DIY Closet DWC Grow - First grow ever

Hulk Nugs

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I can only legally grow 6,

Also, I like big monsters.

, hahaha.


Hey man all you have to do is ask your doc and he can legally let you grow more plants ....... my doc asked me how many i want to grow right away, i just thought it was for the medication not for growing so not sure how many he put on my paperwork but he told me to come back if i want to grow more.
 

jigfresh

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I'm pretty happy with six. I don't see why I need anymore. I only smoke less than an ounce a month.

You guys have seen my closet right?
 

bigjesse1922

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I dunno about all that Jig. They are making good money off the ads.

Google rollitup.org and the Chicago Conservative Journal or something. I will try and find a link.

Basically Mark Thompson, whom is affiliated with this site in some manner, is doing everything he can to get hits for RIU. Makes me nervous. Too much attention.
 

jigfresh

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No paranoia allowed. If you want to support you can, if not you don't have to.

Personally, I like having a big inbox... I am constantly at 47 and 48 personal messages.

Plus I get to call myself weed pimp.

Also, all the money I will make from the information I have gathered here... me giving them $10 is only fair. I don't have a problem with anyone making money as long as they aren't hurting anyone, and I feel only helped by RIU. I don't think they are doing anything bad.

I've also made some good friends here... if I can support all that, I'm down.

Sorry to be a salesman for the site, but what can I say... I love it.
 

bigjesse1922

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No paranoia allowed. If you want to support you can, if not you don't have to.

Personally, I like having a big inbox... I am constantly at 47 and 48 personal messages.

Plus I get to call myself weed pimp.

Also, all the money I will make from the information I have gathered here... me giving them $10 is only fair. I don't have a problem with anyone making money as long as they aren't hurting anyone, and I feel only helped by RIU. I don't think they are doing anything bad.

I've also made some good friends here... if I can support all that, I'm down.

Sorry to be a salesman for the site, but what can I say... I love it.
I am offering my opinion is all.

You can dismiss it as paranoia if you would like, but it remains my opinion. I respect yours.

If you dont want me to post my opinions on your thread though, if that is "not allowed," I will respect that too.

I am not trying to be a dick at all just for the record. I hear where you are coming from.
 

jigfresh

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I'm not against opinions. I guess what I am opposed to is the political nature of the idea... I don't like politics and try to avoid the topic. That may not be the best way to go through life but I find my blood pressure much lower and life more enjoyable without worrying about the motives behind everything. There isn't much left in life that isn't messed up by greedy selfish people in charge and involved, I just like to focus on the positive effects their 'product' supplies.

Sorta like sports. I kinda hate most things about sports (players, owners, the leagues, sanctioning bodies), but I still love the games and races.

My wife is political enough for the whole family.

And I don't think you were being a dick, jess. If anyones the dick it's me... but it's all good. I've been in a bad mood for a couple days. I have to let some of it out in my journal.

:peace:
 

jigfresh

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Hello everyone. I changed the reservoir and filled it back up with a mix of 1.2 mL/gal gravity, 25% nutes, 80% additives.

The plants seem happy with everything. I didn't have to raise the light as suggested on the gravity bottle. The pH is climbing a lot, I've had to adjust it a few times since the change. I think it is slowed down now.

I made a new co2 mix. It is flowing into the space real good.

About the only change I see is a few more brown hairs. Still a ways to go. Maybe less than 3 weeks now. Only one more trip to the co-op.
 

thor369

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*quote*You don't even have an exemption for 140, haha.

