Grow room thoughts

Hi guys and girls! So I built me a little flowering space and have attached a sketch of the layout and a pic of the table that I built. The ceiling height is 8'-4". The table can either be ebb and flow or currently I have it set up to drain to waste. I am currently into my second week of flower with this setup. I mainlined the plants to 1. Keep them shorter since my table is about 36" high and 2. to get better light penetration in the middle. I can fit 4 plants comfortably, 5 a little tighter. I guess my questions are 1. What do you think of this setup and what if anything would you do different. And 2. I see a lot of you on here get dozens of plants in little tents. How can you manage that? Does the tents open up on all sides for access? Just wondering because I have quite a bit of money wrapped up in all this and want to get the most out of each grow. Thanks in advance!

Just to add.... The first grow in this room were in 10 gallon pots in soil on the floor. I only had 3 plants and 3 of the p300s. I got about 5 ounces dry off of each one. Not sure if this is good bad or average?

Tigerpaws said:

Hi guys and girls! So I built me a little flowering space and have attached a sketch of the layout and a pic of the table that I built. The ceiling height is 8'-4". The table can either be ebb and flow or currently I have it set up to drain to waste. I am currently into my second week of flower with this setup. I mainlined the plants to 1. Keep them shorter since my table is about 36" high and 2. to get better light penetration in the middle. I can fit 4 plants comfortably, 5 a little tighter. I guess my questions are 1. What do you think of this setup and what if anything would you do different. And 2. I see a lot of you on here get dozens of plants in little tents. How can you manage that? Does the tents open up on all sides for access? Just wondering because I have quite a bit of money wrapped up in all this and want to get the most out of each grow. Thanks in advance!

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hey man ....going to help yah
i am not 100% sure what u had going in there ......i never seen a drain to waste in soil bags

ok
1 did u augment the soil ...and what soil are u using
2 what feed are u using ...what is your feed plan


i am assuming u are doing photos ....if u want i can teach u about Autos ......the info can carry over to photos but it will be a longer learning curve for u as photos grow slower

Tigerpaws said:

Just to add.... The first grow in this room were in 10 gallon pots in soil on the floor. I only had 3 plants and 3 of the p300s. I got about 5 ounces dry off of each one. Not sure if this is good bad or average?

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little under avg i do 4-6 on a 7 gallon
but it is very respectable ......i started with just 1 oz per plant in a 3 gallon and 2 and half in a 5 gallon

Justugh thanks for helping! They are 3 gallon coco with cork. I am using DG nutes with RO water. Protekt, Foilage pro, and calmag every watering, and mag pro every few waterings. Im at about 550 ppm right now and was gonna up that to about 600 when i change out the res today and see how they act. My plan was to drip feed to runoff 3 times a day but they aren't drying out very fast so ive had to stop that and only do once a day. maybe i need to add some perilite? I was hoping to up them to 5 gallon but maybe that isnt necessary? I've been collecting a lot of seeds that arent autos so I really want to grow them. Thanks again! I appreciate any help you can give me!

Real high tech set up that is. Looking great!

Tigerpaws said:

Justugh thanks for helping! They are 3 gallon coco with cork. I am using DG nutes with RO water. Protekt, Foilage pro, and calmag every watering, and mag pro every few waterings. Im at about 550 ppm right now and was gonna up that to about 600 when i change out the res today and see how they act. My plan was to drip feed to runoff 3 times a day but they aren't drying out very fast so ive had to stop that and only do once a day. maybe i need to add some perilite? I was hoping to up them to 5 gallon but maybe that isnt necessary? I've been collecting a lot of seeds that arent autos so I really want to grow them. Thanks again! I appreciate any help you can give me!

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that is why ......ok u are at only half feed value your techinally 3 weeks in so u are near the end of site opening start of weight building ......your ppm should be 1200-1500....actually little higher since it is drain to waste.......post a link to your feeds web site ......i think u might be using something ment for gardens not cannabis

as for it not draining as well as u want .......hyper oxygenate the water before u feed it to them it will get u a better reaction .......umm turn up the temp of the room too shoot for 72 74 ( basically put a super charge air stone in the water for about 30 40 mins before u feed to plants the oxygen will disolve in the water and let the plants use it so it being wet will not mater as much )...the temp thing is just to cuase the plant to work more needing the water and food u are offering colder temps slows down 70-75 seems to be golden zone with out thc decay

DUDE looks awesome i want to do something like that when i get my house situated moving sux but im gettting a bigger grow area so cant complain. I would go with the Ebb & Flow do a perpetual SoG with some Cree cxb 3590s running at 1050ma on a 3X6 table my dream. I will acheive hopefully within the next year still probably have 3 months of moving in actual house stuff etc before i can even think about my garden just running some bagseed right now have some incredible bulk and pinapple express now. And just found out i won the discreet Comp > so gona have those otw also cant wait. Sorry off topic but that looks awesome you don't need a tent man they just growing differently training differently but i have found i can always improve on something but if i had your setup like it is i would go with 2-Liter hempy SoG style get a harvest every 2 or 3 weeks but thats me.

I might try that next run. Thank you for your input!

No problem man i honestly and like pulling my hair with this move i never knew i had so much just CRAP lols. Wana get my room going so bad.