1200w 4x4 hydrohut!!!!!

GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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Heres the deal!..
I just recently bought a 4x4 hydrohut silver edition and plan to grow some morning glory! This will be my second time growing this strain so it should be better than the first! :D

heres a break down on what is inside the tent as of now!

Lights- 2 600w digital ballast HPS/MH both in 6inch air cooled hoods..

Fans/Filter-2 400+cfm can fans..1 for the hoods and 1 for the carbon filter..

i also have a few digital timers and thermometers im gunna hook up once i get everything going!...this will be a pretty slow moving thread untill i start things up! but make sure u stay tuned! :D:peace:





Both fans run into this T and out 1 vent in the tent!









You can see how everything is hanging pretty good in this pic and the next one below it.



 
statik

statik

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Subbed. Running 2 600's in there huh? Nice. I think I may do that next time around...idk though. If I up my lighting I may just be going with a bigger room as well and use the tent for mothers/clones or something.

Clean set up there man. Couple questions though. I am noticing that you hung your filter over your lights. How tall do you think your plants are going to get? Thats why I have my filter shoved all the way over to one side of the hut...to allow for more head room in the center. If I remember correctly these huts are only 7ft tall. Looks to me like you are losing close to a foot in height that way. Not knocking, just wondering. Morning Glory a short stature strain?
 
GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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i top my plants 2 weeks before flowering,it keeps them from shooting up and it makes for more heads instead of 1 main fat bud..i'll keep them all at about 4 feet..vegg for like 4-6 weeks..flower for 9-10..i can still pull the lights up about another foot and a half if i had to..
 
statik

statik

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Yeah okay that makes more sense now. I am thinking about lollipoping my plants and training them through a net if they start getting too tall. I have way too many plants for a 3x3 tray (in a 4x4 hut) right now I have 34 plants in 1 gall grow bags. They are really starting to push into each other already and I havent thrown the switch yet. So I figure I can keep more of them if I cut out the lower growth.

I wanted to top them originally, but I think I am going to be forced to lollipop. You've seen my grow, what do you think? Sorry for kind of hijacking your thread here. just figured since we were on the subject. lol
 
GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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u should just top them now..transplant and flower as many as u can fit into the 4x4 space!..lol scrog would be a good idea too..i always wanted to try that!!
 
statik

statik

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Cool, so I should probably wait to flower after topping right? Just dropped a post in my thread...one of my thoughts is sort of like a Scrog...but not quite.
 
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dgk4life

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nice set up. im currently runnin a 5x5x7 tent wit one 1000 watt quantum light. r u worried about temps. im not but i also have the air in my tent bein replaced 4x a min and my cold air comin in is roughly 56 degrees which keeps my lights on temp at about 75-78
 
smokingrubber

smokingrubber

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nice. I would plumb the first hood's intake to get air from outside the tent. right now you're sucking 400 cfm of clean and 400 cfm of smelly air and pumping them somewhere. So basically you're only cleaning 50% of your air. plus, you don't need 800 cfm for that tent. you need only 160-220 cfm.

just my .02 but I can't wait to see what 1200w can do in a 4x4. I was just talkin about doing that myself not more than 30 minutes ago.

Did you mention what kinds of bulbs you're using for veg and flower?
 
GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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dgk4life said:
nice set up. im currently runnin a 5x5x7 tent wit one 1000 watt quantum light. r u worried about temps. im not but i also have the air in my tent bein replaced 4x a min and my cold air comin in is roughly 56 degrees which keeps my lights on temp at about 75-78
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im not really worried at all..i ran the lights for about 2 hours the other day to see how hot it would really get in there...hottest it got was 82 degrees and thats with no fan pushing air in...56 degree air going in is kinda cold!..becareful man!

smokingrubber said:
nice. I would plumb the first hood's intake to get air from outside the tent. right now you're sucking 400 cfm of clean and 400 cfm of smelly air and pumping them somewhere. So basically you're only cleaning 50% of your air. plus, you don't need 800 cfm for that tent. you need only 160-220 cfm.

just my .02 but I can't wait to see what 1200w can do in a 4x4. I was just talkin about doing that myself not more than 30 minutes ago.

Did you mention what kinds of bulbs you're using for veg and flower?
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the fan cooling the lights isnt hooked up sucking air from outside of the tent cause its sucking the hot air out from inside! 2 600w lights get hot as fuck!!!..if it starts smelling really stong when i start to flower then i will hook it up and run somekind of fan blowing air into the tent!..as of now though those fans are blowing rite outside my window! :D
 
smokingrubber

smokingrubber

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GNOME GROWN said:
the fan cooling the lights isnt hooked up sucking air from outside of the tent cause its sucking the hot air out from inside! 2 600w lights get hot as fuck!!!..if it starts smelling really stong when i start to flower then i will hook it up and run somekind of fan blowing air into the tent!..as of now though those fans are blowing rite outside my window! :D
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so you're sucking 800cfm out of the tent. 400cfm is cleaned and 400cfm is NOT cleaned. Why even bother with the filter if you're only going to clean half the air? That makes no sense.

Solution: get rid of 1 fan & connect the filter to the first hood.

smelly air in tent --> carbon filter (now clean air) --> Hood #1 (now warm clean air) --> Hood #2 (now warmer clean air) --> 400cfm fan --> exhausted outside as clean warm air.
 
GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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wtf dude r u serious?!?.....if i hooked up the filter to the hood then it would suck in less air "more constriction" this is y there is 2 fans!...yes 50% of the air is being cleaned witch is plenty enough for me! thisis y i bother with the filter!...u ever try to raise and lower a 40pound filter connected to a light?..IM ALL SET!.. like i said in the last post...if it starts to smell too strong when i start flowering then im gunna hook up a piece of flex to the hood...but for now its staying the way it is! :D sorry if i sound rude..im just aggrivated and need to get stoned!!!

btw im not really to worried about smell.. its all going out a window...but like u said 50% of it is being cleaned witch makes me feel safe..

im gunna start my seedling with floros..then when it gets big enough im gunna take some clones..then kick on the 2 mh! for 4 weeks veggin.....then i will transplant and start flowering!..the HID bulbs are agro max bulbs HPS and MH
 
GNOME GROWN

GNOME GROWN

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5 days old! :) p1 and 2 are grandaddy purps..just some seeds i had from awhile back..i hope there fem.! the MG is 99.9% barneys fem. morning glory!..ive done 3 so far and they were all good!.



 
statik

statik

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So your temps have stayed decentish (low 80's) and you didnt even have all the fans running. You are running twice the wattage I am, so I think I should be fine. I have been wondering whats going to happen temp wise in my hut when the 600w comes on.

So you've started 3 seeds? Is that all you plan on putting in there or?
 
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