Laundry Storage Closet...Not for Laundry

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Took some photos of this magnificent Amnesia Haze grown in a mini fridge last run. Wonderful smoke for a wonderful day.




Finally got me an avatar now too haha

Cheers!!

Smscreations said:

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Took some photos of this magnificent Amnesia Haze grown in a mini fridge last run. Wonderful smoke for a wonderful day.


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Finally got me an avatar now too haha

Cheers!!

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Nice! Hows the high of that A.Haze. I'm looking for a daytime strain to grow next.

Cool set up.Your risers are taller then mine.Show a pic of the wick etc..

DrDukePHD said:

Nice! Hows the high of that A.Haze. I'm looking for a daytime strain to grow next.

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This strain packs quite the punch. Got a lemony, spice cabinet, inhale and a candy sweet exhale. First little bit is a strong dazed feeling followed by the swiftest kick into high gear that I've ever had a sativa give me. I thought I had a pretty good tolerance but at times it was a bit over the top haha. This was sampled off a good size j and had me cleaning the whole house for hours. I definitely recommend it!!

myke said:

Cool set up.Your risers are taller then mine.Show a pic of the wick etc..

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2- 5 gallon totes per build and risers were set to allow me ~2 gallons of water in the reservoir. Wicks consists of some 2 inch net pots strapped together to reach the bottom of the reservoir.

Changed up the water level tube from the pvc pipe to some tubing on the outside of bottom tote for easier viewing.

Just got caught up with your build,nice work.
Ill be following along.

Finally!!!! All my materials came in yesterday, a whole day early!! I got right to work...after work lol.


I forgot to get some wetting agent so I saturated all of my peat moss and mixed in my compost while I was waiting on my delivery.



I ended up making 4 Cubic Feet of soil using BAS products to follow Coots Recipe.
12 gal. Peat Moss
12 gal. Aeration (8 gal BAS Pumice/4 gal of BAS Rice Hulls)
6 gal. Black Kow compost
8 cups of BAS Clackamas based Nutrients
16 cups of BAS Clackamas based Minerals

Mixed thoroughly and lightly watered




Totes getting ready to be filled


Packed the wicks with straight saturated peat and left some mounds on top of them


Placed pots as placeholders to make transplanting easier. Each tote has about 4 gallons in soil with a few inches to spare to allow for top dressings.
Having a SIP with living soil in such a small container I forsee quite a few topdressings throughout.


A lil bit of BAS Craft Blend


A lil bit of Kashi Blend


Some BAS Build-a-Flower


A sprinkle of BAS 12 seed Cover Crop





Added some Barley Straw Mulch cover and watered everything in. Reservoirs are filled and we are SIPing....well almost haha. The 2 end seedlings took their sweet ass time after breaking soil but I've got everything in the cabinet dialed I'm now. Only thing I'm trying to overcome is my humidity. I can cycle the fan on and off for different configurations over an hour and I can get humidity up but Temps are also rising. With fan on constant I'm at 80 degrees and 50 percent humidity with lights on. And it holds steady. I'm out of floor space so looks like I'll be figuring out a shelving unit to hold a small, but bigger humidifier (than the little amazon bottle one) to get my RH up. With the cabinet being insulated, I do t have huge temp swings with lights out as I did in the mini fridge. Lights out, I maintain a constant 76 degrees. That's actually 3 degrees warmer than what house is at. Mini fridge would usually get about 4 degrees cooler than what the house was. I attribute that to it being a metal shell and absorbing the cooled air in the laundry room.
Oh, and went from 20/4 to 18/6 starting next light cycle.
Wheew, I'm rambling now lol.


Anyways, TL;DR- Finally finished soil, filled my SIPs and we're cruising.

Cheers!!

Sick setup man! Building soil is next on my list too, really getting sucked into those BuildASoil videos at night lol

Nice!
I go 3 cups food per cuft.I usally start with bigger plants though.You can make a hole say 6" deep 1" across and fill with food.Kinda like a fertilizer spike.

Your going to like these sips.

DrDukePHD said:

Sick setup man! Building soil is next on my list too, really getting sucked into those BuildASoil videos at night lol

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Lol yea, it's all I've been talking about as of late haha!! Luckily, the Mrs. Is a good listener lol.

myke said:

Nice!
I go 3 cups food per cuft.I usally start with bigger plants though.You can make a hole say 6" deep 1" across and fill with food.Kinda like a fertilizer spike.

Your going to like these sips.

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Nice!! I'll keep that in mind!! Yea I settled on 2 cups after reading so many places about it being under and over that amount so naturally I just settled in the middle haha.

I can't wait to get these things fully running!!

Day 21/14

This past weekend was rough in the grow cabinet. Humdity dropped absurdly low to right around 30% and Temps were up near 85. Had some severe droop (coupled with a little overwatering) and canoeing of majority of leaves on Gorilla Zkittlez. Tinkered around with everything, fans, exhaust, light height and intensity, hung soaked towel to raise humidty, everything lol. Got Temps lowered and humidty raised up to almost 70% and within 4 hours had immediate recovery on her.




