First Grow... AKR... Advice Welcome!

FIRST 600w hps hydroponic indoor room grow. Naturally, I have done extensive homework and preparation, but will no doubt have tons of questions and welcome all advice.

I have this setup:

• 12'x 10'x 10' room
• Mylark all of the walls and the ceilings.
• Reflective insulation on the two windows and also on the bare concrete floor.
• Two 8" a/c duct lines feeding two separate ends of the room
• One 6" in-line fan sucking through a carbon filter and exhausting outside of the room
• Four 600W HPS fixtures, interlinked together with an in-line fan blowing into the attic
• Two oscillating fans caddy-corner from each other
• Ebb/Flow hydroponic system with 10x 5g buckets
• CO2 tank blowing for 15 minutes every hour
• Gadgets to measure air temp, humidity, ph, nutes etc.
• I do NOT have a dehumidifier
• Room is completely vacuum sealed.

Comments welcomed!!

Plan of Attack:

• 10x Attitude Seedbank AKR Auto
• Germ the seeds
• Once little trees are hatched, will move to 5g bucket and begin system
• I'm hesitant to do the 20/4 as recommended by Attitude, but will do it

I'm not sold on nutes. Can anyone recommend?

I've not seen anyone with a similar set-up to mine so I kinda feel like I'm in an island. Questions? Comments? Concerns?



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DonQ said:

FIRST 600w hps hydroponic indoor room grow. Naturally, I have done extensive homework and preparation, but will no doubt have tons of questions and welcome all advice.

I have this setup:

• 12'x 10'x 10' room
• Mylark all of the walls and the ceilings.
• Reflective insulation on the two windows and also on the bare concrete floor.
• Two 8" a/c duct lines feeding two separate ends of the room
• One 6" in-line fan sucking through a carbon filter and exhausting outside of the room
• Four 600W HPS fixtures, interlinked together with an in-line fan blowing into the attic
• Two oscillating fans caddy-corner from each other
• Ebb/Flow hydroponic system with 10x 5g buckets
• CO2 tank blowing for 15 minutes every hour
• Gadgets to measure air temp, humidity, ph, nutes etc.
• I do NOT have a dehumidifier
• Room is completely vacuum sealed.

Comments welcomed!!

Plan of Attack:

• 10x Attitude Seedbank AKR Auto
• Germ the seeds
• Once little trees are hatched, will move to 5g bucket and begin system
• I'm hesitant to do the 20/4 as recommended by Attitude, but will do it

I'm not sold on nutes. Can anyone recommend?

I've not seen anyone with a similar set-up to mine so I kinda feel like I'm in an island. Questions? Comments? Concerns?



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Sounds good to this point, and as for the 20/4.. that's pretty much the standard for autoflower unless you're doing strain testing.

Well, I didn't pass go. I put all of the seeds in a rockwool tray that had been soaked for 24 hours. The tray came with a hood which I placed on to and then put it all under a fluorescent lamp. After several days and no signs of life, there was about a half an inch of puddled water which I drained. Well, a week went by and still nothing.

I ended up putting this tray out in the sun and one seedling popped out! After a fee more days, it didn't do more than a few inches and no leaves, while none of the others hatched.

What cam I do? I've noticed the seeds are moist and mushy. Can I dry out or are they dead??