Stealth 6 strain 600 watt DWC vertical grow room

Quick specs:
-600 watt hps for flower in a cool tube hung vertically
-5 gallon each recirculating DWC setup
-GH nutrients using lucas formula
-6 strains - GDP, purple trainwreck, querkle, mendo purps, early wonder skunk, gods gift all from clone
-vegged under fluoros 200-300 watts, haven't added it up yet
-total room size is 3W x 13L x 7H
-veg and flowers rooms are both about 3x4

The room is hidden within the basement. It's 98% stealth (wiring and duct is only thing outside room). 10g wire with a 20amp breaker for the room. GFCI outlets.


They are at about 22 days of flower, with 20 under the cfls and 2 under the hps.

Using a mini fridge as a reservoir cooler.

Current temps are:
Night
74f and 60% humidity

Day
80f and 50% humidity
70f reservoir temp
Just moved to flower side so at 750ppm for now, was at 1100ppm
ph 5.8

The gods gift can't seem to handle the hps. I blocked off direct light to it, it helped a little maybe.

New set of clones waiting to go into veg room. hindu kush, lemon kush, blueberry X trainwreck, skunk, purple erkle X sour bubble, purple diesel, and violator kush. I will probably run a purple trainwreck clone from the last batch in place of whichever one of these turns out to be weakest. If the gods gift currently in flower setup dies one of these new ones gets to go straight to flower.

My cloning hasn't been going too well, but I've got one of the purple trainwreck cuttings that finally rooted. It's the one I wanted most, but would also like to get a mendo purps to root.

Gods gift is still doing badly, any suggestions on what to do with it?

What temps you running with the reservoir cooler? I am throwing around the idea of this myself? Thanks and good luck........JR

jrinlv said:

What temps you running with the reservoir cooler? I am throwing around the idea of this myself? Thanks and good luck........JR

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It's able to pull the 7 buckets down to 63f with a low air temp of 75f and a high of 85f. I'm trying to adjust it to about 66f. I have another 7 smaller buckets for my veg setup to put on it next. The mini fridge does run a lot and gets hot. I setup a fan blowing on it. One with the condenser coils exposed would be better. I'm considering cutting this one apart so I can blow air through the coils, this one has them behind sheet metal. As long as it doesn't burn out or anything, it's working great. If you have a lot of water I would use a bigger one. Cost $20 and pulls 1 amp while running.

Forgot to add that I also pulled the freezer section (the evaporator, the cold part) out and put it directly into the bucket. It works much better that way. It would also work fine directly into the reservoir I think.

At week 4 of flower. Took the ppm from 900 up to 1100. I've never ran these strains and a few of them are only about 18" high so I'm taking it easy. Will be adding overdrive soon.

The mini fridge was running constantly, so I decided to turn an a/c into a chiller. It runs for 5-10 min every few hours it seems. The mini fridge worked fine for just my flower setup but with the veg side added it was never cycling off. I probably have 50 gal total.

Took some clones during flower and one rooted in 3 days in the bubble cloner. I was expecting a few weeks.

Lost the hps bulb so they were under cfl for a few days, back under hps now.

Comments are welcome if anyone is still following this.