altnutt
Member
Why are there so many goddam thieves on this forum?
Nobody should help this guy just because he steals!
WTF
new growroom trouble. NEED HELP i have a 8 x 8 x 8 basement room need opinons
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Nobody should help this guy just because he steals!
WTF
FirstRuleOfFightClub
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I'm thirty days into flowering my first grow down in the basement of my 1850's farmhouse. I started in a bedroom closet on the west side of the house but the first wave of hot weather pushed the temp into the 90's and I knew there was no way that was going to work. So I wrapped my 6' by 8' coal bin in 5 mil plastic sheeting, put some dropped ceiling tiles (basically fiberglass bat) on the dirt floor to help hold down the humidity coming from the soil, and put some pallets on top of that to keep things level and allow some leeway with spills. I run two 250 watt lights and they manage to keep the room at between 60 & 70. From what I read that's rather low and may invite root rot if my tank gets too cold but so far so good. It also generally slows plant growth but my girls are flowering their hearts out. Makes me wonder what they would have done at a higher temp.
I think the real problem is going to be humidity, which has been as high as 100%. Sounds like bud rot just waiting to happen. I keep the tried & true oscillating fan running on my girls to keep the creepy crawlies off them. I'm fortunate to have the exterior door to/from the basement right outside the room and it's oriented to the East so the sun will shine almost right into the room in the mornings. So I open it up whenever I can to drop the humidity, raise the temp, and refresh the air. I actually have the boarded up window from the coal shoot right in the grow room and I've pondered hooking up ventilation to bring warmer/drier air INTO the room (how's THAT for a change!) but I have some security concerns there. So far what I've been doing seems to be working (touch wood!).
When this batch is hung up drying I may strip the room bare and encase it in foam board in order to provide better heat retention. But even with such efforts I suspect that as winter approaches I'll probably have to move my grow back into the second floor bedroom. I just can't justify actively heating the room, and I'm not clever enough with HVAC to tap the domestic heating into the room. But hey, half the fun of this hobby is the engineering! Good luck on your grow and keep us up to date!
I think the real problem is going to be humidity, which has been as high as 100%. Sounds like bud rot just waiting to happen. I keep the tried & true oscillating fan running on my girls to keep the creepy crawlies off them. I'm fortunate to have the exterior door to/from the basement right outside the room and it's oriented to the East so the sun will shine almost right into the room in the mornings. So I open it up whenever I can to drop the humidity, raise the temp, and refresh the air. I actually have the boarded up window from the coal shoot right in the grow room and I've pondered hooking up ventilation to bring warmer/drier air INTO the room (how's THAT for a change!) but I have some security concerns there. So far what I've been doing seems to be working (touch wood!).
When this batch is hung up drying I may strip the room bare and encase it in foam board in order to provide better heat retention. But even with such efforts I suspect that as winter approaches I'll probably have to move my grow back into the second floor bedroom. I just can't justify actively heating the room, and I'm not clever enough with HVAC to tap the domestic heating into the room. But hey, half the fun of this hobby is the engineering! Good luck on your grow and keep us up to date!
mac.os.x
Active Member
Ok so ill update this thread, Im back and im not using the creepy crawly basement. Ill take my chances in the closet, check out my update in sig. i was going to try and do the whole basement thing last year but. It failed as you can c. So now im in my closet with a 400 vs having the basement and just cfl. 
penguinking
Well-Known Member
i think you should use the basement. 4 600's would crush it. 4 1000's would be super crushing it. maximum intensity for a 1000W is 4x4. I basically use that as a rule of thumb. oorrr, you could build 2 vertical systems with 2 1000's and be pulling 10+ lb's a run......
mac.os.x
Active Member
yea, i mean i did grow down there but i had to fight everything, bugs, humitity
, and its not even a finished basement, less work for closet grow, and i cant do a grow that big yet. if anything ill get a tent to put
down there if i did do it. i like my closet setup. 10 plants the fastest growing one as of today is on its second 7 fingered leaves
penguinking
Well-Known Member
a little panda film, pyrethrum, and neem oil go a long way...
RankingStar
Member
Hi there
I grow in a stealth cab n would give my arm for your room (limited space here)
With a 1000 w you can pull 14 nice plants, by some "plagron bat mix" soil costs
£15 for a 50 litre sack and it contains 6 wks worth of nutes.
Good soil ensures healthy plants along with good nutes.You dont need that to grow an MJ plant
but it makes the difference between getting good yields at harvest or poor yields.
Keep it up bro.
Nice basement.
I grow in a stealth cab n would give my arm for your room (limited space here)
With a 1000 w you can pull 14 nice plants, by some "plagron bat mix" soil costs
£15 for a 50 litre sack and it contains 6 wks worth of nutes.
Good soil ensures healthy plants along with good nutes.You dont need that to grow an MJ plant
but it makes the difference between getting good yields at harvest or poor yields.
Keep it up bro.
Nice basement.
penguinking
Well-Known Member
you will be brother. assuming your environment is correct. you have the right idea. I have personally seen some absolutely SHOCKING results with peeps going vertical. good luck.