valuablevariable
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Hello, Ive had lots of CFL grows here but never had the space to use an HPS. Now through partnering up Ive (we've) got a one person flat to finally do the type of grow Ive been wanting to do for years.
So now its time to do this thing right. Bought a 70x24x35 inch cabinet, installed a lock and got some real equipment:
-400 watt HPS with hood
-papst ventilation system, moves 225m3/h
-cabon filter
-6x 18watt CFTs
-plus thousand other small fun/usefull things
The cabinet has been made 100% light proof, coated with mylar, ventilation installed on top shelf (air get sucked in passively at the bottom and pushed out at the top) and built a setup out of 6 18 watt CFTs for vegetation (3 blue, 3 red spectrum).
So for vegetation its going to be the fluorescent tubes and for flowering the 400 HPS. Ventilation + carbon filter will be turned on when flowering starts, for now just a small pc fan is blowing air out (its not much but its just to ensure some fresh air gets circulated).
Seeds are from an earlier grow where I polinated a bunch of different strains with pollen from Power Plant and Bubblicious. I know the strain of the plant that was polinated, but I dont know if a seed came from the power plant or the bubblicious pollen. For this grow I germinated seeds from:
AK48 x Power Plant or Bubblicious (PP or B)
Sugar Haze x (PP or B)
Purple Bud x (PP or B)
Jungle Wreck x (PP or B)
Now its ready to go. To make things less complicated Im going to spare you the story and just say that 4 plants are 2 or 3 weeks older than the rest. I didnt officially write down when the plants germinated so for now Im just going to refer day 1 as the first day they were put into their real cabinet.
We ended up with 3 Purple Bud x (PP or B), 8 Sugar Haze x (PP or B), 3 AK48 x (PP or B) and just 1 Jungle Wreck x (PP or B) sprouts. Goal is to have around 6-8 females at the end.
Even though we have, for example, 8 Sugar Haze, they are not all the same strain in the end. 4 Sugar Haze might have been pollinated with Power Plant pollen and 4 with Bubblicious pollen. I guess not knowing exactly is part of the fun.
"Day 1" (1. August) Plants move into new home (seedlings are 1-few days old, taller plants are 2-3 weeks old)
6 CFT setup
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the 4 taller ones (2-3 weeks older) werent in great shape because we didnt plan on keeping them at first and gave them hardly any light
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5. August
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400w HPS is hanging above the CFT construction but currently not in use
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9. August
growing
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open/closed
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11. August
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Im pretty happy with the setup, finally able to do a real grow after all this time. Details will come in future posts.
Feel free to comment, its always a lot more exciting to have people join in on the fun.
So now its time to do this thing right. Bought a 70x24x35 inch cabinet, installed a lock and got some real equipment:
-400 watt HPS with hood
-papst ventilation system, moves 225m3/h
-cabon filter
-6x 18watt CFTs
-plus thousand other small fun/usefull things
The cabinet has been made 100% light proof, coated with mylar, ventilation installed on top shelf (air get sucked in passively at the bottom and pushed out at the top) and built a setup out of 6 18 watt CFTs for vegetation (3 blue, 3 red spectrum).
So for vegetation its going to be the fluorescent tubes and for flowering the 400 HPS. Ventilation + carbon filter will be turned on when flowering starts, for now just a small pc fan is blowing air out (its not much but its just to ensure some fresh air gets circulated).
Seeds are from an earlier grow where I polinated a bunch of different strains with pollen from Power Plant and Bubblicious. I know the strain of the plant that was polinated, but I dont know if a seed came from the power plant or the bubblicious pollen. For this grow I germinated seeds from:
AK48 x Power Plant or Bubblicious (PP or B)
Sugar Haze x (PP or B)
Purple Bud x (PP or B)
Jungle Wreck x (PP or B)
Now its ready to go. To make things less complicated Im going to spare you the story and just say that 4 plants are 2 or 3 weeks older than the rest. I didnt officially write down when the plants germinated so for now Im just going to refer day 1 as the first day they were put into their real cabinet.
We ended up with 3 Purple Bud x (PP or B), 8 Sugar Haze x (PP or B), 3 AK48 x (PP or B) and just 1 Jungle Wreck x (PP or B) sprouts. Goal is to have around 6-8 females at the end.
Even though we have, for example, 8 Sugar Haze, they are not all the same strain in the end. 4 Sugar Haze might have been pollinated with Power Plant pollen and 4 with Bubblicious pollen. I guess not knowing exactly is part of the fun.
"Day 1" (1. August) Plants move into new home (seedlings are 1-few days old, taller plants are 2-3 weeks old)
6 CFT setup
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the 4 taller ones (2-3 weeks older) werent in great shape because we didnt plan on keeping them at first and gave them hardly any light
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5. August
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400w HPS is hanging above the CFT construction but currently not in use
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9. August
growing
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open/closed
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11. August
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Im pretty happy with the setup, finally able to do a real grow after all this time. Details will come in future posts.
Feel free to comment, its always a lot more exciting to have people join in on the fun.