My new journal...

Well, I guess it's time to start the new jounal. I'm still in the process of gettin everything setup, but I figure a few inside looks wouldn't hurt...

the main room is going to be my veg/flower room. it is origionally 12'x11'x9' high, but a vapor barrier made of poly splits the room 12'x8' for growing with a zip-up tarp door; it has a 3' "hallway" between the room's door and vapor barrier. this will be for the big reservoir and electrical equipment. the main side is completely sealed with 10' wide poly and silicon. the window in the room is removed and plywood and insulation take its spot. on each side of the plywood, there is an inlet and exhaust vent. they are seperated on the outside by a plywood deflector, with enough room on the outside to still have the screen over top...

on intake, the hose is y'd... 1 end goin to 1 fan that brings fresh air in, and the other end going to another fan then into 1 end of the lights, then thru to the other side, then into another y attached to the exhaust vent. the other end of the exhaust y is fed by another fan hooked up to my Pro filter 50. all 3 fans are 6" 440cfm. there are 6 backdraft dampners throughout the hvac that only allow air to flow when needed. intake and exhaust fans will be on cycle timers for now, then exhaust on all the time when plants are flowerin. that is untill i get co2 coordinated....

I have 2 1000W lights with digi ballasts that work on either 120/240V and run both MH and HPS lights... both hoods are inline air cooled. They are mounted to a 6rpm mover on a 6' rail.

my operation is 100% legal... i'm only allowed 20 plants at any time. so for now i'll have 4 mums and 16 on the go...

i'll have a ebb & flow system for the main room; 16 individual pots filled with hydroton, all lumped to a control unit which in turn is hooked to a 55 gal drum. the control unit fills the buckets up with juice 3 or 4 times a day. i'm gonna use Lets Grow & Bloom nuits, with Power Thrieve B1, Power to Bloom powder, and maybe a few others...

Nice clean setup man..
I'm looking forward to your grow..
Cheers,

I agree ^^

should be kicking out some nice bus, I'm pulling up a seat

for the cloner, i made a 45 siter, thanks for the tips epixbud...

its set up in the closet of the next room; it has a 400 gph pump with a manifold on top with 17 spayers on it. i have a dual outlet air pump with 2 airstones for it. i'm gonna try that olivia cloning solution out...
the lights are 3 2' T5's mounted to a white coardboard reflector i whipped up. should work fine...

Thats a sweet setup. Can't wait to see what you pull out of that.
Good luck.

4 the mum room (the room on the other side of the main room), i have a 4'x4'x5' high room within the room, completely polyed and sealed too. the light is 400W MH, again with a 120/240V ballast that runs both MH and HPS...

the 2 bigger bent plants came from a local grower. they're romulan x ssh and already have super purple stems!!

the other pots have 2 small health canada plants, and i have some fem arjan's strawberry haze and og kush germinatin in the other pots.

for air into my mumma room, i just have an inlet and outlet in the top and bottom of the room, hooked up with 4" fans that exchange the air constantly between my main room and mumma room... the wall inbetween the two just has 4" holes drilled thru... so i'll have ducting just poppin thru the poly in both rooms at the top and bottom... since both rooms are completely sealed, what ever air is in the main room will be in the mum room too

thx guys. hope to get goin soon, lots to do still....

lol, here are just a few random pics from the same sd card of fishin n skidooin...

Very nice setup man, bout time ya started you journal and pics!
i'm subscribed!
Fuk'n eh those Mother plants looking awsome!
and i'm doing good, almost harvest time for me, got some pics in my journal of my room reno's, check'm out, only a bit left to do....


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Great DIY's and very nice looking setup..
What strains are you planning on growing???

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BlackRoses said:

Great DIY's and very nice looking setup..
What strains are you planning on growing???

