daveroller
Well-Known Member
Ordered an Area 51 2013 model SGS-160, arriving tomorrow. Using it in a stealth cabinet that's in my bedroom closet.
Dimensions: 36" x 18" floorspace x 55" height.
Planning to use a modified "Hempy Bucket" system that's self-watering (inspired by Flowamasta's journals). Main bucket will contain 15 gallons of coarse Perlite. Pictures to follow after I finish building it.
Got 2 seeds sprouting right now:
One is a Barney's Farm Critical Kush. I grew that last time and it's very potent. Also good for pain relief and sleep (both reasons why I smoke pot). This is the plant that I want to grow this time around as well.
As a backup, I'm also sprouting a Barney's Farm LSD seed. If grown right, that stuff will really make you feel "different" in almost a trippy state of mind. Really good for sleep, too. But I only have this in case something goes wrong with the other plant.
Looking forward to seeing how much better the Area 51 is compared to my T5 light box overhead and big CFL's on either side of the cabinet. All together, those were hot, soaked up more wattage and were much dimmer than the Area 51. I've been using them for all of my previous grows and I've been averaging only about 2-3 oz of bud each time. I recently saw that The Dawg got 8 oz in a cabinet similar to mine in size using an Area 51. For me, that would be awesome! I'm helping out an old friend who has rheumatoid arthritis as well as myself, so if I can increase my yield that much, it would supply us both for a long time.
My reason for growing:
I have a bad case of central nerve pain, caused by a spinal cord injury that I got from a mountain biking accident 12 years ago. Before I started toking, I was having horrible pain flare-ups about 2-3 times per week. But after suffering for 9 years, I discovered how well pot prevents the really serious flare-ups and relieves them after they start. Now I only have one or two per month! So I've been toking almost every day for the past 3 years. Unfortunately, on my disability income I couldn't possibly afford to buy a half ounce every month for $200. So I started growing my own. The chronic pain also gave me insomnia so bad that the sleep doctor told me that I had "no discernible sleep pattern". Since I started toking, I've been sleeping MUCH better and overall I've become 10 times more functional than I was before. Now I need to grow for 2 people, because an old friend of mine developed a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis in a lot of her major joints. She just started using pot at my recommendation in order to control her pain and insomnia too. I'm hoping that this LED light panel will increase my yields over my crappy fluorescent lights, so that I can supply us both with the medicine we need.
Dimensions: 36" x 18" floorspace x 55" height.
Planning to use a modified "Hempy Bucket" system that's self-watering (inspired by Flowamasta's journals). Main bucket will contain 15 gallons of coarse Perlite. Pictures to follow after I finish building it.
Got 2 seeds sprouting right now:
One is a Barney's Farm Critical Kush. I grew that last time and it's very potent. Also good for pain relief and sleep (both reasons why I smoke pot). This is the plant that I want to grow this time around as well.
As a backup, I'm also sprouting a Barney's Farm LSD seed. If grown right, that stuff will really make you feel "different" in almost a trippy state of mind. Really good for sleep, too. But I only have this in case something goes wrong with the other plant.
Looking forward to seeing how much better the Area 51 is compared to my T5 light box overhead and big CFL's on either side of the cabinet. All together, those were hot, soaked up more wattage and were much dimmer than the Area 51. I've been using them for all of my previous grows and I've been averaging only about 2-3 oz of bud each time. I recently saw that The Dawg got 8 oz in a cabinet similar to mine in size using an Area 51. For me, that would be awesome! I'm helping out an old friend who has rheumatoid arthritis as well as myself, so if I can increase my yield that much, it would supply us both for a long time.
My reason for growing:
I have a bad case of central nerve pain, caused by a spinal cord injury that I got from a mountain biking accident 12 years ago. Before I started toking, I was having horrible pain flare-ups about 2-3 times per week. But after suffering for 9 years, I discovered how well pot prevents the really serious flare-ups and relieves them after they start. Now I only have one or two per month! So I've been toking almost every day for the past 3 years. Unfortunately, on my disability income I couldn't possibly afford to buy a half ounce every month for $200. So I started growing my own. The chronic pain also gave me insomnia so bad that the sleep doctor told me that I had "no discernible sleep pattern". Since I started toking, I've been sleeping MUCH better and overall I've become 10 times more functional than I was before. Now I need to grow for 2 people, because an old friend of mine developed a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis in a lot of her major joints. She just started using pot at my recommendation in order to control her pain and insomnia too. I'm hoping that this LED light panel will increase my yields over my crappy fluorescent lights, so that I can supply us both with the medicine we need.