KolorBlind
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DAY 1
Plant Stage: Seedling
Light Cycle: 24/0
Lights: 175w 4200K Metal Halide, 3x26w 6500K CFLs.
Medium: Jiffy #7 Peat Pellets
Ferts: None
Strain: 8x Unknown Bagseed
High everyone!! So here I am attempting round 2. For those of you that didnt catch my last disaster, er... attempt Ill fill ya in briefly. It was my first ever grow attempted in my bedroom closet. 3 weeks into the grow with no real ventilation, high temps and LOOOTS of over watering I decided to pull the plug. I learned a lot, especially about watering plants as most noobs do lol.
So on to round 2. My seedlings sprouted on 4/20 so for argument sake that will be day 1. What better day right?
So here we go. A buddy of mine used an old fridge a while back and was able to produce 2 plants that yeilded about 1.5-2oz total if I remember right. He was broke as a joke and used dirt from the backyard, no temp/humidity monitoring, tap water w/ no ferts ever. he also had to prop the door open to get ventilation which Im sure resulted in very low temps during lights off since it was in a cold basement. Point being, if he grew in those conditions, this should work MUCH better for me than my closet!!
So I didnt plan very well and I had 8 seeds fully germinated, with at least 1.5-2 inch tap roots the day I got the fridge. It had been in a dank basement and sat idle for a couple years so it is a bit rough. I will get everything cleaned up better as I go, but getting the lights and ventilation done were the main projects the last 2 days. Ok on to the pictures.
Here are some open & closed pics of the fridge with just the lights (half-ass) installed. Note the duct tape residue, my buddy had aluminum foil taped up top as a reflector but it was comming apart and I figures the white works just as well.
I plan on cleaning the whole inside with soap & water, and removing the duct tape residue too. I also want to slap some duct tape over some of the holes, sockets & plastic whatnots up by the big bulb. My original plan was to spray paint over the duct tape, the bottom of the fridge & over the rails that the shelf hangs on with white spray paint but I dont know if that would be a good idea even if I took the plants out for a bit, what do you guys think?
The fridge originally had the 175w Metal Halide bulb that Im using, plus a 70w HPS. Here is a pic of the HPS. The ballast & that other box thing (haha) were both assembled seperate from the bulb, but after taking it apart we couldnt figure out how to rewire the damn thing.
After getting the lights setup I got to work on the exhaust. I bought an 80CFM NuTone bathroom exhaust fan at Home Depot for about $80. I read a cool DIY for a carbom scrubber for this type of fan and copied it somewhat. My fan didnt have bolt holes so I brought on the duct tape, and mine is hanging upside down and is enclosed compared to the DIY though. Here is the DIY link.
I mounted it into the fridge so well it almost looks FACTORY! Haha not really, but considering I had to borrow almost every tool I used I think I did ok. Here is the top "freezer" section with my exhaust setup. The other fan is the original fan that pulls air from the lower chamber up to the freezer, it pulls a lot of air and is pretty quiet.
Heres the bottom side of the filter where all the air is pulled in.
Connected to 4" dryer hose, it's clamped to the exhaust fan but I taped around the hole to prevent stinky air from coming out, and duct tape is holding the duct work to the back of the fridge for now.
We drilled a 3" hole through both layers of the floor for a passive intake. I ended up lining the inside of the hole with duct tape as not to pull any insulation through, I also taped a section of window screen over it as a filter, I will take more pics later. Since the exhaust is 4" Im thinking another 2" hole all the way through the floor would be best, but we'll see how the temps are for now.
A 4" dryer hose is connected to the intake and ran under the fridge to the front side below the door, so I am not drawing in air from behind the fridge where it is exhausting to. I need to buy or make something to cover the area under the door, any ideas? I also made sure to put some of the window screen on this end of the intake too.
Last but not least, my little Jiffy greenhouse. The first picture was taken around 10PM on 4/19 right after planting them, the 2nd pic with the sprouts was taken the next day at 6PM. I planted them in order of longest tap root. I figured #1 would take off first but it looks like #3 is in the lead with #2 trailing behind. I am considering 4/20 as "Day 1" for all my plants to make things easy to remember
That's all the pictures for now. Here is some other info worth mentioning I suppose:
I will be using a medium of 3 parts Sunshine Mix to 1 part Pearlite to begin with. I will add bone meal & blood meal at 2nd transplant probably. Other than the lights I am using now I have quite a few other CFL bulbs. I have: 1-26w 6500K, 2-23w 550K, 6-26w 2700K & 3-68w 2700K. I plan to stick with the 3 6500K CFLs and the 175w MH for now, maybe adding more veg CFLs later. I plan to have all 3 of my 68w 2700K CFLs hanging between all my plants with the 175w MH still above while flowering. Maybe even some 26w 2700K CFLs mounted to the side if I get crazy.
Thanks for checking out my journal and feel free to leave any comments or suggestions. Im all about reading others' posts so if you have a grow going that is related in any way to this one or any particular topic at hand, feel free to post it! Just no spamming please.
Peace for now
KB
Plant Stage: Seedling
Light Cycle: 24/0
Lights: 175w 4200K Metal Halide, 3x26w 6500K CFLs.
