Mrbubblesworth
New Member
I have been a member of this site for a few weeks now and have read tons of great info. In the past I've been on several other similar forums. I would consider myself a newbie despite doing a tremendous amount of research. I have grown in the past but that was several years ago so i'm a little rusty lol. Previously I've done a homemade ebb/flow table in a closet, a cabinet DWC and also a large homemade tent with 12 plus soil plants. Both went almost perfect using fox farm nutes up until the final weeks when my friend ,who's house we were using, failed to take care of them. We were still able to harvest but quality was low.
Fast forward 6 years. I now have my own house and the funds to setup my own grow again. Plus at this point it's more of an investment. My wife and I are spending over $300 per month on low quality personal.
My first priority is stealth. We do have a young child and would hate for our lives to be ruined just so we can smoke. I have the perfect space tho. There is a space underneath my stairs that will work perfect. I plant on hiding the space by creating a "secret" dry wall door and then putting a 2x4x5 grow tent inside. I will even eventually have enough room to put a 2x3x2 tent in there for clones/vegging. For now I'm trying to keep things simple with one tent and a low budget. Here's my supply list so far:
1 grow tent (2ftx4ftx5ft)
I 600 watt hps/mh with a reflector wing
1 4in duct fan plus tubing
1 6in clip fan
1 thermometer/hyrometer
Seeds:
I have never ordered seeds before. I've researched it a million times but I've never had the guts to pull the trigger. Now I think I'm finally desperate enough to try it. I will be going with Attitude Seeds. I've seen a lot of great reviews for them and I'm ordering just in time for their June promo which seems like a great deal. So here's what I'm thinking of getting:
3x Auto Berry Ryder
1x Dinafem Auto Critical Jack
1x Dutch Passion Auto Mazar
Ill also get these for free:
1 x Dinafem Seeds Auto Blue Cheese ( Feminized )
2 x World Of Seeds Wild Thailand ( Regular )
1 x Humboldt Seed Organisation Lemon Thai Kush ( Feminized )
1 x TH Seeds Ultra Sour ( Feminized )
1 x G13 Labs Blue OG ( Feminized )
Pretty great deal for $50!!!
Im planning on starting with the Auto Berry, Mazar, Jack, and Auto Blue for a total of 6 plants in my 2x4 tent. I'm concerned with space obviously but it sounds like all of these strands will be pretty small. I plant on planting each of them in 3 gallon pots using miracle grow soil. I know it's crappy but it's cheap and I've seen it work well on other grows. In the future I'd like to upgrade to FF Ocean. I'd love to try SCROG but based on my research it doesn't sound like you can do that with autos so that may have to wait for my second grow with the photo seeds. I have leftover nutes FF Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, and Grow Big.
I realize my biggest problem is going to be ventilation/over heating. I have a couple ideas for this though. First, my ballast is dimmable so I figure the easiest way is to bring fresh air thru the bottom passively, run the light and exhaust all the hot air thru the top using tubing and my 4in fan. My second solution is to put a air cooled hood I have homemade from my prior grow. If I go this route I may also get a 6in fan for exhaust and maybe use the 4in fan as a forced intake. I know there's other options as well like getting a 250 or 400 watt hps or even going fluorescent but I'm trying to plan for future grows and with the ballast being dimmable I think it would be the same as a lower wattage hps.
Fast forward 6 years. I now have my own house and the funds to setup my own grow again. Plus at this point it's more of an investment. My wife and I are spending over $300 per month on low quality personal.
My first priority is stealth. We do have a young child and would hate for our lives to be ruined just so we can smoke. I have the perfect space tho. There is a space underneath my stairs that will work perfect. I plant on hiding the space by creating a "secret" dry wall door and then putting a 2x4x5 grow tent inside. I will even eventually have enough room to put a 2x3x2 tent in there for clones/vegging. For now I'm trying to keep things simple with one tent and a low budget. Here's my supply list so far:
1 grow tent (2ftx4ftx5ft)
I 600 watt hps/mh with a reflector wing
1 4in duct fan plus tubing
1 6in clip fan
1 thermometer/hyrometer
Seeds:
I have never ordered seeds before. I've researched it a million times but I've never had the guts to pull the trigger. Now I think I'm finally desperate enough to try it. I will be going with Attitude Seeds. I've seen a lot of great reviews for them and I'm ordering just in time for their June promo which seems like a great deal. So here's what I'm thinking of getting:
3x Auto Berry Ryder
1x Dinafem Auto Critical Jack
1x Dutch Passion Auto Mazar
Ill also get these for free:
1 x Dinafem Seeds Auto Blue Cheese ( Feminized )
2 x World Of Seeds Wild Thailand ( Regular )
1 x Humboldt Seed Organisation Lemon Thai Kush ( Feminized )
1 x TH Seeds Ultra Sour ( Feminized )
1 x G13 Labs Blue OG ( Feminized )
Pretty great deal for $50!!!
Im planning on starting with the Auto Berry, Mazar, Jack, and Auto Blue for a total of 6 plants in my 2x4 tent. I'm concerned with space obviously but it sounds like all of these strands will be pretty small. I plant on planting each of them in 3 gallon pots using miracle grow soil. I know it's crappy but it's cheap and I've seen it work well on other grows. In the future I'd like to upgrade to FF Ocean. I'd love to try SCROG but based on my research it doesn't sound like you can do that with autos so that may have to wait for my second grow with the photo seeds. I have leftover nutes FF Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, and Grow Big.
I realize my biggest problem is going to be ventilation/over heating. I have a couple ideas for this though. First, my ballast is dimmable so I figure the easiest way is to bring fresh air thru the bottom passively, run the light and exhaust all the hot air thru the top using tubing and my 4in fan. My second solution is to put a air cooled hood I have homemade from my prior grow. If I go this route I may also get a 6in fan for exhaust and maybe use the 4in fan as a forced intake. I know there's other options as well like getting a 250 or 400 watt hps or even going fluorescent but I'm trying to plan for future grows and with the ballast being dimmable I think it would be the same as a lower wattage hps.