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there are so many strains around here growin outside (just started buddin!!!)that i'm not too sure what to clone off of. i kind of have my choice

- romulan x super silver haze
- jack herror
- chemo
- gremlin
- health canada (they don't tell u names when they send seeds, just numbers)

i've gotta figure out how to keep less mums so i can do more in veg/flower. but i'll worry bout that later... can only keep 4 max for the next grow... and og kush and arjans strawberry haze are already on the list, so we'll see

my first grow in this room is gonna be rom/ssh, jack herror, chemo, gremlin, and/or health canada

ok, been a little while since i've been on the site....
time to update a little...

I'm still waitin for the electrition to hook up my wiring. but everything else is ready to go...

i have 4 mums on the go, cause i'm a sucker for variety, so i have 16 individual 3 gal. pots in the room that will be filled with hydroton. (u can grow HUGE plants!!!) they are all lumped up with 1/2" hose into a controller unit (3 gal bucket with white timer on the outside). the controller unit is then connected to a 55 gal drum on the outside of the vapor barrier to keep my water cooler. the controller unit has 3 float valves and utilizes 2 sub pumps, 1 in the control unit 1 in the 55 gal drum. 4 times a day the timer will fill the control unit up; because all the buckets are hooked to it they'll fill up as well. 15 minutes later, the water pumps the sol'n back in to the 55 gal drum and all the pots are emptied.

2 1000's on movers will cover the area. they are inline, 240 or 120 V, and run MH and HPS bulbs. so 1 room veg and bloom...

these are some of the nuits i'll use for the first cycle... a hydro place sent them free cause i dropped a cold 1000 dolla there. i got bc grow, bloom, n boost, lets grow n bloom, growtek grow n bloom, and all sorts of B1's and other goodies!!

NOW, lets see whats goin on in the next room... i have about 35 cuts in my DIY cloner (props epix), all are rom x ssh for this cycle... had about a cup of olivias in the res, but the rest just plain ro tap water, constant ph of 5.5. and of course a couple air stones... had the pump on 24/7 for the first week, then 30 s on/ 5 min off with a cycle timer... when cuttin, tried dippin a few bottoms in rootin gel, soakin others in concentrated olivias, and some did nothin at all, and with the exception of 1 or 2, they all EXPLODED with roots after 9 days. for lights i had 3 2' T5's. hung them about 2' above the plants for 3 days, them lowered them down 10" above the plant tops...

these pictures are from 4 days ago, so they are more than ready for transplanting....

unfortunatle, i'm gonna have to throw the majority away, why mess with a good thing. i can only keep 18; 16 to transplant/grow/bloom and 2 for new mums (i already have 2 on the go)

Looking good keeger. Keep it up

Looking like a great show man, can't wait to see them buds!

so i did a little transplanting the other day; the clone's roots were 2 ft long, lol... i have 16 rom/ssh in the buckets filled with hydroton. My light mover motor already CRAPPED OUT, so i just have the 2 1000's rigged up to hang in the middle of the room while i'm getting a new motor...

it is a complete mess in my grow room; extension cords everywhere... i'm in desperate need of the electrition to hurry up and come by; the only things running now are the 2 lights and inline fan blowin thru the lights, and the hydro unit. i have everything running on seperate breakers for right now...

that hydro unit is AWESOME and easy to use; i have it set to flood the pots 4 times a day for 15 min at a time. im using the LETS GROW and POWER THRIEVE B1 for nuits right now. the plants went thru a rough transplant, but have perked up nice in the last day...

for mums, i have 1 arjan strawberry haze and 2 medical plant on the go; they have a little yellow discoloration on the leaves, but look healthy. the 1 rom/ssh i have is only 2.5 ft tall, but has about 14 tops; i've decided to bud that 1 out for right now. i'll get a different cut of rom/ssh for a new mum when my other 16 plants get bigger, but i wont have any rom/ssh growin next cycle.

the nuitradip tri-meter i have works awesome: constant monitoring of ph (i guess i'll keep it around 6), ppm, and temp in my res... well worth the money...

it'll be a mess untill i get an electrition, but atleast everything is growin. its dam bright in that room even without the lights on movers, so they should be fine for a few weeks.

i was convinced that the lights can be hung directly on the mover bar at the highest point at all times, so no lowering or raising chains. so we'll just see how that works for the first cycle...

