What's your plan? -Storm prep for indoor growers

ZoBudd

ZoBudd

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I'm interested to hear what all you "seasoned" indoor growers do to prep your grow rooms before big storms that might knock out your power, heat and water for a few days.

All my plants are healthy, watered and fed.
Bringing the temp in my whole basement (where my grow room is) up to 80F
I don't have a generator, so if the power goes out, I'm stuck.

What else do folks do to protect their plants during big storms?
Any humidity adjustments to deal with cool temps?
 
kiwipaulie

kiwipaulie

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Nothing. Just take it as it comes. Thankfully have only had power knocked out a couple times and only for a few hours. If I had lots of power cuts, I'd just get a generator
 
fandango

fandango

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ZoBudd said:
I'm interested to hear what all you "seasoned" indoor growers do to prep your grow rooms before big storms that might knock out your power, heat and water for a few days.

All my plants are healthy, watered and fed.
Bringing the temp in my whole basement (where my grow room is) up to 80F
I don't have a generator, so if the power goes out, I'm stuck.

What else do folks do to protect their plants during big storms?
Any humidity adjustments to deal with cool temps?
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Maybe you can put a wood burner down in that old basement for heat.Honda makes a generator I hear?
 
Skunk Baxter

Skunk Baxter

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Generators, plenty of extension cords, and propane heaters. Lost of 5-gallon gas cans for the generators, extra tanks of propane. I have a plan laid out that would have the generators online and the lights fully powered within 20 minutes of a power failure; dedicated cords are already in place and rolled up, and it's just a matter of unrolling the cords, firing up the generator, and plugging the surge protectors into the cords.This is enough for the grow area, and if worst come to worse we can back off the intensity of the lighting for a few days and put the plants in a room that gets plenty of sunlight through the windows.

It's obviously not a viable long term solution, but for keeping them warm enough to stay healthy and also keeping them on their proper light cycles, this is adequate. This is the best we can reasonably do - so we do that much, and pray that no matter how bad it gets, the power company can figure it out within 3 or 4 days.
 
ZoBudd

ZoBudd

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Damn!!! I just remembered one of my renters has a generator. I think it's stored in my garage!!! Whoot!!!

I've also have an extra bedroom that get's lots of light. I'll prep that today. pretty likely to lose power.
 
420monster

420monster

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I got a wood burner and to diesel gennys so I'm good haha

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ryan1918

ryan1918

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Skunk Baxter said:
Generators, plenty of extension cords, and propane heaters. Lost of 5-gallon gas cans for the generators, extra tanks of propane. I have a plan laid out that would have the generators online and the lights fully powered within 20 minutes of a power failure; dedicated cords are already in place and rolled up, and it's just a matter of unrolling the cords, firing up the generator, and plugging the surge protectors into the cords.This is enough for the grow area, and if worst come to worse we can back off the intensity of the lighting for a few days and put the plants in a room that gets plenty of sunlight through the windows.

It's obviously not a viable long term solution, but for keeping them warm enough to stay healthy and also keeping them on their proper light cycles, this is adequate. This is the best we can reasonably do - so we do that much, and pray that no matter how bad it gets, the power company can figure it out within 3 or 4 days.
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Why do you need plenty of extension cords, most people don't know you can plug a generator into one of your plugs and it will power your entire house(well it will power up to what i can so don't have everything in the house running)

So when my power goes out, I go in my garage, start my generator and keep my door open, plug it into one of the plugs in the garage turn off the main breaker so it don't fry my generator when it kicks back on, and boom I've got power in my entire house.
Michigan really sucks too for power outages it happens usually a few times a year, and can last for a few days at a time, so luckily I purchased these generators for my business they have come in handy very well, you don't need power for water so you don't need to worry about that stuff.
 
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