Stickyjones

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Hey man, i was wondering if you have any advice for getting good yields running small plants? Ive always grew bigger plants and allowed them to fill my room but i have an abundance of seeds and am searching for mothers so am just gonna run a bunch at 6-12 weeks from seed.
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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Hey man, i was wondering if you have any advice for getting good yields running small plants? Ive always grew bigger plants and allowed them to fill my room but i have an abundance of seeds and am searching for mothers so am just gonna run a bunch at 6-12 weeks from seed.
I have a bunch of advise I can give you! Give me a few days...I have some pressing life stuff going on right now.
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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There is a lot of life stuff going on right now. But other than that, my harvest has been going stellar. After a bit of trial and error, running an environment at 64-66 degrees F and a humidity that oscillates between 56% and 62%, the sweet spots were as follows:

1) Whole plant hang dry for 12 days.
2) Full trim and manicure and into pizza boxes for 5 days.
3) Into jars with 1 burp after 24 hours.

I found that doing a half ass trim job before going into the pizza boxes and then manicuring before going into jars was no where near as effective from an appearance standpoint.
 

Fiveleafsleft

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It's a little dependent on the temps and humidity. RIght now my temps hit 66F at night and rise to 72 or 73F during lights on. RH ranges between 42 and 52. The small 0.9 gallon containers are being watered about every 2 1/2 days.
Hi digit! Cool to see that you are up and running again! The last grows really look fantastic! And amazing to have so many strains at once! Seems like you’re constantly improving and changing thithings up! Have you ever tried drip emitters, RTW? In my experience, and from what I’ve read it’s The way to fully take advantage of coco as a growing medium! Please keep this show running!
 

Fiveleafsleft

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I would also love to hear you out on your conclusions after trying som many strains. What ratios of sativa/indica (I know those numbers can be hard to establish at times) seem to work best for this method? Amherst Sour Diesel seem to be winner in your book, that’s 80% Sativa according to the breeders. How does she smoke (according to your friends?) have you found a relatively pure dative that likes the 12/12-method? Your Hashplant is feisty as hell, but seem to be a poor producer on this light regime.. I’m starting a similar project, but in a slightly smaller scale, closet style that is. And would love to find 2-3 strains that stay around 2-3 feet with a rather small footprint. So will keep on lurking here for sure!
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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@Fiveleafsleft Thank you! I have never looked into drop emitters but I definitely want to. Hand watering is fun for me when plant counts are small but impossible to scale. My reviewers are just now starting to receive the samples and I'll have good data coming back over the next few weeks.
Only one verbal review has come in so far - Queen Cobra #1 - "Super Duper" is what I was told :)
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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After the last round, I needed a bit of a break to take care of some life stuff as well as think about what I want to do next. I've decided that it's time to get out of my dark and dreary basement corner and make a proper work space for myself. I will be building 2 new brand new rooms - a flower room and a multi-purpose room (veg, breeding, drying, etc..)

Here is the design I came up with:
Design.jpg

I need proper power for this and my main panel was nearly full. So I installed a 100 Amp Sub Panel right next to it:
Sub Panel.jpg
(5) 20 amp circuits in all. 3 are for the flower room and 2 are for the multi-purpose room.

I'm starting with the flowering room first. Our basement stays dry but every now and again we might get a little bit of water if it rains REALLY hard. I decided to use 2'x2' panels of DriCore for my sub-floor. These are great because they have plastic on the bottom and grooves for water to move through and evaporate - just in case.
Sub Floor.jpg
These rooms will not connect to the existing basement walls or ceiling joists. I'm doing them as complete stand-alone rooms.

The insulation/vapor barrier design is inverted from what you might expect. Generally I would do a room like so (from the inside out):
Dywall, Ruxul (or fiberglass) and then XPS foam. But in this case, I will be encouraging a high humidity environment and do not want drywall on the inside of the room. So I basically flipped everything - it will be just fine. I'm using the 1" XPS foam board to completely enclose the entire interior of the room. All the walls, the ceiling and even the floor on top of the dri core.
Exterior Framing.jpg


Exterior 1.jpg

After getting the XPS foam board on the walls, I did the floor and then put in a 1/2" plywood floor on top of that.
Interior 1.jpg

I built 3 benches that plants will be on - more on that later. After using tuck tape on all of the joints and PL300 on all of the seams, we're looking pretty snug. Starting to wrap the room with Reflectix.
Interior 2.jpg

The room will contain (3) LED array's - one on each wall. Some rough framing was started up on the ceiling to support them. The left and right walls will have (12) QB 288's. The far wall will have (14). I've done a rough mount on the drivers but I need to spend some time cleaning it up.
LED Drivers - Rough.jpg
I have a few of them wired temporarily just for testing purposes. I'll be running each board at 100 watts, 2 boards per driver. I'll be running 9 drivers on each of the 1st two circuits leaving me the 3rd circuit for all of the misc stuff.
 

