CaliforniaTHC
Active Member
Hi guys,So it was my birthday recently and my friend gave me a clone and 10 ounces of white rino...
I decided it was finally time to get back into growing, im sick of driving 2 hours to the dispensary to buy 300$ oz lol..
So for this grow I am not really spending the big bucks or anything but I dont think you have to in order to get good results. I was looking around and saw that your average grow tent is on the upside of 250$ so I looked for alternatives, 4 bowls later I found my answer! A walk-in greenhouse! The idea came from my grandmother, whom had a huge walk in greenhouse and she basically grew enough veggies for a whole year at a time in it, it had a zip up plastic type material for a door and the same material for the walls. I went on ebay and found this;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Large-1...?pt=US_TV_Mounts_Brackets&hash=item3f1acfad65
This is the same size as the HomeBox XXL I am pretty sure for a fraction of the price, granted it isnt fireproof and all that shit but I dont care
I got some 5 gal pots and trays, also mounted some wheels on the trays for easy mobility later on in plant life, using roots organic potting soil and I add 1 cup of kelp, 1 cup of horse/chicken shit, 1 cup blood meal, and one cup of bone meal. I find these ingredients leave me only having to use normal (7.0 and no added nutes) pH water! Also that is per teen plant, I use dirt for seedlings.
As for air circulation I bought this crazy inline fan someone on RIU showed me;
http://www.amazon.com/Rule-140-Mari...3171887&sr=8-1&keywords=in+line+marine+blower
I use that and an old window AC unit that my father owned b4 he moved(I bought my house from my parents when I graduated college
)I just set up the AC unit on the top shelve and cut a hole so the backside sticks out of the GH, i used duct tape and some guerilla glue to make it airtight, I even went over board with some sort of sealant I found near the construction site by my house(yes, wow, I know, I stole it) Its like whip cream lol. I have the AC drawing in air from outside the GH and making it cooler so it keeps the GH around 68-74 at all times, I also have the Inline sucking the air out of the tent from the top(another hole I made in the roof this time and secured it air tight the same way. Got some dryer ducting and vented the air to outside of my basement(you know they have the vents that let you see outside in a basement?)
I spray painted the outside of the GH glossy black(everything looks cooler glossy) even added clear coat, this was just to protect the paint from stupid shit like my cat. Once it was completely light proofed I removed all of the lower shelves and just used the top two(one long shelve on each side) for hanging some computer fans(4, 2 on each shelve) and I also hung my lights from them, a 250W and a 400W MH/HPS. I have an industrial sized fan in the very top roof part blowing air down onto the lights to keep them cool.(dont know if this is doing much lol)
As for the girls I have 10 critical jack autos from dinafem seeds, they are all 3.5 weeks old and I dont know if its OK to top autoflowers, so I haven't pinched the node yet.
But yeah, will get some pics up once I find the camera charger just posted so you guys can tell me if I did anything wrong, I don't need odor or sound control due to where I live, I used to have a spidermite problem in the last grow but I've learned from that mistake and started a colony of ladybugs, i leave a small plate with bread crumbs and another with a pool of water in the GH to feed them if they arent eating any intruders. I also periodically spray the whole thing with a neem oil/water mix. Have not had a mite yet and the lady bugs seem to love the crop, on the last grow most if not all of the lady bugs would gather around the bottom part of the stem of my plants, why is this?
Keep Blazin,
CaliforniaTHC
