SmokeyMcPotJK
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Firstly, Please feel free to post an help or comments about my grow or setup. I could use all the help I can get.
SETUP:
(update) Seed: bag seed from dank (waiting on my northern lights seeds to come)
Germination Method: Paper towel method (next time I am going to germinate right out of rockwood cubes I think...going to put them in the cabinet so they stay at the right temp to germ and light proof them somehow because seeds dont like light when germinating)
Soil: Miracle Grow mixed with perlite (I would not recomend Miracle Grow but its what I had already, if you use it mix some perlite in like 20 or 30% perlite and 70-80% MG)
Do not put newly sprouted seedlings in MG soil they dont like it. Learn from my mistakes. Use rockwool cubes or MG seed starting soil or some good quality sterilized organic soil. Would not recomend Jiffy Pellets cuz the germ rate is low compared to Rockwool. Something like 50% from jiffy and 90% from rockwool.
Cabinet: Roughly 4 foot tall 28 inches wide 22 inches deep
Location: Under Basement stairs
Air Flow: 2 pc fans 1 in 1 out
Light Setup: 4 fixtures on a wood board. Chain adjustable. Covered with Mylar. Also have Y connectors so It will be 8 total lights.
Lights 23 and 25 watt cfl's mostly 6500's to veg and 2600's to flower.
Timer: Yep. 3 prong
Socket: GFCI added for cabinet
Extras:
Temp controller to keep temp between 76-80 with probe at plant level (Note: it is not 65 degrees really, I just plugged it in to get a good pic. Im not using it right now.) (Also: I would not have used this if my buddy didnt have it laying around already unused. Reason being this is like a $100 plus temp controller. We also put a relay on it so it would control temp up and down instead of just down. So now it kicks the pc fans on if the temp gets to high and the "custom heater" if the temp gets to low)
"Custom" heater. Its a light inside of a heat sink casing with a pc fan blowing down over the heat sink which is letting off the heat from the internal bulb. Light proof. This is to keep it warm at night when its lights out. The fan on top of this unit is always running so that way there is always some air movement. The bulb turns on when temp gets low and the fan pushes the warm air coming off the heat sink down toward the plants.
Carbon Filter: Not right now. Will add in a few weeks when smell will become more of an issue. It will get mounted to the outbound fan to kill the smell.
Also: As of right now I have the 1 plant I have growing for now under a flipped over rubbermaid that is inside the cab. This is because the humidity is 60-70% under there and its only topping out at 40% in the cab. Going to move it into the cab soon so it can get more light. Oh, and I plan to put up a scrog net.
SETUP:
(update) Seed: bag seed from dank (waiting on my northern lights seeds to come)
Germination Method: Paper towel method (next time I am going to germinate right out of rockwood cubes I think...going to put them in the cabinet so they stay at the right temp to germ and light proof them somehow because seeds dont like light when germinating)
Soil: Miracle Grow mixed with perlite (I would not recomend Miracle Grow but its what I had already, if you use it mix some perlite in like 20 or 30% perlite and 70-80% MG)
Do not put newly sprouted seedlings in MG soil they dont like it. Learn from my mistakes. Use rockwool cubes or MG seed starting soil or some good quality sterilized organic soil. Would not recomend Jiffy Pellets cuz the germ rate is low compared to Rockwool. Something like 50% from jiffy and 90% from rockwool.
Cabinet: Roughly 4 foot tall 28 inches wide 22 inches deep
Location: Under Basement stairs
Air Flow: 2 pc fans 1 in 1 out
Light Setup: 4 fixtures on a wood board. Chain adjustable. Covered with Mylar. Also have Y connectors so It will be 8 total lights.
Lights 23 and 25 watt cfl's mostly 6500's to veg and 2600's to flower.
Timer: Yep. 3 prong
Socket: GFCI added for cabinet
Extras:
Temp controller to keep temp between 76-80 with probe at plant level (Note: it is not 65 degrees really, I just plugged it in to get a good pic. Im not using it right now.) (Also: I would not have used this if my buddy didnt have it laying around already unused. Reason being this is like a $100 plus temp controller. We also put a relay on it so it would control temp up and down instead of just down. So now it kicks the pc fans on if the temp gets to high and the "custom heater" if the temp gets to low)
"Custom" heater. Its a light inside of a heat sink casing with a pc fan blowing down over the heat sink which is letting off the heat from the internal bulb. Light proof. This is to keep it warm at night when its lights out. The fan on top of this unit is always running so that way there is always some air movement. The bulb turns on when temp gets low and the fan pushes the warm air coming off the heat sink down toward the plants.
Carbon Filter: Not right now. Will add in a few weeks when smell will become more of an issue. It will get mounted to the outbound fan to kill the smell.
Also: As of right now I have the 1 plant I have growing for now under a flipped over rubbermaid that is inside the cab. This is because the humidity is 60-70% under there and its only topping out at 40% in the cab. Going to move it into the cab soon so it can get more light. Oh, and I plan to put up a scrog net.
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