Thundercat's Groooooooow

The panda film is 6mm thick, and its pretty good, but if you use that alone, you can still kinda see through it when light shines directly on it. If you add a layer of 6mm mylar to it, its lightproof. nothings gonna get in or out.

What i did for my tent material is, i just stapled the damn things together, the panda to the mylar. Worked like a charm. Instead of using glue or somethin like that, i just got my stapler out, n stapled my way all around the tent material. I cut out the panels to fit each side, one of mylar n one of panda, n then i put them together, stapled them, n then duct taped them to the frame. As far as the front flap goes, i have two seperate flaps for the front. One only goes down half the length of the front of the tent, leaving the bottom 2 n a half feet open air, but the top is covered, so its not blazin orange in the whole room for everyone n anyone to see. I leave that on there all day long n even through the night. For lights out, i use a secondary flap, that goes down the entire length of the front. I just finished it today, but ive been using it like just taping it on at night with some electrical tape. I cut a slit from halfway down the flap, all the way to the floor, so i could still fit in my tower fan without it having to be inside the tent, and believe it or not its still lightproof, works out pretty well.

Today i fixed everything with velcro cuz i couldnt get my hands on a good enough zipper to make the damn thing work well. So now i just keep the flap on all day, tuck it to the sides during the day leaving the one half flap on there, and at night i pull the main flap back over the front n velcro it shut. works great IMO man. Its all only temporary anyways, until i move out, which then im gonna do some SICK ass shit with my basement, lol.

You ever see the KottonMouth Kings growroom in their house?? its actually in their shed. they made a false wall, leaving about a 6 foot wide gap between the false wall and the real wall, and theres about 10 feet of vertical growspace. They got sativas trellised all along the walls man almost reaching the cieling - its fuckkin sick lookin. Im gonna do somethin similar, but without the trellis. Im gonna do a Stadium type grow op i think, only sectiond off n perpetual. Im sort of handy with a hammer n nail, so im gonna make everything myself. Im gonna use this one dudes grow as a model, and improvise a shitload until i figure out what fits ME the best, lol. Gimme a second n ill hook up the link.

offgridgrower said:

I know it will be light proof enough!! no light is getting in that panda, now you can get ambiance light from inside the tent kinda glowing but that is with my 2 1K's in there and you can not see that ambiance from outside the room the tent is in, you know from under the door light,
the veg tent with the 400mh, 4 t5's and a 4x4 shop floros you can only see light from the zippers not thru the panda. it is so worth it, and is totally KISS!
and you know for the ability to roll it up and pack it if need be i think its worth the velcro, as long as it sticks. and try to use the least amount as possiable, I think you could get away with 4 panels if you make a top and bottom pan and then wrap 3 sides with one piece and use one end for ur door, make the whole side the door ya know opening from the corner. I like that idea going to use it next time for sure!!

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Well I think I'm gonna go with the panda film. I'll cover the windows as well, with some 6mil plastic I have. That will eliminate the worry of the ambiant glow. I will be using a 1000k so it will prolly glow, but I can deal with that. Maybe I'll be able get my gf to make me a fabric cover for it to make it look pretty lol.

I'm going to use individual panels to fit each individual square on the frame. This will serve a couple purposes. I think the extra velrco will help support the weight better, and also it will allow for simple quick dissasembly when needed. I'm going to apply the velrco to the pvc with epoxy to ensure a very perminent bond. I may also use epoxy to bond to the panda film, I gotta try a small bit and see how it holds. They sell plastic epoxy at my work, which I think should be pretty hardcore. Its also very high temp, so the heat shouldn't be any problem.

I'm glad you guys have had some experiance with this stuff, I have bought any of this stuff before, my last grow was just in a bedroom, I covered the windows so they were light proof, and that was it. I think the panda film will be much better then trying to DIY this part of the grow. I'm pretty resourceful, but I don't want to do things totally half assed, lol. I've also got another trick up my sleeve yet, but I'll wait till I get the pics to tell you about it.........................