Polyuro

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After the last round, I needed a bit of a break to take care of some life stuff as well as think about what I want to do next. I've decided that it's time to get out of my dark and dreary basement corner and make a proper work space for myself. I will be building 2 new brand new rooms - a flower room and a multi-purpose room (veg, breeding, drying, etc..)

Here is the design I came up with:
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I need proper power for this and my main panel was nearly full. So I installed a 100 Amp Sub Panel right next to it:
View attachment 4668695
(5) 20 amp circuits in all. 3 are for the flower room and 2 are for the multi-purpose room.

I'm starting with the flowering room first. Our basement stays dry but every now and again we might get a little bit of water if it rains REALLY hard. I decided to use 2'x2' panels of DriCore for my sub-floor. These are great because they have plastic on the bottom and grooves for water to move through and evaporate - just in case.
View attachment 4668698
These rooms will not connect to the existing basement walls or ceiling joists. I'm doing them as complete stand-alone rooms.

The insulation/vapor barrier design is inverted from what you might expect. Generally I would do a room like so (from the inside out):
Dywall, Ruxul (or fiberglass) and then XPS foam. But in this case, I will be encouraging a high humidity environment and do not want drywall on the inside of the room. So I basically flipped everything - it will be just fine. I'm using the 1" XPS foam board to completely enclose the entire interior of the room. All the walls, the ceiling and even the floor on top of the dri core.
View attachment 4668700


View attachment 4668702

After getting the XPS foam board on the walls, I did the floor and then put in a 1/2" plywood floor on top of that.
View attachment 4668713

I built 3 benches that plants will be on - more on that later. After using tuck tape on all of the joints and PL300 on all of the seams, we're looking pretty snug. Starting to wrap the room with Reflectix.
View attachment 4668722

The room will contain (3) LED array's - one on each wall. Some rough framing was started up on the ceiling to support them. The left and right walls will have (12) QB 288's. The far wall will have (14). I've done a rough mount on the drivers but I need to spend some time cleaning it up.
View attachment 4668725
I have a few of them wired temporarily just for testing purposes. I'll be running each board at 100 watts, 2 boards per driver. I'll be running 9 drivers on each of the 1st two circuits leaving me the 3rd circuit for all of the misc stuff.
Amazing first and for most. Just wow. Still adding up your total potential wattage but can’t count that high.

Looks like your water problem is from water leaking through a crack in the wall. Try and raise the grade on that side of the foundation, if possible. Cheapest/first best step. Also check the gutters!
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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Here is what the LED arrays look like. I have the 1st of 3 mounted and tested.
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My wife says no smell or no deal. The filter you see on the ceiling is my exhaust. My challenge is what do I do in winter when my basement hits 48 degrees F in Feb? I have to heat and I can't run the exhaust full blast. So here is what I came up with:

Exterior Filter.jpg

When the exhaust is on, fresh air will mostly come through this (i've gone great extents to make the room air tight). I get the immediate benefit of nice clean and filtered air coming into the room. But when it's cold, and my exhaust is not on, this is going to give me some odor and temp protection (I think). A naked intake vent would just leak odor. This should prevent that.
 

Hot Diggity Sog

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Amazing first and for most. Just wow. Still adding up your total potential wattage but can’t count that high.

Looks like your water problem is from water leaking through a crack in the wall. Try and raise the grade on that side of the foundation, if possible. Cheapest/first best step. Also check the gutters!
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My hardware supply guy says to run the carbon filter inside the tent. No intake or out take. He says internal room charcoal filtering reduces smell +30% more than filtering the air to vent out for temp/humidity sake.
That may be true but I still have to exchange the air for O2/C02 reasons. And not being able to maintain a negative pressure environment will ultimately lead to odor issues - in my experience.
 
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