Krazy grow room design

Hi guys ,I'm a relatively new grower 'with 6 grows under my belt I'm looking to go from organic soil grows to dwc hydroponic on my next grow, thinking about doing the 1 part lucas formula with flora nova bloom all through the grow? Anyway! back to the question at hand : would a pain of glass from a old reflector ' ' block a portion of heat if it was suspended above the canopy and below a hps standard cheap shade??

I was thinking about placing one in my homemade tent I constructed out of a old 4x4 tent lol my space I'd 2x4x6 with a 5"rvk extractor&can'filter
Running passive' with a 600hps open hood
I have 4x little fans placed all over to help with movement of air.
My temp's are managable 75% of the time with day temp's 23c/28c & nigh temp's 17c/22c
On a bad day I have spikes of 32c due to ambient temp's rising.

Would placing a fan at one end of the glass panel inbetween the glass and the cheap hood 'with the fan blowing inbetween stopping the direct heat from the 600hps contacting the canopy 12" below?? It works like a air funnel all the way to the carbon filter handing at the end.
I'm going to try it and see , I know by placing a object' between the bulb and my plants will lower LUMENS ' but these sunmaster dulux ate 95'000 lumens so I think a few could be spared in the name of science lol

Yeah I think so but it will be minimal. Why not just get a vented hood ?

Bareback said:

Yeah I think so but it will be minimal. Why not just get a vented hood ?

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I intend too 'but was board ,so I decided to fool around 'as you do ,trying to achieve optimal conditions lol
Next run will be a 2x4 600watt 6"coolube, I think 4 plant scrogg with a light mover would be nice'in dwc 20litre pots? With lucus formula 1 part flora vova bloom.

I'm getting a hard on just thinking about it

a lot of people want to go hydro but dont want to spend the time or money to keep the water cool . did you look into whats the best temp for water ? over 70f toss the plants out .or change the water daily and running bleach or some form of anti slime .

bryan oconner said:

a lot of people want to go hydro but dont want to spend the time or money to keep the water cool . did you look into whats the best temp for water ? over 70f toss the plants out .or change the water daily and running bleach or some form of anti slime .

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Temp where I am are difinatly managable , I think I should be able to keep the water below 70f
I have the ability to drop the temp on my grow room by 10 degree if I need. I'm running a open hood with a 600 sunmaster in a 2x4x6 space with 3 plants and for the most part 'i can run passive with no need for extra-cold air being poured in to my grow space ,so if I can do that I hope I will have a successful first run at the hydro game lol

why do you think the hydro will be better ? lot of people i know swear soil grow taste better

bryan oconner said:

why do you think the hydro will be better ? lot of people i know swear soil grow taste better

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Just faster I think. I prefer soil grown bud. Some hydro just has no soul.

the veg will be quicker . the flower will be the same . could pull double your yield . bigger roots . depending what your pulling now per plant . in soil its limited cant force them to pull more then what they want . its like trying to get a horse to drink more water . fill us in how it goes i hope the best its all fun you might love it or you might switch back .

are you building your own unit ? its easy

make sure you buy the best air pump and the biggest air stones you can fit in . more the better . no wimpy air pumps

bryan oconner said:

why do you think the hydro will be better ? lot of people i know swear soil grow taste better

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For myself I want to try diffrent styles of growing' and I want to grow a few sativa dom strains' like SOUR-D & AMMO HAZE, these strains have long flowering times and I don't have the room to keep cuttings from a mother ,so I have to grow from seed 'and in soil it takes ages man!!

For myself ' I veg for 6/9wks then flowering 9/11wks depending on problems/dificencys ect: so that's a possible 20wks for a couple plants. I want a quicker turn over so I think hydro is the way to go? Plus" I want to try using FLORA NOVA BLOOM start to finish with the lucas formula?

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bryan oconner said:

make sure you buy the best air pump and the biggest air stones you can fit in . more the better . no wimpy air pumps

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was thinking of trying a solo 20l dwc with a upgraded air pump a d stone.
I was thinking of purchasing a

Hailea v10 10l per min 600l/ph
6" air stone
Do you think that would be sufficient in a 20 litre single dwc??

.do i think dwc will speed your progress up . no i don,t beans to plants to flower takes for ever , want to speed it up have to get a mother plant or more plants or have somebody grow your clones for you or find a different location to keep your mother plants 1 more tent . . idk what your goal is . i take it your doing it as a hobby.

I would say progressing through from hobby to somthing I want to take serious.
Since first throwing some plants in a tent ' I really do enjoy every aspect of cultivating ,from the science behind the spectrums of light 'too the affects of diffrent micro's in your soi, I do enjoy it 'and once I have found the style of growing I prefer I want to have a rotating harvest dialed in and producing special buds lol
#dreamer

well then its time to step up to having a mother plant or more then 1 mother . and you will be harvesting every week or 2 week or all at once up to you and your room space . best to have more then 1 light so you can pull weekly less work for you not at all once . dont dream make it happen if your in a legal state there is no excuse .

fuck it man . turn your garage or basement or a bedroom into your rooms .

bryan oconner said:

fuck it man . turn your garage or basement or a bedroom into your rooms .

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Without checking , do you know of any 4x4 or 5x5 grow tents that can have a veg chamber and a flower chamber?? I have no extra space apart from where I could position a 4x4 plus a 2x2 that's it, so 20sqf is my max

Maybe I could construct somthing that could house all 3 stages?

I don't want more that 10 plants going at any one time 'so I wouldnt mind having x - amount of weeks inbetween harvests

so you only have a 5/5 area . sorry to hear . best to just plant your beans your 10 tomato plants and they usually pull more from bean any ways . some thing to think about . if you can keep it cool . add another light this will allow you to pull more . 2 600 watt hps ! have to be air cooled . this is what i would do instead of going dwc for more . really a 4/4 area is perfect for 1000 watts . your 5/5 so 2 600 perfect

I'm still having issues with this girl?
I have flushed her with 10 litres of ph tap water l'and then 2 litres of half strength nutrients with some calmag.

I did this Wednesday night and the pot was super heavy when it drained and still' super heavy now "Saturday morning??

I know I shouldn't have flushed so early in to flower "6 weeks 2days ' but I was wuried this would spread and she wouldn't make it to week 8/9 for the final flush?

I havent fully understood how nutrient deficencys really work, so what Im doin is learning the hard way!!
Some might say "THE ONLY WAY!!

HERE IS A FEW PICTURES FROM THIS MORNING-- DAY--38 FLOWER

I'm not sure what this brown/rusty/yellow spotting is?? Also I noticed that its prominent in the middle af the leaf and spreads outwards in a spotting formation? Some are very red/purple?

My ph is 6.2/6.8
Ppms is 600/800 -- Us-- 1200/1800

Questions: am I underfeeding? And if so will bumping the feed up streight away to ppm 1000/1200 instead if leaching the soil again be better?



Any advice people??
I don't want to loose this girl to a disease