Bubblelicious, New York Power Diesel, and Super Skunk in DWC

Not sure if anyone's been following my trials and tribulations on the "Bored Electrician" thread, but it's seeming more and more like I've only got 20 amps running to the garage (as opposed to the 40 I'd previous thunk), so I'm in a holding pattern until I hear what the real deal is - if I've only got twenty, I'm gonna have to break both tents down and move them inside into a spare bedroom (not a big deal) in order to allow an electrician access to wire me up for at least 40 (hopefully 50 or 60) amps of power.

Then we'll be fugging rocking and rolling, but until I find out the scoop with that, new construction is on hold.

Just wanted to keep everyone in the loop, although I'm still gonna run out to the hydro store and pickup those air stones in a minute.

So I went to the hydro store and got these things..........



My net pot covers came in, which is okay - they seem pretty cheap and flimsy to me, but I'm not quite sure what I was expecting - I'm sure they'll do what they're designed to do, which is to block out light from the root zone.



Also grabbed seven more of these killer airtones - these things are badass and well worth the extra money, IMHO.



Not sure what this is all about, but the dude said his boss told him to give me this 4x4 Botanicare (slightly used) E&F table for free, so I lugged this biatch home - maybe I'll do E&F in my second flowering tent; who knows, maybe I'll do it in my first.

So that's about it for today, am also calling electricians to get guesstimates as to what it's gonna cost me to run an additional 20-40 amps to the garage to supplement the 20 I already have in there.

As an aside, was thinking on my way home from the hydro store that maybe this thread should be in growroom setup and design as opposed to grow journals, because there's sure a lot more setup and design than plant pics (not by choice, believe me).

Anyone know how I'd go about getting this thread moved?

Everything looks great brother. As far as getting it moved, I wouldn't worry about it. The only thing is that you will get much more traffic having a journal in a different topic than the actual grow journals area. They should move the ones from those areas into the grow journal one is what I think. Regardless, keep us updated and keep up the good work brother.

tmsculli said:

Everything looks great brother. As far as getting it moved, I wouldn't worry about it. The only thing is that you will get much more traffic having a journal in a different topic than the actual grow journals area. They should move the ones from those areas into the grow journal one is what I think. Regardless, keep us updated and keep up the good work brother.

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Appreciate it man, thanks - stopped in to see yours today but I don't know dick about SCROG so I couldn't really comment, but like you, this project's starting to bleed my pockets pretty good.

I'm sure it'll pay off, but the bills do keep on adding up, especially with the $1000 I'm gonna have to pay this damned electrician.

Oh well, just means that it'll get done the right way, and I'll really be rocking and rolling soon.

Again, thanks for stopping by and listening to my rants.

Haha, no problem at all brother. See, I assume you are in a rather permanent residence as well? That is extremely helpful. I will only be getting this one year out of this room. I get to keep all of my capital, but I have to rebuild the closet to how it was and patch up my holes etc and leave no trace kinda deal. I have until May 31st though so I can hopefully get a few crops out. I may even flower the mother in the end since I can't imagine transporting her moving to a new place.

tmsculli said:

Haha, no problem at all brother. See, I assume you are in a rather permanent residence as well? That is extremely helpful. I will only be getting this one year out of this room. I get to keep all of my capital, but I have to rebuild the closet to how it was and patch up my holes etc and leave no trace kinda deal. I have until May 31st though so I can hopefully get a few crops out. I may even flower the mother in the end since I can't imagine transporting her moving to a new place.

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Yuppers, me and my girl live at her house, so I can do anything I want to it (within reason, obviously).

You buying a house when you leave there or moving into a different apartment?

And for those that care, I have an electrician stopping by tomorrow at 4:30 to give me an estimate and maybe get to work if I like what I hear.

Still waiting to hear what a fair price is, but I guess it is what it is - it needs to be done, so he's kinda got my balls in a vise (although he might not know that, so I'll try to bargain him down).

What a journey this is working out to be.

And now I begin the great breakdown of my shit to move it into our workout room for when the electrician's here tomorrow.