OH and I thought you were hooking up a link?, which guy is it?, one on here? I know you've seen headbandrockers, he's got a good stadium going. I thought about putting a stadium in my tent, Cus I have room....I don't know..... maybe I need to think about this. What about a stadium scrog????

Thundercat said:

OH and I thought you were hooking up a link?, which guy is it?, one on here? I know you've seen headbandrockers, he's got a good stadium going. I thought about putting a stadium in my tent, Cus I have room....I don't know..... maybe I need to think about this. What about a stadium scrog????

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yeah it was the kingspade guy, i want to see that link too!! man if you scrog in the stadium you will be doing a full vertical grow!! you wont be able to rotate your babies with a scrog, and you would have to water from behind and would only be able to get at your buds with the lights removed or raised well above your work space. the stadium kinda removes the need for the screen as it raises the outer plants higher into the light band thus recieving stronger light, and according to HBR being able to keep rotating the plants really helps get light to all sides of the plant. You will have to put up string to hold the buds tho, at least 3 other stadium growers on this site have pics up, and you can clearly see the need for string to hold up the buds!!

I was just thinking of using an net to support the plants instead of string. It can also help them grow horizontally, but it would make them unmovable.

Well guys, good news and bad news!

Bad news first. After talking with my gf, and to my landlord, I am going to have to wait till after christmas to set up and get going. My gf is nervous about her mom, and the landlord is going to be fixing part of our bathroom right after thanksgiving. But then I am on, and I'll be up and running. This will just give me time over the next month to finalize my plans, and the building process.

Now the good news!! In the mean time, I am going to be starting a mushroom grow! Its been a little over a year since my last one, and I've been looking forward to it ever since. Last night I made the decision, and I have spores in the mail to me now. I'm going to be off work this coming week, and will have that grow set-up and going before thanksgiving I believe. I only need to pick up a couple things for that grow, and that will happen on monday most likely. I will prolly journal that grow as well, so if your interested, I'll post a link in my sig, and on here.

I hope all these changes don't keep you guys from following once I get going. This was all kinda unexpected. I thought I was gonna have seedlings by today! But mushrooms are just as fun to grow, and won't take as long either! I should be able to show you guys results by christmas!

hey man, better safe than sorry...and christmas isnt very far away either, so youll have your hands dirty in no time. Just get the bathroom fixed and entertain your gf's mom then once shes gone..get it going

you know ill be watching both journals
i have no doubt that you will be very successful with both grows

I will definately be watchin your shroom grow, keep us posted!

i defiantly want to see the shroom grow, I have been thinking of growing other stuff and shrooms would be sweet!!

Thanks for all the support guys! I appreciate having some people I can talk to about all this! I started collecting my other supplies for the shrooms today. The spores should be here on tuesday I think, but I still need to order some syringes, and get a hand full of random stuff to have everything. Once I get it all, I'll get up the other journal.

LMFAO dude, sorry i forgot to post that link for you to the stadium grow i was lookin at that made me wanna do one, lol. I was smokin a fuckin bowl when i posted that shit, n i got caught up checkin my emails, n i totally fuckin forgot about the link man. Ill post it up as soon as i wake up in the mornin, i just wanned to stop by real quick n see how shit was goin with ya TC. It sucks to hear you gotta wait so long to grow your shit out, but it IS pretty fuckin cool that your doin a shroom grow. Ill be following that shit hard, cuz i was interested in getting one started myself man, n i dont know dick about growin shrooms.

O, n just to let you know, i germed one of my Power skunk seeds the day before yesterday. It took 2 days for the sprouts to completely pop, but by the time i was ready to put it into soil the root was likea half inch long -- so no problems with those beans bro, theyre totally viable

Like i said before, i also did the RD in a 20 oz mixing cup along with the Power Skunk, so this should be interesting man.

