Autohyponic
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Hello everyone. I hope the grass is green on this Christmas day 2017. Currently I am on day 70 of my very first grow counting from the day I started germinating. I decided in the beginning if I was going to do this, I would do it the best way I could with the funds I had. My intent was not to start with a simple set up and build it as I go. I wanted to GROW BIG OR GROW NONE. I knew I was going to use a spot in my basement about 8x8x8. Everything needed to take place in the 8x8x8 room. I knew I was going to do DWC and I would be using 10 - 22 Gal. totes. I made my measurements and verified I could put all 10 of the totes into a 4x8 grow tent. By drilling 5 3in holes in the top of each container, I could grow 50 plants and give them the minimum allowed square footage. Before I go further, I am well aware that 50 plants in a 4x8 tent seems like too many. My idea was to start 50 and see where the end took me. I was more than willing to thin the herd if necessary. However 50 seemed like a nice number. I knew I wanted to do Auto Flower plants. I knew that acquiring seeds in the volume I needed to do perpetual auto fem runs would be difficult unless I had a bunch of money to buy seeds every 3 months. Fortunately for me, a friend just learned how to use Colloidal Silver in order to make an auto flower plant produce seeds from its self. I am not a scientist, but by putting CS on one of the branches of the Auto Fem plant, that branch will turn male. Once it turns male it will produce pollen on a single branch. By pollinating the female sex organs on the rest of the plant with the pollen from the male branch causes the Auto Fem plant to produce seeds that are replicas of the mother. So in the 8x8x8 room I will now need (in order to be perpetual) a seed propagation chamber. This is currently where I am at in my grow as far as set up and hardware is concerned. It is essential to complete ASAP as I will be needing to start my next batch of 50 plants soon. I only have enough reserve seeds from what I got from my friend for one more run of 50 Purple Express Auto Fems. Once the seed prop chamber is complete I should be all set for perpetual auto fem cycles. I recently purchased a nice variety of auto fem seeds from seedsman. The propagation chamber will be growing 4 Auto Fems at one time in separate isolated quadrants with in the chamber (Cant have cross pollination now can we). The goal is to end 1 Prop Chamber run with seeds from 4 Auto Fem plants giving me thousands to continue. I have over 20 strains to do this with so I will be seed propagating for quite awhile before I get copies (seeds) of all my strains.
That is sort of a quick run down of my planning and where I am currently. This journal will start from the beginning. I will be adding to it weekly and it will catch its way up to where I am currently. Before I get this thing officially started I will go through the run down of my exact equipment and set up.
Seeds = Purple Express Auto Fem
Medium = Growstone GS-2
Basket Size = 3in
Nutrients = General Hydroponics for Micro, Bloom, Grow and Cal Mag. I use Emerald Harvest Kola King and Botanicare Hydroguard as extra additives.
PH Up/Down = General Hydroponics for PH Up and KleanStrip Phosphoric Acid for PH Down
Grow Tent = Ipomelo 4x8 Grow Tent.
DWC Reservoirs = Durabilt Heavy Duty 22Gal totes.
Air Pump #1 = 10 - Aqua Culture Air Pump good for 15-30 Gal. (1 pump per rezy)
Air Pump #2 = 2 - Eco plus Air Pumps good for 793GPH. (1 pumps air to 4 rezys, 1 pumps air to 6 rezys)
Air Stone #1 = 10 - 12in Aquarium flat air stones. (1 per rezy)
Air Stone #2 = 10 - 8in cylindrical air stones. (1 per rezy)
HPS Light = Unknown Brand 600 Watt HPS purchased from local hydroponics store.
LED Light = Viparspectra 900 Watt LED
Exhaust System = Unknown Brand 2 - 6in inline fans with filters.
Air Conditioner = Whynter 1080 Watt Portable Air Conditioner Modified
Propagation Dome = Super Starter 7in Prop Dome w/ Heat Pad and Super Sprouter T5 light.
Entry 1 : Building "The Room"
I solicited the help of a legal Appalachian native born citizen to help construct the room. So if its off par, wrong, not square, ugly, stinky, rigged together and ragged then its his fault...
. The room was to be 8ft x 8ft. The entire project was roughly 16ft long by 8ft wide. This project was an attempt at adding on to my house as well as conceal my soon to be grow room. In my basement the furnace, water heater, and all associated duct work/plumbing (Eye Sore) are located in one area. We needed to build the room in the corner and hide it by including the grow room with the water heater and furnace room. This meant I needed two doors. One to enter the furnace/water heater area and one to enter the grow room AKA Storage Room
. The grow room would need to be finished on the outside and appear to be a normal wall. The inside of the grow room needed to also be finished but roughly. The room with the furnace and water heater is just an outer shell. The goal was to hide it in plain sight and if noticed, I would use the storage room excuse. I put a lock on the grow room door just in case someone got sneaky.... They would be left to their imagination. I ran electric and plumbing into the room. I mounted a water pump to the wall to assist with water changes. This pump allows me to remove all the water from each rezy cleanly and easily. I ran it into my house plumbing so its out of sight. I also ran a water spigot into the grow room in order to refill the rezys for water changes. I never have to leave the room for for water changes with this set up. I figured this would cut down on accidental exposure. I will end this entry with some pictures of the room before and after. I hope yall enjoy. The next entry will be include the start of germination.

That is sort of a quick run down of my planning and where I am currently. This journal will start from the beginning. I will be adding to it weekly and it will catch its way up to where I am currently. Before I get this thing officially started I will go through the run down of my exact equipment and set up.
Seeds = Purple Express Auto Fem
Medium = Growstone GS-2
Basket Size = 3in
Nutrients = General Hydroponics for Micro, Bloom, Grow and Cal Mag. I use Emerald Harvest Kola King and Botanicare Hydroguard as extra additives.
PH Up/Down = General Hydroponics for PH Up and KleanStrip Phosphoric Acid for PH Down
Grow Tent = Ipomelo 4x8 Grow Tent.
DWC Reservoirs = Durabilt Heavy Duty 22Gal totes.
Air Pump #1 = 10 - Aqua Culture Air Pump good for 15-30 Gal. (1 pump per rezy)
Air Pump #2 = 2 - Eco plus Air Pumps good for 793GPH. (1 pumps air to 4 rezys, 1 pumps air to 6 rezys)
Air Stone #1 = 10 - 12in Aquarium flat air stones. (1 per rezy)
Air Stone #2 = 10 - 8in cylindrical air stones. (1 per rezy)
HPS Light = Unknown Brand 600 Watt HPS purchased from local hydroponics store.
LED Light = Viparspectra 900 Watt LED
Exhaust System = Unknown Brand 2 - 6in inline fans with filters.
Air Conditioner = Whynter 1080 Watt Portable Air Conditioner Modified
Propagation Dome = Super Starter 7in Prop Dome w/ Heat Pad and Super Sprouter T5 light.
Entry 1 : Building "The Room"
I solicited the help of a legal Appalachian native born citizen to help construct the room. So if its off par, wrong, not square, ugly, stinky, rigged together and ragged then its his fault...



















































