Greenislands grow journal 09' #2

[greenisland]

Ok well here we go starting the second journal. So far I have all of the girls under a 175 watt HO floro light. I will be growing these in the same room as my previouse journal, however I will repost all specs for newcomers, so here we go. This is what Im working with.

First things first!! ..The Equipment list!!
Ballasts: 3-600watt elect. Quantum dimmable ballasts (love these things, I own like a dozen already!lol)
Bulbs: 600W Hortilux mh conversion for veg and hps for bloom
Hoods: 3-Hydrofarm 8"air-cooled hoods with insulated 8" duct work. They also have the dual wall design to keep temps down on outside of reflector. And has the swing down lens and gasket system for easy maintenance of bulbs and lenses (gotta love that idea!)
Nutrient delivery system: C.A.P. Ebb and Gro set. I always end up only using 10 of the buckets in the both of the sets I use now. The plants don't get crammed that way. And that's what seems to work best for the MJ and tomatoes/basil.
Air movement/Filtration:2-Airking 12" oscillating fans (wall-mount) just for air movement in the room. Ion/uv air filter(to keep air clean). Mountainaire 8" carbon filter with a 12" uvonair (3 corona discharge unit ozone generator, overkill I know) Also I have the room under negative pressure with the 8" max fan hooked up to the carbon filter and ozone generator and its exhausting 24/7. Lights are exhausted with a 8"max-fan as well. Also have another 8"max fan exhausting the room when humidity or temp exceed the set-point.
Environmental: CHHC Sentinel Co2 PPM/temp/humidity/night-device controller. Hooked up to a C.A.P propane CO2 generator. Enviro controller set at 1500ppm, temp at 78 deg. and humidity at 50 with 10 deg dead-band
Nutrients: Advanced nutrients Sensi series so far but I just switched to Advanced Nutrients micro/veg/bloom 3part for flowering because the old nutes were old and not working properly ( having lockout issues) Buckets get flooded 5 times daily
Genetics: "Nosebleed" cross between a local strain and GWS or Silver pearl (cant remember anymore, sorry, its an old girl! And I'm an old guy, lol, ) Also I have another local no name strain that I hybridized years ago. And last but not least "Blue Cheese"(prob my personal favorite even though I had no part in the making of this strain and the other two I did)

Keep in mind they are not in this room yet. It will be a few days before they get moved to their final destination which is back in my room with the 3 600watt lights.

So heres the first set of pictures!



I usually start out pretty rough with them so I can weed out the weeklings As you can see here a few didnt make it through the torturouse 3 days no water test, lol. PS: I didnt do that on purpose, lol. It had more to be with me being out of town actually, lol. But notice how even the rest are? Thats how I want them before they go into the big room. Stay posted! Ill have more pics of the rest soon. Hope everyone stays on for the ride. There only 2 weeks old now but their growing fast!

[dfw-guy]

Back on the bandwagon Lets shoot for .6g/watt!

[DownOver]

Greenie,

Too me, this is already going to be a 5 star journal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[greenisland]

Glad to have you both on board! And Im going for 1gram per watt next time ...shit! Like thats ever going to happen lol, but yeah .6 g pr watt is good too, lol. Should have updated pics going up by the end of the week

[LiveTour]

Sweet, your set up sounds sic! Can't wait to see them grow

[greenisland]

Deadtour feel free to check out my previouse journal as it was done in the same room. There are a few additions to this room but I will be going over that when the time comes. Thanks for stopping by deadtour!

[munki]

OK, I'm aboard. I want to see your new Ebb and Flow Tek as I will be redesigning my system next year.

[PitViper]

good start i am watching

[greenisland]

Ok so heres my reason for rebuilding the ebb and gro set. Root bound plants. The plants wont be quite as big this next go around but I still want them to have as much room as possible to grow their large root systems.

These pics show them being pretty rootbound eh?



And this is where I am now in the room. It will be cleaned in the next few days and sterilized. Also I will be installing a few more upgrades. Then the plants get to go back in their new home. This room will have plants in the original 3 gallon pots. The new room however will have the new upgraded ebb and gro pot system. I will keep both rooms seperate and they will both have there own journal (im still thinking about that actually). Anyhow Here is the room as of now. NASTY! uuuggghhh! I hate messes like this!



Ok so the TEK will take a little longer than expected because Im waiting on parts but I will have a few other things Im doing to, like upgrading the exhaust ...again. And doing some work with the AC and overall environmental changes. Stay tuned!

[braundc420]

excellent setup, Good job greenisland! I'm looking forward to this one!

[poker shark]

This should be good...
+reps when I can

[The Butcher]

The butchers back from the slaughterhouse and reporting.

Cant wait to see this grow Greenisland, great job on the last.

[greenisland]

Thanks everybody!

[munki]

I think you should take a built in swimming pool and convert it to a big DWC filled with nutrients. Cover the pool with a walkable cover with places to support the plants. All of this is covered in a greenhouse with supplemental HPS lighting and CO2 injection.

Being underground, the earth should help cool the solution. Pool pumps could run to a large chiller or to an evaporative cooler and inject air into the solution.

Daydreaming again. It would be schweet though.

[WheeloFortune]

i'm in.

green island you da man.