LOL

well said, but i still havent taken my wife to get her card, there is no Dr in my county, i got to travel her 400 miles to my Doc, and she only smokes about 1 joint a week, but she eats 3x my brownies, i think i need a 90 plant exemption for this lush i live with!!

i didnt say copy it, i said to get ideas from it, 6 plants, lets see, 2 on back wall, 2 on each side, with light on door, hows that?


and the exemption, tell your doc next visit, or renewal, you are starting to think eatables, it takes 2 to 3Gr of bud, to medicate once, i eat mine half the time, and i can easily go thru 7 to 10 Gr a day, but i am retired. *cough cough, wink*looks both ways*

eatables is the exemption answer my friend, i got my numbers no my 1st visit, but i started my research on this renewed hobby, 3 years ago, i planed each step, and i think i planed it well so far. *knocks on wood*

remember, it is better to have paperwork for 20 plants, and grow 10 or 12, if you get hassled, you can show a jury you are growing HALF of what your Dr thinks you need, cuz you cutting back, and showing RESTRAINT, and metering yourself. hows that?
 

jigfresh

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remember, it is better to have paperwork for 20 plants, and grow 10 or 12, if you get hassled, you can show a jury you are growing HALF of what your Dr thinks you need, cuz you cutting back, and showing RESTRAINT, and metering yourself. hows that?
NOW you are talking.... this is what I'm talking about.

Thor this is a perfect case to present to the powers that be...

And yeah... sorry to shun the ideas... as previously stated I've been in a bad mood for a couple days now.
 

smoote1987

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NOW you are talking.... this is what I'm talking about.

Thor this is a perfect case to present to the powers that be...

And yeah... sorry to shun the ideas... as previously stated I've been in a bad mood for a couple days now.
"i didnt say copy it, i said to get ideas from it, 6 plants, lets see, 2 on back wall, 2 on each side, with light on door, hows that?"

Yo how funny is that... did'nt i just suggest this idea to you like a day ago? Glad to know there are others who think the same way. The light being on the door would also allow you to cool tube it separately from the room with all the vents on the door like you have it now, and allow it to swing out on the door to you can get in there and really work with your plants and screen uninhibited.

Yo that pod is cool in all, i've looked them up and their designs are tight, but what i'm looking for is something similar that as chambers for veg, flower, and clone. Got a link for anything like that? Other than those stupidly over expensive commercial growing chambers
 

thor369

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well, i got 2 sunhuts, a 4x4 with a 1000'er and a 4x8 with 2 1000's. this is the best answer i have come across yet.

but i like bigger, better, more power/control.

now, these little tents come in all sizes, and shapes, to say, piece together 1 that fits to your area. a 4x8 tent is really closer to 5x9.4, trust me, i got a 12x11 bedroom, i was thinking the 4x8 across far wall, the 4x4 butting into it, like a big L the open part the bedroom door, NOT, the 4x8 took the whole room, after i put in giant carbon filters. i run air temps with readings on whole room, tent in 3 areas. i run a 400 cfm fan thru tent to cool, i got 2 aircooled lights inline. then, when room is getting warm, i vent wh9ole bedroom thru filter, into houses heating system, with a backdraft dampener to keep heater from feeding hot air into room. (had to cut a hole into my house, toget fresh filtered air into room from outside)

moral of this is, mesure, mesure again, cxheck the actual size, not holds a 4x8 ebb'n flow tray as maybe 4.5x9 or so, get my drift. get the best for what you can afford, because it does pay you back in return. in my experiance, it is the 2nd run on your equipment that really puts you into the profit side. if you pay $50 a week for your sack (if not more) that is $200 a month, in 3 months of saving that is $600 i can put you together a great 3 stage set-up for that, and it will be compact.

build a cabinet, say 2ft tall, 4ft wide, run a 4ft T8or across the lid,even a T5 if it is in price range, this can be a mother plant vegging room. then, build a DYI cool tube, a 600W HPS, and a 3x3 cab for the flowerroom, as tall as you got room for.

