nMEEKS
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Hey Farmers!
This is my first grow log and as you can see by my post count I do a lot of reading and very little posting on this forum. I thought after a year of lurking in the shadows and following experienced advice from other farmers in my closet grow, I would start to give back to other novices like myself by sharing my experience in detail. I am also in the process of getting settled in a new house and am busting my ass in the garage everyday getting it prepped to be at my standards for a grow room. So far it has been transformed from a piece of shit unfinished garage with exposed framing to an insulated and drywalled 12x14 room with 2x 120v circuits and 1x 240v circuit. The 1.5 ton Fujitsu mini-split A/C showed up yesterday and will be installed by the start of next week. After that I will be framing a 4x8 mini room for my veg and mother plants that will sit along one of the garage walls opposite the 2x 4x4 grow trays for flowering (which will also need tables framed sometime next week probably). The plan is to have the 4th and currently nonexistent wall where the large garage door is to be built entirely out of door panels. This construction will allow for easy transport of the entire 4x4 tray, with plants in it if need be, in and out of the grow room. It also allows for the doors to be pushed open flat to both side walls so that the 4x8 mini room and all other equipment can be completely cleared out and returned to a functioning garage upon moving out of this location in 2-3 years. If the concept for the door-wall doesn't make sense in text just wait patiently for pictures upon completion somewhere in the next 2 weeks.
OK enough about construction and on to the part we all care about, the set-up and the plants!!
As stated in the title of this thread I will have 2x 1000w dual-arc eye hortilux bulbs, running 1 light over 4 plants and having perpetual harvest every 4-5 weeks depending on what strain and its flower time (every 5 weeks while i'm running this WiFi). I will have a more detailed post on what other equipment I'm running when I have already purchased it to avoid confusion if I don't end up with the exact things I have on my current list. But for now I know for sure that I will have 2x 4x4 trays for the flowering, and 2x 2x8 trays for veg and mothers/clone. the lights for the mothers will be 4x 2-foot t5 strips and 1x 4-bulb 4-foot T5HO fixture over 1 of the 2x8 trays. the second tray will have 3x 2-foot t5 strips for clones/seedlings and 1x 400w MH for veg. I plan on having a pump watering system that I can run manually for watering when needed for my plants growing in pure canna coco (nothin but coco). I did all my watering by hand in my smaller set-up last year and it was the only part of the growing job that didn't get me excited and willing to work. I love growing and so I don't want to think of any part of it as "work" so I thought I'd cut out the one part that seemed like it by getting a pump and a reservoir with an air pump to keep my nutes oxygenated.
Anyways, like I said, I will have a lot more on the set-up details after I have the equipment and start getting things operating. Now for the WiFi girls!!!
If anyone has read my other thread asking about WiFi moms you know that I put 4 seeds into soaked rock wool cubes a week ago and started this journey.
The first seed was showing itself above the cube within 36 hours and 2 more followed it within a couple days.
Unfortunately I must have drowned the 4th seed because it split and started a little baby root and then never made it any further after 6.5 days I called it a dud and replaced it with a new one (didn't really get ride of it after 6.5 just started a new seed, tossed it today after nothing had changed).
Then after working hard today in the garage, I came in for some food and a 4:20 smoke break to be happily greeted by the new replacement seedling popped up about 1/16 inch above the cube.
FIRST 4 WiFi READY TO GROW! (if you can't tell I'm really amped about growing some OGRaskal gear)
So now the clock is started and hopefully I can get these pretty ladies vegged and ready for flower in 6 weeks or less from today so that if they take the full 10 weeks I can have some dried smoke for the holiday break. :harvest:
-Meeks
P.S. I apologize for the cell phone pictures, I have a decent digital camera but I haven't unpacked enough crap inside my new house yet to find the battery charger and its totally dead. I will update with better pics when I find it. :movie
This is my first grow log and as you can see by my post count I do a lot of reading and very little posting on this forum. I thought after a year of lurking in the shadows and following experienced advice from other farmers in my closet grow, I would start to give back to other novices like myself by sharing my experience in detail. I am also in the process of getting settled in a new house and am busting my ass in the garage everyday getting it prepped to be at my standards for a grow room. So far it has been transformed from a piece of shit unfinished garage with exposed framing to an insulated and drywalled 12x14 room with 2x 120v circuits and 1x 240v circuit. The 1.5 ton Fujitsu mini-split A/C showed up yesterday and will be installed by the start of next week. After that I will be framing a 4x8 mini room for my veg and mother plants that will sit along one of the garage walls opposite the 2x 4x4 grow trays for flowering (which will also need tables framed sometime next week probably). The plan is to have the 4th and currently nonexistent wall where the large garage door is to be built entirely out of door panels. This construction will allow for easy transport of the entire 4x4 tray, with plants in it if need be, in and out of the grow room. It also allows for the doors to be pushed open flat to both side walls so that the 4x8 mini room and all other equipment can be completely cleared out and returned to a functioning garage upon moving out of this location in 2-3 years. If the concept for the door-wall doesn't make sense in text just wait patiently for pictures upon completion somewhere in the next 2 weeks.
OK enough about construction and on to the part we all care about, the set-up and the plants!!
As stated in the title of this thread I will have 2x 1000w dual-arc eye hortilux bulbs, running 1 light over 4 plants and having perpetual harvest every 4-5 weeks depending on what strain and its flower time (every 5 weeks while i'm running this WiFi). I will have a more detailed post on what other equipment I'm running when I have already purchased it to avoid confusion if I don't end up with the exact things I have on my current list. But for now I know for sure that I will have 2x 4x4 trays for the flowering, and 2x 2x8 trays for veg and mothers/clone. the lights for the mothers will be 4x 2-foot t5 strips and 1x 4-bulb 4-foot T5HO fixture over 1 of the 2x8 trays. the second tray will have 3x 2-foot t5 strips for clones/seedlings and 1x 400w MH for veg. I plan on having a pump watering system that I can run manually for watering when needed for my plants growing in pure canna coco (nothin but coco). I did all my watering by hand in my smaller set-up last year and it was the only part of the growing job that didn't get me excited and willing to work. I love growing and so I don't want to think of any part of it as "work" so I thought I'd cut out the one part that seemed like it by getting a pump and a reservoir with an air pump to keep my nutes oxygenated.
Anyways, like I said, I will have a lot more on the set-up details after I have the equipment and start getting things operating. Now for the WiFi girls!!!
If anyone has read my other thread asking about WiFi moms you know that I put 4 seeds into soaked rock wool cubes a week ago and started this journey.
The first seed was showing itself above the cube within 36 hours and 2 more followed it within a couple days.
Unfortunately I must have drowned the 4th seed because it split and started a little baby root and then never made it any further after 6.5 days I called it a dud and replaced it with a new one (didn't really get ride of it after 6.5 just started a new seed, tossed it today after nothing had changed).
Then after working hard today in the garage, I came in for some food and a 4:20 smoke break to be happily greeted by the new replacement seedling popped up about 1/16 inch above the cube.
FIRST 4 WiFi READY TO GROW! (if you can't tell I'm really amped about growing some OGRaskal gear)
So now the clock is started and hopefully I can get these pretty ladies vegged and ready for flower in 6 weeks or less from today so that if they take the full 10 weeks I can have some dried smoke for the holiday break. :harvest:
-Meeks
P.S. I apologize for the cell phone pictures, I have a decent digital camera but I haven't unpacked enough crap inside my new house yet to find the battery charger and its totally dead. I will update with better pics when I find it. :movie