Himself2006
Active Member
Alright - now that I'm only waiting for my equipment to get her from eBay purchases I just want to go through my 'list' and make sure I have everything planned out and how to do it all.
The setup (well soon to be setup):
Clone/Mother/Starting area (Will be starting with seeds this time)
Area: 2'w x 3'h x 1.5' deep (just something small, not going big yet)
Media: Rapid Rooters with a heating mat and humidity dome
Lights: 2' 4bulb t5 fixture on yo-yos
Passive intake with a 90 cfm exhaust cpu fan
Lined with panda film/light proofed
- Germinate seeds by moistening paper towel, putting seeds between and folding up and putting in a dark area with no light.
- Once popped - place into rapid rooters (soaking them in RO water and squeezing excess water out) and sealing the top 'hole' off with a side of the rooter
- Leave lights on 27/7 and be sure to keep the rooters damp when they begin to dry out
- Maintain 80F area with 50% RH (I think I read these are the numbers)
Veg/Flower Area
Area: 4'w x 4'd x 6.5'h
Method: 4x 5 gallon recirculating bubble buckets connected to a 5th res outside of room for easier adjustments
Lighting: 400w MH and 600w HPS (I obtained the High-par from lumatek to use with a lumatek digital ballast that i can switch to the booster seeting)
Reflector: 8" Hydrofarm xtrasun reflector with air-tight glass
Fan: 6" Valueline inline fan
Carbon Filter: Still need to purchase this - if anyone has recommendations on the size I should get for this small grow please let me know!)
Using a SCroG ~ 1.5' about tops of buckets
- Veg with 400w MH 24 hours until plants fill up the SCroG
- Maintain around 70F room temps, 30% RH, and 65F water temps (I'll figure out what my temps will be when equipment gets here...just making sure I know what I need to shoot for)
- Using General Hydroponics Nutes with Lucas Formula (1/2 dose during veg and gradually bringing it up so I can have it at max dose for flower starting)
- Flower with 600w High-Par HPS 12/12 for ~9 weeks
- Maintain same temps
- Increase my nute formula to full dose
- Last 10 days before harvest flush with regular water (perhaps add Sweet to solution for a booster)
- Every 10 days (approximately) I'll be doing a res flush and adding new nutes to the mix using the Lucas method where once I add regular water to the res equal to the original nute amount is when I'm suppose to reset it
I will be using Reverse Osmosis water - because I'm using this do I need a base solution using some kind of Cal-mag solution?
Any advice/corrections/suggestions would be great! I know it's not a SB system but due to space confinements and being my first grow I'm trying to keep it somewhat simple with the buckets
The setup (well soon to be setup):
Clone/Mother/Starting area (Will be starting with seeds this time)
Area: 2'w x 3'h x 1.5' deep (just something small, not going big yet)
Media: Rapid Rooters with a heating mat and humidity dome
Lights: 2' 4bulb t5 fixture on yo-yos
Passive intake with a 90 cfm exhaust cpu fan
Lined with panda film/light proofed
- Germinate seeds by moistening paper towel, putting seeds between and folding up and putting in a dark area with no light.
- Once popped - place into rapid rooters (soaking them in RO water and squeezing excess water out) and sealing the top 'hole' off with a side of the rooter
- Leave lights on 27/7 and be sure to keep the rooters damp when they begin to dry out
- Maintain 80F area with 50% RH (I think I read these are the numbers)
Veg/Flower Area
Area: 4'w x 4'd x 6.5'h
Method: 4x 5 gallon recirculating bubble buckets connected to a 5th res outside of room for easier adjustments
Lighting: 400w MH and 600w HPS (I obtained the High-par from lumatek to use with a lumatek digital ballast that i can switch to the booster seeting)
Reflector: 8" Hydrofarm xtrasun reflector with air-tight glass
Fan: 6" Valueline inline fan
Carbon Filter: Still need to purchase this - if anyone has recommendations on the size I should get for this small grow please let me know!)
Using a SCroG ~ 1.5' about tops of buckets
- Veg with 400w MH 24 hours until plants fill up the SCroG
- Maintain around 70F room temps, 30% RH, and 65F water temps (I'll figure out what my temps will be when equipment gets here...just making sure I know what I need to shoot for)
- Using General Hydroponics Nutes with Lucas Formula (1/2 dose during veg and gradually bringing it up so I can have it at max dose for flower starting)
- Flower with 600w High-Par HPS 12/12 for ~9 weeks
- Maintain same temps
- Increase my nute formula to full dose
- Last 10 days before harvest flush with regular water (perhaps add Sweet to solution for a booster)
- Every 10 days (approximately) I'll be doing a res flush and adding new nutes to the mix using the Lucas method where once I add regular water to the res equal to the original nute amount is when I'm suppose to reset it
I will be using Reverse Osmosis water - because I'm using this do I need a base solution using some kind of Cal-mag solution?
Any advice/corrections/suggestions would be great! I know it's not a SB system but due to space confinements and being my first grow I'm trying to keep it somewhat simple with the buckets