now, back to the 1st cab, the veg 1. it should run like 4ft long, 24 to 30 inches deep and 24 to 30 inches tall for plant room. t8 or t5 on top of cab, on lines to adjust higth or the light to tops. now, you can run back lighting, will oldfasion cool tubes, CFL coil lights in areas you feel need a touch more.now, if this room is 24 to 30 inches tall, build up on it, to put in a cloning table accross the top of mother plant room, a 2nd chamber to it, or the 3rd part of this 3 stage home-ops. all you need is cool tube cheapy floro's, 2ft or 4ft long, i like 4ft, cuz the light from the 3ft area in middle is best on cool tubes, and put a humitity dome type tray under the cooltube. you should, if you are thrifty, and inventive, do this build in a walk in closet, with room to spare, for what a pothead spends in 3 months.

and expenses, trust me, you do harvest what you put into it. if Co2 costs $20 a month for a closet, and it adds 3 Gr each on 4 plants, thats almost a half Z, $150 in my book, at a cost of $40, i will take that deal,
 

smoote1987

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well, i got 2 sunhuts, a 4x4 with a 1000'er and a 4x8 with 2 1000's. this is the best answer i have come across yet.

but i like bigger, better, more power/control.

now, these little tents come in all sizes, and shapes, to say, piece together 1 that fits to your area. a 4x8 tent is really closer to 5x9.4, trust me, i got a 12x11 bedroom, i was thinking the 4x8 across far wall, the 4x4 butting into it, like a big L the open part the bedroom door, NOT, the 4x8 took the whole room, after i put in giant carbon filters. i run air temps with readings on whole room, tent in 3 areas. i run a 400 cfm fan thru tent to cool, i got 2 aircooled lights inline. then, when room is getting warm, i vent wh9ole bedroom thru filter, into houses heating system, with a backdraft dampener to keep heater from feeding hot air into room. (had to cut a hole into my house, toget fresh filtered air into room from outside)

moral of this is, mesure, mesure again, cxheck the actual size, not holds a 4x8 ebb'n flow tray as maybe 4.5x9 or so, get my drift. get the best for what you can afford, because it does pay you back in return. in my experiance, it is the 2nd run on your equipment that really puts you into the profit side. if you pay $50 a week for your sack (if not more) that is $200 a month, in 30 months of saving that is $600 i can put you together a great 3 stage set-up for that, and it will be compact.

build a cabinet, say 2ft tall, 4ft wide, run a 4ft T8or across the lid,even a T5 if it is in price range, this can be a mother plant vegging room. then, build a DYI cool tube, a 600W HPS, and a 3x3 cab for the flowerroom, as tall as you got room for.

now, back to the 1st cab, the veg 1. it should run like 4ft long, 24 to 30 inches deep and 24 to 30 inches tall for plant room. t8 or t5 on top of cab, on lines to adjust higth or the light to tops. now, you can run back lighting, will oldfasion cool tubes, CFL coil lights in areas you feel need a touch more.now, if this room is 24 to 30 inches tall, build up on it, to put in a cloning table accross the top of mother plant room, a 2nd chamber to it, or the 3rd part of this 3 stage home-ops. all you need is cool tube cheapy floro's, 2ft or 4ft long, i like 4ft, cuz the light from the 3ft area in middle is best on cool tubes, and put a humitity dome type tray under the cooltube. you should, if you are thrifty, and inventive, do this build in a walk in closet, with room to spare, for what a pothead spends in 3 months. <-- haha and dude, have you been to my grow journal yet. Basically what I'm all about but way smaller

and expenses, trust me, you do harvest what you put into it. if Co2 costs $20 a month for a closet, and it adds 3 Gr each on 4 plants, thats almost a half Z, $150 in my book, at a cost of $40, i will take that deal,
Damn thats a big set-up. I'm talking small, like the grow pod size, that pack's it all in there. Give me the summer, i've got ideas, the goal is to be automated by august/september, and have it be small enough that any one would want it in their house, to grow anything. I'm thinking furniture, ie. convenience and style with the ability for solid production.

Thanks for the run down though.
 