Hay man, loolin good!

And right on with the new strains, wouldn't mind trying the Strawberry haze! how far along are they? Sounds Yum Yum....

But hay, you mean you got the lights hanging like at the top point?
You are going to get some Major Bad stretching man!

In your pic you see the shadow line on the wall, it should be Just over the plant's..



The higher that line is the More your plants stretch...
Best to keep that line a few inch's over the canopy.......

And when you get the new motor you can lower it even more, the closer the better....

Every thing looks awsome tho, gonna have to yap latter bout the electrical prob man..
It's eacy to do, you just gotta buy the Right parts, i do know the basics...........

well the plants are lookin alot better now. i changed the water and lowered the temp in the room. growteck grow and powerthrieve are in the water, 15 min feed 5 times a day. i also have 4 mums in the room right now, growin out of soil. the romxssh mum in the pic has about 15 tops
lights are on 18/6 and it is bright as shit in there. they are still hangin at the top of the room, and still dont have inline exhaust, but i'll have that goin soon.
i'm suckin air in from the outside to cool the room down to about 75. the intake fan is on a thermostat so the colder it gets outside, the less the fan will run. should work great for now, but i'll be gettin an a/c unit in the spring.
everything is calibrated on the trimeter, the ph hovers around 6 with only 900 ppm at the moment... i also revamped the exhaust for better exit

finally!!! i have my electrical figured out.... 60 amp double pole breaker in the main box, then wired to my room just outside the poly to a secondary box. it has a 40 amp double pole that is wired to a 240V intermatic timer, heavy duty steel, then to plugs in the room for my digi ballasts to plug into... the secondary box also has 3 15 amp single pole breakers for 3 external plugs within the room...

the reason my lights are hanging stationary from thye roof is that my new mover motor hasnt come in the mail yet. unfortunately, i'm gonna have to try get rid of it, i just plan on addin another 1000 instead, so if anyone needs a mover with warrenty...

also attached a photo of the thermostat untit

3 weeks into flower... 17 rom x ssh in the room. now i have no more mover/rail. ive added a few more lights to the mix instead. along with my 2 digi 1000's, i bought an additional 1000 digi system and hung up my 400 from the mum room. so i have 3.4k hanging stationary from the roof. 3 mums are under T5's, works great

all my lights are inline,. but i dont have any ducting/fans on them. my room NEVER gets above the set temp, even after a 12h run, because i have my intake fan on the thermostat unit, and everytime it gets too warm, the fan sucks freezing cold winter air from outside. works unbelievable... except the intake vent plugs up with snow and ice every few days, but only takes a minute to clear. the exhaust is on a cycle timer for now.

in the warmer months i'll inline cool the lights and put the thermostat unit on the exhaust fan

no co2 yet

and got a bunch off ladybugs the other day... little buggers got into all my equipment and made a gigantic mess. in the water pumps, roasting in the light tubes, and the ballasts, i ended up killing them all haha. never again.... a few probably survived tho

1 thing thats been pissin me off has been my tri-meter. works great when the lights are off... then when the timer turns on the lights, the tri-meter goes hay-wire. not 1 reading makes sence. even in calibration liquid. then when the lights turn off, everything goes back to normal. what the hell?? electric current interferring with readings or what???

4 weeks into budding... the strain is rom x ssh, but it looks more haze than anything. theres such an intense lemon smell in the room, and i always wanted a lemon-smelling plant!! sticky sticky sticky!! and i have a T5 with green spectrum bulb in the room so i can trim while the HID lights are off without disturbing the plants too much. 4 weeks to go...