Gonna take down the flowering tent, which was 80% setup, and move all my monitors, nutes, etc. into the house tonight, and try to leave only the veg tent and plants there, then break those down at about 12 or 1 tomorrow so that they're without light for as little as possible.

Let this be a lesson to all of you - make sure your wiring can handle what your mind can dream up before you start growing.

Haha yea, I know many people run their own electric, but I am no good at it. My dad has taught me construction, motors, engines, cars, fabrication and everything else, but him being an E.E never helped me understand electric. It's just not my thing.


As far as moving goes, I am a junior in college, so I still have another year to go. I am sick of this house and this landlord though so I will be moving somewhere else. Will most likely be another house though. I will probably keep the mother box as is and then just build a short fat box for the flowering to take place and do it up like that.

Now, after that year finishes...it's real world time. If I get a job right out of school I will buy a house, but if not...gonna have to stop growing while I live with the rents for a bit, it's not worth the hell I would have to pay haha.

tmsculli said:

Haha yea, I know many people run their own electric, but I am no good at it. My dad has taught me construction, motors, engines, cars, fabrication and everything else, but him being an E.E never helped me understand electric. It's just not my thing.


As far as moving goes, I am a junior in college, so I still have another year to go. I am sick of this house and this landlord though so I will be moving somewhere else. Will most likely be another house though. I will probably keep the mother box as is and then just build a short fat box for the flowering to take place and do it up like that.

Now, after that year finishes...it's real world time. If I get a job right out of school I will buy a house, but if not...gonna have to stop growing while I live with the rents for a bit, it's not worth the hell I would have to pay haha.

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Yeah, I hear you bro - ten years ago was dreaming of the days when I would have (almost) unlimited capital to really blow my grow out, and now that the time is hear, it's not as easy as I'd thought it was gonna be.

Stupid fucking damned fucking wiring.

End rant now.

Damn Bob! That sucks! Especially after all that hard work solo to put those bitches up! At least you will know you have the right and safe amount of power to operate things fully after the electrician leaves!

Burn on!

Twils said:

Damn Bob! That sucks! Especially after all that hard work solo to put those bitches up! At least you will know you have the right and safe amount of power to operate things fully after the electrician leaves!

Burn on!

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Yeah, but on the bright side, at least I'm (hopefully) getting it fixed now, and I'll have a little more peace of mind knowing that I'm not gonna burn the house down when I have 4500 watts running 24/7 in the garage.

When you think about it, the timing's as good as it could be, since I haven't started flowering yet.

Not great, but if this is the biggest setback that I encounter whilst growing, I'll be a very successful farmer.

Bob Smith said:

Yeah, but on the bright side, at least I'm (hopefully) getting it fixed now, and I'll have a little more peace of mind knowing that I'm not gonna burn the house down when I have 4500 watts running 24/7 in the garage.

When you think about it, the timing's as good as it could be, since I haven't started flowering yet.

Not great, but if this is the biggest setback that I encounter whilst growing, I'll be a very successful farmer.

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Aint that the truth Bob! Really glad that it was sooner instead of later for you!

And glad that you took it upon your self to make sure it got FIXED and done RIGHT, instead of blowing it off and saying no big deal!!

I've always grown up... Better to be safe than SORRY!

Kudos to you bro!

Burn on!

Twils said:

Aint that the truth Bob! Really glad that it was sooner instead of later for you!

And glad that you took it upon your self to make sure it got FIXED and done RIGHT, instead of blowing it off and saying no big deal!!

I've always grown up... Better to be safe than SORRY!

Kudos to you bro!

Burn on!

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Thanks man; it's certainly not the best situation ever, but like you said, might as well get it done now - almost done breaking everything down except for my veg tent, will post a pic of my workout room when I'm done - it looks like a hydro store exploded in there.

Just hoping that the guy charges me a reasonable rate and can get me the 60 amps I'm looking for in there - I know for sure that he can do 40, but since I'm actually coming out of pocket, would love 60 to get multiple ACs, water chillers, etc.

If I get 60 amps than it's gonna be fugging on and poppin'.