Survolte

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well, i got 2 sunhuts, a 4x4 with a 1000'er and a 4x8 with 2 1000's. this is the best answer i have come across yet.

but i like bigger, better, more power/control.

now, these little tents come in all sizes, and shapes, to say, piece together 1 that fits to your area. a 4x8 tent is really closer to 5x9.4, trust me, i got a 12x11 bedroom, i was thinking the 4x8 across far wall, the 4x4 butting into it, like a big L the open part the bedroom door, NOT, the 4x8 took the whole room, after i put in giant carbon filters. i run air temps with readings on whole room, tent in 3 areas. i run a 400 cfm fan thru tent to cool, i got 2 aircooled lights inline. then, when room is getting warm, i vent wh9ole bedroom thru filter, into houses heating system, with a backdraft dampener to keep heater from feeding hot air into room. (had to cut a hole into my house, toget fresh filtered air into room from outside)

moral of this is, mesure, mesure again, cxheck the actual size, not holds a 4x8 ebb'n flow tray as maybe 4.5x9 or so, get my drift. get the best for what you can afford, because it does pay you back in return. in my experiance, it is the 2nd run on your equipment that really puts you into the profit side. if you pay $50 a week for your sack (if not more) that is $200 a month, in 30 months of saving that is $600 i can put you together a great 3 stage set-up for that, and it will be compact.

build a cabinet, say 2ft tall, 4ft wide, run a 4ft T8or across the lid,even a T5 if it is in price range, this can be a mother plant vegging room. then, build a DYI cool tube, a 600W HPS, and a 3x3 cab for the flowerroom, as tall as you got room for.

now, back to the 1st cab, the veg 1. it should run like 4ft long, 24 to 30 inches deep and 24 to 30 inches tall for plant room. t8 or t5 on top of cab, on lines to adjust higth or the light to tops. now, you can run back lighting, will oldfasion cool tubes, CFL coil lights in areas you feel need a touch more.now, if this room is 24 to 30 inches tall, build up on it, to put in a cloning table accross the top of mother plant room, a 2nd chamber to it, or the 3rd part of this 3 stage home-ops. all you need is cool tube cheapy floro's, 2ft or 4ft long, i like 4ft, cuz the light from the 3ft area in middle is best on cool tubes, and put a humitity dome type tray under the cooltube. you should, if you are thrifty, and inventive, do this build in a walk in closet, with room to spare, for what a pothead spends in 3 months.

and expenses, trust me, you do harvest what you put into it. if Co2 costs $20 a month for a closet, and it adds 3 Gr each on 4 plants, thats almost a half Z, $150 in my book, at a cost of $40, i will take that deal,
...im impresed lol
 

thor369

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i am still having problems with sizing pics for this site. i am a total idiot with puters.

so, for a few pics, and my latest pics of today, of my indoor stretching of plants to fill a outdoor greenhouse being built, go here.

http://www.myspace.com/467100030

its the best i can do to show i can back up my advise with grows.

i am in there, moving stuff around, and disconnected my airhood for now. i clear the air in my room, from the open end of 1 lights intake. i taped on an old tee-shirt over the intake, and cut a 2nd, taped it over that, and a 3rd layer, pull air from room with hood, pull it thru 2nd hood, and vent into bedroom, i pull air from bedroom to vent total room, and feed hot exhaust thru house ducting, to help keep house tosty at night.
 

jigfresh

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Hey everyone,

Glad you are all having a good time on the thread. I think I can see a difference in my plants after fixing the pH, mixing a new rez, and making new co2.

The white widow especially had taken off a bit. I guess it's nature is to bulk up later than the hindu skunk... I think I see bulking on the HS too, just not sure if it's my imagination.

fyi... new video on the clones grow.

also.... here are thor's pics so you don't have to leave RIU.






