Greetings fellow reader.
I bid you welcome in my grow room. I hope you will enjoy and why not, satisfy your eventual curiosity about my setup
The Strain: Super Skunk
-Mostly indica this strain should provide me robust and fast growing and flowering plants
Breeder: White Label Feminised obtained via sensi seeds website
-First time I directly try Sensi seeds site. worked perfectly well and got my seeds delivered somewhere in france within 15 days. Perfect to get my groThe Setup
Lighting:
600 Watts MH and HPS Grolux bulbs powered by ETI 600W ballasts. I use the Metal Halyde during veg phase and High Pressure Sodium during flowering phase.
Whichever bulb is hosted by a Mini HydroStar 125 Cooled Reflector so I can really have the lamp close to the apex.
Air circulation:
The bulbs are cooled by a 365 m3/h RVK thats sucks the hot air produced at the lamp out of the grow room and sends it to my living room. Hence no need to turn the heater in winter. I really thinks thats cool I made up a silencer around the RVK (on the right) so I can sleep just fine To freshen the grow room an active intrake (on the left) sucks air right from outside (at the top) and and filters it prior sending it towards the plants during light time. The filter is also homemade with wadder inside.
The air coming out of the grow space is filtered through a carbon filter placed as high as possible to remove the heat from the grow space.
This setup allows me to get rid of the heat in summer and reverse it in winter to warm my flat.
Growing system
GroTank 205 my classic. I love the simplicity of this system and have produced weed with it for almost a decade.
For those whom dont know about it it is a hydro recirculating system. Plants are grown in rockwool and put on a nutrient film (NFT) that allow an ever distribution of water to plants. Water circulates through a little water pump in the reservoir under the plants. Its the most compact and economic setup I grew with.
To grow cannabis you just have to make sure the PH oscillate between 5.5 and 6.0. I usually tweak it at 5.7 to give some margin. And fertilize correctly. I increase 0.1 EC per week and keep the ratio between the products as manufacturers advises.
To help the plants during veg state I also use a mist maker 24/7
Fertilizers: France Hydroponic full pack containing:
Rhyzomass
A+B grow
A+B flow
PK fury
Bud excell
Sugar Crystal
In complement I use:
Supervit
Diamond Nectar
The seeds put direclty in rockwool. They sprouted in two days, on 27th jan. under a 125W eco light. No need to tell that the rockwool was tamponed with a 5.7 ph water. When turning on the watts I usually put the reflector way far of the plants so the babies can be safe. after a few days I drop the reflector to 40cm and today at 15cm.
I changed the sauce with a 0.7 EC and 5.7 PH today since I am sure they will do just fine with it. They will keep on like that for 4 days then I will go 12/12.
It looks like this:
The cold air is coming right above the mist maker. Blowing the mist gently on all the plants. The cold air is only pumped when light are on the the T° doesn't drop at night; The towel is watered and provide humidity to the air while drying. It also help to keep the grow room clean
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Peace from france.