My first grow room build (pix)

FrescoFrancesco said:

yes ur right its good enough for her. i remember, not so long ago i had 3 lamps 4600k for 4 plants and it seemed very accomodative)))please post some photo, its very iteresting for me

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I have 10 short girls under 6 6400k 100 watt cfl's. haven't seen much stretching. 3 to 5 notes in the top 2 inches of the plants so far. nice

100 watt equivalents if so not enuff light

wyteberrywidow said:

100 watt equivalents if so not enuff light

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they are small yet, and the lights are very close. I plan on doubling the light, 2 sets of 6 100 watt bulbs. that should get me by for a while. my next grow will be under a 600 watt hps

yeah that600 sound like the way to go but back to them 100 watts are they incandescents or cfl 100 watt equivalents?

Just thought I would post some pix of my girl before I put her in my new flower room this weekend for sexing. I have taken 6 cuttings from her and had to remove the bottom fan leaves as they where dying. I also toped her 3 days ago. If she does turn out to be a girl I will use one of my cuttings as the mother. All new growth is looking good but she has taken a bit of a beating over the past few weeks.

gadget whats up you dont think she drooping?lets see if she bounce back you should have cloned 2-3 weeks before you put it to sex.thats alot of stress.

wyteberrywidow said:

gadget whats up you dont think she drooping?lets see if she bounce back you should have cloned 2-3 weeks before you put it to sex.thats alot of stress.

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I know. She has taken quite a beating and I have learned a lot I think about what not to do. Even if she is female I don't think I will be keeping her for too long. (unless she turns out to be a primo smoke). I just planted my new seeds feminized G13 Labs Northern Lights x skunk. I will be focusing on these girls now more than anything.

gadget said:

just planted my new seeds feminized G13 Labs Northern Lights x skunk. I will be focusing on these girls now more than anything.

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yummy, I like G13

Ok so my clones have started to take root, so I have decided to put my hopeful mother in for sexing. If she does turn out to be a girl I will keep her in there and use one of my cuttings to be my mother moving forward.

My new seeds (Fem G13 Northern Lights x Skunk) are also doing well. Feel free to check out my grow journal to track their progress https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/111560-g13-labs-northern-lights-x.html

Is it a mirror in the box with cooltube ?
Small babies r looking very nice !

FrescoFrancesco said:

Is it a mirror in the box with cooltube ?
Small babies r looking very nice !

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The box is covered in Mylar and my light is housed in a 6" cool tube. I also have an upright fan in there as my small 7" fan is still in the post.

how are the temps?do they stay steady?

wyteberrywidow said:

how are the temps?do they stay steady?

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My flower box is a little too high. It sits around 87 to 88. I have another fan on the way so I should be able to get the temps down a bit when it comes.

Veg is at about 78 to 80.

veg is good..are you using co2??..plants can take hig temps when receiving co2

I have some co2 but with my fan going to keep the heat down it wont be really staying in there for long enough. My fan is removing all the air in the box about every 3 - 4 min at the moment and when I get the additional fan it will be about ever 1.5 - 2 min. So I can’t think of a good way to use the co2 in the flower box. I have been using it on my cuttings and mother as I can keep the fan in my veg box off for about 20 - 30min before the temps get too high. I think I might Try and build something to give them the co2 and not displace the air around the plants too much. Like an Perspex shield I can put up or something.

yeah co2 will help your plantswith the heat just turn the fan off for 15-30 minutes for your plants to absorb the co2 then the fan can push it out..

OK... So I thought I should summarise the build now that my veg and flower boxes are "complete" (when I say complete I mean that I don’t have anything major to do anymore, just a few tweaks hear and there)

VEG
Box: 2' Wide x 2' Deep x 4' High (Flat White)
Lights: 1 x 130w 11,000k CFL + 1 x 100w 6,400k CFL
Ventilation: 1 x 5" Spectrum inline fan




FLOWER
Box: 4' Wide x 2' Deep x 6' Tall (Mylar)
Lights: 1 x 250w HPS + 2 x 100w 2,700k CFLs
Ventilation: 1 x 6" inline EZI fan + cool tube + small 8" wall fan.

Still to add: Odor sok and potentially another 6" inline EZI fan.







Thanks to everyone that helped me with this build. It has been a massive help. Feel free to stop buy and check out my first indoor grow with good seeds. https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/111560-g13-labs-northern-lights-x.html

Nice work!

Those cabs look real good, you must have some carpentry experience.

sweet f**cking boxes...you are gonna be an inspiration to alot of people who want to get homeboxes and tents...keep it up good stuff..

as far as giving them Co2 without it getting too hot or having the fan on to suck it all out right away, couldnt you wait to give them that Co2 when the light cycle is off? Then you could cut the fan in the dark and Co2 the hell out of those little guys before you have to put the fan on again for "daytime".