I just made a huge investment..

hotrodharley said:

I was given a huge commercial chiller used in salmon farming in AK.

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Fin fish farming in AK is (and as far as I know always has been) prohibited.
The chiller might have come from a state run hatchery, however, typically those are set up on streams/rivers/lakes to mimic natural conditions and chilling is unnecessary.

Makes me wonder. We had an old water chiller for milk cans back on the farm.I wonder if that uses metals that are no good.I know it still worked 6 years ago. We used it at a party to keep the beer cold.

For those of you who were wondering (probably none of you), here is a close up of the girl in the original post.. taken about 10 minutes ago.



Day 56 of 12/12, 49 days since first flower...

GreatwhiteNorth said:

Fin fish farming in AK is (and as far as I know always has been) prohibited.
The chiller might have come from a state run hatchery, however, typically those are set up on streams/rivers/lakes to mimic natural conditions and chilling is unnecessary.

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Apparently this was for long glass tanks for sports shows he said.That's how he ended up with it. For fishing exhibits.

JohnCee said:

Well, at least it was a huge investment for me.. it was something that I usually do not do, but I happened to make a last minute change to my light purchase. Cost me $359.59 including shipping, but I ended up grabbing http://growershouse.com/phantom-cmh-reflector-ballast-and-bulb-kit simply because I was tired of wasting time.

I currently run a Mars Hydro Reflector 96x5 (175 watts) in my 4x4x6 flowering room, but I felt that it only covered one plant effectively and wanted to increase that number. How many do you think I'll be able to flower in this area with my mars hydro led + phantom?

I wanted to run four 5gal buckets in there.. haven't decided I wanted to scrog or not, but I do have four 19 inch clones that ready to go into some buckets for flowering. Would a 45 or 70 lpm air pump be enough to run four 5gal buckets?

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You'll be glad you ended up going this route, possibly the best $359.59 investment you've ever made. Think about it, for less than 2 zips of crap weed on the street you have a tool to produce close to a pound in one run once you have everything dialed in. Enjoy!

To your space/plant count question, the most I've pushed my 315w is a 3.5 x 3.5', 4x 5gal buckets should fill that footprint, yield will depend on the genetics but the key is you'll be maximizing yield regardless of what strain you're running.

GroErr said:

You'll be glad you ended up going this route, possibly the best $359.59 investment you've ever made. Think about it, for less than 2 zips of crap weed on the street you have a tool to produce close to a pound in one run once you have everything dialed in. Enjoy!

To your space/plant count question, the most I've pushed my 315w is a 3.5 x 3.5', 4x 5gal buckets should fill that footprint, yield will depend on the genetics but the key is you'll be maximizing yield regardless of what strain you're running.

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I use one califorina lightworks 220 led full cycle light with 4 20 watt led flood lights and 2 68 watt CFLs. This is for my flower room and i have pretty good results.
My theroy is that one type of light is not good enough snd that diversifying will guarantee good results.
I used to use hps 1000 watt on my last garden 5 years ago but my power bill was insane as i had to run sn ac too so this time im useing a led as my main light and supplementing with led floods and CFLs.
The led was 439.00...floods 20.00 each and CFLs 60.00 each including reflectors.
So initial cost of setup is more expensive but my monthly power cost is less than 10.00

No way dude. Decent light but 4 plants? Nope not unless they are like four of those 12/12 from seed or mini plants. If you want to grow the typical 5 gallon trees vegged a month or more try only one. Maybe two max, if you suppliment with some additional light.

Medizzinman said:

No way dude. Decent light but 4 plants? Nope not unless they are like four of those 12/12 from seed or mini plants. If you want to grow the typical 5 gallon trees vegged a month or more try only one. Maybe two max, if you suppliment with some additional light.

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I'd normally agree with you but I've been running two of the 315w Sun Systems LEC units for about 1 1/2 years, the photon and spectrum output is outrageous for the wattage on these bulbs. I've mixed some COBs/LED bulbs/CFL's in a small tent and gotten great results, but still not better than these 315's. Below is a current run, first 2x 7gal plants are in a 3x4x3'H footprint, under a single 315w LEC, the plant by the door is a single 10gal running under the 210w version of the same bulb (Philips Elite Agro). Between the 2 units, totalling 525w, covering 3 plants in a 3x6x3'H footprint I'll pull somewhere between 1 - 1.25 lbs, a little low because 2 of them are new phenos and don't look like they'll produce as well as the first pheno closest to the camera. If I were running my Blue Dream in that footprint I'd be expecting between 1.25 and 1.5 lbs. or somewhere between 1.1 and 1.3 gpw.