Botanist Bob
Well-Known Member
Hey fellas, total noobie at growing hydro, so suggestions and criticisms are most welcome.
I recently moved house, and to my delight, discovered a hidden space behind a wall under my new house. I havent grown weed since I was 16, living at home growing in my closet, from cuttings taken from my mums veggie garden. An important time in my life, as watching those plants grow all those years ago inspired a career working with plants.
This is a picture of the removable wall, under a shelf in what you guys might call a basement.
Planning on replacing the old piece of plaster board with a door made from similar material. The gaps are there to allow fresh air flow to the inlet fan positioned just inside this wall. See below.
In the foreground is the rather large inlet fan. An out let fan of a similar size exists at the top of the grow room (rear of the picture). The board to the right of the foreground stops any light from behind showing under the door. Ive left the curtain slightly ajar so you can tell what it is. The curtain of reflective insulation stuff I got from the hardware store sticks together with Velcro, and a second curtain of thick plastic drops down for that extra level of protection.
I wasnt really ready for it, but germinated some seeds obtained from a friend within a week of moving in. Like I said the space was already there, and had obviously been used for the same reason, but the previous occupant had taken all the light proofing down. So I separated the room in anticipation for having separate veg/flowering rooms. Theres soooo much room down there, 3mx1.8m thats (thats about 9.6 x 5.7 feet for you). The problem is height, only about 4 foot. (I feel stupid even saying that after seeing some of the insane compact grows on here), but would have liked some more hight.
So I threw together a simple drip system with nutes pumped from a rez below the table, 15min every 2hrs. No nutes at first, then half strength, now a few weeks in, and shes on full strength, pH 5.5-6.
The extra spikes are for all the seedlings I hoped to have, but only one germinated L, I think due to the extreme cold down there (its winter here) and Im only running a fluro tube, which generates no heat. Dont worry after spending the entire weekend reading from this site I will be obtaining a HPS or setting up some CFLs. Had a HPS when I was 16, swapped it for a Kombi van. LOL. Good swap at the time, but gotta buy another light now.
Light is on 24hrs. No rest for the wicked!
So with only one soldier, am hoping for a girl, gunna clone ASAP for sexing, and to have enough plants to fill the room, prob 6 or so.
Planning on using A DWC Setup like Wolfman Zens from now on, https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/103903-best-diy-ez-walmart-dwc.html, (absolute kick ass idea BTW)
Prob use the back room for flowering with a HPS, as it already has the exhaust fan, and set up fluros for veg and clones in a room yet to be built.
Stay tuned .
I recently moved house, and to my delight, discovered a hidden space behind a wall under my new house. I havent grown weed since I was 16, living at home growing in my closet, from cuttings taken from my mums veggie garden. An important time in my life, as watching those plants grow all those years ago inspired a career working with plants.
This is a picture of the removable wall, under a shelf in what you guys might call a basement.
Planning on replacing the old piece of plaster board with a door made from similar material. The gaps are there to allow fresh air flow to the inlet fan positioned just inside this wall. See below.
In the foreground is the rather large inlet fan. An out let fan of a similar size exists at the top of the grow room (rear of the picture). The board to the right of the foreground stops any light from behind showing under the door. Ive left the curtain slightly ajar so you can tell what it is. The curtain of reflective insulation stuff I got from the hardware store sticks together with Velcro, and a second curtain of thick plastic drops down for that extra level of protection.
I wasnt really ready for it, but germinated some seeds obtained from a friend within a week of moving in. Like I said the space was already there, and had obviously been used for the same reason, but the previous occupant had taken all the light proofing down. So I separated the room in anticipation for having separate veg/flowering rooms. Theres soooo much room down there, 3mx1.8m thats (thats about 9.6 x 5.7 feet for you). The problem is height, only about 4 foot. (I feel stupid even saying that after seeing some of the insane compact grows on here), but would have liked some more hight.
So I threw together a simple drip system with nutes pumped from a rez below the table, 15min every 2hrs. No nutes at first, then half strength, now a few weeks in, and shes on full strength, pH 5.5-6.
The extra spikes are for all the seedlings I hoped to have, but only one germinated L, I think due to the extreme cold down there (its winter here) and Im only running a fluro tube, which generates no heat. Dont worry after spending the entire weekend reading from this site I will be obtaining a HPS or setting up some CFLs. Had a HPS when I was 16, swapped it for a Kombi van. LOL. Good swap at the time, but gotta buy another light now.
Light is on 24hrs. No rest for the wicked!
So with only one soldier, am hoping for a girl, gunna clone ASAP for sexing, and to have enough plants to fill the room, prob 6 or so.
Planning on using A DWC Setup like Wolfman Zens from now on, https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/103903-best-diy-ez-walmart-dwc.html, (absolute kick ass idea BTW)
Prob use the back room for flowering with a HPS, as it already has the exhaust fan, and set up fluros for veg and clones in a room yet to be built.
Stay tuned .
