DiscreteMeat
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So this is the opening salvo in my grow room chronicles.
I just re-organized my 10 x 12 x 8 growroom in order to support a perpetual harvest. The first thing I did was had an electrician come in and install dual 20 amp circuits and 4 standard 120-v receptacles in the closet. That ran me about $100. I've got running (2) 1000-Watt lamps with hortilux bulbs. They're hung at about 7 feet in order to provide the best spread of light in the 10 x 6 x 8 partition. In order to offset the distance of the main lighting, I've also hung (2) 400-watt lamps/hortilux MH bulbs for side-lighting. I've got to tell you, this provides a great spread of light and spectrum.
Heat isn't a problem... With a little ingenuity and common sense, I figured hell, "why don't I reverse my ventilation system instead of buying a perennially expensive a/c unit?" So, what I've done is turned the exhaust port into an intake port. It pulls fresh air from a second floor window. Though the outside temps get down to between 38°-48° during night hours, this setup combines perfectly with 3000-watts of radiation to keep the temperatures between 70°-76°. This is great for several reasons... 1) Ventilating scrubbed exhaust into my apartment eliminates infrared heat signature from leaking 2) It keeps the apartment at a manageable temperature, which allows me to avoid running the heater. This obviously saves a mint in electricity costs. 3) When I was pulling air from inside and ventilating outside A. the port had to be hidden on the outside from passers-by, thus restricting exhaust potential... B. When running the heater, the temperatures would almost instantaneously climb into the mid-90°'s... C. Temperatures were routinely 82°-90°... which caused airy buds in the past... D. It was hard to scrub the air properly which caused my apartment to funk up. This was a good idea all around. Even during the summer months with night temps between 60°-65°, I can run this setup with the faith that the room will remain manageable.
Couple notes:
I'm using General Hydroponics' Flora Duo and supplementing with Advanced Nutrients Sensi Grow, some Superthrive, some Actinovate (an organic anti-fungal), and store grade Hydrogen Peroxide.
I'm vegging a Blue Dream Mother, a Shiatsu Mother, and a Skywalker Kush mother. If I obtain any male plants, I will be growing them out and capturing the pollen in order to experiment and cross.
Here are a couple of photos of my 80% finished, 40% full grow room.
Standby.
I just re-organized my 10 x 12 x 8 growroom in order to support a perpetual harvest. The first thing I did was had an electrician come in and install dual 20 amp circuits and 4 standard 120-v receptacles in the closet. That ran me about $100. I've got running (2) 1000-Watt lamps with hortilux bulbs. They're hung at about 7 feet in order to provide the best spread of light in the 10 x 6 x 8 partition. In order to offset the distance of the main lighting, I've also hung (2) 400-watt lamps/hortilux MH bulbs for side-lighting. I've got to tell you, this provides a great spread of light and spectrum.
Heat isn't a problem... With a little ingenuity and common sense, I figured hell, "why don't I reverse my ventilation system instead of buying a perennially expensive a/c unit?" So, what I've done is turned the exhaust port into an intake port. It pulls fresh air from a second floor window. Though the outside temps get down to between 38°-48° during night hours, this setup combines perfectly with 3000-watts of radiation to keep the temperatures between 70°-76°. This is great for several reasons... 1) Ventilating scrubbed exhaust into my apartment eliminates infrared heat signature from leaking 2) It keeps the apartment at a manageable temperature, which allows me to avoid running the heater. This obviously saves a mint in electricity costs. 3) When I was pulling air from inside and ventilating outside A. the port had to be hidden on the outside from passers-by, thus restricting exhaust potential... B. When running the heater, the temperatures would almost instantaneously climb into the mid-90°'s... C. Temperatures were routinely 82°-90°... which caused airy buds in the past... D. It was hard to scrub the air properly which caused my apartment to funk up. This was a good idea all around. Even during the summer months with night temps between 60°-65°, I can run this setup with the faith that the room will remain manageable.
Couple notes:
I'm using General Hydroponics' Flora Duo and supplementing with Advanced Nutrients Sensi Grow, some Superthrive, some Actinovate (an organic anti-fungal), and store grade Hydrogen Peroxide.
I'm vegging a Blue Dream Mother, a Shiatsu Mother, and a Skywalker Kush mother. If I obtain any male plants, I will be growing them out and capturing the pollen in order to experiment and cross.
Here are a couple of photos of my 80% finished, 40% full grow room.
Standby.
