First Grow - Skywalker & Sour Flower ... Veg Room 400w MH/Flower Room 600w HPS

[Lykn]

After tons of research and getting my hands dirty with a friends outdoor crop i've taken a dip into the deep end and invested some $$$ and decided to get my gear and start growing for myself... It all started with this project I started with my friend at his crib.

Click the link below and read it all smoke a joint then come back to this when you're done and it will all make sense
https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/552453-so-cal-714-dwc-bubbleponics.html

So hopefully if you clicked the link above and read the thread you will see a huge difference in gear, grow setup, and the plants themselves as far as my gear goes all of the items were bought separately and some in bundles. But as of right now this is what I've accumulated as far as gear goes...

Clone Room:
Clone Tray w/Dome
(2) 24" 6500k T5 Flourescent bulbs (14 watts ea.)


Flower Room:
XL Sun Hut Grow Tent (3x4x7)
6" ValuLine Inline Fan
Sunlight Supply Sun System 6" Air Cooled Hood
600 watt Solis Tek Digital Ballast w/dim feature
600 watt Digilux HPS Bulb

Veg Room:
2x4x5 Grow Tent
6" ValuLine Inline Fan
C.A.P. Xtreme Lumenaire 6" Grow Reflector / Hood
400 watt HydroFarm Lumatek Digital Ballast
400 watt EYE Hortilux Metal Halide Bulb

Also have a portable ac unit I got for free and random fans forgot the brand name and btu but its rigged with ducting to cool both Veg and Flower Rooms keeping them between 72-75

Water/Soil/Nutes/Misc:
Fox Farm Ocean Forest
RO Water
FF Grow Big
FF Big Bloom
FF Tiger Bloom
Super Thrive
X Micro
X Grow
X Bloom
X Clone Gel
( I got the X Sample Kit for Free At My Local Hydro Store, Currently using X Micro along with FF Schedule)
GH Ph solution test kit
Random PPM Meter Found New in Brita filter box...lol it works and gives ppm reading but not to sure how accurate, need to invest on a better one.

So my main goal is to have a perpetual harvest i was thinking 4 plants a month should be enough for me and my friend. But then again i'm not to sure if they will all fit in the same room and what the yield will be. Right now I have the SkyWalker in a 5 gallon DWC system and the sour flower in a what i think is a 4 gal bucket with ff soil. The two plants alone take up a good amount of space in the tent therefore, i'm not to sure what will comfortably fit in there. The plants that will be used in the perpetual harvest are in 3 gal and 1 gal smart pots and not in DWC or 5 gal buckets. I'm not to sure what they will yield and how many I can fit when they flower. so its going to be trial and error until i get it right. I figure i'll start small and work my way up by putting in two clones into the flower room on there 5th week and then waiting two weeks and putting another 2 inside. If the timing is more or less correct I would have a harvest every 2 weeks give or take. I figure more a less 1oz per plant i'm not to sure if that's too low or high of an expectation, i'm just guesstimating.

 

[Lykn]

Sour Flower on week 8. This plant spent about 40-50% of its life outdoors then was thrown indoors into the flower room to be flowered 8 weeks.



Top View Main Cola (Sour Flower)



Side View Main Cola (Sour Flower)

 

[Lykn]

This is the top view of the veg room currently housing six 3 week old sour flower clones in 3 gallon pots.
And three 2 week old sky walker clones in 1 gallon pots. Both there mothers are the ones you see in the flower room.
I also have 3 more sky walker clones that were not fully rooted so i put two of them together in a 3 gallon smart pot and 1 that had some little root structure into its own little 1 gallon smart pot. The reason I planted two in one pot is because I do not have anymore pots and what i have i can accommodate nicely and maintain. I will take photos of them and keep you guys up to date on there status. I figure they will grow good roots and be transferred to the veg room when I transfer a sour flower into the flower room. I'm using the first in first out method and I figure it wouldn't hurt the plant much if I let them veg an extra week or two, if anything it will make them thrive more when they hit the flower room plus the flower room has an extra 200 watts making it 600 watts HPS.



Side View of the SF that had real good root structure popping out of the rockwool.

 

[Lykn]

I'm pretty happy and now satisfied with my current set up and besides I'm all out of cash for now so upgrades come later but i'm happy to have AC and have everything running smoothly. Now the cost of nutes are the issue and cost of water at the hydro store @ 25 cents a gallon which adds up vs me buying a RO water filtration system myself probably on the long run. But so far so good I have no complaints. Anyways this is where I'm at so far and I will post new pics and update as much as I can. Please leave feedback and give me your opinions and advice. If your just going to be a negative piece of shit you can kick rocks out this thread... unless your negative speaking ass makes sense and your pissed because i'm doing something totally wrong.

Thanks
Lykn
Happy Growin' - Happy Smokin'

 

[tareninspace]

I am very envious of this set up! I hope to build a similar set up.

 

[Lykn]

I am very envious of this set up! I hope to build a similar set up.

Thanks. I'm pretty stoked every time I see it as well. Lots of planning, research, and $ but I know with time I will make my money back and more with a few harvest. Plus what can be better than smoking some dank herb that you grew yourself. I just honestly hope to have decent smoke that is somewhat potent and taste good.