Aight peeps its on like white on rice. Fianally got some time today to get all the new grow gear installed.
Still got just a few lil things to finish up like running all the spagetti tubing into the dwc buckets. Calibrating the Hanna ph/ec/ppm meter. And a few other odds and ends. But this room is ready for the grow.
Heres some pics of the near finished cave as im building along
So where i left off before, I had the hydro system water tight an fully functioning.
First order of business is to get the veg bulbs in and hang the lights.
This is the glass tube from the ecosystem machine i have. Im going to use it as a massive dual cooltube.
The bulbs.
Here is one of the 2 DIY socket mounts that I made to fit the glass tube.
These sockets where originally vertizontal shade reflectors. I butchered them up quite badly DIYing cooltubes to fit into the reflectors. It worked but this is going to work alot better.
Here is the mega tube hung up. Looks to me like the light spacing is perfect for the garden.
Im going to be custom making a reflector shade for his bahemith to max out my light use.
Heres a look see at the exhaust. This is a 4" 190 cfm fan blowing out the chimney. I adapted the splitter for my portable AC unit which exhausts threw a 6" round duct. Easy peasy cooling for the warmer weather.
Moving on to the ballasts.
Somebody here on riu told me that a digital ballast messes with the Hanna meter. So i do have 2 magnetic ballast. But until i confirm that rumor to be true. Ill be using my diggy and a magnetic.
All mounted and ready for action. Really liking the Cap light controller. Its going to be hard wired into the breaker panel so i dont have to worry about the old wiring starting a fire in the walls. Also a nice feature is running a single timer for all lights. This particular model can handle 4 HID's. Im going to be running the ballast on 240v. Much more efficient Im thinking. I dont really give a shit if it saves on juice but that would be nice
I have masonry saws that are 110 220 switchable. They run like shit on 110 but get the job done. On 220 they are tearing shit up. So that is where im coming from when think the ballast will run better on 240v.
Heres some more of the controls and such.
The duct stat is an enviromental controller. It is basically a thermostat that will kick on the intake or heater or AC. Whichever its plugged into if the temps raise or fall. Quite a handy lil deal.
The yellow power box is a safety feature to the room. Its wired to shutdown if the power load gets to high. This particular line used to run really hot on just an extension cord. So I added this as a precaution.
And lastly the Hanna meter mounted next to the main reservoir for easy reading and ph ppm adjustments. Its going to be nice actually knowing what the solutions im feeding consist of on a technical note.
Moving on to odor control.
If youve been following along you may have already seen this piece of gear. This is my brandspanking new 8" Vortex 750 cfm with an 8" by 24" Phresh filter. Man i tell you this sucker cranks out some air.
And because it cranks out the air i have it connected to a speed controller. The fan gets that buzzing noise on the low setting. But medium no buzz. Ive smoked joints in here to see how well i cuts the ganj smell and i got to say so far im impressed.
I got the unit setup as a stand in air purifier at the moment. If it keeps the smell completly eliminated i do have an 8" duct in the room that im currently using for an intake, That could be used as an exhaust and heat the living room of my pad at the same time
Hopefully that unit will be all i need. Thinking of getting an O-zone for backup just incase as i have some real smelly strains ill be working with.
This is 1 of the 2 airpumps. All ready to rock just gotta run the tubing.
Almost ready. A reflector and some wiring and badda bing.
So while ive been slacking on the room, busy running my business i have been letting the Dog Kush, Headband, WW, & BW veg.
Time to take some clones
Just vegging the Dog's are pungent smelling already
Headbands aswell.
I decided to kill of the white widow as she just aint very lively and i need to make room for my timewarps.
I started soaking some beans yesterday and toaday all 6 of the Timewarp cracked
Timewarp reg beans.
Hoping to get a standout male and female of these 6 for some breeding projects later this winter.
This is Dog Kush 1 that got snapped in half by a light falling on it. As you can see she's back with a mighty vengance lol. However ive made my selection of the plants im going to keep for clone mothers. Going to give this plant to my dad to care for hes quite the green thumb lol.
The clones
. In front of the red cups all the way from left to right is Dog kush #3 cuttings. Last plug on the right is Dog #2.
Front row left to right. Blue Widow, Headband 1 cuttings next is Headband 2 then BW & BW.
Had to let the BW go after the clones tonite. Just need to make room. I do love that weed though its some killer smoke. I got beans from previous grows so no biggie.
Ther is 3-4 cuttings in each plug. I wont be nedding all of them so i can select the most vigorous clones to go into the dwc garden.
Wont be long now my friends. Soon as these clones root in about a week well get to see this dwc/scrog in action.
Ill be adding some new strains along the way here to. The Timewarp X Romulan beans are going to crack by tommorow and the Grape apes wont be far behind.
Hope you all enjoyed the read from this hungover bricky haha.
1BMM