Like i said, ill hook the link up tomorrow morning for sure, ill set an alarm on the celly n everything for ya man !!

-K1.

Lol its cool King, was it HBR's stadium? He has a nice one going for sure! Glad to here that the germ went well also, I bet the skunk and the RD are gonna be great, even bansai style! You can try to make them look like Gypsy's "buds wth roots" lol.

Waiting will suck, but the shrooms, and the rest of my planning will keep me busy, not to mention christmas shopping. I'm gonna be off work this week, so we'l have to talk man. You guys have a good night, see ya tomorrow!! TC

LOL yeah dude its headbandrockers stadium grow man. that thing is fuckin brilliant. I didnt even know what the fuck people meant when they said stadium grow until i read his thread. he really did it up the right way man, n his plant capacity is crazy fuckin huge. Fuckin love that thing man

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/107654-hbrs-stadium-vsog.html

N whenever you get a chance TC, get back to me in yahoo bro, i need to know what you need man.

Thundercat said:

Lol its cool King, was it HBR's stadium? He has a nice one going for sure! Glad to here that the germ went well also, I bet the skunk and the RD are gonna be great, even bansai style! You can try to make them look like Gypsy's "buds wth roots" lol.

Waiting will suck, but the shrooms, and the rest of my planning will keep me busy, not to mention christmas shopping. I'm gonna be off work this week, so we'l have to talk man. You guys have a good night, see ya tomorrow!! TC

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I just feel like fuckin doin somethin DIFFERENT than a normal grow, just to keep me learning rather than just doing the same thing over and over everyday. I wanna maybe take the seedlings out of soil man, n put them in styrofoam or vermiculite and try to do a passive hydroponics system like that. I just dont have enough room to do it on a normal scale, lol. So maybe ill try to do it with a 20oz cup, lol!

N as for my other girls that are growing beautifully, im sort of thinkin about transplanting them into 5 gallon bags since i already have the bags. I just need to pick up the soil. The reason why, is because the plants have kinda tapered off on the growth heightwise, and i want them to get a good 12" bigger before they stop growing completely and focus on budding out. If i give them more room to stretch, then theyll stretch, yaknow what i mean?? I dunno, i need some opinions here. Ive transplanted LATER than this into the flowering process, so i know theyll be ok in that respect, but do you think im good with the 3gallon bags? or do you think that a 5g bag will make a world of difference?

I think you shouldn't transplant them unless they were seriously root locked!! That is part of what made your first 2 plants take sooo long to do every thing . It stress even if they survive just fine. I think for the size of your plants, the bags you have should be fine. I don't know man. These plants are growing good right now, things have been going smoothly, wouldn't it suck to change something, and throw off the balance.

Let's see some construction. I love that stuff. From nothing but space to life!

I'll get up some more pics once I can make some progress. My weed grow is officially on hold until New years. Maybe I'll germ them on New years day to celebrate a new year with new life!! But in the mean time, I am going to journal my new mushroom grow!

I've been gathering some supplies this week! I got my spore prints in the mail yesterday. I have 4 strains to work with. South American, Burmese, Samoi, and Ereal(russian). To be honest I don't know much about the strains yet, I've got some reading to do. I've been having a hell of a time finding a good size pressure cooker(PC). The lasgerst I have found so far was an 8qt, I was hoping for a 10qt. But I am going to be starting this weekend, cus my syringes won't be here till like friday maybe saturday cus of the holiday. So one way or another I'll get a PC if it has to be the 8qt then so be it, I'll just change my plans and step it up!!

I'll get some pics of the equipment once its all together, prolly friday. Thats when I would like to PC everything, so that I can inoculate on saturday! With any luck I'll have shrooms by new years, to go with the celebration of new bud life!!!

I hope its a happy holidays for us all!!!

Thundercat said:

Thanks for all the support guys! I appreciate having some people I can talk to about all this!

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Im with you man its nice to have others to discuss your hobby's with and this is a great place for just that. Happy Growing!