Humidifier is in transit now to help maintain humidity and hopefully no more hanging towels by this weekend.

Gorilla Zkittlez is finishing week 3 and Lemon Cheese and Apple Blossom are finishing week 2.













Have a nice cover crop pushing thru the straw now. Over the course of the week the SIPs took up just under a gallon of water. I believe the pots in the SIP soil are drinking from this moisture thru the air holes in those pots because pot is staying decently saturated. Have not watered since Saturday into the 1 gallon pots.


And here is the whole gang. Lights have been lowered to about 24 inches off canopy and turned up to about 40% These numbers are still fluctuating because I'm trying to figure out what GZ likes. The other two are unfazed and really taking off now. Once I can get my humidity stabilized everything else should level out and not jump all over.

P.s. it's looking like the GZ is taking on more of the indica pheno. Anybody got experience with GZ and thr different phenos. I've never had a plant start smelling in her 2nd week. Very sweet fuel smelling. Stem rub is even stronger.

Cheers!!

At the dollar store you may find a plastic dome,mine are about 5gallon size.Just drop them over and humidity is 100% in 5 minutes,they have an opening on top to regulate air.

Quick and easy.

Day 24/17

humidifier has been set up and we have been holding steady at 75 degrees and ~70% humdity. according to some VPD charts I'm right at 0.79 which is within spec for early veg. I've been way outside of this the whole time.

Lights are sitting right about 20 inches and running about 50ish%. PPFD is right about 270 on the end plants and 340 on the middle. With DLI sitting about 18.0 and 24.0.














Ladies have perked up and look quite comfortable for now. I did topdress with some Kashi, buildaflower topdress, some cover crop and straw.

Waiting till the ends get a couple more nodes and then transplanting everybody into the SIPs. Once they get settled in I'll top all of them down to same height and start the process of forming my manifolds.

So glad I can finally relax and just let them do their thing with everything dialed in just right.

Cheers!!

Alright I need a humidifier! Awesome setup man, just enough room for that humidifier like it was made for it

DrDukePHD said:

Alright I need a humidifier! Awesome setup man, just enough room for that humidifier like it was made for it

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Lol yea, the humidifier was a little too big. If you look close I had to trim the middle totes so it would sit in there haha.

Smscreations said:

ALL COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION ARE COMPLETELY WELCOME IN THIS THREAD!!

Welcome!!

This will be my second journal here. Having successfully harvesting a nice haul out of a mini-fridge Low Budget Mini-fridge

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I've moved on to bigger and better....and even more DIY lol.
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Link to the build here Laundry Closet Build

Dimensions: 77"H x 36"W x 20"D

Lights: 2- Viparspectra P1500 150w Full Spectrum LED

Pots: 3- SIP Totes w/ 5 gallon soil capacity and 2 gallon water reservoir. Build for these is in the Closet Build thread.

Soil: 40%- Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss 40%- Rice Hulls and Pumice 20%- Compost
Soil Mix will be amended with BAS Coots Approved Complete Soil building kit.

Feedings: Using Greens Probiotic method blended with BAS's ingridents and schedule together.

BAS Craft Blend
Kashi Blend
BAS Build-a Flower Topdress
Homemade LABs for the reservoir
Mycos
Cover Crop
Mulch

Strains: Germination didnt go as planned lol. Had a few old bagseeds and one lonesome breeder seed I got from a buddy.
Gorilla Zkittlez by Barney's Farm- fem photo.

The bag seeds never popped so I'm waiting on a couple beans to pop this weekend.

So we got Gorilla Zkittlez going in a 1 gallon container loaded with some Happy Frog. Everything for soil building is in transit and almost ready to get fully rocking.

Will run the SIP Buckets as a Living Soil setup but already got the gears running in my head to transition to a no till bed next go around.

So yea that just about covers it. Again welcome to my Laundry room closet and and fingers crossed for some successful future grows!!

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ALL COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION ARE COMPLETELY WELCOME IN THIS THREAD!

Cheers!!

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Do you recommend vipra spectra's? Im think im gonn try the p2000 for a 2x4 tent

Racky said:

Do you recommend vipra spectra's? Im think im gonn try the p2000 for a 2x4 tent

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I'm happy with them so far. The review and testing on cocoforcannabis . Com kinda swayed me to purchase them, that and I got really good deal on Prime Day haha. This is my first run with them so we'll see how they get me thru flower as well. But for the money I'd say give it a shot.

Yeah im gonna try it out the cost is almost 15% cheaper than sf or mh

Day 26/19
Gorilla Zkittlez was drinking up her water everyday and getting a little frazzled being in a 1 gallon pot. Slid her out of her pot and saw why lol. Even the little ones were starting to get root bound. Hit up the grow shop for some root mykos this morning and transplanted before lights out for the day. So we are officially SIPing now!! Laid down some more layers of topdress stuff and lightly watered everything in.





Cheers!!