StuntmanMike
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I have 4 female Blue Rhino plants, grown from seed from highgrade-seeds. They were vegged for ~2mo, and were switched to flowering on 1-5. Germinated with CFLs, switched to 400w MH, now 400w HPS. They're in a cab that is 3'x3'x5', which is in a small room I built into an outdoor garage.
I built the cab to have the light hood outside of the cab, rather than inside. This is good because it allows all of the ventilation to be kept outside of the cab, and maximizes space inside. The downside is that you have to move the plants to adjust for growth; however, a little more work is, IMO, worth it, because the plants are kept within inches, and the cab is kept nice and clean inside. The light is kept nice and cool with an 8" 500cfm inline duct fan from Home Depot, and because the garage/room is outside, temps are easily controlled (right now). I have the lights on at night and off during the day. Air is ventilated through the cab by another 500cfm fan, pulling through a homemade carbon scrubber. There is a small space heater hooked up to a thermostat, keeps the temp ~70s. There is also a small circular fan blowing from the floor up, gets the cool air up top and blows through the canopy so the plants always have fresh air being blown through them.
The plants are in 3g square pots, I'm using SugarPeak nutes, FF:OF soil. Nothing else added at this point.
I started LSTing them since they had 3-4 leaf sets. One plant ended up losing its top because it broke off, but the remaining branches have more than compensated. I let them veg until they filled up the pots. I have 2 BR that were the first to sprout, a bagseed (I'm pretty sure, it's showing much more sativa than the 30% that's in the BR), and another BR that is a week or so younger than the others. I had one male that I eliminated. I've taken clones from all 4 plants, they're rooting slowly but surely, some better than others.
When I built the room, I actually framed 2 rooms. The larger of the rooms is unfinished, but only needs drywall, insulation and a door. I plan on finishing this room, using it as a flowering room, and using the current grow cab as a veg cab. I want to have a kind of perpetual harvest setup going, I have the clones in my room, move them to the veg room, then to the flower room, and I can harvest every so often.
I just got my MMJ card/Dr rec today, and I'd rather not push my luck so I plan on staying with the 6 plants max (12 immature). So at any one point I can't have >6 flowering, but since I'm growing for myself, that's more than plenty.
Here are the most recent pics, I've got to upload some more but I'll post them in a few
I built the cab to have the light hood outside of the cab, rather than inside. This is good because it allows all of the ventilation to be kept outside of the cab, and maximizes space inside. The downside is that you have to move the plants to adjust for growth; however, a little more work is, IMO, worth it, because the plants are kept within inches, and the cab is kept nice and clean inside. The light is kept nice and cool with an 8" 500cfm inline duct fan from Home Depot, and because the garage/room is outside, temps are easily controlled (right now). I have the lights on at night and off during the day. Air is ventilated through the cab by another 500cfm fan, pulling through a homemade carbon scrubber. There is a small space heater hooked up to a thermostat, keeps the temp ~70s. There is also a small circular fan blowing from the floor up, gets the cool air up top and blows through the canopy so the plants always have fresh air being blown through them.
The plants are in 3g square pots, I'm using SugarPeak nutes, FF:OF soil. Nothing else added at this point.
I started LSTing them since they had 3-4 leaf sets. One plant ended up losing its top because it broke off, but the remaining branches have more than compensated. I let them veg until they filled up the pots. I have 2 BR that were the first to sprout, a bagseed (I'm pretty sure, it's showing much more sativa than the 30% that's in the BR), and another BR that is a week or so younger than the others. I had one male that I eliminated. I've taken clones from all 4 plants, they're rooting slowly but surely, some better than others.
When I built the room, I actually framed 2 rooms. The larger of the rooms is unfinished, but only needs drywall, insulation and a door. I plan on finishing this room, using it as a flowering room, and using the current grow cab as a veg cab. I want to have a kind of perpetual harvest setup going, I have the clones in my room, move them to the veg room, then to the flower room, and I can harvest every so often.
I just got my MMJ card/Dr rec today, and I'd rather not push my luck so I plan on staying with the 6 plants max (12 immature). So at any one point I can't have >6 flowering, but since I'm growing for myself, that's more than plenty.
Here are the most recent pics, I've got to upload some more but I'll post them in a few
hopefully they won't be too stressed, at least the lights weren't kept on...