Bob Smith said:

Thanks man; it's certainly not the best situation ever, but like you said, might as well get it done now - almost done breaking everything down except for my veg tent, will post a pic of my workout room when I'm done - it looks like a hydro store exploded in there.

Just hoping that the guy charges me a reasonable rate and can get me the 60 amps I'm looking for in there - I know for sure that he can do 40, but since I'm actually coming out of pocket, would love 60 to get multiple ACs, water chillers, etc.

If I get 60 amps than it's gonna be fugging on and poppin'.

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Now that's the works! Lets hope for 60a!

Burn on!

PS. I just put some pics of day 10 flowering up in my journal!

mmm 60amps...nom noms. haha

I have an incredibly not-too-hot electric deal going on in my room. I tried to do it right, but the asses made the box completely unaccessible to the other empty amp spots to run the main line in. Take that 60amps and your capital and grow baby grow haha. i can't wait to see your 5 gallon bucket extravaganza, it looks great.

Thanks man - just got confirmation from IAmStoned in the other thread that 60 amps is definitely doable, so 60 amps is what it's gonna be, no ifs, ands, or buts.

I'm getting excited, dude should be here in about six hours.

Just finished reading your thread,,subscribed for sure. Your well into it and your pocket book but well worth it. I'm am electrician,,,,Your garage is 20 amps, that means the wire is rated for 20 amps. The only way the get 60amps is re-wire the garage and put in #6 wire which will hold 60 amps,,,,but that might raise a red flag,,,#6 wire is fat and not normally ran in a garage. Dont forget a new breaker aswell. Think about this...if you have room in your panel for two more circuits, ask him to add to more 20 amp circuits to the garage,,that way no re-wire. Its easy to do,,,it will be in most cases wall mounted and ran in wire mode and placed in the location you want. Then you just plug and play,,,or add a power strip and play..Hope that helped.

steelherman said:

Just finished reading your thread,,subscribed for sure. Your well into it and your pocket book but well worth it. I'm am electrician,,,,Your garage is 20 amps, that means the wire is rated for 20 amps. The only way the get 60amps is re-wire the garage and put in #6 wire which will hold 60 amps,,,,but that might raise a red flag,,,#6 wire is fat and not normally ran in a garage. Dont forget a new breaker aswell. Think about this...if you have room in your panel for two more circuits, ask him to add to more 20 amp circuits to the garage,,that way no re-wire. Its easy to do,,,it will be in most cases wall mounted and ran in wire mode and placed in the location you want. Then you just plug and play,,,or add a power strip and play..Hope that helped.

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Firstly, happy to have you along

Secondly, only have one spare slot in the breaker box, so he's gonna put a 20 amp in there and run it to the garage - not very hard, the breaker box goes right to the attic above and then right to the garage, so not much trouble there.

There's also a dedicated 20 amp circuit going to my shed, which I never use, so I'm going to have him splice that circuit and run that to the garage as well, giving me a total of 60 amps, although 20 are going to be "shared" with the shed.

Want to make sure that I can always turn the light on in the shed if need be, just because my girl's dad goes in there from time to time and I don't want to raise any red flags.

Thanks for your input, though, and keep your fingers crossed - less than six hours until the electrician gets here.

Great sounds like its all planned out. Keep in mind the wire mold or else he is going to want to run it in the walls which means drilling holes and cutting drywall. Its a matter of how you want it done either way good luck and keep us posted.

steelherman said:

Great sounds like its all planned out. Keep in mind the wire mold or else he is going to want to run it in the walls which means drilling holes and cutting drywall. Its a matter of how you want it done either way good luck and keep us posted.

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Not sure what you mean by "wire mold" - from the breaker box, the wire will go straight up to the attic (already done, no drilling required), and then from the attic to the garage (again, no drilling, already done), so I don't think that he's gonna need any tools at all.

Just splice the wire going to the shed right from the breaker panel, add an additional 20 amp circuit, then run those two wires up to the attic, to the garage, and then run each one to a different outlet (there's like four or five in the garage).

So unless I'm missing something, I think it's a pretty easy few hundred bucks for him for not a whole lot of work.