:peace:
 

thor369

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sweet, nice reprint. i need to learn to crop, or resize or what ever it is called.

i am stretching those plants, to get them over 5 Ft tall, by june, when they go outdoors. those plants in pic are between 5 and 7 weeks old, and average is 2 ft tall, some hitting almost 36 inches.

i put lights low on them 1 day, 3 Ft away for 2, then back down for 1, up for 2, to keep them strong, but i am trying to get them 5 Ft for going into ground in a green house. i also, when they was 3 weeks old, turned it to a 12/12 for 10 days, to find my males, and to get a stretch from it, getting them to reach for light and flowering sights, now, i am back on a 24 hours, those fake little budding sites that did start, will return to veg, only 1 or 2 really did more than put out a few hairs in a branch or 2. males flower faster, so, i did it to find males. 48 plants, i picked out 12 males sofar, i got 12 more un-sexed, with 24 females. (and i few clones of a few of my favs)

i am sending to greenhouse, 18 hand picked by my partner. he cant have

black widow (dark perp affie,x white widow)
sour bubble (bx3 is what breeder label it, might be a F3 by my read, might be wrong, all 3 same identical phenos, short, dense)
black velvet (bc strain, not bc seeds, real soft leafs, neat feeling to it)

i got to send down


NL5xhaze (speaks on its own)
bahia blackhead (cant spell)
hashberry
potluck (mixxed un-named seed strainsa, some lowriders in it, but also told there might be romulans or space queens too, 2nd grade looking seeds some white, mix of what breeder thoght was unsellable, but viable,freebie seeds from club)

any north/east cali members, if you need clones, i got them, without going to sacto.
 

thor369

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that was with flash. i got the cheapest camera possible. i grew years ago, this is my 1st run in 12 years.

(other then a fast 1 six years ago, to get some funds up)

i live on social Sec disability, $810 a month, with $400 power bills. i cant afford a camera upgrade for about 3 more months. i am limited to 45 plants (sounds like alot, but it isnt, ask any1 with 10 plants, how many they get, if they clone all to for 3 cuttings)

all my equip was donated by some1 close, who has exemption for 50 plants, and works out of town, for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. i got his caregiver rights, but he is taking back the rights, to put up the greenhouse. so, i am shipping him the best 18 of my outdoor strains i got, then, my 1st two flower runs are his, for the investment. he gets 6 months of my work for free, and he learns from me himself, and after summer run greenhouse, i take caregiver rights back, and run his and my numbers together, for 95 plants. running AC's all summer to flower perp strains is a bit costly.

after those 2 runs for him, i get all equip here free, and i run 9 plants a month, for a total of 18 plants, in a 5x9 flower room. (roughly 3.7Sq Yds.) hope to hit 1.5 Lb a month in my flower room. plus, selling/breeding clones seeds for hobby fun. i aint in it for the profit. my wife medicates with eatables, she lost 1/2 a lung this year, on an oxygen machine at home here. you need to eat *aprox* 1 Gr of buds worth of crystal per 50 Lb body weight, so, 3 medications a day, is roughly 10 grams a day, for a 200 pound person. thats almst 3 oz a week.

this isnt putting in my medication amounts. so, we need about 5 Oz a week, to get my wife back off her methadone/phentenyl patches again.

i am on 30 Mg of morphine a say, with 8 to 12 5Mg oxycodone a day, for breakthrough pain. it is why i get my 45 plants. i need to get my wifes exemption, to get her 45 plants, too. (or more, she is on 3x my med Mg's, with stuff 2x stronger) so, i dont need to use any1's numbers as a caregiver. it is getting rougher and rougher to prove caregiver qualifications. you need to provide care now, in 1 or more areas outside growing for them.

weekly shopping ruins for those who cant drive. run them to thier Dr appoiintments, something you can prove outside growing for them. just being their grower isnt a caregiver anymore.
 

dj crane

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I can;t belive i never noticed you had a rate this thread aswell, i feel like a ass for not rating it before, you just 5 from me bro!! I hope everyone rates your thread right now!!! NUDGE NUDGE
 
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