Hello everyone, I just thought I would share my set up with y'all and hopefully get some feedback. I'm a first time grower in a area where information is limited so please any tips or advice is greatly appreciated.
The grow room itself is 7'7" by 9'1" long and 7' high, the room itself is built within an old office. The office originally was 11'x20'. To construct the room i basically stood two walls up , insulated heavily and hung drywall. For the walls already standing I did my best to seal the Windows with clear gorilla tape, also added 1.5" foam board insulation and screwed that to the wall over the Windows. I left the curtains and blinds up to give the appearance that nothing has changed (except that room is dark all the time now lol. After that was all hung I took great stuff foam and sealed all the cracks. When the great stuff was dry I trimmed off some of the bigger chunks and added white & black poly film around the entire room. Except where I cut out and Placed a LG 8000 btu 115v window ac to cool the room. Around the window I took mastic sealer and basically covered the window. On top of the mastic I used hvac hot/cold tape( couldn't think of what's it's called).after the ac was in all I had to do was add my tents.
Starting off I purchased two low quality tents (one 2x4 and one 4x4) and they did all right but I wanted to maximize the use of my space so I had a plan to Oder quality tents and to place 3 gorilla grow tents in the room (two 4x4 against the back wall and one 2x4 for veg against the other) but after construction and the gorilla tents finally arriving there was not enough room for the 2x4 tent and to comfortably move around & work in the 4x4's so I moved the 2x4 to a closet . I'm Currently left with two 4x4 gorilla tents in the room.
Both 4x4 tents are currently flowering right now. The first one (we'll call that tent T1) is on day 67 but I don't really count that run considering it was my very first run and it's been more of learning plants that I've just beat the hell out of. I wanted to get a little familiar with everything before I started with good genetics. Regardless she's taken all the abuse I've given her and has started her flush out , should be chopping down in the next couple weeks but we'll see how that goes.
I wasn't going to show any pictures of T1 but maybe some one has some advice for me so here she is.
T2 is currently on day 8 of flower, I started from seed 8 weeks ago and now we are here. My first plant gave me some general knowledge of ppm and very basic health assessment so going into this run I felt a little more confident.
I currently have 3 strains growing in T2. The strains are white widow extreme,chronic and borderliner extreme. Which I purchased from amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com, other than their website I haven't been able to find out much on these specific strains.
In the tent I have a adjustable 600wt hps running at 450 right since I just switched to flower . I'm also adding co2 and Each strain is in its own 5 gallon bucket , For my nutrients I'm using PH perfect sensi bloom Part A&B, Cal MAg, diamond nectar, silica,Fl+ and great white microbes. I will continue to only use these until week 3 of flower when I will introduce big bud for two weeks then over drive two weeks after. I will also cut out the great white at week 5.
Here's a quick time lapse to week 9
week 1
week 2
week 3
week 5
week 6
week5
week6
week 7
week 8 right before the flip
And here we are currently in week 1 of flower
My nutrient schedule on 8/8/17 was. (Week 1 of flower)
Ml is per 4 gallons using tap water at 150ppm
White widow
22 ml A&B
27 ml Cal Mag
4 ml FL+
27 ml Nectar
3 ml silica
Ppm 1040
8/9/17 ppm was 1000
Chronic
25 ml A&B
30 ml Cal Mag
28 ml nectar
4 ml FL+
3 ml silica
Ppm 1140
8/9/17 ppm was 1004
Borderliner
30 ml A&B
27 ml Cal Mag
4 ml FL+
28 ml nectar
3 ml silica
Ppm was 1230
8/9/17 ppm was 1170
This was my first post and I hope I gave everyone enough info about my setup, if you have any questions, tips or comments again I would love to hear them all even the bad and the ugly. Please correct me if I'm doing something wrong lol. Anyway I hope everyone has a fun and safe week and I look forward to everyone's comments.
Cheers .
