This is my first real grow.
Being a student of engineering im putting my skills to the test.
This grow is fairly seat of the pants but looks to be quite professional in the end.
What i have to work with is an old cabnet making work bench, about 3 feat tall, in the corner or a basement forming an aprox 25 ft long L shape. This is a little over a couple feet in protruding depth, and the only concern is odor as other people may be upstairs.
The plan is to create a small intake exhuast circuit.
By using plywood and window seals, silicone caulking internally, and some creative baffling, we will enclose this work bench. The front leg of the L shape containg a baffle with 4 intake fans, and on the end of the other leg of the L, 5 exhaust fans pulling the air through homemade carbon filter cansiters of some length.
This will all be enclosed in mylar and effectivly made airtight when plywood panels are in place.
Lighting is still in the works.
Ideally id like flouros on the cieling with 4 250 watt hps spaced along the ceiling 1 to every 4-5 plants. between the rows of pots high power cfls on stands. Hopefully the back wall can be partially flouro'd as well.
Plans include CO2 enrichment, extensive and inguinuitive use of LST, as well as other cropping methods, Multi lighting setup, Early flowering, and UVB potency enhancment.
By now im sure most readers are questioning my seriousness as this is quite a laundry list of parts totalling to a hefty price. Do to the progressive nature of the needs of this setup, i have the ability to build only the critical parts for the current stages of the plants life when they need it. I also have a lucrative seasonal job which gives me funds to purchase all this as costs rise.
Currently however, the summer is just kicking off, and im in seedling stage. I have 4 different sets of genetics from bagseeds. The first batch went into germination 19 days ago. The second batch germed about a week after that, and a third and final batch is germing now.
I germed with the paper towel method, and had about 70 percent germination success. I planted the germed seeds in jiffy pots with miracle grow potting mix. It is worth noting that the second batch was alowed to germinate for far to long, resulting in 3 inch plants looking for light through a paper towel, HOWEVER, about 75 of those plants survided and are now diesel.
The first stage lighting is a 60 watts of Flouro spaced to within an inch of seedlings.
The second stage was built around the initial 16 plants and now consists of 5 13-23 watt cfls placed on moving socets.
There is one more round of seeds germinating as we speak. In total we have aprox 40 viable seedlings and room to grow around 20 through flowering. We have a time constraint of being down with the initial drying by mid august. This dictate we employ earling 12/12 cycle induced flowering, and provides me with a unique tool. Within 3 weeks all my seeds will be solid mini plants with a minimum of 2-3 nodes, some hopefully reaching 5-6.
At this point by initiating flowering, we can identify sex early, wittling away our crops at hopefully no worse than 50% male rate. After this plants will hopefully doube/triple in size and result in 20 or so female flowering plants maxing out under 2 feet.
I will post pictures in order as i took them up to this point. Hopefully this will be an educating grow, and an interesting one to follow as im serious minded.
Ne w
Being a student of engineering im putting my skills to the test.
This grow is fairly seat of the pants but looks to be quite professional in the end.
What i have to work with is an old cabnet making work bench, about 3 feat tall, in the corner or a basement forming an aprox 25 ft long L shape. This is a little over a couple feet in protruding depth, and the only concern is odor as other people may be upstairs.
The plan is to create a small intake exhuast circuit.
By using plywood and window seals, silicone caulking internally, and some creative baffling, we will enclose this work bench. The front leg of the L shape containg a baffle with 4 intake fans, and on the end of the other leg of the L, 5 exhaust fans pulling the air through homemade carbon filter cansiters of some length.
This will all be enclosed in mylar and effectivly made airtight when plywood panels are in place.
Lighting is still in the works.
Ideally id like flouros on the cieling with 4 250 watt hps spaced along the ceiling 1 to every 4-5 plants. between the rows of pots high power cfls on stands. Hopefully the back wall can be partially flouro'd as well.
Plans include CO2 enrichment, extensive and inguinuitive use of LST, as well as other cropping methods, Multi lighting setup, Early flowering, and UVB potency enhancment.
By now im sure most readers are questioning my seriousness as this is quite a laundry list of parts totalling to a hefty price. Do to the progressive nature of the needs of this setup, i have the ability to build only the critical parts for the current stages of the plants life when they need it. I also have a lucrative seasonal job which gives me funds to purchase all this as costs rise.
Currently however, the summer is just kicking off, and im in seedling stage. I have 4 different sets of genetics from bagseeds. The first batch went into germination 19 days ago. The second batch germed about a week after that, and a third and final batch is germing now.
I germed with the paper towel method, and had about 70 percent germination success. I planted the germed seeds in jiffy pots with miracle grow potting mix. It is worth noting that the second batch was alowed to germinate for far to long, resulting in 3 inch plants looking for light through a paper towel, HOWEVER, about 75 of those plants survided and are now diesel.
The first stage lighting is a 60 watts of Flouro spaced to within an inch of seedlings.
The second stage was built around the initial 16 plants and now consists of 5 13-23 watt cfls placed on moving socets.
There is one more round of seeds germinating as we speak. In total we have aprox 40 viable seedlings and room to grow around 20 through flowering. We have a time constraint of being down with the initial drying by mid august. This dictate we employ earling 12/12 cycle induced flowering, and provides me with a unique tool. Within 3 weeks all my seeds will be solid mini plants with a minimum of 2-3 nodes, some hopefully reaching 5-6.
At this point by initiating flowering, we can identify sex early, wittling away our crops at hopefully no worse than 50% male rate. After this plants will hopefully doube/triple in size and result in 20 or so female flowering plants maxing out under 2 feet.
I will post pictures in order as i took them up to this point. Hopefully this will be an educating grow, and an interesting one to follow as im serious minded.
Ne w
