TechnoGrower
New Member
Hello all. I've been following these forums for a while. After a move east I'm finally able to get my room set up. Let us take a peek.
My room is split into a few different areas. Mother's Area, Cloning Station, Super Veg and Flower. Each area changes things up slightly with either lighting type or grow method.
Mother's Area:
Watering system is drip irrigation. Lighting is 4 t-8 florescent bulbs. Currently holding 9 plants, 4 White Widow and 5 Super Skunk. Seeds were cracked and planted into rock wool. First sprouts appeared on Mar 2. Transplanted in Coco on last Tuesday. I germinated 5 of each seed, and 9 of 10 took. At the moment the plan is to take the 2 best looking of both and make them my primary mothers. The 2nd best looking of the two will go to...
Super Veg:
I believe in DWC. I'm only ever verging or flowering two plants at a time. My primary vegging area has two DWC 5 gallon buckets, two more t-8 florescent hoods. The plants will go from solo cups to 10 inch net pots and hydroton into the DWC. Growth tends to explode once in DWC so here's where I'll top and train for...
Flowering Closet:
My flowering system is RDWC. The net pots and roots will move here where they'll be under a 450W Platinum LED grow light. I'm excited for this. I've heard great things about these lights. This grow space isn't huge, but I'm going to attempt to SCROG here as well once the time comes.
Nutes:
General Hydroponics (FloraGro/FloraBloom/FloraMicro) & CalMag throughout veg.
Silica Blast and GH FloraNova Bloom through Flower.
I haven't decided what or if I'm running any PKs. Will happily take any recommendations you all might have.
The Situation So Far:
As stated above, I have 9 seedlings just over two weeks old. I'm starting from scratch, so I'll be able to take you guys into veg as well as through cloning.
A note about my name--TechnoGrower. It's not because I love the music. I'm a tech geek and although I'm lucky enough that my 9-5 allows me to work from home there are still times where I need to get on the road and can't be home to babysit the kids. I love automation and I especially love to be able to see and control things from my phone or tablet. Better still is being able to automate things. If the humidity in the room is too high I want the AC to kick on automatically. I want to use IFTTT to run my fans and really circulate the air int he room when the electricity prices are at their lowest. I want my pebble watch to buzz if a light or pump doesn't kick on when it's scheduled.
So that's the plan. My setup is probably going to be a little pricier than it needs to be but the hope is that it leads to a good yield and some really fun grows and I add and experiment with new products.
Last Notes:
Everything set up I show you will have been built by me from stuff I get locally at the hardware store or online. I love DIY and getting out and using my hands (I grew up on a farm). I encourage all growers to do that. Also, I don't have pictures of the cloning station yet because 1) I don't have anything I can take clones from and 2) I haven't built it yet. That's coming and I'll let you all know when it's ready.
Alright all. Follow me as I get my new grow room set up and dialed in. It's gonna be fun. Promise.
My room is split into a few different areas. Mother's Area, Cloning Station, Super Veg and Flower. Each area changes things up slightly with either lighting type or grow method.
Mother's Area:
Watering system is drip irrigation. Lighting is 4 t-8 florescent bulbs. Currently holding 9 plants, 4 White Widow and 5 Super Skunk. Seeds were cracked and planted into rock wool. First sprouts appeared on Mar 2. Transplanted in Coco on last Tuesday. I germinated 5 of each seed, and 9 of 10 took. At the moment the plan is to take the 2 best looking of both and make them my primary mothers. The 2nd best looking of the two will go to...
Super Veg:
I believe in DWC. I'm only ever verging or flowering two plants at a time. My primary vegging area has two DWC 5 gallon buckets, two more t-8 florescent hoods. The plants will go from solo cups to 10 inch net pots and hydroton into the DWC. Growth tends to explode once in DWC so here's where I'll top and train for...
Flowering Closet:
My flowering system is RDWC. The net pots and roots will move here where they'll be under a 450W Platinum LED grow light. I'm excited for this. I've heard great things about these lights. This grow space isn't huge, but I'm going to attempt to SCROG here as well once the time comes.
Nutes:
General Hydroponics (FloraGro/FloraBloom/FloraMicro) & CalMag throughout veg.
Silica Blast and GH FloraNova Bloom through Flower.
I haven't decided what or if I'm running any PKs. Will happily take any recommendations you all might have.
The Situation So Far:
As stated above, I have 9 seedlings just over two weeks old. I'm starting from scratch, so I'll be able to take you guys into veg as well as through cloning.
A note about my name--TechnoGrower. It's not because I love the music. I'm a tech geek and although I'm lucky enough that my 9-5 allows me to work from home there are still times where I need to get on the road and can't be home to babysit the kids. I love automation and I especially love to be able to see and control things from my phone or tablet. Better still is being able to automate things. If the humidity in the room is too high I want the AC to kick on automatically. I want to use IFTTT to run my fans and really circulate the air int he room when the electricity prices are at their lowest. I want my pebble watch to buzz if a light or pump doesn't kick on when it's scheduled.
So that's the plan. My setup is probably going to be a little pricier than it needs to be but the hope is that it leads to a good yield and some really fun grows and I add and experiment with new products.
Last Notes:
Everything set up I show you will have been built by me from stuff I get locally at the hardware store or online. I love DIY and getting out and using my hands (I grew up on a farm). I encourage all growers to do that. Also, I don't have pictures of the cloning station yet because 1) I don't have anything I can take clones from and 2) I haven't built it yet. That's coming and I'll let you all know when it's ready.
Alright all. Follow me as I get my new grow room set up and dialed in. It's gonna be fun. Promise.
