My grow tent, suggestions welcome.

fookey

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Here we have a Virtual Sun 3x3 Tent, I was going to provide links to all products used. But it's late so if people really wanna know just ask.

Using 600w Apollo Digital ballast, with cooltube reflector also starting off with their MH & HPS bulbs included in the combo

Using a 220?CFM inlinefan for the cooltube. On running tests for climate control on my Bhut Jolkia peppers, Tomatoe, and Habenero peppers; I noticed I'd hit 78-80 range for the day. So I added a 400 CFM hydrofarm inline fan to the top of the tent, mounted on a 2'x1' peice of wood so it covers across two of the tents supports (I hope it does its job, kinda nervous about overloading the metal rods). Not pictured is the DIY Carbon filter / scrubber I am working on, it will be located in the back left side and ducted through the top connected to the 400 CFM hydrofarm.

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Here is the inside, I took the SCROG design from Stinkbud's Rail system. First layer is around 8inches second is around 12 inches (measure once cut twice). I had previously built his system but my own micro version, and felt it was more viable to ditch that type of system and go with Hempy Buckets (tm) :P So here are 6 2gal (couldn't find 3gals locally) with a hole drilled two inches from the inside of the pot. I had an idea to put grommets inside the holes with silicone seal on outside and connect hose to each so if over watered it be fed into a little reservoir, made sense.
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This is a simple piece of wood, the other half of the wood board I used for the fan on top. I was lazy and used industrial velcro to mount the board to the wall. Screwed in the ballast and velcro'ed the rest on.
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Pepper pee!

BTW my Bhut Jolkias from Baker Creek are doing well, I seen a lot of people have problems germinating them. Out of ten 8 pushed through recently and doing well.
 

fookey

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damn very clean and tidy! looks like a great setup!
Thanks, lets see if I can maintain the look when I get the ball rolling.

very nice! why 2 layers scrog?
Thank you, this was a SCROG design I used from Stinkbuds Aeroponic NFT (v2.0) design. I too question the second layer since I haven't seen it elsewhere. Time will tell if it was a useful idea.
 

raven1290

Active Member
very nice! why 2 layers scrog?
I think the reason for the extra layer is to provide additional support for monster buds, or is intended for a duel harvest. Chop down the main colas of the top screen, allowing the lower to buds to recieve more light and grow big. You can then harvest the lower layer. Just my opinion though, I have no experience useing the scrog method. I do sog. Nice setup though. I'd like to see how it turns out.
Happy Growing.
 

fookey

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I think the reason for the extra layer is to provide additional support for monster buds, or is intended for a duel harvest. Chop down the main colas of the top screen, allowing the lower to buds to recieve more light and grow big. You can then harvest the lower layer. Just my opinion though, I have no experience useing the scrog method. I do sog. Nice setup though. I'd like to see how it turns out.
Happy Growing.
Makes sense, thanks. I'll have it figured out by the time I get to that point. I am running a journal for a test run of Kabrales so in the next 2 months should start seeing the usefulness of second layer. I will be trying Uncle Ben's 4 cola topping method on this run, so it may be a complete failure since it is my first go.
 

srpompon

Active Member
fookey,

is your scrog first attempt? the 2 layers look complicated to me... try w only the top layer first...
 

fookey

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fookey,

is your scrog first attempt? the 2 layers look complicated to me... try w only the top layer first...
This is first attempt all together, with all aspects of growing. I am very exciting and eager to fail/succeed and learn. The second layer is too high in respect to doing a scrog (20" from plant level). So what I will do since the first layer is around 10", is remove the second layer if it creates too many complications. I have a feeling it will be a pain since I will probably have to unzip a lot of the tent to access the plants towards the back. But other than that I hope it works out well. In the next two months I will find out.
 
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