cryodude
New Member
OK folks, haven't been on or posted in ages, but here is an attempt at bringing my 1st indoor grow by myself into public view. I am always interested in feedback and have lots to learn about indoor grow spaces since i was predominantly an out door grower. I did try this with some help a few years ago but i was long distance from the garden and discovered that i wasted a lot of time/money assuming other parties would be responsible and do their jobs. So i just did my outdoor thing legally the past 3 years in California and finally got myself legal for my own grows in my home state of Nevada. So i will have tons of picts showing the space going together and my plants, and the soil etc.. so first things first if i remember the routine here.
Plants:
Clones of Sensi Star and Bubba Kush (2 and 1) all you are allowed to flower for now in Nevada, 3 mature babies at a time.
Medium:
7 gal containers with my own version of a super soil.
Full Circle organic compost (50% worm castings) 50% of the soil mix in the 7 gal pots
50/50 mix of FFOF and light warrior (the other 50% of the soil mix.)
Organic amendments:
Blood meal
cottonseed meal
alfalfa meal
bone meal (fish steamed and regular bone meal)
rock phosphate
Humic acid
mychorrizea
Espoma bacterial/fungal colonies
Azomite
Glacial rock dust
N2 and P bat guanos
Epsom salt
Fine Dolomitic lime
all these items were used at about 1/2 rate of a conventional super soil so my 7 gal containers are almost full with this mix, 2 inches from top, ( watered 3 times over a week with 2 gals water each time to compact the soil some before use and the mix sank another inch or more), and i then extended the top of the containers another 3 inches with some FRP i cut and made rings to allow more softer soil (just a mix of the FFOF/light warrior and the full circle compost for the top 5-6 inches to transplant into. The complete mix was aged for 60 days before use, lots of time to breakdown goodies.
The actual room is 9' 4' tall and i constructed two walls to seal off an insulated area in my garage and made a 6' by 10' space for cloning/starters, a small (too small veg area) and then the flowering chamber. The flower chamber is 92" long by 40" wide with a raised floor off the ground of the garage by 14". I thought that wasting space for the containers in the light area was a bad idea so i cut 3 holes in the floor so my plants actually start out of their pots 2 inches below the floor surface. that space under the floor gets a fan blowing under it at night time to help move moisture around and push it so it doesn't stay stagnant since no air flow there during the day really.
I set up an efficient heat pump/ac wall unit to control temps in the whole space running on 220v and when i did the electrical, i ran 220 for the lights as well and a new 115v 20 amp circuit for smaller lights, pumps, fans, the dehumidifier, etc.. I know, i have an ac/heating unit that pulls moisture out, but the rooms design doesn't give way to super free air flow escaping the flower room so the additional moisture removal was needed at flowering time to keep things at 35-50% humidity at crunch time.
I run one fan close to the ac unit that pushed air into the top of the flower chamber and then down a bit and two small fans that push some hot air out on the other side. I run 1 oscillatingfan from the top that moves are from above down towards the plants and 1 more oscillating fan that moves air around at floor lever. I keep the co2 well stirred up this way all the time in daylight at least, even though all these fans run 24/7 for circulation.
I installed a 20 lb co2 system with flowmeter and timer for co2 injection into the space, Since it's an enclosed recirculating air system, i've discovered that i needed 15 minutes one hour, 30 minutes the next hour to maintain 900-1600 ppm in lights on. So i go through a 20 lb cylinder in about 2 weeks. not bad for 7.50 a cylinder ( that 15 a month is sure worth it.)
My lights are from a sponsor here, Advanced LED and i had 4 from 3 years ago on the aborted indoor california grows and i purchased 2 more for flowering and 1 for my little veg chamber. So i have 6 DS 200's covering a 25' grow space, roughly 3.5' wide by 7.5' long, hoping that about 50 watts a sq foot would be adequate. The veg chamber which is only 24" by 30" has a DS 100 and my little clone/starter space has a couple of short t5's that supply about 140 watts of blue for beginners.
Now i need to go back and figure out how to upload about 3 months of picts to show what has transpired.
Plants:
Clones of Sensi Star and Bubba Kush (2 and 1) all you are allowed to flower for now in Nevada, 3 mature babies at a time.
Medium:
7 gal containers with my own version of a super soil.
Full Circle organic compost (50% worm castings) 50% of the soil mix in the 7 gal pots
50/50 mix of FFOF and light warrior (the other 50% of the soil mix.)
Organic amendments:
Blood meal
cottonseed meal
alfalfa meal
bone meal (fish steamed and regular bone meal)
rock phosphate
Humic acid
mychorrizea
Espoma bacterial/fungal colonies
Azomite
Glacial rock dust
N2 and P bat guanos
Epsom salt
Fine Dolomitic lime
all these items were used at about 1/2 rate of a conventional super soil so my 7 gal containers are almost full with this mix, 2 inches from top, ( watered 3 times over a week with 2 gals water each time to compact the soil some before use and the mix sank another inch or more), and i then extended the top of the containers another 3 inches with some FRP i cut and made rings to allow more softer soil (just a mix of the FFOF/light warrior and the full circle compost for the top 5-6 inches to transplant into. The complete mix was aged for 60 days before use, lots of time to breakdown goodies.
The actual room is 9' 4' tall and i constructed two walls to seal off an insulated area in my garage and made a 6' by 10' space for cloning/starters, a small (too small veg area) and then the flowering chamber. The flower chamber is 92" long by 40" wide with a raised floor off the ground of the garage by 14". I thought that wasting space for the containers in the light area was a bad idea so i cut 3 holes in the floor so my plants actually start out of their pots 2 inches below the floor surface. that space under the floor gets a fan blowing under it at night time to help move moisture around and push it so it doesn't stay stagnant since no air flow there during the day really.
I set up an efficient heat pump/ac wall unit to control temps in the whole space running on 220v and when i did the electrical, i ran 220 for the lights as well and a new 115v 20 amp circuit for smaller lights, pumps, fans, the dehumidifier, etc.. I know, i have an ac/heating unit that pulls moisture out, but the rooms design doesn't give way to super free air flow escaping the flower room so the additional moisture removal was needed at flowering time to keep things at 35-50% humidity at crunch time.
I run one fan close to the ac unit that pushed air into the top of the flower chamber and then down a bit and two small fans that push some hot air out on the other side. I run 1 oscillatingfan from the top that moves are from above down towards the plants and 1 more oscillating fan that moves air around at floor lever. I keep the co2 well stirred up this way all the time in daylight at least, even though all these fans run 24/7 for circulation.
I installed a 20 lb co2 system with flowmeter and timer for co2 injection into the space, Since it's an enclosed recirculating air system, i've discovered that i needed 15 minutes one hour, 30 minutes the next hour to maintain 900-1600 ppm in lights on. So i go through a 20 lb cylinder in about 2 weeks. not bad for 7.50 a cylinder ( that 15 a month is sure worth it.)
My lights are from a sponsor here, Advanced LED and i had 4 from 3 years ago on the aborted indoor california grows and i purchased 2 more for flowering and 1 for my little veg chamber. So i have 6 DS 200's covering a 25' grow space, roughly 3.5' wide by 7.5' long, hoping that about 50 watts a sq foot would be adequate. The veg chamber which is only 24" by 30" has a DS 100 and my little clone/starter space has a couple of short t5's that supply about 140 watts of blue for beginners.
Now i need to go back and figure out how to upload about 3 months of picts to show what has transpired.