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rocketdog1989

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I started out growing in a box the size of a console tv set. It had a 150watt hps, a blower fan and tubing to force air into the hps reflector. The mothers were kept in a small box on the side with CFL's bulbs which were a brand new thing at the time. The blower would pull air through the ballast box, into the flower box, pulling the air from a 2" pvc pipe that was placed in the center from the mother box. There were 4 pvc pipes that were placed on the side of the mother box to pull air in and keep the light out. The blower compartment had some toilet smelly placed in there to mask the smell. The system was shallow water culture and had 2 plants arranged in a scrog. I built it from one of the very first guides I seen online when I typed in how to grow marijuana into a search engine. I learned how to use GH flora series nutes and had some bangin bud even on my first try. It was a pain to keep filled once the girls started to flower but I kept them happy til the end. I only had maybe an ounce or two but no one knew I was growing. Even my father at the time. I had it exhausting a window and having a negative air pressure design, could keep the smell out of the house.....unless the exhaust pipe falls off. This happened and the bathroom fart eliminator ran out weeks ago, stunk the entire house up of ripening hydro weed. My father went to my bedroom after trying to figure out what stunk so bad and discovered the box in my closet and a tube going from there to the window next to my air conditioner which I had to have running. I ran my lights at night so I was home in case something happened. I was kicked out of the house once he opened up the box and found I was committing a felony. I moved into a friends place and had "The Machine" setup in his work shop. He didn't want it stinking at all so I had it vented out behind the building. This encouraged my friends to start growing themselves and ended up growing weed all over the place including in their courtyard. They had the meter reader wandering over to the meter and seen them growing and reported us. We were raided and all the plants were taken. The cops had no idea my box was a grow box but rather a chemical box or something and didn't bother opening it up. We were all busted and my box ended up in the woods as target practice and stripped of all of its internals. I had a strain called pink floyd that was rare and was pulled out, burned and the mothers the same. It costed us jail time and thousands of dollars in fines. Now its legal and I'm proud to take back what was once our rights as citizens. All of our ancestors grew hemp and many indigenous people grew it and shared it among others during gatherings and smoked pipes. All I live for now is being able to grow. I want to help others achieve the same goals and share my experiences as a grower.
 