Medium: Jiffy #7 Peat Pellets
Ferts: None
Strain: 8x Unknown Bagseed
High everyone!! So here I am attempting round 2. For those of you that didnt catch my last disaster, er... attempt Ill fill ya in briefly. It was my first ever grow attempted in my bedroom closet. 3 weeks into the grow with no real ventilation, high temps and LOOOTS of over watering I decided to pull the plug. I learned a lot, especially about watering plants as most noobs do lol.
So on to round 2. My seedlings sprouted on 4/20 so for argument sake that will be day 1. What better day right?
So here we go. A buddy of mine used an old fridge a while back and was able to produce 2 plants that yeilded about 1.5-2oz total if I remember right. He was broke as a joke and used dirt from the backyard, no temp/humidity monitoring, tap water w/ no ferts ever. he also had to prop the door open to get ventilation which Im sure resulted in very low temps during lights off since it was in a cold basement. Point being, if he grew in those conditions, this should work MUCH better for me than my closet!!
So I didnt plan very well and I had 8 seeds fully germinated, with at least 1.5-2 inch tap roots the day I got the fridge. It had been in a dank basement and sat idle for a couple years so it is a bit rough. I will get everything cleaned up better as I go, but getting the lights and ventilation done were the main projects the last 2 days. Ok on to the pictures.
Here are some open & closed pics of the fridge with just the lights (half-ass) installed. Note the duct tape residue, my buddy had aluminum foil taped up top as a reflector but it was comming apart and I figures the white works just as well.
I plan on cleaning the whole inside with soap & water, and removing the duct tape residue too. I also want to slap some duct tape over some of the holes, sockets & plastic whatnots up by the big bulb. My original plan was to spray paint over the duct tape, the bottom of the fridge & over the rails that the shelf hangs on with white spray paint but I dont know if that would be a good idea even if I took the plants out for a bit, what do you guys think?
The fridge originally had the 175w Metal Halide bulb that Im using, plus a 70w HPS. Here is a pic of the HPS. The ballast & that other box thing (haha) were both assembled seperate from the bulb, but after taking it apart we couldnt figure out how to rewire the damn thing.
After getting the lights setup I got to work on the exhaust. I bought an 80CFM NuTone bathroom exhaust fan at Home Depot for about $80. I read a cool DIY for a carbom scrubber for this type of fan and copied it somewhat. My fan didnt have bolt holes so I brought on the duct tape, and mine is hanging upside down and is enclosed compared to the DIY though. Here is the DIY link.
I mounted it into the fridge so well it almost looks FACTORY! Haha not really, but considering I had to borrow almost every tool I used I think I did ok. Here is the top "freezer" section with my exhaust setup. The other fan is the original fan that pulls air from the lower chamber up to the freezer, it pulls a lot of air and is pretty quiet.
Heres the bottom side of the filter where all the air is pulled in.
Connected to 4" dryer hose, it's clamped to the exhaust fan but I taped around the hole to prevent stinky air from coming out, and duct tape is holding the duct work to the back of the fridge for now.
We drilled a 3" hole through both layers of the floor for a passive intake. I ended up lining the inside of the hole with duct tape as not to pull any insulation through, I also taped a section of window screen over it as a filter, I will take more pics later. Since the exhaust is 4" Im thinking another 2" hole all the way through the floor would be best, but we'll see how the temps are for now.
A 4" dryer hose is connected to the intake and ran under the fridge to the front side below the door, so I am not drawing in air from behind the fridge where it is exhausting to. I need to buy or make something to cover the area under the door, any ideas? I also made sure to put some of the window screen on this end of the intake too.
Last but not least, my little Jiffy greenhouse. The first picture was taken around 10PM on 4/19 right after planting them, the 2nd pic with the sprouts was taken the next day at 6PM. I planted them in order of longest tap root. I figured #1 would take off first but it looks like #3 is in the lead with #2 trailing behind. I am considering 4/20 as "Day 1" for all my plants to make things easy to remember
That's all the pictures for now. Here is some other info worth mentioning I suppose:
I will be using a medium of 3 parts Sunshine Mix to 1 part Pearlite to begin with. I will add bone meal & blood meal at 2nd transplant probably. Other than the lights I am using now I have quite a few other CFL bulbs. I have: 1-26w 6500K, 2-23w 550K, 6-26w 2700K & 3-68w 2700K. I plan to stick with the 3 6500K CFLs and the 175w MH for now, maybe adding more veg CFLs later. I plan to have all 3 of my 68w 2700K CFLs hanging between all my plants with the 175w MH still above while flowering. Maybe even some 26w 2700K CFLs mounted to the side if I get crazy.
Thanks for checking out my journal and feel free to leave any comments or suggestions. Im all about reading others' posts so if you have a grow going that is related in any way to this one or any particular topic at hand, feel free to post it! Just no spamming please.
Peace for now
KB
It was about 77F outside when I got up today (1PM) and the temp in the fridge was 81, which I thought was pretty good. At 4 I called my wife and she said the temp was 86f 
good work on the fridge...feel free to check out my grow...I made a homemade cabinet for mine 
