hey, need confirmation on my first ever set up :D

ok so im ready to start buying for my 1st ever grow and i would really appriciate it if somebody took a few minutes to wizz thru this post and tell me if i got anything wrong id really love to get this right first time round! Id like to know if theres any items i should change and if im missing anything.
Also im going to be growing 1 plant at a time from seed to harvest 400w cmh for veg and 400w hps for flower (first strain will be pinapple express)

the main thing i need advice with is what grow tent to go with, space isnt an issue but i know i dont need a big massive one. i just want a suitable for my mentioned needs.

Flora Nova bloom
grow tent http://www.hydrolab-hydroponics.co.uk/grow-tent-range.html
waterfarm £60 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/GHWFC
HPS £25 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=LAS4
CeramicMH £20 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=CMH
reflector £49 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=REUL&Category_Code=
ballast £110 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/DB400
Hydroton Clay Pebbles £5 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/RC3
thermomiter £20 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=HGDHT
in tent circulation fan £11 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/CONF
fan+carbon filter £155 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/CB3
ducting £18 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/DT1
timer £15 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/ECRT
ph up £5 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/PH10
ph down £5 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/PH11
ph tester £28 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/PHFTPH
ec tester £28 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/PHFTEC
tape £5 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SDT&Category_Code=
dimond mylar £5 http://www.basementlighting.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?page=1/PROD/RS4

thanks in advance! (the prices are just on there for me to keep track)
 

Noobface

Active Member
1 plant will fit into one of the 60 cm tents easily, I'm growing 4 scrog style in my 1.2m tent. If you don't know what scrogging is, it's making plants grow outwards rather than upwards using a net, so as you can imagine my plants will be quite a bit wider than yours.

I really wouldn't advise the mylar sheeting as your tent will have mylar lining anyway, unless you're looking for some ADF in which case get C3.

I'd also advise you to shop around because a lot of what you're buying seems quite overpriced, considering I got a similar spec fan (same size too) and filter for collectively £95, it does the job VERY well in my size tent, so your half-size tent definitely won't need to be as big (If I don't use an intake fan my tent is practically sucked up into a singularity). Same applies for lights, I have a 600watter which came with an admittedly quite cheap reflector and a great mh/hps ballast all for £45, if I really wanted to on your budget I could've splashed out an extra £50 for a better reflector and wouldn't even have hit the price of your ballast alone.

I'm not a hydro grower so I can't really comment on the waterfarm etc. but I would advise that if you have someone you can trust, use their account and adress to get things from the ebayz because it's massively cheaper for most things (I wouldn't get nutes etc from there though)
 
yeh i intend to shop around but for the same products at a cheaper price (maybe a change or two) i forgot to mention ill be growing scrog im really tired and really stoned lol im useless right now. yeah i forgot to take off the mylar too i was going to make a grow box but i decided to just fork out for a tent, seems much easyer hehe. would you recomend cfl or cmh for veg? yeah from what i read air supply is really important for a decent grow and i would rather go way over than a little under what is needed. so with everything on that list i would be good to go, im not missing anything?

and thanks for the reply man!
 

Noobface

Active Member
well like I said I can't really give you the whole rundown on hydroponics specific parts but I imagine one of the resident experts will see this soon enough but aside from that I'd say you're ready to get going. The only thing I might add is that you may want to get some silicon, since it'd be found in soil but not in hydro and it goes quite a way to giving you healthy stems and helps uptake of a few nutrients that I couldn't name off the top of my head. I think it's quite cheap. Other than that I'd just make sure you have nice nutes to give them everything they need
 

Toolage 87

Well-Known Member
Looks good but here's a little some thing different that I would do

1 - I would do SOG flowering instead of a big plant because straight shot plants can produce more in a shorter amount of time if you plan on keeping a mom to take clones off of because the clones don't need to be vegged alot to get alot of bud sites since your only aiming for 1 main cola instead of a bunch but also depending how you took your clone you can top it so that it will give you 2 main colas but if you took a clone that has 2 branches of growth, top each of them just above the area where the new branches will come from and you can have 4 main colas on 1 plant. Also doing that method you don't nee huge pots to grow a single plant in or in your case you can use smaller net pots ie 2 inch pots instead of 4 inch pots.

2 - You you can you might be able to build a DWC/Aeroponics/drip feed or w/e you wanna use for less then a pre-built one if you are willing to put a little time into building it your self.

3 - I would never go with the dimond mylar. It will not reflect the light right. If you can try to get mylar that is as close to 100% reflective as possible. I know you can get up to 96%.
 
awesome advice guys thx alot, ive already done a bunch of research over the last few weeks and i really cant wait to get started. Hopefully ill be up and running in a month or so, im trying to follow SCOTTYBALLS methods hes old school hehe only uses flora nova bloom from seed to harvest and keeps it as simple as possible, look him up on here he got an epic pinapple express journal. for my first grow im trying to do exactly as he says although i dont expect results like his, just want it to go smooth the first time round! thx again guys i really appriciate all the help given on this site!!!!

edit- oh about the diamond mylar, theres so much false info on the web... i read it gives %'s more than plain mylar!
 
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