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rocketdog1989 said:
I started out growing in a box the size of a console tv set. It had a 150watt hps, a blower fan and tubing to force air into the hps reflector. The mothers were kept in a small box on the side with CFL's bulbs which were a brand new thing at the time. The blower would pull air through the ballast box, into the flower box, pulling the air from a 2" pvc pipe that was placed in the center from the mother box. There were 4 pvc pipes that were placed on the side of the mother box to pull air in and keep the light out. The blower compartment had some toilet smelly placed in there to mask the smell. The system was shallow water culture and had 2 plants arranged in a scrog. I built it from one of the very first guides I seen online when I typed in how to grow marijuana into a search engine. I learned how to use GH flora series nutes and had some bangin bud even on my first try. It was a pain to keep filled once the girls started to flower but I kept them happy til the end. I only had maybe an ounce or two but no one knew I was growing. Even my father at the time. I had it exhausting a window and having a negative air pressure design, could keep the smell out of the house.....unless the exhaust pipe falls off. This happened and the bathroom fart eliminator ran out weeks ago, stunk the entire house up of ripening hydro weed. My father went to my bedroom after trying to figure out what stunk so bad and discovered the box in my closet and a tube going from there to the window next to my air conditioner which I had to have running. I ran my lights at night so I was home in case something happened. I was kicked out of the house once he opened up the box and found I was committing a felony. I moved into a friends place and had "The Machine" setup in his work shop. He didn't want it stinking at all so I had it vented out behind the building. This encouraged my friends to start growing themselves and ended up growing weed all over the place including in their courtyard. They had the meter reader wandering over to the meter and seen them growing and reported us. We were raided and all the plants were taken. The cops had no idea my box was a grow box but rather a chemical box or something and didn't bother opening it up. We were all busted and my box ended up in the woods as target practice and stripped of all of its internals. I had a strain called pink floyd that was rare and was pulled out, burned and the mothers the same. It costed us jail time and thousands of dollars in fines. Now its legal and I'm proud to take back what was once our rights as citizens. All of our ancestors grew hemp and many indigenous people grew it and shared it among others during gatherings and smoked pipes. All I live for now is being able to grow. I want to help others achieve the same goals and share my experiences as a grower.
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Let me share with you what I learned over the years. I run an 8x8 flower room, air conditioned space to vent out and control humidity and temps. I went all out with my skills as an electrician and electrical automation technician and what I've read on forums like this and other guides that people went out of their way to share with us all and I thank all of those veteran growers that share the love of growing and share with us what they all learned. I think we all should be opened minded and try to help others in whatever way they decide to grow. I grew in soil, flood n drain, dwc, swc, tried RDWC and had slime, and drain to waste. I find that drain to waste hydro is the best beginner setup and growing in hempy is the way to go. I've done 6 grows so far and had a friend do 2 grows and was too lazy to mix hydroponic nutes every couple of days for monster 12 plant setup. He was going through 55 gallon barrel every 3 to 4 days. They started growing in soil because of the super easy just water. My friend whom is a paraplegic had a medical card for years, caregiver gave us a piece of paper showing us how to grow her way. This was hempy. I knew it was hydro and only knew the GH brand opted in to show them how to grow this way. She wrote in Mammoth P for some reason and did a lot of research to find out what it was and it being so expensive hee'd and haw'd about it until we decided to try it. We got the buckets ready and drove down to south of Flint to meet up with a guy in a jeep to purchase clones(almost a year after the law was passed). Talk about sketch. We gave some guy money for some clones that were in a fan box like we just drove 2 hours to buy an 8 dollar fan at walmart, lol. We got the girls back to the house and kept them in their original flats for almost a week arguing over what kind of way we were going to grow. She wanted to grow the way weed was supposed to grow and her caregiver had given us specific instructions to grow this way (they were totally against hydro and this was passive hydro). We finally got the materials and assembled the setup. He had ordered blurple LED's from amazon and had them going. She was not impressed at how long it took for them to start growing. It seemed like ages but when they started to grow, oh man did they. They outgrew the closet real fast and even with the blurples, the temps were so high that it was not feasible to keep growing in the house and decided to grow in the garage. We had built an 8x8 room and ordered a 1000watt hps digital hood kit from that favorite rain forest website. We ended up flowering out these girls and had some bomb ass weed. It was so super smooth and potent that it was two toke.
 

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I've been growing this room since last year and want to share some photos of how this setup was working.
 

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Grow Stats:
1000 Watt HPS digital ballast 136,000 lumens
16 - 5000K Walmart Great Value LED 14 watts = 224 watts, 26,400 lumens
5 gal hempy
General Hydroponics Flora series
Flora Micro
Flora Gro
Flora Bloom
Floralicious Plus
Liquid Koolbloom
Rapid Root - Only until week 2
GH PH down 3ML per gallon
Northern Michigan Sweet well water PH 7.5 - 8.0 - 120, 150 PPM LYME, CALCIUM rich. unfiltered.
Hempy 5 gallon, weep hole 3" from bottom
Perilite, Coco Coir, Fox farm Mother Earth Series.
VEG:
8 - 14 watt(100watt) LED, 5000K, Great Value, 1650 Lumen Each
4 - 13 watt LED, 5000K under cabinet Great Value, 12,000 lumen each
Mothers in Miracle Grow Performance Organics with Pump N Grow feed.
2 heatmats, 8 space Yield labs, dome with tray
Rockwool Cubes
PH for 24 hours at 6.0 well water
2,1,1 seedling formula from GH
 
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Method::
I start with healthy as possible mothers, grown in M.G. Performance Organics. Feed with no signs of stress(no frying, or yellowing). I PH balance rockwool cubes with well water unfiltered because i'm poor and broke and want to keep it as simple as possible. I place them in a rooting hormone like quick root, clonex, or whatever and place them in the rockwool cubes inside a tray with a humidity dome and a heat mat. Hopefully they take within 7 to 10 days. I transfer them to everyday cheap walmart party cups either in a mix of Performance Organics soil and perelite (hole drilled in bottom of cup) or Perelite/Coco Coir(hole drilled up to first groove in cup, HEMPY Style). I watched a video of someone bag cloning. Take a gallon great value zip loc bag, tape it over the top and spray with water every day or so until it seems to grow.
 

