First Medical Grow - 2000w

I have been getting my set-up ready for the last few weeks after work.. I am supoosed to get the clones in a two days..I am starting with 12 clones (per my and my wife's medical perscriptions) I would like to say from the start this is a medical grow for our perscription medication.
So here is what I have so far

The Room-
-10'x7'x7'
-3/4" R-max Therma board walls
-4" pea gravel with pool liner floor
-2 x 1000w switchable ballast
-2 x 1000w MH bulbs for veg
-2x 1000w HPS for flower
-6" vortex exhaust
-2 osilating fans
-passive intake for now- will be getting 6000 btu a/c (I am waiting to see if I need it before next summer)
- 2 - 4'x4' trays
- Milar on walls
-12 - 7 gal smart pots
- medium is Atami B'Cuzz premium coco

Watering
-55 gal heavy duty blastic drum
-pump and stones for aireating drum
-Stealthro 200 R/O purifyer
-Hanna ph/ec/tds meter
The drum will be sitting about 15' higher than the room and gravity feed a 1/2 rubber hose into the room. I will be hand watering at first.

Nutes-
-H&G A&B
-H&G Magic Green
-H&G root excel
-H&G bud xl
-H&G drip clean
-h&G shooting power

Electrical
- new sub panel
- 2 x 220 outlets
- 4 x 110 outlets
- mechanical timer

Plants
I am actually going to a cannibis farmers market in Nor Cal on Saturday to pick up clones...I don't know what strains yet.. it will depend on what is available

Also bought some Azatrol concentrate to dip clones

I can't seem to post pics right now..I will try to figure it out

I am a total new to growing and welcome any comments or advice.
Thanks for checking me out.

gotta make sure they are the right file format and they aren't too big (jpg, JPEG, less than 2.95 mgb

theloadeddragon said:

gotta make sure they are the right file format and they aren't too big (jpg, JPEG, less than 2.95 mgb

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Thanks Dragon..I thought I had compressed them, but hadn't.

Here are a couple of pics

1- before room- what you can't see from the pic is that the grownd is sloping..drops 2' in 10'
2- room under construction
3 & 4 - setting up tubs and drainage--drain ends up going through the wall into 30' of pvc and into drain outside

one step at a time....

Have you read through the marijuana growing forum FAQ?

I suggest you do before putting plants in there

i would get hydroton instead of pea gravel..

doniawon said:

i would get hydroton instead of pea gravel..

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The Pea gravel is already under the room..I started by leveling out the existing ground and put pea gravel down for any drainage under the room..It doesn't get real wet down there, but does get damp in the winter..I put the rubber liner over the gravel the rubber liner runs 4" inches up the walls and is taped long the seem to the thermal board.

theloadeddragon said:

one step at a time....

Have you read through the marijuana growing forum FAQ?

I suggest you do before putting plants in there

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Those pics were a week ago under construction..I have read the FAQ's and a couple dozen journals and probably a couple hundred threads over the last month..what is it you are getting at? I pick up my plants tomorrow..if there is something you see wrong with my set-up please share.

no... don't see anything wrong... I just encourage every one to read the FAQ

from what I can tell, people think I am very blunt

everything sounds really good

theloadeddragon said:

no... don't see anything wrong... I just encourage every one to read the FAQ

from what I can tell, people think I am very blunt

everything sounds really good

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No I didn't think you were to too blunt.. I actually appreciate that..I was just freakin out for a second trying to think of what I am f#%k ed up...LOL I have spent many hours at the hydro store ..they all grow with coco down there so I pick there brains all the time for advice.. I am expecting to overlook something or mess something up, but hoping I don't.

Just hooked up the water filtration system and the line down to the room today..I have the R/O running right now filling the storage container ..damn it is slow.

OK so I tried out my new toy..the Hanna ph/ec/tds meter... I am confused...after I hookked up the R/O filter I filled a paper cup with the filtered water and one with tap water.
The PPM of the filtered water was 11
The PPM of the tap was 48
Here is the confusing part..the PH of the filtered water was 10.1 and 7.7 for the tap water...I do have a bubbler running in my storage container..but I can't figure out why the ph would go up in the filtered water...
A couple other things I am trying to figure out..how to calibrate this damn meter.. I am not sure how the buffer works??
Also the R/O filter is is so slow..it's been on for 6 hours and theres barely 6" in bottom of my drum..I haven't hoked up the float shut off yet, but it looks like it won't fill up over night. I have the 100gal per day stealth...
Anyway, if anyone knows of a manual for dummies for this meter I would love to find it.
peace~

marcraiderfan said:

OK so I tried out my new toy..the Hanna ph/ec/tds meter... I am confused...after I hookked up the R/O filter I filled a paper cup with the filtered water and one with tap water.
The PPM of the filtered water was 11
The PPM of the tap was 48
Here is the confusing part..the PH of the filtered water was 10.1 and 7.7 for the tap water...I do have a bubbler running in my storage container..but I can't figure out why the ph would go up in the filtered water...
A couple other things I am trying to figure out..how to calibrate this damn meter.. I am not sure how the buffer works??
Also the R/O filter is is so slow..it's been on for 6 hours and theres barely 6" in bottom of my drum..I haven't hoked up the float shut off yet, but it looks like it won't fill up over night. I have the 100gal per day stealth...
Anyway, if anyone knows of a manual for dummies for this meter I would love to find it.
peace~

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Ok figured out the slow container fill problem..I just went down to the room and found that I left the valve open when I hooked it up..BONEHEAD! Fortunatley it was siting in the tray and went out the drain..but what a dumb mistake..could have been worse if I would have had the end of the hose on the floor or something.. atleast I got my first mistake out of the way..lol

Would you mind saying where this marijuana farmers market is? I am in NorCal too and would like to check it out. What strains did you end up getting?

Seaweed11 said:

Would you mind saying where this marijuana farmers market is? I am in NorCal too and would like to check it out. What strains did you end up getting?

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It is in Clear Lake .. I drove 3 hours last weekend and it was cancelled because all the vendors are harvesting..but they said they were supposed to have it in a couple of weeks..there are like 14 dispensaries around the lake..I stayed in upper lake and went to 5 which all had clones, I got some good looking Purple Kush

very glad I tuned in to this grow

theloadeddragon said:

very glad I tuned in to this grow

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Hey man I moved this thread ..I reset my account..here is the new journal

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/251393-first-med-coco-grow.html

thanks for checkin out my grow