Picture 5: DIY carbon filter (Top Down: 6" to 8" reducer, 8" inline fan with thermostat attached to side, a 90 degree 'elbow' that is straight and some aluminum screen which holds about a 2" layer of carbon.)
Picture 6: 65 qt. dehumidifier. May also have to get a portable a.c. unit come summertime.
Picture 7: Ozone Generator for primary odor control. Lamp timer allows for up to 20 on/off settings per day, by the minute. Currently running 10 minutes each hour 20 out of 24 hours.
Picture 8: Just a closer up picture of about 50 clones. There are just beginning to recover from a serious pH problem. I quickly accidified the soil trying to use straight 5.6 pH'd nutes (G.H.) in the 16 oz. cups (without raising the pH of the water to around 6.3). They are doing much better now that i have pulled my head out of my ass.
Thanks for looking !!! I'll try to get an update shortly after putting them each in their own bucket. Which they are due for right now. I let the clones go too long without topping, so right now they are all a bunch of sticks... and I like to grow bushes!
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bah, you wish ur girlfriend was that hot (if you had one). i got a truckload of fantasy and sci-fi chickees just waiting to be my avatar. fer real, though, i -love- her. lickee lickee.wow dude you win the gayest avatar ever prize. that shit makes me wanna hurle.
theres a little hottie makes her way over time to time,see if she'll let me pic here ,lol,i'll post it,lol.bah, you wish ur girlfriend was that hot (if you had one). i got a truckload of fantasy and sci-fi chickees just waiting to be my avatar. fer real, though, i -love- her. lickee lickee.
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just make sure to get some weed in the picture... we deffinitely could use more pictures of naked women next to marijuana on this site. That's really what this site is most lacking, i beleive.theres a little hottie makes her way over time to time,see if she'll let me pic here ,lol,i'll post it,lol.
choppy choppy time. nice. After about a pound of trimming indica, i find that it just starts to look like lettuce with trichomes on it (so you save that part!) heheh.SHIT IS BANGIN.. IM READY TO CHOP INA COUPLE DAYS, I JUST GOT 4 600W HPS TO ADD TO MY 5 X 1000...IMA GO HARD ON THIS NEXT JOURNAL....
damn thats alot of lite,,,wwow.choppy choppy time. nice. After about a pound of trimming indica, i find that it just starts to look like lettuce with trichomes on it (so you save that part!) heheh.
man, say it ain't so with the lights. ha ha. that would be 7400w just in the flower room. or, are some of those for cloning? I'm prolly running about 5960w between vedge and flower rooms just on lights. but i was just looking at how a couple more 600's would really light the biatch up !! maybe next time around. crazy stuff.
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looks sweet , ns growing skills, i recognize that one on the rite ,beautiful white wooly hairs of the g13 hp.i'm doin my 3 clones and one mother presently flowering as well , that shit so strong that 2 bong hits get yyou so wasted give ya shaky hands,lololol....awsome settup bro ,if i go pro i'm gonna need some hep on design settups and alike,in wich i am going to relocate to a secluded area , hpefullty this yr,then, i want to grow some smokin outdoor plants as well , i will have purple plants everywhere , because it gets hot here,which encourages making purple plants ,lol.feel free bro to co me by and ask anything you want,at least you respond wen i post ,and acknowledge coming from someone thats super cropping like yersef,, beside ed ros and Mr. howard marks and my friend marc emery (in whom showed me the ropes as well and reading) goten all my genetics from for a couple yrs.thier mostly gone, and not online much anymore that have similar settups.beside ed and marc emery,(thier warehouse growers), but similar in every aspect, like mysef you got alot of time to spare,lol. ,haha, its ashame you dont live aroud here bro, goin out on the lake this weekend, its going to get real warm, pussy every where spring break,lol.,., i'll be doing 4 to 6 600s..jus lookin at yours is really encouraging me now to find me a location, jus cant up and leave ,got a lot of responsibilities for the moment, but fixing to solve those issues.i really like those mylar wlls damn ns .imprssed.well thought out plan... funny about this Bcheese , i can already see it lookin like that avitar of a ,previous grow 5 yrs ago.,i dont mean to be long winded on your thread jus to explain a bit better where im coming from,,grow on bro.(Day 21 for the Big Girls)
The plants are now in an "I" formation (see Pic 1) under the 5 HPS lights, going to hold off on using the MH conversion bulb in the center until the last 2 or 3 weeks... hoping it will boost trichome production by giving them some UVB. Was going to pick up like 4 ReptiGlo 10.0 bulbs for one side of the garden as an experiment, but that'll have to wait due to budget constraints.