One more thing. I just noticed I didn't have any pictures of the two 4x4 gorilla tents in the room. I'll be sure to add that once I get home and take some pictures.Some old pics from when I started the room.
The grow room itself is 7'7" by 9'1" long and 7' high, the room itself is built within an old office. The office originally was 11'x20'. To construct the room i basically stood two walls up , insulated heavily and hung drywall. For the walls already standing I did my best to seal the Windows with clear gorilla tape, also added 1.5" foam board insulation and screwed that to the wall over the Windows. I left the curtains and blinds up to give the appearance that nothing has changed (except that room is dark all the time now lol. After that was all hung I took great stuff foam and sealed all the cracks. When the great stuff was dry I trimmed off some of the bigger chunks and added white & black poly film around the entire room. Except where I cut out and Placed a LG 8000 btu 115v window ac to cool the room. Around the window I took mastic sealer and basically covered the window. On top of the mastic I used hvac hot/cold tape( couldn't think of what's it's called).after the ac was in all I had to do was add my tents.
Starting off I purchased two low quality tents (one 2x4 and one 4x4) and they did all right but I wanted to maximize the use of my space so I had a plan to Oder quality tents and to place 3 gorilla grow tents in the room (two 4x4 against the back wall and one 2x4 for veg against the other) but after construction and the gorilla tents finally arriving there was not enough room for the 2x4 tent and to comfortably move around & work in the 4x4's so I moved the 2x4 to a closet . I'm Currently left with two 4x4 gorilla tents in the room.
Both 4x4 tents are currently flowering right now. The first one (we'll call that tent T1) is on day 67 but I don't really count that run considering it was my very first run and it's been more of learning plants that I've just beat the hell out of. I wanted to get a little familiar with everything before I started with good genetics. Regardless she's taken all the abuse I've given her and has started her flush out , should be chopping down in the next couple weeks but we'll see how that goes.
I wasn't going to show any pictures of T1 but maybe some one has some advice for me so here she is.
T2 is currently on day 8 of flower, I started from seed 8 weeks ago and now we are here. My first plant gave me some general knowledge of ppm and very basic health assessment so going into this run I felt a little more confident.
I currently have 3 strains growing in T2. The strains are white widow extreme,chronic and borderliner extreme. Which I purchased from amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com, other than their website I haven't been able to find out much on these specific strains.
In the tent I have a adjustable 600wt hps running at 450 right since I just switched to flower . I'm also adding co2 and Each strain is in its own 5 gallon bucket , For my nutrients I'm using PH perfect sensi bloom Part A&B, Cal MAg, diamond nectar, silica,Fl+ and great white microbes. I will continue to only use these until week 3 of flower when I will introduce big bud for two weeks then over drive two weeks after. I will also cut out the great white at week 5.
Here's a quick time lapse to week 9
And here we are currently in week 1 of flower
My nutrient schedule on 8/8/17 was. (Week 1 of flower)
Ml is per 4 gallons using tap water at 150ppm
White widow
22 ml A&B
27 ml Cal Mag
4 ml FL+
27 ml Nectar
3 ml silica
Ppm 1040
8/9/17 ppm was 1000
Chronic
25 ml A&B
30 ml Cal Mag
28 ml nectar
4 ml FL+
3 ml silica
Ppm 1140
8/9/17 ppm was 1004
Borderliner
30 ml A&B
27 ml Cal Mag
4 ml FL+
28 ml nectar
3 ml silica
Ppm was 1230
8/9/17 ppm was 1170
This was my first post and I hope I gave everyone enough info about my setup, if you have any questions, tips or comments again I would love to hear them all even the bad and the ugly. Please correct me if I'm doing something wrong lol. Anyway I hope everyone has a fun and safe week and I look forward to everyone's comments.
Cheers .
One more thing. I just noticed I didn't have any pictures of the two 4x4 gorilla tents in the room. I'll be sure to add that once I get home and take some pictures.Some old pics from when I started the room.
until the chop. 
