dustydoggy
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I was once a small quantity, superior quality grower. Inside, I had control and superior quality due to my "anal" attention to environment and detail. An out of state relative lives in a "friendly(er)" nearby state. We will do a combo of indoor starting and small out door plot as well as a permanent perpetual area in a nice cool concrete crawl space. Initial dimensions are 6'W x 8'L x 4'H.
My questions are basic for now, as well as a more "innovative" theory I had "back in the day".
FIRST; I'd like to arrange the area in an efficient manner. I plan on starting out growing in soil to get my "legs" back then go "aero" and/or hydro after a few months. My heat/odor exhaust will be incorporated into the chimney/ plumbing vents respectively. I figure that a 2' deep x 6' wide "box" would serve as an area to keep mothers & clone & veg growth, memory serves that a month in an aero-ponic cloner would be even too long for starting, a month of veg would get kinda tall for my situation and a month of flowering isn't long enough to achieve proper maturity. I'm not going to go sick with wattage (I originally used 150wHPS for flowering which served me well for 2-4 plants with dual 'colas' each -big fan of clipping young to grow two beefy colas/plant) Any suggestions on how to co-ordinate would be welcome. I've never done a "production" perpetual grow mostly (again) "back in the day" (88-93) I used good seed stock/clones and raised a few pets start to finish all in the same area with a small clone area to get things going. Did most of my "weight" outdoors but with deer/molds/environmental variations, I like the control of indoors. Now I'm older and wiser and freak out that I'm even "out here" with my pants down and the 'man' monitoring EVERYTHING!!! Anyway, how would YOU set up an area such as this? I have a slight lee way on the 6' dimension possibly up to 8' but access is kinda tight and there is a lolly column obstruction.
SECOND; could I flower for 2 months but have half the 'crop' on it's first month and the other half finishing in the same area that way I could conceivably have clones on a two week cycle/2 week veg cycle/ 4 week flower cycle.
THIRD; I used to use a variation of the OLD Genesis clone aero box (GTi?) to start my clones, from what I've read there is MUCH that's been achieved in the past 15 plus years. Anything comparable available today or should I home brew a similar set-up (I'm a pretty handy guy)?
FINALLY; I quit due to fear of arrest "back then" but I was just starting to experiment with light cycles. Has anyone ever tried a 28-30 hour day? 12 hours of dark then a 16-18 hour day to get more "beef"? Sorry for the HUGE post I freak out a bit posting this so I thought I'd just show may cards all at once ... the 'MAN scares me. L8R : )
My questions are basic for now, as well as a more "innovative" theory I had "back in the day".
FIRST; I'd like to arrange the area in an efficient manner. I plan on starting out growing in soil to get my "legs" back then go "aero" and/or hydro after a few months. My heat/odor exhaust will be incorporated into the chimney/ plumbing vents respectively. I figure that a 2' deep x 6' wide "box" would serve as an area to keep mothers & clone & veg growth, memory serves that a month in an aero-ponic cloner would be even too long for starting, a month of veg would get kinda tall for my situation and a month of flowering isn't long enough to achieve proper maturity. I'm not going to go sick with wattage (I originally used 150wHPS for flowering which served me well for 2-4 plants with dual 'colas' each -big fan of clipping young to grow two beefy colas/plant) Any suggestions on how to co-ordinate would be welcome. I've never done a "production" perpetual grow mostly (again) "back in the day" (88-93) I used good seed stock/clones and raised a few pets start to finish all in the same area with a small clone area to get things going. Did most of my "weight" outdoors but with deer/molds/environmental variations, I like the control of indoors. Now I'm older and wiser and freak out that I'm even "out here" with my pants down and the 'man' monitoring EVERYTHING!!! Anyway, how would YOU set up an area such as this? I have a slight lee way on the 6' dimension possibly up to 8' but access is kinda tight and there is a lolly column obstruction.
SECOND; could I flower for 2 months but have half the 'crop' on it's first month and the other half finishing in the same area that way I could conceivably have clones on a two week cycle/2 week veg cycle/ 4 week flower cycle.
THIRD; I used to use a variation of the OLD Genesis clone aero box (GTi?) to start my clones, from what I've read there is MUCH that's been achieved in the past 15 plus years. Anything comparable available today or should I home brew a similar set-up (I'm a pretty handy guy)?
FINALLY; I quit due to fear of arrest "back then" but I was just starting to experiment with light cycles. Has anyone ever tried a 28-30 hour day? 12 hours of dark then a 16-18 hour day to get more "beef"? Sorry for the HUGE post I freak out a bit posting this so I thought I'd just show may cards all at once ... the 'MAN scares me. L8R : )