Another Noob setting up an LED room to keep under cover...

cowell

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Hi everyone,
I've read alot of your grow journals and have gleened alot of growing information. I have very little left to do before I put together my rooms but I thought a journal would be good so people can see what I'm doing and point out or correct my posible noob mistakes as I don't have a mentor to teach me the in's and out's....I welcome all your input. I have a few pics of some bag seed I'm starting with - as it's a first time for me, I don't want to "pay" for my mitakes.
I have 2 seeds germinated and under led right now. I have daily pics which I will post later. As well as when I start putting my room together I will post pics of what I am doing and why.

I am planning a 3X4' veg room and 3X4 flower room. Veg room I'm setting up drip hydro and doing ebb and flow in the flowering room. Mainly the reason is I have watched "mr.greethumbs" and I will be honest and tell you I don't know what if any difference the style feeding has on the end plant, but I have the pumps and hoses, have to go get some totes and set it up yet. If I don't get too stoned today I will be going and getting the wood I need and setting everything up as much as I can tonight.

I have some Cali. Orange and Norhtern Lights seeds coming... Ordered from Attitude seeds based off the other forums I have read and not hearing much bad press, decided to go with them, ordered and paid for them on Thursday night, so I will also let you know when they come in to act as another gauge to them if they are good seed bank, they should have mention.

I have 6 X 50 watt LED 5MM panels so 300W of LED for veg and I have a 250W HPS for flowering. I am going to be rigging a light mover for the HPS to try and cover the flowering room. I know, I was going to go with a 400 Watt, but I want to see if I can get away with less hydro usage and less heat output through exhaust - as that seems to be a big reason that the ops around here are getting raided. Cops uing heat scopes and checkin' hydro bills. I do know it'll make a difference, but it seems a little safer to do it this way now and I may upgrade the light next grow depending on how well this works and how else I can lower my electricity bill... another reason is the electricity is included in the rent, but the landlord still gets the bill, and I don't need him noticing a big jump, he will question it before the cops do.. that's why there is such an importance on low profile. I have 2 years left on my lease, so, I figure I have time to run a room here and still be able to move it down the road.

I am going to try and ue LED as supplimental light in flower room as well, but I dont' have those yet and I may borrow from veg room if I need to.

I have ordered my nutes, GH 3 pack, basic stuff, if someone could make a suggestion as to a good nute set that works really sweet, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who appreciates it!!

I'll be making my own carbon filter from tutorials, and the light mover is going to be done from a tutorial from here as well to see how that works for me.

The rest is all going to have to come.. pics of the babies I will try and get up tonight sometime.

I am just finishing the plans to determine my needs before I go to the store to buy.
 

cowell

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tried to post some pics but having "security token" problems, admin has been contacted, so hope I can get some shots up soon.
 

cowell

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Ok, I still have no answer back from admin about the pics, I will play around and see what I can do. I have my seeds today from Attitude. I have 2 bag seed under 100W of LED right now on in my (almost) complete veg room, which has 6 panels or 300 watts of cheap LED's. they are both a week old, so still pretty little but look good. I have 5 cali orange skunk and 5 northern lights in papertowel as I type.Pics will come, I know hard to comment on shit you can't see so I will work on that tonight.

I have my hydro tables set up for the moms I will have.. and a separate tray for clones. I plan on doing SOG with 5 moms, take 15 clones every 2 weeks and throw them directly into 12/12. (ala- Al B. Fuct's informative thread on growing).

I have a humidifyer in my room, and am having issues with bring the humidity up. I have to finish taping the room, so some of it may be escaping, but it's at about 40% right now, and temp is between 75-78. I have the sensor hanging about an inch above the plants. I don't have the hydroponics running yet as the 2 seedlings are still so small, and I'm hand watering minimally every few days.. but I will have the hydro going tomorrow just to test the system.. so that will hopefully raise humidity a bit.

Again, apologize for no pics.. I have to re-size them with photoshop or something so they are smaller in size to upload is the problem, I think....

I will try and get pics up tonight for input, but I can't promise anything, I have a really good bag of weed and a bunch of papers, and no where to go tonight... so maybe not too..
 
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