SerenityNow
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I'm new here, but I've been reading for some time, and gathering info. I've almost completed my grow room, which consists of a clone station, which is broken into 2 levels, one for clones, and the other for extra clones, or for housing slightly older clones (I plan on cutting every 4 weeks once I get started with the new mothers, to create a 4 week cycle). I also have a 4' x 5' veg room, and a 9' x 4' flower room. All of this is squeezed into a 9'x9' room. I have a 2x 55W T5 clone light for the clones, and in the veg-room I have 2 Cool Tubes with 600W LucaGrows fitted. I'm running digital ballasts throughout. The ballasts have a 10% over-drive feature, so effectively the lights are 660W when running flat out, but they can also be run at 300W in the early stages. In the flower room I have 4 Cool Tubes with 600W LucaGrows fitted. I've set up an overhead light hanging system that allows me to switch over to 5 lights if need be, but initially I'll be running 4 lights, until I'm certain temps won't suffer from the addition of a 5th light source. I should mention, this room has its own reverse cycle air conditioner fitted (split system with 1/3rd of the outlet feeding to veg room, and 2/3rds feeding the flower room), so temps and humidity won't be a concern, especially with a 500cu.ft. inline centrifugal fan exhausting things.
During my research it occurred to me that with such a long wait from seed to harvest, it made good sense to sneak an auto-crop in before the new strains start providing me with a steady source of medicine. So for the first crop I'm going with 10 x Barneys Farm Pineapple Express Auto, 5 x Auto Seeds Berry Ryder, and 10 x Dinafem Seeds Critical Jack, plus a couple of freebies, 1 x G13 Auto AK and 1 x Dinafem Seeds White Widow Auto. Growing from seed is all new to me, so I must admit to being a little nervous about the germination side of things, but less worried about what follows.
I plan on being as scientific and thorough as I possibly can, with a mind to producing world-class medical cannabis (lofty ambitions!). I'm running to waste, because I've never been a fan of anything else. I've used auto watering in the past, but I plan on hand watering my babies this time, mainly because I think the extra interaction with the plants is beneficial to both them and myself, and also because I like doing it. I've set up 2 x 70 litre tanks (1 veg and 1 flower). They have a Hanna constant display pH/EC/Temp meter mounted on the wall above them, with a 1500LPH aquarium pump and 100W heater in each tank. I'll use a watering 'wand' with on/off valve for watering with. I'm using a quality A+B veg and flower feed, supplemented with Canna's Rhizotonic, Cannazyme, and PK13/14.
I also plan on feeding the plants carbon dioxide. With 4 lights (2400W total) my flower room will have 66W/square foot. With the 4 lights being fed 660W from the digital ballasts (10% over-drive) it gets up to 73W/square foot. Can I go higher with CO2 and air conditioning?
I have 6 150mm (6") Cool Tubes with flexible ducts fitted leading back to a main collector box, There's also one 150mm duct placed at the top of each room for extracting heat from the top of each room. All this leads to a custom made collector box, which houses an 8"x32" (200x800mm) carbon filter, with a 500cu 8" (200mm) inline centrifugal fan mounted to the end of it. A 10" duct from the fan connects it to a roof-vent mounted at the highest point of the roof for maximum dispersal. A 1000mg/hr ozone generator is mounted downstream from the fan to further dampen smells. I have a 14" wall mounted fan in the flower room, and a smaller floor mounted fan in the veg room. I also have a baby fan for blowing on the from-seed-seedlings to make sure they grow strong.
For the first crop I'm going to grow 27 plants in total, all auto-flowering grown in 8 liter (2.2 gallon) pots filled with perlite. This seems to be a good number for completely filling the room with a sea of medicine. They claim these autos can reach up to 750mm tall in good conditions, so it should be interesting to see just how fast we can get those cells to divide.
Photos to follow...
During my research it occurred to me that with such a long wait from seed to harvest, it made good sense to sneak an auto-crop in before the new strains start providing me with a steady source of medicine. So for the first crop I'm going with 10 x Barneys Farm Pineapple Express Auto, 5 x Auto Seeds Berry Ryder, and 10 x Dinafem Seeds Critical Jack, plus a couple of freebies, 1 x G13 Auto AK and 1 x Dinafem Seeds White Widow Auto. Growing from seed is all new to me, so I must admit to being a little nervous about the germination side of things, but less worried about what follows.
I plan on being as scientific and thorough as I possibly can, with a mind to producing world-class medical cannabis (lofty ambitions!). I'm running to waste, because I've never been a fan of anything else. I've used auto watering in the past, but I plan on hand watering my babies this time, mainly because I think the extra interaction with the plants is beneficial to both them and myself, and also because I like doing it. I've set up 2 x 70 litre tanks (1 veg and 1 flower). They have a Hanna constant display pH/EC/Temp meter mounted on the wall above them, with a 1500LPH aquarium pump and 100W heater in each tank. I'll use a watering 'wand' with on/off valve for watering with. I'm using a quality A+B veg and flower feed, supplemented with Canna's Rhizotonic, Cannazyme, and PK13/14.
I also plan on feeding the plants carbon dioxide. With 4 lights (2400W total) my flower room will have 66W/square foot. With the 4 lights being fed 660W from the digital ballasts (10% over-drive) it gets up to 73W/square foot. Can I go higher with CO2 and air conditioning?
I have 6 150mm (6") Cool Tubes with flexible ducts fitted leading back to a main collector box, There's also one 150mm duct placed at the top of each room for extracting heat from the top of each room. All this leads to a custom made collector box, which houses an 8"x32" (200x800mm) carbon filter, with a 500cu 8" (200mm) inline centrifugal fan mounted to the end of it. A 10" duct from the fan connects it to a roof-vent mounted at the highest point of the roof for maximum dispersal. A 1000mg/hr ozone generator is mounted downstream from the fan to further dampen smells. I have a 14" wall mounted fan in the flower room, and a smaller floor mounted fan in the veg room. I also have a baby fan for blowing on the from-seed-seedlings to make sure they grow strong.
For the first crop I'm going to grow 27 plants in total, all auto-flowering grown in 8 liter (2.2 gallon) pots filled with perlite. This seems to be a good number for completely filling the room with a sea of medicine. They claim these autos can reach up to 750mm tall in good conditions, so it should be interesting to see just how fast we can get those cells to divide.
Photos to follow...