I just burned sulphur in the sulphur vaporiser for the first time at day 20... a bit later than i would like, but i wanted to do it at least once before the point of no return. I've never had problems w/powdery mildew, but i don't want to start now. May be that the ozone generator helps me to avoid that as well. It runs 15 minutes out of every hour.
I just stripped off approximately 50 percent of the fan leaves... especially those up top and those blocking light to the smaller buds. Other than that i did a light lolly-popping at the start of flower, just taking the bottom 4 branches or so.
I've noticed that the pure indicas don't clone quite as easily as the crosses. The indicas yellow up more readily. The success rate is about the same, but they seem to have a harder time of it and require more 'babying' as far as being misted, etc.
Pic 2: A White Russian (AK47xWhiteWidow) hybrid at 21 days.
Pic 3: A Mr. Nice (G13xHashPlant) pure indica at 21 days.
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its just for identification. i also have some cheapie plastic beads from walmart. a bead for each strain and 2 different colored zip ties to differentiate a couple phenotypes w/in the strain.super set up.
One question, in a few pics the cuttings have zip ties around them, what is it?
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on top of being potent, it looks like its going to be a very good yeilder, so that would be just gravy! and it clones easily.Lookin real nice Gambler. I'd like to grow some white russian at some point, yours look nice!
i don't mind shaky hands, i'm not a doctor the pure indicas deffinitley do their own thing when it comes to flowering. the 'design and setup' thread is one of my favorites... i've spent many a 'blueprint' trying to figure what would be the best way to optimize certain spaces or number of lights, etc. so i'm always happy to throw in my two cents there.looks sweet , ns growing skills, i recognize that one on the rite ,beautiful white wooly hairs of the g13 hp.i'm doin my 3 clones and one mother presently flowering as well , that shit so strong that 2 bong hits get yyou so wasted give ya shaky hands,lololol....awsome settup bro ,if i go pro i'm gonna need some hep on design settups and alike...
gonna print out secs of your journal and order the extras i need to get this happening..thanx , very complete and explanitory .i'm gonna be lookin at some storage units and find wat i need. now i jus have the 2-600s a250 mh/hps conversion lamp for mothers , for slower veg growth, can do 4 under one lite, and florecent tubes for cloning,heat matt and temp controller, to get that 95% root rate.,,i'll go from there.,as far as weight goes i'm sur i'll get 2 , and think 3 is a potential,better way to say,lol,funny,,,i dont mind shshshshaky hands either, ibroke down you were rite,haha ,u know me better than i do,, i'm jus and old school pothead that still thinks hes 20,lol.46, but healthier than a 20 yr old.kinda lika fruit stand,flavors flavors,.sorry for postin ,couldnt hep mysef,24 oz., i need more sef control, so stoned rite now,,whizzinator here i come,hahahahahhahahaha.lolol.later bro.i don't mind shaky hands, i'm not a doctor the pure indicas deffinitley do their own thing when it comes to flowering. the 'design and setup' thread is one of my favorites... i've spent many a 'blueprint' trying to figure what would be the best way to optimize certain spaces or number of lights, etc. so i'm always happy to throw in my two cents there.
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haha, ya i told myself i'd quit smokin for 2 weeks today (after all, my employer does do random drug testing)... but, come on, it's St. Patricks day for god's sake !!! green is the color of the day nice attachment, also. i was thinking of vacuum sealing for safety after harvest (reduced smell) but i hate the thought of scrunching up perfectly lovely nugs as well.,i dont mind shshshshaky hands either, ibroke down you were rite,haha ,u know me better than i do...
the first avatar u had was a dude dressed like a chick.. I see u changed it though.. And it auto changed the one in my post as well .bah, you wish ur girlfriend was that hot (if you had one). i got a truckload of fantasy and sci-fi chickees just waiting to be my avatar. fer real, though, i -love- her. lickee lickee.
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yea me too,lol. haha,funny,yea theres this dude on this forum that refuses any nutes and chemicals,pure organic , telling me we need to "go green" in stead,,i told him there are only two greens i give a shit about, the one on the plant and the one in my pocket.and if that causes the atmosphere to split ,i'll jus have to go buy an umbrella,.lol.haha, ya i told myself i'd quit smokin for 2 weeks today (after all, my employer does do random drug testing)... but, come on, it's St. Patricks day for god's sake !!! green is the color of the day nice attachment, also. i was thinking of vacuum sealing for safety after harvest (reduced smell) but i hate the thought of scrunching up perfectly lovely nugs as well.
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