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Electrical Operation:
Lights run at night (11PM til 11AM).
The system will monitor outdoor air temperature until about 62F.
The A/C cannot condense gas under 62F condenser temp and will shut down compressor. This will cause high flower room temp. Temperature circuit installed that can detect less than 62F condenser temp and then shut down A/C and enable intake fan through a N.C, N.O relay circuit. This will keep the flower room below 76f at all times.

Humidity is another concern. A timer is set to vent the flower room every 3 hours in the most humid summer conditions to keep the humidity under 75%. This requires the exhaust fan to run almost continuously in the summer months.

The setpoint is at 68F in the summer and will ensure the girls are kept around 70f and 50 - 70% humidity. This room also doubles as a curing room to keep the temp/humidity consistent for proper curing. I hang my girls up by string next to the flowering girls and the excess light has no impact on curing.
 

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Run with Strawberry Cough and GodBud. They are in 9th week. Running Flora series with Mid Bloom Simple formula Hempy with 50/50 perlite and coco coir from Mother Earth series.
Flora Micro - 4ML/gal
Flora Gro - 0ML/gal
Flora Bloom - 8ML/gal
Floralicious Plus - 1ML/gal
Liquid Koolbloom 2.5ML/gal
GH PH Down 3ML/gal buffer from 8.0PH to 6.0 to 6.2PH
Northern Michigan well water 120 to 150PPM Calcium/Lyme rich Unfiltered.
Every 3rd watering flushed with PH balanced unfiltered well water with 3ML/gal FloraKleen
 

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The Veg room in my pantry closet.
The Mothers
Grown In
Miracle Gro Performance Organics
Fed with Pump N Grow

Miracle Alien Cookies (MAC)
Zkittlez
Gorilla Glue
Strawberry Cough
GodBud

Previously
Early Lemon Berry
Sour Zkittlez
Dosi Woah!
Power Skunk
Skywalker Kush
East Coast Kush
GodBud
 

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What is this mad scientist mess? I don't know myself because I was high and drunk when I built this box as you can see. I dare not even mess with it because it all works in harmony....KINDA. I will explain the operation.

The device on the far right keeps track of flower room temp. It has a probe mounted in the middle of the trellis. If the flower room get's over 75f a relay will be switched from Normally Open to Closed. Depending on the ambient outside air temperature will drop in a big oversized contactor to energize a cheap walmart 150 dollar window A/C with mechanical controls, or if it is under 62f, energize the outside air blower(which is filtered). This will keep the room under 76f even when the outside air temperature hovers around 61 - 62f. Most of the heat generated is from the LED's. The 1000 watt HPS hood is cool to the touch. The device in the middle shows the attic air(outdoor air) temp in Celsius. It will switch from A/C to outside air at 18.6c. It looks complicated but mostly simple electronics with a couple of cheap watt hour meters that can be reset between grows. This is the KWh of this grow including the LED veg hood I have. It just consists of 4 more 1500 lumen 2700k LED bulbs and 2 great value 5000 lumen 5000k 4 foot shop lights, which screws into the trellis to help with vegging in the flower room if I have to. I have the option to switch off the 1000 watt HPS to save on it a a little and run LED's to veg.
 

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What happens if it gets too cold? The temperature controller will energize a 24 volt plug in A/C adapter that will open a damper to allow for heat to enter the flower room. This is if the furnace or wood furnace is running. The controller will keep the vent energized until the temperature is met. It isn't perfect but it works. Even with the lights out when it's -20f out, the flower room may only get down to 50f if I want to be a miser and keep the house at 60f while i'm at work. This during the day due to the fact I run my lights at night in the summer to keep the energy bill down and keep cooling requirements down. I also picked 11 as my hour or choice due to my work schedule and gives me enough time to wake up get a coffee and feed the girls if need be which will be 16 to 20 times their entire life cycle. They don't need much water when young. I only go a week and flush out just to keep the "JUICE" fresh. Once they get in full bloom, they suck down juice every 2 to 3 days in 5 gal hempy.
 
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